A very interesting conversation on the feeling of instability in software engineering caused by the robots: www.youtube.com/watch

A charming little story for when you feel squished by the shell you’re in: unsquish.me

Funnily enough, with moving home at the moment, this is what I needed ☺️

Has anyone heard a cohesive argument of what Meta would do with an LLM that actually works?

NYT: ‘Meta Delays Rollout of New AI Model After Performance Concerns’:

The difference between Meta and Apple might be that Meta is merely a few months away from rolling out its own best-of-breed AI model. But the difference could be that Meta has blown hundreds of billions of dollars pursuing their own frontier models, and Apple has not, and both just license Gemini from Google.

Spent the evening watching the local chamber orchestra play Haydn, Finzi and Mozart in our medieval church. T’was beautiful. Though the clapping conventions were baffling 😂

Inkwell from Micro.blog helps grow the blogging community: mattharwood.com

Had a great time becoming acquainted with TLA+ today. I’ve only just dipped my toe in but I am confident more formal proving systems will only become more useful in the brave new world.

Today I’ve used an agent to build a simple tracker to make finding a new place to rent easier. “Book Viewing” adds the viewing to iCal and invites my partner. Took 1hr. It really is a new world.

I spent some time this week getting to grips with deep linking (App Links and Universal Links on Android and iOS respectively) and I just wish we had standards for these things. There’s no need for 2x engineering effort (maybe more to include other OSes) to solve the same “simple” problem 😮‍💨

I really love (and believe in) this comment from Ploum:

It might have been an email thread. Or a lobste.rs comment. It was a discussion about yet another attempt at a new decentralized social protocol. And we reached the conclusion that with blogs and email, we already had a decentralized social network. We only needed to use it.

I enjoy reading blogs, and sending emails to the authors. I do it frequently, and have done for a long time. It feels… right.

Today’s ADHD kicker: have the idea to use the library to save money on books, continually forget to renew/return them, pay fines, defy the purpose 😄

RSS is messaging? mattharwood.com

Today is the Green Party of England and Wales Spring Conference. I’m ill, so tucked up with ginger shots and watching the Zoom call. First surprise, free menstrual products policy hasn’t been waived through 🤨

I’m starting to think this #GPEW Spring Conference is being sabotaged. Greens are not this… disruptive.

We Need to Talk About Green Party Spring Conference: mattharwood.com

Just upgraded my micro.blog account as a treat.

The White House app does what you think it would do: mattharwood.com

I am trying a trial of Apple News. It just seems to be the shit magazines and rags? Is that really it?

Surf Social: mattharwood.com