Reg Braithwaite 🍓
@raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy
It says "Reginald Scott Braithwaite-Lee" on my 🇨🇦 passport. You may know me from a book called "JavaScript Allongé" or from my work at companies like PagerDuty […]
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November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Rapid Transit.
Rush Hour.
Civil Service.
Civil War.
And yes, Motor Glider.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_glider #gliding
Rush Hour.
Civil Service.
Civil War.
And yes, Motor Glider.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_glider #gliding
November 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Rapid Transit.
Rush Hour.
Civil Service.
Civil War.
And yes, Motor Glider.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_glider #gliding
Rush Hour.
Civil Service.
Civil War.
And yes, Motor Glider.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_glider #gliding
When you switch your org to vibe coding, the velocity of pull requests generated is going to go way, way up. Which is better, right?
November 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
When you switch your org to vibe coding, the velocity of pull requests generated is going to go way, way up. Which is better, right?
October 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
@dlakelan Matthew 8:9
“For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Row, and he roweth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.”
“For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Row, and he roweth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.”
October 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM
@dlakelan Matthew 8:9
“For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Row, and he roweth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.”
“For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Row, and he roweth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.”
September 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Ordinary People, 1980
September 16, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Ordinary People, 1980
Three Days of the Condor, 1975
September 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Three Days of the Condor, 1975
Perhaps I should ask again? Ah! Now it thinks I wrote “Joy of JavaScript.” ChatGPT seems to think that Luis Atencio is a pen name of mine.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52729898-the-joy-of-javascript
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52729898-the-joy-of-javascript
September 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Perhaps I should ask again? Ah! Now it thinks I wrote “Joy of JavaScript.” ChatGPT seems to think that Luis Atencio is a pen name of mine.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52729898-the-joy-of-javascript
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52729898-the-joy-of-javascript
Bonus content: It seems I was young once, and so was my daughter. I'll drink to that.
September 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Bonus content: It seems I was young once, and so was my daughter. I'll drink to that.
@SOSAGlidingClub A recent one-hour solo flight, overlaid with the altitude profile and thermalling performance. Like the flight above, I was much better turning "widdershins." Derek Zoolander would say that "I’m not an ambiturner."
August 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
@SOSAGlidingClub A recent one-hour solo flight, overlaid with the altitude profile and thermalling performance. Like the flight above, I was much better turning "widdershins." Derek Zoolander would say that "I’m not an ambiturner."
> “It’s a very simple goal. To finally overcome the curse of Twitter, which is that people will have used Twitter or X for a decade and never bought a single thing.”
—Elon Musk, quoted by Bloomberg, https://archive.ph/wLC8M#selection-1725.0-1746.0
OMG, what‽
—Elon Musk, quoted by Bloomberg, https://archive.ph/wLC8M#selection-1725.0-1746.0
OMG, what‽
August 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
> “It’s a very simple goal. To finally overcome the curse of Twitter, which is that people will have used Twitter or X for a decade and never bought a single thing.”
—Elon Musk, quoted by Bloomberg, https://archive.ph/wLC8M#selection-1725.0-1746.0
OMG, what‽
—Elon Musk, quoted by Bloomberg, https://archive.ph/wLC8M#selection-1725.0-1746.0
OMG, what‽
LLMs have taught us that the Turing Test doesn't determine whether machines are intelligent, it actually determines whether humans are credulous.
August 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
LLMs have taught us that the Turing Test doesn't determine whether machines are intelligent, it actually determines whether humans are credulous.
@adwright TESLA has a world-champion P/E ratio in large part because Elon Musk has shown that companies can make an AI product that literally kills their customers when it gets something wrong, and yet customers will pay $8,000 in the hope it gets EVERYTHING […]
[Original post on social.bau-ha.us]
[Original post on social.bau-ha.us]
August 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
@adwright TESLA has a world-champion P/E ratio in large part because Elon Musk has shown that companies can make an AI product that literally kills their customers when it gets something wrong, and yet customers will pay $8,000 in the hope it gets EVERYTHING […]
[Original post on social.bau-ha.us]
[Original post on social.bau-ha.us]
Just before taking an instructional #gliding flight with Joerg Stieber. Joerg is @SOSAGlidingClub's past president, an exceptionally fine instructor, and a very proud Bavarian. 🇩🇪
August 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Just before taking an instructional #gliding flight with Joerg Stieber. Joerg is @SOSAGlidingClub's past president, an exceptionally fine instructor, and a very proud Bavarian. 🇩🇪
@josephcox Signage on television is more permissive.
