I adore Benn Jordan, a refreshing voice in music and tech. I hope Google pay him a public apology. Ultimately, this is exactly how innocent, private people will have their reputations and lives wrecked by unregulated public-facing LLM text generation
Readit Newsyearesadpeople commented on Google AI Overview made up an elaborate story about me bsky.app/profile/bennjord... · Posted by u/jsheard
yearesadpeople commented on GitHub issues is almost the best notebook in the world simonwillison.net/2025/Ma... · Posted by u/ingve
I've come to the same conclusion myself in the past 2 months (possibly driven by the AI / LLM age making me think even more in version control... writing those words make me wince). I have a small webapp too, which hoovers up issues I like to publish, from a repo with links on the web I like that I feel I would like to share (I believe the kids are calling this 'new age curation'). Its really quite a nice, organic, process. And its so odd its taken me 15 years of note apps - every other hot note app on the market - to realise this. Love Simon's articles, another nice insight
yearesadpeople commented on Spaced repetition systems have gotten better domenic.me/fsrs/... · Posted by u/domenicd
That tutorial guy on YouTube, Derek Banas, swears by Anki. He's quite the voracious learner as well as being a pretty good contractor. I've used it myself (sparingly, when taking on new projects with new technology stacks), and never really committed to it because of the somewhat static and predictable nature of the learning session (as described in the article; the algorithm). However, from learning about the upgrade (well, 2023 upgrade), I will try it out again: high hopes.
yearesadpeople commented on Keycloak, Angular, and the BFF Pattern blog.brakmic.com/keycloak... · Posted by u/brakmic
BFF pattern is very much misunderstood, and very much over-used IMHO
Perhaps most useful - in highly distributed systems - I've seen is when we require some kind of flow orchestration, where we wouldn't like the orchestration logic at the API implementation (or indeed require the downstream services to not have to consider different contexts).
[edit] Quite useful when designing nice clean, dedicated, new APIs and having to deal with legacy systems (perhaps data pertaining to the shiney new API model is housed in a legacy model): a useful means to keep moving forward.
yearesadpeople commented on Predictions Scorecard, 2025 January 01 rodneybrooks.com/predicti... · Posted by u/timr
Quite an unreadable web page, and somehow rationalising there was 'everything before me', and 'everything after me' with regard technology and prediction. Unfortunate understanding of reality really.
yearesadpeople commented on Factories in Space factoriesinspace.com/... · Posted by u/yearesadpeople
It would be ideal to also include the plans for orbiting data centres as well as satellite communication clusters in this very nice resource (since those are entirely _also_ necessary as part of manufacturing in space: alerting, measurement, telemetry, etc.)
yearesadpeople commented on Rethinking how we measure economic activity northwestbylines.co.uk/po... · Posted by u/yearesadpeople
'Going alone' on a method of measuremnt is questionable, especially for something so consequential as economics. Perhaps others - notably the UN, IMF - will follow suit. But, perhaps a new way to measure success for Labour - and the promise of growth as a means to judge the government - is entirely the point