craiget
@craiget.bsky.social
Data, coding, amusing only myself, recovering web dev, bad at chess.
The famous "pelican riding a bicycle" LLM images can make great last-minute gift-wrapping paper simonwillison.net/tags/pelican.... For a bonus, just print a few and leave them around the house to confuse your family.
Simon Willison on pelican-riding-a-bicycle
88 posts tagged ‘pelican-riding-a-bicycle’. My benchmark for LLMs: "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle".
"User might be a kid playing with words" according to Qwen3-4B-Thinking.
simonwillison.net
December 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The famous "pelican riding a bicycle" LLM images can make great last-minute gift-wrapping paper simonwillison.net/tags/pelican.... For a bonus, just print a few and leave them around the house to confuse your family.
Nearby is a business called Luxury Collision Center. Now I wonder what exactly is involved in a "luxury collision"?
November 6, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Nearby is a business called Luxury Collision Center. Now I wonder what exactly is involved in a "luxury collision"?
Meanwhile on Wikipedia..
June 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Meanwhile on Wikipedia..
Scene: WCWS refs officiate whether a runner stepped on home plate while the sound system blasts "Invisible Touch" (probably accidental, but kinda funny)
June 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Scene: WCWS refs officiate whether a runner stepped on home plate while the sound system blasts "Invisible Touch" (probably accidental, but kinda funny)
Fun chart, but the highlight is the caption: "If a dog is facing left, it's kind of a dumb dog. If it's facing right, it's an intelligent dog." LOL
It's fun to learn how to create impactful #infographics & data-visuals like this.
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24th & 25th Jun 🇬🇧 UK/EU/AUS
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2 x virtual half days:
24th & 25th Jun 🇬🇧 UK/EU/AUS
17th & 18th Jul 🇺🇸 USA
Details geni.us/WAB2024
Reviews geni.us/WABreviews
May 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Fun chart, but the highlight is the caption: "If a dog is facing left, it's kind of a dumb dog. If it's facing right, it's an intelligent dog." LOL
Waiting for a chatbot to automate the obligatory fumbling awkwardness at the beginning of every Zoom call (or just a macro to apologize: "sorry, I was on mute")
May 18, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Waiting for a chatbot to automate the obligatory fumbling awkwardness at the beginning of every Zoom call (or just a macro to apologize: "sorry, I was on mute")
Sure, it's embarrassing to make a typo in a Bluesky post and immediately delete it. But have you tried making a typo IRL, and then putting it on a big sign, and then holding that sign in public, only to notice your mistake HOURS LATER? No? Uh.. me neither.. just wondering..
May 2, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Sure, it's embarrassing to make a typo in a Bluesky post and immediately delete it. But have you tried making a typo IRL, and then putting it on a big sign, and then holding that sign in public, only to notice your mistake HOURS LATER? No? Uh.. me neither.. just wondering..
Is there any good reason to prefer a "load more" button versus good ol' pagination (that allows jumping/skipping pages)? I see this daily and all I can think is either a) the developers don't use their own site or b) it's a poorly thought-out dark pattern meant to crank pageviews
April 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Is there any good reason to prefer a "load more" button versus good ol' pagination (that allows jumping/skipping pages)? I see this daily and all I can think is either a) the developers don't use their own site or b) it's a poorly thought-out dark pattern meant to crank pageviews
Reading up on python's new t-strings feature (which is sorta like f-strings snorted "pop rocks"), and I stumbled on Javascript "tagged templates" a special variety of template string. Never in my life have I seen or heard of such a thing. Mozilla says it's been available since 2020.
Template literals (Template strings) - JavaScript | MDN
Template literals are literals delimited with backtick (`) characters, allowing for multi-line strings, string interpolation with embedded expressions, and special constructs called tagged templates.
developer.mozilla.org
April 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Reading up on python's new t-strings feature (which is sorta like f-strings snorted "pop rocks"), and I stumbled on Javascript "tagged templates" a special variety of template string. Never in my life have I seen or heard of such a thing. Mozilla says it's been available since 2020.
Kinda weird that Easter is on a Sunday this year.
April 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Kinda weird that Easter is on a Sunday this year.
Reposted by craiget
ICYMI: I wrote about how employers shaped immigration enforcement, and why, for Project 2025 conservatives, the undocumented worker is the model for a future in which all workers are expendable. via @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
Wages of Citizenship | Michael Macher
US immigration enforcement and the cannibalization of labor law
www.phenomenalworld.org
April 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
ICYMI: I wrote about how employers shaped immigration enforcement, and why, for Project 2025 conservatives, the undocumented worker is the model for a future in which all workers are expendable. via @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
Nobody asked, but I have a lot of ideas to improve baseball... First of all, de-standardize so each ballpark is totally unique: distance between bases, size/weight of the ball, etc. Second, anytime a ball goes into play, you don't toss it back to the pitcher, instead..
April 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Nobody asked, but I have a lot of ideas to improve baseball... First of all, de-standardize so each ballpark is totally unique: distance between bases, size/weight of the ball, etc. Second, anytime a ball goes into play, you don't toss it back to the pitcher, instead..
Kinda nails it: rakhim.exotext.com/but-what-if-...
But what if I really want a faster horse? | exotext
But what if I really want a faster horse? | exotext
rakhim.exotext.com
April 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Kinda nails it: rakhim.exotext.com/but-what-if-...
Okay, so skunks have terrible eyesight. Who knew?