August 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
@josephcox Signage on television is more permissive.
In July, Musk said that 50 percent of the US population would have access to Tesla’s robotaxis by the end of the year. And he predicted that Tesla customers would be able to update their own vehicles to drive autonomously without supervision by the end of […]
[Original post on social.bau-ha.us]
[Original post on social.bau-ha.us]
August 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
In July, Musk said that 50 percent of the US population would have access to Tesla’s robotaxis by the end of the year. And he predicted that Tesla customers would be able to update their own vehicles to drive autonomously without supervision by the end of […]
[Original post on social.bau-ha.us]
[Original post on social.bau-ha.us]
Compare with Dr. Alan J. Perlis’ "Epigrams in Programming," 1982: https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
August 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Compare with Dr. Alan J. Perlis’ "Epigrams in Programming," 1982: https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
Compare and contrast. First up, @RosaCtrl and https://social.bau-ha.us/@[email protected]/115049918101588096
August 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Compare and contrast. First up, @RosaCtrl and https://social.bau-ha.us/@[email protected]/115049918101588096
Generative AI is actually very good at summarizing books, essays, conversations, meeting transcripts, and so on. But what if the summary isn't as important as the work of summarizing?
Source: https://medium.com/@rehmanmomin/the-unfashionable-art-of-actually-learning-things-0cc7359dbb88
👒 @ez
Source: https://medium.com/@rehmanmomin/the-unfashionable-art-of-actually-learning-things-0cc7359dbb88
👒 @ez
August 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Generative AI is actually very good at summarizing books, essays, conversations, meeting transcripts, and so on. But what if the summary isn't as important as the work of summarizing?
Source: https://medium.com/@rehmanmomin/the-unfashionable-art-of-actually-learning-things-0cc7359dbb88
👒 @ez
Source: https://medium.com/@rehmanmomin/the-unfashionable-art-of-actually-learning-things-0cc7359dbb88
👒 @ez
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When I use the "share" menu with a web page, Documents inserts a "Convert to PDF" menu item that only works in the Pro version. It's bullshit:
First, features that interrupt your flow to sign up and pay is a design anti-pattern. Second, it's bullshit […]
[Original post on social.bau-ha.us]
When I use the "share" menu with a web page, Documents inserts a "Convert to PDF" menu item that only works in the Pro version. It's bullshit:
First, features that interrupt your flow to sign up and pay is a design anti-pattern. Second, it's bullshit […]
[Original post on social.bau-ha.us]
August 17, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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When I use the "share" menu with a web page, Documents inserts a "Convert to PDF" menu item that only works in the Pro version. It's bullshit:
First, features that interrupt your flow to sign up and pay is a design anti-pattern. Second, it's bullshit […]
[Original post on social.bau-ha.us]
When I use the "share" menu with a web page, Documents inserts a "Convert to PDF" menu item that only works in the Pro version. It's bullshit:
First, features that interrupt your flow to sign up and pay is a design anti-pattern. Second, it's bullshit […]
[Original post on social.bau-ha.us]
I use "Documents", an iOS PDF reader/annotation app. It's fantastic for not just reading books and essays in PDF format, but for marking them up as I read, which greatly increases retention. BUT!
As with so many other apps born as decent products at […]
[Original post on social.bau-ha.us]
As with so many other apps born as decent products at […]
[Original post on social.bau-ha.us]
August 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I use "Documents", an iOS PDF reader/annotation app. It's fantastic for not just reading books and essays in PDF format, but for marking them up as I read, which greatly increases retention. BUT!
As with so many other apps born as decent products at […]
[Original post on social.bau-ha.us]
As with so many other apps born as decent products at […]
[Original post on social.bau-ha.us]