A funny story about how I accidentally ended my wife’s interest in BookTube. There was this girl she was watching that claimed to read 200-300 books a year. One of the books that came up in her list, somehow, was G.K. Chesterton. In her review, this girl said “It was good, I think, but I just couldn’t understand it.” I told my wife two things: (1) There is not one human that actually reads 300 books a year; and, (2) If anyone could read that much, they’d have no problem understanding Chesterton. I told her I bet that she just constantly had an audiobook on literally all the time playing at 2x speed like background noise. Within a week, my wife showed me a new video of this girl admitting that my prediction was dead accurate.

S tugom sam primio vijest o smrti Julienne Bušić. Ostat će zapamćena kao književnica i osoba koja je obilježila dio hrvatske političke i društvene povijesti. Njezina povezanost s Hrvatskom i hrvatskim iseljeništvom, kao i posvećenost Hrvatskoj za koju se zauzimala, ostaju trajno zabilježeni u povijesti naše Domovine.

An update regarding the future at @Cloudflare. I’ve shared my full message to the team and details on the support we're providing those departing here: blog.cloudflare.com/building…

The day after the CEO lays off a ton of staff and says: “Non-technical teams are now pushing code to production with AI” @coinbase has a major outage on their trading engine, and even their status page doesn’t work. 😂

This GitHub incident is insane. Merge queue commits have been reverting previously merged commits at random. This not only breaks the mental contract teams have with Git in general, but is subtle enough to be really hard to unravel after the fact. githubstatus.com/incidents/z…

Crazy NYT headline

If you recognise this, take care of your knees

Amazon is holding a mandatory meeting about AI breaking its systems. The official framing is "part of normal business." The briefing note describes a trend of incidents with "high blast radius" caused by "Gen-AI assisted changes" for which "best practices and safeguards are not yet fully established." Translation to human language: we gave AI to engineers and things keep breaking? The response for now? Junior and mid-level engineers can no longer push AI-assisted code without a senior signing off. AWS spent 13 hours recovering after its own AI coding tool, asked to make some changes, decided instead to delete and recreate the environment (the software equivalent of fixing a leaky tap by knocking down the wall). Amazon called that an "extremely limited event" (the affected tool served customers in mainland China).

An open source calculator firmware system has declared it will not be available in California due to their new “Operating System age verification” law. Seriously. “The DB48X project intends to rebuild and improve the user experience of the HP48 family of calculators.” From the developer: “As a consequence of recent legislative activity in California and Colorado. DB48x is probably an operating system under these laws. However, it does not, cannot and will not implement age verification.” github.com/c3d/db48x/tree/de…

I'm looking forward to Captain Nemo being a latino gay transexual in the next "20.000 leagues under the sea" adaptation.