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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 12d

Microsoft's new "vibe working" AI feature in Excel fails at 42% of tasks. The regular Copilot feature fails at 80% of tasks. This information is in the same blog post *Microsoft itself* published that also called it "like you’re handing off work to an Excel expert." 🫠

Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time

A Microsoft blog post about "vibe working" broke me.

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Andrés Cuervo @cwervo.bsky.social · Sep 14

I LOVE

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Sep 14

Bread & Puppet press at the New York Art Book Fair

An outdoor "room" with concrete walls, to which are attached cloth banners featuring red flowers, abstracted (silhouette-ish) images of trees bending down to children, planes bombing a villae, war-torn people migrating away from their homes

More banners, including one that reads "We Who Are Not Dead Yet"

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Andrés Cuervo @cwervo.bsky.social · Sep 11

"I highly recommend doing this the old fashioned way, with your eyes and brain, but LLMs can be helpful too if that's more your speed: but don't offload the whole task to a robot. Actual understanding is the goal, and you can't achieve that secondhand."

Highly applicable to most tasks lol

Tom MacWright @macwright.com · Sep 11

i wrote a whole thing about wrangling npm dependencies because it's an unglamorous part of the job that's nevertheless really important. also because i wanted to make some watercolor illustrations. blog.val.town/gardening-de...

an illustration of a boat, as a metaphor for carrying dependencies

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · Sep 11

flags half mast and bottomless media hagiography for a man who spent his days tricking dim children into thinking black women are worthless

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · Sep 11

i wrote a whole thing about wrangling npm dependencies because it's an unglamorous part of the job that's nevertheless really important. also because i wanted to make some watercolor illustrations. blog.val.town/gardening-de...

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · Sep 11

Like hundreds of other people, I was targeted by Charlie Kirk's "Professor Watchlist" project and spuriously accused of being a "Terror Supporter" and an "Antisemite". The legacy of Charlie Kirk is bigotry, classroom surveillance and anti-intellectual harassment.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Sep 8

In the last week of the 1936 campaign, FDR reminded a massive crowd in Madison Square Garden that "organized money" was "unanimous in their hate for me--and I welcome their hatred!"

And then the country rewarded him with a 523-8 landslide in the electoral college.

This is, in fact, good politics.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 8

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

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Andrés Cuervo @cwervo.bsky.social · Sep 8

Uncode text → CIELAB color blocks :)

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Andrés Cuervo @cwervo.bsky.social · Sep 5

simulator human input (input fuzzing, I guess?)

Stops automatically when it finds an inconsistency :)

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Shane Denson @handle.invalid · Jul 15

I made a piece of software! It’s called the film|minutes video|graphic workstation. It’s pretty niche but cool if you want to take notes or do very close readings of films/videos.

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Justin Fagnani @justinfagnani.com · Sep 1

I'm seeing a lot of different people, coming from different angles, recognize that the Same-Origin Policy is insufficient for the kind of apps that we want to make now, and that we need something more fine-grained and more secure.

Very interesting times!

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hailey @hailey.at · Sep 2

quoting this again because i saw another few comments recently about something similar that were like “eew gross this is so bad”. the reality though is that this is actually - unironically - what peak development looks like. this has effected zero people, been noticed by almost zero, and works great

؜ @coyotes.bsky.social · Aug 31

i saw someone point out that the selector for time on iphone alarms is actually just a really long list and not truly circular. everything i’ve known is a lie