Adrien Baron
@abaron.net
Software Engineer and Theatre fan living in London
Currently building @theatreninja.com, a new theatre ticket platform for Londoners
Maker of @clashofstats.com and http://tiny-frontend.github.io
Working at @nagomy.security
Currently building @theatreninja.com, a new theatre ticket platform for Londoners
Maker of @clashofstats.com and http://tiny-frontend.github.io
Working at @nagomy.security
Very good take!
I think that's a massive difference between ATProto and for example the "build on the blockchain" hype, building on the blockchain did NOT let you do good UX, ATProto on the other end provide benefits UX/DevX benefits to building with it.
I think that's a massive difference between ATProto and for example the "build on the blockchain" hype, building on the blockchain did NOT let you do good UX, ATProto on the other end provide benefits UX/DevX benefits to building with it.
December 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Very good take!
I think that's a massive difference between ATProto and for example the "build on the blockchain" hype, building on the blockchain did NOT let you do good UX, ATProto on the other end provide benefits UX/DevX benefits to building with it.
I think that's a massive difference between ATProto and for example the "build on the blockchain" hype, building on the blockchain did NOT let you do good UX, ATProto on the other end provide benefits UX/DevX benefits to building with it.
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I'm looking for some feedback on a Chrome Extension that I made.
I wanted to explore the user trails concept from the Memex.
Trails - chromewebstore.google.com/detail/trail... - allows you to create your own links between pages entirely locally and have them maintained across navigations.
I wanted to explore the user trails concept from the Memex.
Trails - chromewebstore.google.com/detail/trail... - allows you to create your own links between pages entirely locally and have them maintained across navigations.
Trails - Chrome Web Store
Create links between content on any web page and any other and have them persist.
chromewebstore.google.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I'm looking for some feedback on a Chrome Extension that I made.
I wanted to explore the user trails concept from the Memex.
Trails - chromewebstore.google.com/detail/trail... - allows you to create your own links between pages entirely locally and have them maintained across navigations.
I wanted to explore the user trails concept from the Memex.
Trails - chromewebstore.google.com/detail/trail... - allows you to create your own links between pages entirely locally and have them maintained across navigations.
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December 13, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Ok why does the robot have ADHD?
GPT-5.2 struggles to get motivated
tbf i’m making it create a powerpoint so i TOTALLY understand that
tbf i’m making it create a powerpoint so i TOTALLY understand that
December 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Ok why does the robot have ADHD?
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Time to say goodbye 😢. Unfortunately I have been the latest victim of layoffs. I have taken some time to process and It has been really hard. This wasn’t just a job. This was my dream. Thanks Microsoft, @playwright.dev, and everyone I have worked with 💔 debbie.codes/blog/laid-of...
Laid off from my dream job, what now?
It’s time to say goodbye. Unfortunately I have been the latest victim of layoffs due to reorgs in Microsoft Spain. I have taken some time to process but I won’t lie, It has been really hard to deal wi...
debbie.codes
December 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Time to say goodbye 😢. Unfortunately I have been the latest victim of layoffs. I have taken some time to process and It has been really hard. This wasn’t just a job. This was my dream. Thanks Microsoft, @playwright.dev, and everyone I have worked with 💔 debbie.codes/blog/laid-of...
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quality stuff from Peter and the gang
December 4, 2025 at 12:48 AM
quality stuff from Peter and the gang
For people that have seen Operation Mincemeat (the musical): "A naturalist, reaaaally 👀" 💛
Happy seventh birthday to Sir David Attenborough not being in the nudd.
December 3, 2025 at 11:40 AM
For people that have seen Operation Mincemeat (the musical): "A naturalist, reaaaally 👀" 💛
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This is a great article, would recommend that everyone read.
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:22 AM
This is a great article, would recommend that everyone read.
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As we're all familiar, LLMs are generally not reproducible. That is, even if you put the same prompt in, you're going to keep getting different results out.
There's been some excellent research lately into A. Why that is and B. How to solve it. thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeati...
