Luke Hinds
@lukehinds.bsky.social
In remembrance today at the 11th hour - "eyes-on" Rifles, fallen, but not forgotten.
November 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
In remembrance today at the 11th hour - "eyes-on" Rifles, fallen, but not forgotten.
I am noticing a growing trend of major tech companies partnering and developing specifications and standards privately / by invite only, then releasing in it all with a fanfare and making it out like its an open source community.
It's not. It's exclusive, pay to play and very far from inclusive.
It's not. It's exclusive, pay to play and very far from inclusive.
September 30, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I am noticing a growing trend of major tech companies partnering and developing specifications and standards privately / by invite only, then releasing in it all with a fanfare and making it out like its an open source community.
It's not. It's exclusive, pay to play and very far from inclusive.
It's not. It's exclusive, pay to play and very far from inclusive.
I generated a 3k chain-of-thought reasoning dataset on infrastructure outages. huggingface.co/datasets/luk...
September 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I generated a 3k chain-of-thought reasoning dataset on infrastructure outages. huggingface.co/datasets/luk...
Joke from youngest..... Why do Birds fly south in the winter.
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because its too far to walk !
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because its too far to walk !
September 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Joke from youngest..... Why do Birds fly south in the winter.
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because its too far to walk !
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because its too far to walk !
Bit cold this morning
September 14, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Bit cold this morning
This is the first time I have not seen a cookie banner and not said 'go do one' and instead wanted to keep it open
September 14, 2025 at 6:36 AM
This is the first time I have not seen a cookie banner and not said 'go do one' and instead wanted to keep it open
I don't design websites, but if I did, I would do them like this posthog.com , kudos @posthog.com - I basically went through the whole lot , this is a work of art.
PostHog is for product engineers
We’re building every tool for product engineers to build successful products.
posthog.com
September 14, 2025 at 6:34 AM
I don't design websites, but if I did, I would do them like this posthog.com , kudos @posthog.com - I basically went through the whole lot , this is a work of art.
New Experiment DAG based dataset seed generation available in PM; github.com/lukehinds/pr...
September 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
New Experiment DAG based dataset seed generation available in PM; github.com/lukehinds/pr...
Doing some Go work. I do love python, but it's so nice to not have to deal with virtualenvs and everything being so goosey loosey around Type setting.
September 9, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Doing some Go work. I do love python, but it's so nice to not have to deal with virtualenvs and everything being so goosey loosey around Type setting.
There must be so much wasted energy from GH Actions running on .md files and other non-code changes. You'd expect GH to add a friendly UX nudging users to filter out, but they probably profit too much from private repo actions running unneeded jobs to risk making it easier to avoid spending credits.
September 9, 2025 at 7:15 AM
There must be so much wasted energy from GH Actions running on .md files and other non-code changes. You'd expect GH to add a friendly UX nudging users to filter out, but they probably profit too much from private repo actions running unneeded jobs to risk making it easier to avoid spending credits.
4-5 hours lost trying to fix a bug, that it turns out was actually a"feature" i introduced a few weeks earlier:
September 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
4-5 hours lost trying to fix a bug, that it turns out was actually a"feature" i introduced a few weeks earlier:
An open source community's health can best be measured by how heard individual contributors feel, without the elevation of influence that comes from paid corporate sponsorship.
September 2, 2025 at 7:22 AM
An open source community's health can best be measured by how heard individual contributors feel, without the elevation of influence that comes from paid corporate sponsorship.
Happy Birthday Stanley, my bestie. 🎂 Nine years young today! 🎊
September 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Happy Birthday Stanley, my bestie. 🎂 Nine years young today! 🎊
After 34 years of perseverance , along with support from his loving partner Margaret, Dave Penshaw, 76, of Pratts Bottom, Kent (yes, that is a place), finally managed to exit Vim. Please join me in congratulating Dave on this remarkable display of spirit and true grit!
August 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM
After 34 years of perseverance , along with support from his loving partner Margaret, Dave Penshaw, 76, of Pratts Bottom, Kent (yes, that is a place), finally managed to exit Vim. Please join me in congratulating Dave on this remarkable display of spirit and true grit!
The perverse outcomes of the Online Safety Act:
"Teenagers can now drink cider with a meal, two years before they can read a Reddit thread about it"
thecritic.co.uk/the-perverse...
