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David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · 1d

It’ll be back soon, if only as a static site so the links don’t break. TypePad, the blog host shut down with only a few weeks warning. Read the story of the rescue operation here: medium.com/@gcordidoa/m...

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David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · 1d

It should hopefully be coming back soon as a static site. TypePad didn’t give us much warning but we were able to download all the posts and images before it shut down.

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David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · Sep 23

Join the AMA at 4PM SF time, here: discord.gg/YZbkuKb3?eve...

Check out the awesome-copilot repo, here: github.com/github/aweso...

Join the Azure AI Foundry Discord Server!

A discussion space for developers and interested individuals looking to build with Microsoft AI tooling. | 35477 members

discord.gg

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David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · Sep 23

Devs: looking to up your GitHub Copilot game? In 60 mins, I'll be hosting an AMA with Aaron Powell, maintainer of the Awesome Copilot repo, your source of prompts, chat modes and more!

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Claire Giordano ✨ @clairegiordano.bsky.social · Aug 8

🎙️ New @talkingpostgres.com #podcast Ep30 just published!

Guest @simonwillison.net talked about AI for data engineers. We skipped hype & boosterism to chat about Postgres permissions, alt text, 150-line SQL queries, & pelicans on 🚲

🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/ai-...
📺 youtu.be/8SAqeJHsmRM?...

Bio pic of Simon Willison, wearing glasses and standing against pale brick wall, with his name in big letters and the Talking Postgres podcast square thumbnail in bottom left.

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · Aug 13

You can try that out yourself by launching a Codespace using this link:

codespaces.new/simonw/codes...

Notes on how I got this working: simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/13/... - plus a detailed TIL on using devcontainer.json to configure Codespaces: til.simonwillison.net/github/codes...

simonw/codespaces-llm

I found out today that GitHub Codespaces come with a GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable... and that token works as an API key for accessing LLMs in the GitHub Models collection, which …

simonwillison.net

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David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · Jun 25

Looks like something Simon Stålenhag would paint! Where is that?

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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James Temple @jtemple.bsky.social · Jun 13

This @kashhill.bsky.social piece is wild and disturbing:

They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.

www.nytimes.com

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David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · May 30

Consciousness exists in the observer’s mind

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Niema Moshiri @niema.net · May 28

HMMER is literally *the* go-to tool for profile HMMs in bioinformatics. I've used it countless times on a wide range of projects spanning viruses, retrotransposons, etc. Absolute insanity! hmmer.org

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · May 22

I wish journalists would stop framing political news as wins or losses for politicians or political parties. It’s an abrogation of our mission. Why do we keep doing this? Is the spending bill a win or loss for the American people? Who does it help? Who does it hurt? Is it sound policy? Fiscally?

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David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · May 2

Just signed you up for 1000 newsletters.

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David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · Apr 29

Outstanding!

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David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · Apr 9

Hmm, looks like not yet, which is unusual. Maybe it’s because it’s only available as “latest” in OpenAI’s API, not a specific version number.

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David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · Apr 9

Quite a bit. Content safety filters (important for brands), provisioned throughput (guaranteed TPM), AI Foundry integration. OpenAI models are usually available in Azure same day, not sure about gpt4o you reference there.

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David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · Apr 9

For one thing, data is contained to the region you specify rather than the entire globe — important for various compliances.

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · Apr 7

It’s humbling to realize how many innovative/novel things in tech are actually often triggered by existing, proven ideas or practices: and using them in a practical setting.

Latest discovery: MCP in-part inspired by LSP (Microsoft’s Language Server Protocol)

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Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · Mar 28

Did you know that if you put hot chocolate in a thermos and forget about it, it turns into a bomb?

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David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · Mar 19

My new hobby is asking ChatGPT to name the new cocktail my partner creates each evening. It did a good job with this one.

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Brandon Rohrer @brandonrohrer.com · Mar 18

Life hack: write down stuff you’ve already done on your to-do list and slam a checkmark on it

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Mar 17

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD
...), posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."

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🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · Mar 17

I’m crying, this is so funny

WEAPONIZED MANSPLAINING FOR ESPIONAGE ☠️☠️

John Bull @garius.bsky.social · Mar 17

“If she wants to know something specific, but doesn’t want people to notice her asking questions, she should simply make incorrect statements while in the company of experts. Her companions will correct her, especially if they're men.”

- Advice for female agents in WW2, provided during SOE training

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Mar 17

Well worth a watch if you're feeling helpless and confused these days.

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