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  • Poor Blue Blob
    [Three liters is really quite a lot of vodka.] Reader Micah C. pointed me to a story from Down Under, where a woman was recently convicted for the addition of googly eyes to sculpture. While I do think the addition enhances the work, the use of Gorilla Glue is too much. Tsk! Also, recording your own crime and posting it online? Tsk again!Link: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-24/mount-gambier-blue-blob-sculpture-googly-eyes-graffiti-convicted/106405276?_bhlid=cec9fa6d4b3778e6759258e469dd
     

Poor Blue Blob

1 April 2026 at 14:13

[Three liters is really quite a lot of vodka.]

Reader Micah C. pointed me to a story from Down Under, where a woman was recently convicted for the addition of googly eyes to sculpture.

The sculpture before and after receiving the gift of sight

While I do think the addition enhances the work, the use of Gorilla Glue is too much. Tsk! Also, recording your own crime and posting it online? Tsk again!

Link: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-24/mount-gambier-blue-blob-sculpture-googly-eyes-graffiti-convicted/106405276?_bhlid=cec9fa6d4b3778e6759258e469ddad860eee0d4e

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  • Detecting Frustration Using Regex
    [That’s different from detecting frustration with trying to use regex.] This week, Anthropic accidentally leaked a whole bunch of information about Claude Code. In addition to revealing many of their future plans, the leak showed that the tool uses some rudimentary pattern-matching to detect user frustration. Claude Code is actively watching our chat messages for words and phrases—including f-bombs and other curses—that serve as signs of user frustration. The exact regex pat
     

Detecting Frustration Using Regex

2 April 2026 at 11:37

[That’s different from detecting frustration with trying to use regex.]

This week, Anthropic accidentally leaked a whole bunch of information about Claude Code. In addition to revealing many of their future plans, the leak showed that the tool uses some rudimentary pattern-matching to detect user frustration.

Claude Code is actively watching our chat messages for words and phrases—including f-bombs and other curses—that serve as signs of user frustration.

The exact regex pattern is a delight to read:

/\b(wtf|wth|ffs|omfg|shit(ty|tiest)?|dumbass|horrible|awful| piss(ed|ing)? off|piece of (shit|crap|junk)|what the (fuck|hell)| fucking? (broken|useless|terrible|awful|horrible)|fuck you| screw (this|you)|so frustrating|this sucks|damn it)\b/

It’s very simple and surely very effective.

Link: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3104748/claude-code-is-scanning-your-messages-for-curse-words.html

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