Dani Werner
@daniwerner.com
Your technical fairy godmother — SaaS consultant & project manager who makes platforms actually work.
Gamer, dice goblin, romance reader, and neuroqueer pet parent.
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daniwerner.com
Gamer, dice goblin, romance reader, and neuroqueer pet parent.
Ask me about my podcast queue.
daniwerner.com
#TIL that Walmart owns the Game retail chain here in South Africa, and they’re slowly planning to replace shops with Walmarts. This feels *wrong*. Walmart is such an American chain in my mind that I can’t imagine it in the African context, not even South African.
mybroadband.co.za/news/busines...
mybroadband.co.za/news/busines...
Game shutting down stores in South Africa
Massmart is considering the closure of “around” 20 stores, which will potentially be redeveloped into Walmarts.
mybroadband.co.za
February 11, 2026 at 11:01 PM
#TIL that Walmart owns the Game retail chain here in South Africa, and they’re slowly planning to replace shops with Walmarts. This feels *wrong*. Walmart is such an American chain in my mind that I can’t imagine it in the African context, not even South African.
mybroadband.co.za/news/busines...
mybroadband.co.za/news/busines...
Reposted by Dani Werner
Resistance infrastructure.
February 11, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Resistance infrastructure.
On the one hand, I’m sure the RAs involved learned a lot!
But on the other, well-trained LLMs are perfectly positioned to do the grunt work, and do it well.
But on the other, well-trained LLMs are perfectly positioned to do the grunt work, and do it well.
"In sum, through an extensive (and costly) validation process, we have demonstrated that GPT-5 mini performs very well at recovering the ground truth data. It is clearly better than highly trained graduate students at this specific information retrieval task."
1000x less cost osf.io/preprints/so...
1000x less cost osf.io/preprints/so...
February 11, 2026 at 10:31 PM
On the one hand, I’m sure the RAs involved learned a lot!
But on the other, well-trained LLMs are perfectly positioned to do the grunt work, and do it well.
But on the other, well-trained LLMs are perfectly positioned to do the grunt work, and do it well.
I think it's happening. After paying for #ChatGPT Pro for the past couple of years, I'm switching to #Claude. It's a little sad because I've curated a working "relationship" with ChatGPT, but Claude is smoother to use. I love the coworking functionality, and the Chrome extension is awesome! #genAI
February 11, 2026 at 3:26 PM
As someone who organises her home library of over a thousand books based on what I learned working at a library (author’s last name for fiction, Dewey for nonfiction), I am now tempted to reorganise my kitchen. All hail the Chewy Decimal System!
May 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
As someone who organises her home library of over a thousand books based on what I learned working at a library (author’s last name for fiction, Dewey for nonfiction), I am now tempted to reorganise my kitchen. All hail the Chewy Decimal System!
I see my president has jokes. 🤣
May 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I see my president has jokes. 🤣
The first thing my mom said when I told her the Pope had died was that JD Vance did it. And when I relayed this comment to my friends, many of them said their moms said the same thing.
Huh?
Huh?
April 21, 2025 at 9:13 AM
The first thing my mom said when I told her the Pope had died was that JD Vance did it. And when I relayed this comment to my friends, many of them said their moms said the same thing.
Huh?
Huh?
Reposted by Dani Werner
The Department of Government Efficiency, for example
April 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The Department of Government Efficiency, for example
I don't know why I tried venturing into Edusky. The fear-mongering is depressing.
January 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I don't know why I tried venturing into Edusky. The fear-mongering is depressing.
Sure, you can take your exam from home. But that doesn't mean we won't be watching you.
- Sincerely, the person reviewing evidence of the blatant malpractice in an online exam courtesy of #TheInvigilator, #CanvasLMS, and #Turnitin.
- Sincerely, the person reviewing evidence of the blatant malpractice in an online exam courtesy of #TheInvigilator, #CanvasLMS, and #Turnitin.
January 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Sure, you can take your exam from home. But that doesn't mean we won't be watching you.
- Sincerely, the person reviewing evidence of the blatant malpractice in an online exam courtesy of #TheInvigilator, #CanvasLMS, and #Turnitin.
- Sincerely, the person reviewing evidence of the blatant malpractice in an online exam courtesy of #TheInvigilator, #CanvasLMS, and #Turnitin.
I've decided to properly take up Bluesky for exactly this reason. I left Twitter for a reason; I will stop using Meta social media platforms if they also continue down the same route. Just like I try to avoid hateful people in meatspace, I also want to steer clear online.
I was interviewed at CES this morning. We mentioned that consumers will decide whether they want to be on a platform that is “unfiltered free speech “ or “ moderated”. I mentioned that I loved @bsky.app , and spontaneously people started clapping 🔥.
January 9, 2025 at 9:59 AM
I've decided to properly take up Bluesky for exactly this reason. I left Twitter for a reason; I will stop using Meta social media platforms if they also continue down the same route. Just like I try to avoid hateful people in meatspace, I also want to steer clear online.