"Teenagers can now drink cider with a meal, two years before they can read a Reddit thread about it"
thecritic.co.uk/the-perverse...
The perverse outcomes of the Online Safety Act | Jake Hurfurt | The Critic Magazine
“ID, please” is not a demand many people would expect when opening up a Reddit thread of pun fantasy football team names. Yet when looking for inspiration ahead of what has turned out to be another…
thecritic.co.uk
August 29, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The perverse outcomes of the Online Safety Act:
"Teenagers can now drink cider with a meal, two years before they can read a Reddit thread about it"
thecritic.co.uk/the-perverse...
"Teenagers can now drink cider with a meal, two years before they can read a Reddit thread about it"
thecritic.co.uk/the-perverse...
You know an apps useful when it stops you having an idiot moment and sending your /system drive to OpenAI
August 23, 2025 at 10:57 AM
You know an apps useful when it stops you having an idiot moment and sending your /system drive to OpenAI
Backend engineer trying their hand at frontend.
- "Connect dammit...!!!"
- "Seriously??!?!? It's not even hitting the server!, how can you error at fetch!!"
- Two hours later - finally opens developer tools in chrome.
- sheepishly goes and enables CORS
- apologizes to claude for calling him a twat.
- "Connect dammit...!!!"
- "Seriously??!?!? It's not even hitting the server!, how can you error at fetch!!"
- Two hours later - finally opens developer tools in chrome.
- sheepishly goes and enables CORS
- apologizes to claude for calling him a twat.
August 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Backend engineer trying their hand at frontend.
- "Connect dammit...!!!"
- "Seriously??!?!? It's not even hitting the server!, how can you error at fetch!!"
- Two hours later - finally opens developer tools in chrome.
- sheepishly goes and enables CORS
- apologizes to claude for calling him a twat.
- "Connect dammit...!!!"
- "Seriously??!?!? It's not even hitting the server!, how can you error at fetch!!"
- Two hours later - finally opens developer tools in chrome.
- sheepishly goes and enables CORS
- apologizes to claude for calling him a twat.
Manager: "What's this milestone about ..'Living on a prayer'?"
Lead: "That's the documentation deliverable"
Manager: "What's the status of that?"
Lead: "We're halfway there"
Manager: "Why is progress so slow?"
Lead: "You fired Tommy"
Manager: "So?"
Lead: "Tommy used to work on the docs"
Lead: "That's the documentation deliverable"
Manager: "What's the status of that?"
Lead: "We're halfway there"
Manager: "Why is progress so slow?"
Lead: "You fired Tommy"
Manager: "So?"
Lead: "Tommy used to work on the docs"
August 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Manager: "What's this milestone about ..'Living on a prayer'?"
Lead: "That's the documentation deliverable"
Manager: "What's the status of that?"
Lead: "We're halfway there"
Manager: "Why is progress so slow?"
Lead: "You fired Tommy"
Manager: "So?"
Lead: "Tommy used to work on the docs"
Lead: "That's the documentation deliverable"
Manager: "What's the status of that?"
Lead: "We're halfway there"
Manager: "Why is progress so slow?"
Lead: "You fired Tommy"
Manager: "So?"
Lead: "Tommy used to work on the docs"
Well after a good number of years, I have dropped VSCode & now full time on Zed. I found VSCode was becoming far too much of a performance hog in big projects and crashing midway through coding without a save hooks getting in first.
So far, really liking Zed. Rust based, so perf is much better
So far, really liking Zed. Rust based, so perf is much better
August 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Well after a good number of years, I have dropped VSCode & now full time on Zed. I found VSCode was becoming far too much of a performance hog in big projects and crashing midway through coding without a save hooks getting in first.
So far, really liking Zed. Rust based, so perf is much better
So far, really liking Zed. Rust based, so perf is much better
I am sure this "Best Global Universities for Artificial Intelligence" list has not been influenced by any outside interests.
Oxford university #30
MIT #43
#1 is Tsinghua University
www.usnews.com/education/be...
Oxford university #30
MIT #43
#1 is Tsinghua University
www.usnews.com/education/be...
www.usnews.com
August 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I am sure this "Best Global Universities for Artificial Intelligence" list has not been influenced by any outside interests.
Oxford university #30
MIT #43
#1 is Tsinghua University
www.usnews.com/education/be...
Oxford university #30
MIT #43
#1 is Tsinghua University
www.usnews.com/education/be...