There's been some excellent research lately into A. Why that is and B. How to solve it. thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeati...
Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference
Reproducibility is a bedrock of scientific progress. However, it’s remarkably difficult to get reproducible results out of large language models.
For example, you might observe that asking ChatGPT the...
thinkingmachines.ai
November 22, 2025 at 5:38 AM
As we're all familiar, LLMs are generally not reproducible. That is, even if you put the same prompt in, you're going to keep getting different results out.
There's been some excellent research lately into A. Why that is and B. How to solve it. thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeati...
There's been some excellent research lately into A. Why that is and B. How to solve it. thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeati...
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On November 18 Cloudflare experienced a service outage. Here's a detailed breakdown of what happened. https://cfl.re/43Bw8AI
Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.
blog.cloudflare.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:49 PM
On November 18 Cloudflare experienced a service outage. Here's a detailed breakdown of what happened. https://cfl.re/43Bw8AI
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Every year I do Movember. I’m continuing my to raise money for Prostate Cancer UK. I’ve also set a goal to run 100 miles for the month. I just hit 25 miles this morning, and I’m already regretting my decision 😆
I’d really appreciate anyone who can support my fundraiser: movember.com/m/Conner?mc=60
I’d really appreciate anyone who can support my fundraiser: movember.com/m/Conner?mc=60
November 8, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Every year I do Movember. I’m continuing my to raise money for Prostate Cancer UK. I’ve also set a goal to run 100 miles for the month. I just hit 25 miles this morning, and I’m already regretting my decision 😆
I’d really appreciate anyone who can support my fundraiser: movember.com/m/Conner?mc=60
I’d really appreciate anyone who can support my fundraiser: movember.com/m/Conner?mc=60
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For theatre lovers in London, I’ve just released the @theatreninja.com ticketing app!
Other apps make you check availability for a show one date at a time, Theatre Ninja let you see all dates at once on one seat map!
iOS: apps.apple.com/gb/app/theat...
Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...
Other apps make you check availability for a show one date at a time, Theatre Ninja let you see all dates at once on one seat map!
iOS: apps.apple.com/gb/app/theat...
Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...
Theatre Ninja: Theatre Tickets
Stop wasting time searching multiple dates for theatre tickets. Theatre Ninja shows you all available seats for any show on one single map, letting you instantly compare prices and find the best valu...
apps.apple.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:46 PM
For theatre lovers in London, I’ve just released the @theatreninja.com ticketing app!
Other apps make you check availability for a show one date at a time, Theatre Ninja let you see all dates at once on one seat map!
iOS: apps.apple.com/gb/app/theat...
Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...
Other apps make you check availability for a show one date at a time, Theatre Ninja let you see all dates at once on one seat map!
iOS: apps.apple.com/gb/app/theat...
Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...
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HEY HEY, the Design Tokens Specification is stable! This is absolutely phenomenal news for the design system community and the technology industry in general. www.w3.org/community/de...
Design Tokens specification reaches first stable version | Design Tokens Community Group
www.w3.org
October 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
HEY HEY, the Design Tokens Specification is stable! This is absolutely phenomenal news for the design system community and the technology industry in general. www.w3.org/community/de...
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I joined Cloudflare to build this. It’s still very early, and there’s lots still missing, but I hope the vision is clear.
It launched! Get traces for your app with zero code changes. No libraries, no SDK, no config. Traces show up in your dash or you can export them to your favorite o11y vendor over OTLP
blog.cloudflare.com/workers-trac...
blog.cloudflare.com/workers-trac...
Announcing Workers automatic tracing -- now in open beta
Cloudflare Workers' support for automatic tracing is now in open beta! Export traces to any OpenTelemetry-compatible provider for deeper application observability -- no code changes required
blog.cloudflare.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I joined Cloudflare to build this. It’s still very early, and there’s lots still missing, but I hope the vision is clear.
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if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.
www.newsweek.com
December 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM
if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
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How does our brain excel at complex object recognition, yet get fooled by simple illusory contours? What unifying principle governs all Gestalt laws of perceptual organization?
