Andy Hedges
@andy.hedges.io
Curious about everything, but the topics I really like are tech, software engineering, networking, a little hardware and smattering of mathematics. Opinions are my own and sometimes not even that. @andyhedges on the other place but don't post there anymore
Trying out @vivaldi.com browser and really liking it. Reminds me of switching from IE to Phoenix or from Firefox to Chrome when they came out. It's faster, responsive and doesn't hog resources like contemporary Chrome, Firefox, Brave and so on. A great reset of how lightweight a browser should be.
December 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Trying out @vivaldi.com browser and really liking it. Reminds me of switching from IE to Phoenix or from Firefox to Chrome when they came out. It's faster, responsive and doesn't hog resources like contemporary Chrome, Firefox, Brave and so on. A great reset of how lightweight a browser should be.
Elon Musk is (much) more than twice as rich as the second richest person in the world. That means I'm much closer to being the second richest person in the world than Elon Musk is. In fact everyone on the planet is closer to being the second richest person than Musk. This is very twisted.
December 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Elon Musk is (much) more than twice as rich as the second richest person in the world. That means I'm much closer to being the second richest person in the world than Elon Musk is. In fact everyone on the planet is closer to being the second richest person than Musk. This is very twisted.
Reposted by Andy Hedges
After 6 months of a Reform council in Kent, these voters are NOT at all happy with what they are seeing!
www.instagram.com/p/DQhVo8ljFt-/
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November 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
After 6 months of a Reform council in Kent, these voters are NOT at all happy with what they are seeing!
www.instagram.com/p/DQhVo8ljFt-/
www.instagram.com/p/DQhVo8ljFt-/
AI is often adjacent to being correct, and close enough where people can't tell the difference. However where an inch is as good as a mile it's useless. For areas were being accurate is critical it is dangerous at best.
October 20, 2025 at 10:49 PM
AI is often adjacent to being correct, and close enough where people can't tell the difference. However where an inch is as good as a mile it's useless. For areas were being accurate is critical it is dangerous at best.
This is (one of) the problem(s) with AI
October 20, 2025 at 10:42 PM
This is (one of) the problem(s) with AI
So flipping sick of my Mac blocking apps from connecting to local servers after update, forcing me to re-allow them in settings. I've asked AIs, I've googled, I played with settings. Other than buying an expensive signing cert for every app, what can be done?
October 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
So flipping sick of my Mac blocking apps from connecting to local servers after update, forcing me to re-allow them in settings. I've asked AIs, I've googled, I played with settings. Other than buying an expensive signing cert for every app, what can be done?
Tried to list an item on ebay; first time in 10+ years. Got the pics ready, wrote the listing, was losing the will to live with their UX. Then was told I could not list something as I have a 'private feedback profile', search for this setting for 5 minutes, gave up and listed it on vinted.
October 19, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Tried to list an item on ebay; first time in 10+ years. Got the pics ready, wrote the listing, was losing the will to live with their UX. Then was told I could not list something as I have a 'private feedback profile', search for this setting for 5 minutes, gave up and listed it on vinted.
If we were designing HTML today, what would we name the href attribute of the 'a' tag? How about src attribute of the 'img' tag? How about the 'a' and 'img' tags themselves?
<go to="https..">link</link>
<show content="/meme.webp">
<go to="https..">link</link>
<show content="/meme.webp">
October 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
If we were designing HTML today, what would we name the href attribute of the 'a' tag? How about src attribute of the 'img' tag? How about the 'a' and 'img' tags themselves?
<go to="https..">link</link>
<show content="/meme.webp">
<go to="https..">link</link>
<show content="/meme.webp">
Welp, I got the test emergency alert in the UK this time.
September 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Welp, I got the test emergency alert in the UK this time.
Coding using AI co-pilots: there is an assumption that it's a game changer, a silver bullet. AIs are super helpful for writing functions, explaining code, and generally doing small contained tasks. AI can be guided to more complex structures too. However AI is no silver bullet.
August 24, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Coding using AI co-pilots: there is an assumption that it's a game changer, a silver bullet. AIs are super helpful for writing functions, explaining code, and generally doing small contained tasks. AI can be guided to more complex structures too. However AI is no silver bullet.
I asked co-pilot to make a simple change to some code it wrote, and it's got itself in to such a mess, it's talking itself through the issue, and it's quite frankly pure comedy. Only because I've been there and it's missing something obv, but I don't have the heart to tell it yet.