Wikipedia also has a delightful description from an early encounter with a missionary:
"I mention [the skunk] here, not on account of its excellence, but to make of it a symbol of sin..."
Love that phrasing. Stone-cold 17th century diss.
Wikipedia also has a delightful description from an early encounter with a missionary:
"I mention [the skunk] here, not on account of its excellence, but to make of it a symbol of sin..."
Love that phrasing. Stone-cold 17th century diss.
March 31, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Okay, so skunks have terrible eyesight. Who knew?
Wikipedia also has a delightful description from an early encounter with a missionary:
"I mention [the skunk] here, not on account of its excellence, but to make of it a symbol of sin..."
Love that phrasing. Stone-cold 17th century diss.
Wikipedia also has a delightful description from an early encounter with a missionary:
"I mention [the skunk] here, not on account of its excellence, but to make of it a symbol of sin..."
Love that phrasing. Stone-cold 17th century diss.
Reposted by craiget
The @xkcd.com piece set is now available on Lichess: Select it from the Piece set option in your account menu.
Many thanks to detroyejr (github.com/detroyejr) for recreating and contributing it!
Many thanks to detroyejr (github.com/detroyejr) for recreating and contributing it!
March 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The @xkcd.com piece set is now available on Lichess: Select it from the Piece set option in your account menu.
Many thanks to detroyejr (github.com/detroyejr) for recreating and contributing it!
Many thanks to detroyejr (github.com/detroyejr) for recreating and contributing it!
Not many people know that Peach is a Top 3 flavor of yogurt. This only applies to fruit on the bottom varieties however.
March 3, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Not many people know that Peach is a Top 3 flavor of yogurt. This only applies to fruit on the bottom varieties however.
Really can't stand the "X days ago" date format. Probably the only thing worse is "about a month ago", which is.. NOT SUPER HELPFUL if you want to know exactly when something happened.
February 27, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Really can't stand the "X days ago" date format. Probably the only thing worse is "about a month ago", which is.. NOT SUPER HELPFUL if you want to know exactly when something happened.
Don't wanna jinx it. But I feel like The Onion is funny again.
February 26, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Don't wanna jinx it. But I feel like The Onion is funny again.
"Dogs may have domesticated themselves because they really liked snacks".
(Apparently it's just more stats for something scientists pretty much agree on. Still funny though)
(Apparently it's just more stats for something scientists pretty much agree on. Still funny though)
Dogs may have domesticated themselves because they really liked snacks, model suggests
Competing theories explain how dogs came to be domesticated from wolves. Now, a new study adds further support to the idea that they domesticated themselves.
www.livescience.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
"Dogs may have domesticated themselves because they really liked snacks".
(Apparently it's just more stats for something scientists pretty much agree on. Still funny though)
(Apparently it's just more stats for something scientists pretty much agree on. Still funny though)
"What does this mean, exactly? Well, each bed contains a full Linux-based computer." -- interesting article, but also I just find that particular sentence very very funny.
Removing Jeff Bezos from my bed -
Do you expect to find an AWS key in your bed?
We found one, and we removed it. We’re sleeping great now.
🔗 trufflesecurity.com/blog/removing-jeff-bezos-from-my-bed
Do you expect to find an AWS key in your bed?
We found one, and we removed it. We’re sleeping great now.
🔗 trufflesecurity.com/blog/removing-jeff-bezos-from-my-bed
February 22, 2025 at 2:12 AM
"What does this mean, exactly? Well, each bed contains a full Linux-based computer." -- interesting article, but also I just find that particular sentence very very funny.
Also on archive.org, there are Hypercard stacks. When you open one, it boots a VM of... MacOS System 7 (?) and you can just USE hypercard like it's 1990. Pretty cool.
February 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Also on archive.org, there are Hypercard stacks. When you open one, it boots a VM of... MacOS System 7 (?) and you can just USE hypercard like it's 1990. Pretty cool.
Due to a glitch in the matrix, Hypercard just keeps coming up over-and-over recently. I think maybe I learned QBASIC before Hypercard, but so few records survive from that distant era.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard
HyperCard - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Due to a glitch in the matrix, Hypercard just keeps coming up over-and-over recently. I think maybe I learned QBASIC before Hypercard, but so few records survive from that distant era.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard
Always disappointed to pass an obstacle in the road when there are no oncoming cars to flash my headlights at.
February 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Always disappointed to pass an obstacle in the road when there are no oncoming cars to flash my headlights at.
Been poking at the bsky / atproto api, trying to grasp what folks are building. Seems cool, but surprised to find relatively few custom lexicons/collections in the wild, even on self-hosted PDS. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places..
February 14, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Been poking at the bsky / atproto api, trying to grasp what folks are building. Seems cool, but surprised to find relatively few custom lexicons/collections in the wild, even on self-hosted PDS. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places..
"Cat called Mozzarella becomes obsessed with chicken after brain surgery".
Is that the perfect headline? (Okay, fine.. "purrfect"..)
Sounds like he's doing well!
Is that the perfect headline? (Okay, fine.. "purrfect"..)
Sounds like he's doing well!
Cat called Mozzarella becomes obsessed with chicken after brain surgery
The vet said it was one of the biggest feline tumours he had ever seen.
www.somersetlive.co.uk
February 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
"Cat called Mozzarella becomes obsessed with chicken after brain surgery".
Is that the perfect headline? (Okay, fine.. "purrfect"..)
Sounds like he's doing well!
Is that the perfect headline? (Okay, fine.. "purrfect"..)
Sounds like he's doing well!