We may have an answer: integration of learned priors through feedback. New paper with @kenmiller.bsky.social! 🧵
We may have an answer: integration of learned priors through feedback. New paper with @kenmiller.bsky.social! 🧵
October 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
How does our brain excel at complex object recognition, yet get fooled by simple illusory contours? What unifying principle governs all Gestalt laws of perceptual organization?
We may have an answer: integration of learned priors through feedback. New paper with @kenmiller.bsky.social! 🧵
We may have an answer: integration of learned priors through feedback. New paper with @kenmiller.bsky.social! 🧵
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Vitest 4 is out!
- Browser Mode is Stable
- Visual Regression Testing
- Improved Debugging
- Pool Stabilization
- New APIs
- Bug Fixes
Stay updated with our blog post:
vitest.dev/blog/vitest-4
- Browser Mode is Stable
- Visual Regression Testing
- Improved Debugging
- Pool Stabilization
- New APIs
- Bug Fixes
Stay updated with our blog post:
vitest.dev/blog/vitest-4
Announcing Vitest 4.0
Vitest 4.0 Release Announcement
vitest.dev
October 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Vitest 4 is out!
- Browser Mode is Stable
- Visual Regression Testing
- Improved Debugging
- Pool Stabilization
- New APIs
- Bug Fixes
Stay updated with our blog post:
vitest.dev/blog/vitest-4
- Browser Mode is Stable
- Visual Regression Testing
- Improved Debugging
- Pool Stabilization
- New APIs
- Bug Fixes
Stay updated with our blog post:
vitest.dev/blog/vitest-4
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i wrote about how to fix any bug
How to Fix Any Bug — overreacted
The joys of vibecoding.
overreacted.io
October 21, 2025 at 12:35 AM
i wrote about how to fix any bug
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
4
Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
5
Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
6
Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
9
Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreicahofq6s4xow7vowj7dx6odw6ejdwr4kwcmzta7qwi4hg2nvywji@jpeg)
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Guys new scamming method on bluesky. Please share this around. Dont fall for this stuff
Block, move on.
Block, move on.
October 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Guys new scamming method on bluesky. Please share this around. Dont fall for this stuff
Block, move on.
Block, move on.
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Very excited to be able to talk about something I've been working on for a while now - we're working with Commonwealth Fusion Systems, IMO the leading fusion startup in the world, to take our work on AI and tokamaks and make it work at the frontier of fusion energy. deepmind.google/discover/blo...
Google DeepMind is bringing AI to the next generation of fusion energy
We’re announcing our research partnership with Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) to bring clean, safe, limitless fusion energy closer to reality with our advanced AI systems. This partnership...
deepmind.google
October 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Very excited to be able to talk about something I've been working on for a while now - we're working with Commonwealth Fusion Systems, IMO the leading fusion startup in the world, to take our work on AI and tokamaks and make it work at the frontier of fusion energy. deepmind.google/discover/blo...
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I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...
American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming
The Frog is owning the president.
www.theverge.com
October 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...
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I posted this last night cause I kind of wanted to bury it. I got cold feet about putting it out there.
embedding-space.github.io/sparse-netwo...
The subject is WHY neural networks work, and I think the answer I offer is kind of interesting. Maybe even a little correct, possibly.
embedding-space.github.io/sparse-netwo...
The subject is WHY neural networks work, and I think the answer I offer is kind of interesting. Maybe even a little correct, possibly.
October 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I posted this last night cause I kind of wanted to bury it. I got cold feet about putting it out there.
embedding-space.github.io/sparse-netwo...
The subject is WHY neural networks work, and I think the answer I offer is kind of interesting. Maybe even a little correct, possibly.
embedding-space.github.io/sparse-netwo...
The subject is WHY neural networks work, and I think the answer I offer is kind of interesting. Maybe even a little correct, possibly.
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It wasn't asylum seekers who increased anyone's rent or energy bills, the rich did that.
October 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
It wasn't asylum seekers who increased anyone's rent or energy bills, the rich did that.