August 22, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I asked co-pilot to make a simple change to some code it wrote, and it's got itself in to such a mess, it's talking itself through the issue, and it's quite frankly pure comedy. Only because I've been there and it's missing something obv, but I don't have the heart to tell it yet.
I am more likely to ask ChatGPT or Gemini about your product than read your marketing website.
July 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I am more likely to ask ChatGPT or Gemini about your product than read your marketing website.
Reposted by Andy Hedges
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
July 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
I’d be gutted too if I was spotted at a Coldplay concert.
July 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I’d be gutted too if I was spotted at a Coldplay concert.
Remember the world is a beautiful place, it’s been around a lot longer than the fools who currently run it and it will be around when they are gone.
July 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Remember the world is a beautiful place, it’s been around a lot longer than the fools who currently run it and it will be around when they are gone.
Reposted by Andy Hedges
I just saw someone post screenshots from ChatGPT as proof/source of information. We are not going to make it, are we? People, I mean.
July 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I just saw someone post screenshots from ChatGPT as proof/source of information. We are not going to make it, are we? People, I mean.
It’s amazing how quiet and without onlooker they managed to keep the parade dress rehearsal, when is the actual thing?
June 15, 2025 at 7:43 AM
It’s amazing how quiet and without onlooker they managed to keep the parade dress rehearsal, when is the actual thing?
Amazon retail is absolute dog poop now. Mistakes all over the place, absolute tat, fakes, and completely impossible to get hold of a human to work it out when it goes wrong. I've stopped using them, but friends and family are still getting stung.
June 14, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Amazon retail is absolute dog poop now. Mistakes all over the place, absolute tat, fakes, and completely impossible to get hold of a human to work it out when it goes wrong. I've stopped using them, but friends and family are still getting stung.
Got a right telling off by chatgpt for using IP ending in .0 for a device on my network. It said I shouldn't use the network addr, I said it wasn't and told it the subnet, it said I still shouldn't although it is technically allowed, a lot of broken implementations assume .0s are the network addr
June 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Got a right telling off by chatgpt for using IP ending in .0 for a device on my network. It said I shouldn't use the network addr, I said it wasn't and told it the subnet, it said I still shouldn't although it is technically allowed, a lot of broken implementations assume .0s are the network addr
Wouldn't it have been a better idea for the federal courts to point out that Trump didn't have the authority to set tariffs before, you know, he set the tariffs?
May 29, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Wouldn't it have been a better idea for the federal courts to point out that Trump didn't have the authority to set tariffs before, you know, he set the tariffs?
We early tech adopters survived the era of unique chargers; lose one and you were stuck hunting pricey replacements. So we learned to guard them. Now? USB-C cables cost less than a sandwich and work almost anywhere. Lose one, grab another. You have a stash; fam know you are easier than Amazon.
Lately, it feels like my sole purpose in life is to provide USB-C chargers for my family. I can never find one when I need one.
What are they doing? Eating them?
What are they doing? Eating them?
May 4, 2025 at 10:46 AM
We early tech adopters survived the era of unique chargers; lose one and you were stuck hunting pricey replacements. So we learned to guard them. Now? USB-C cables cost less than a sandwich and work almost anywhere. Lose one, grab another. You have a stash; fam know you are easier than Amazon.
OK, I'm laying down a challenge, anyone who can get Sora prompt to draw an accurate T568B ethernet wiring diagram, something like the attached wins internet points. I've tried quite a few variants, I've asked GPT to create prompts, I've asked o3 and 4o all fail.
April 30, 2025 at 7:41 AM
OK, I'm laying down a challenge, anyone who can get Sora prompt to draw an accurate T568B ethernet wiring diagram, something like the attached wins internet points. I've tried quite a few variants, I've asked GPT to create prompts, I've asked o3 and 4o all fail.
Thanks for this Sora. I asked Open AI to make me a chart for ethernet wiring and I got this fever dream.
April 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Thanks for this Sora. I asked Open AI to make me a chart for ethernet wiring and I got this fever dream.
Congrats to Carney and the Canadian's. I wouldn't be surprised if the US was the 11th Province of CA by the ends of his tenure.
April 29, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Congrats to Carney and the Canadian's. I wouldn't be surprised if the US was the 11th Province of CA by the ends of his tenure.
Hey github it would be really helpful if you could use the same messages, wording and so forth in your permissions model, error messages and UX, as tracking down which permission is the problem for a token/use-case is an exercise in frustration.
April 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Hey github it would be really helpful if you could use the same messages, wording and so forth in your permissions model, error messages and UX, as tracking down which permission is the problem for a token/use-case is an exercise in frustration.