David Anson
@davidanson.bsky.social
My name is David Anson. I work at Microsoft where I've helped build client, server, and web apps. I contribute to OSS. Not a spokesperson. https://dlaa.me/
Fair point, though I think it glosses over something significant: error rate. Reputable newspapers (or blogs like your own!) publish retractions when they get a fact wrong. But that’s a rare event. LLMs hallucinate by design and that’s a common event. The “trustability level” is wildly different.
October 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Fair point, though I think it glosses over something significant: error rate. Reputable newspapers (or blogs like your own!) publish retractions when they get a fact wrong. But that’s a rare event. LLMs hallucinate by design and that’s a common event. The “trustability level” is wildly different.
Not so easy if you want them to preserve tab stops, perhaps. :)
October 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Not so easy if you want them to preserve tab stops, perhaps. :)
Interesting! In the meantime, I had realized a simple way to improve this with just a tiny bit of CSS. I made a note to look at that when I get a chance.
October 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Interesting! In the meantime, I had realized a simple way to improve this with just a tiny bit of CSS. I made a note to look at that when I get a chance.
I remembered why I didn’t do that in the first place! Old posts are fully HTML vs. newer posts which are Markdown and pass code blocks through a highlighter during render. There’s no render step for old posts to give an opportunity to reformat those samples. And static edits wouldn’t be theme-aware.
October 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I remembered why I didn’t do that in the first place! Old posts are fully HTML vs. newer posts which are Markdown and pass code blocks through a highlighter during render. There’s no render step for old posts to give an opportunity to reformat those samples. And static edits wouldn’t be theme-aware.
Sorry! Older posts use hard-coded HTML for light theme. That shouldn’t be the case with newer posts which use highlight.js. For example: dlaa.me/blog/post/ic...
I’ve made myself a note to see if it’s safe to remove the formatting from old stuff and let the auto-highlight code handle colorizing.
I’ve made myself a note to see if it’s safe to remove the formatting from old stuff and let the auto-highlight code handle colorizing.
October 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Sorry! Older posts use hard-coded HTML for light theme. That shouldn’t be the case with newer posts which use highlight.js. For example: dlaa.me/blog/post/ic...
I’ve made myself a note to see if it’s safe to remove the formatting from old stuff and let the auto-highlight code handle colorizing.
I’ve made myself a note to see if it’s safe to remove the formatting from old stuff and let the auto-highlight code handle colorizing.
Only Administrators members should be able to write there, so it seems like they run their service as Admin OR they relax privileges. Both are anti-patterns, I think.
October 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Only Administrators members should be able to write there, so it seems like they run their service as Admin OR they relax privileges. Both are anti-patterns, I think.
Are you getting Beetlejuice vibes? Because I’m getting Beetlejuice vibes.
August 9, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Are you getting Beetlejuice vibes? Because I’m getting Beetlejuice vibes.
How did you convince the police officer that your bike was yours? Being able to unlock your lock should not have been enough. You could’ve added that to a legitimately-locked bike right before you contacted the officer.
July 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
How did you convince the police officer that your bike was yours? Being able to unlock your lock should not have been enough. You could’ve added that to a legitimately-locked bike right before you contacted the officer.
Wow, looks like *someone* woke up on the Smurf side of bed!
July 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Wow, looks like *someone* woke up on the Smurf side of bed!
Am I wrong to worry they’ll botch the upcoming remake?
May 26, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Am I wrong to worry they’ll botch the upcoming remake?