Steve Knoblock
@saturn5.bsky.social
I write haiku, have too many books and develop software.
There seems to be a return the ideals of vocal and musical virtuosity. I also notice a greater attraction to melody and clarity in songs. I notice young people marveling at how vocalists in popular bands of the 60s could be so much less of a good vocalist as their favorite vocalist now.
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
There seems to be a return the ideals of vocal and musical virtuosity. I also notice a greater attraction to melody and clarity in songs. I notice young people marveling at how vocalists in popular bands of the 60s could be so much less of a good vocalist as their favorite vocalist now.
The book I am currently reading and one or two of the books I have just been reading all have obvious proofreading errors. The errors are typical of the ones missed by a spell check program. It’s sad that there is no real proofreading nowadays.
December 24, 2025 at 3:35 AM
The book I am currently reading and one or two of the books I have just been reading all have obvious proofreading errors. The errors are typical of the ones missed by a spell check program. It’s sad that there is no real proofreading nowadays.
I am reading The Dating Game: One Man’s Search for the Age of the Earth by Cherry Lewis.
On page 222, it says “Little did Marie Curie know when she started her investigation of Becquerel’s mysterious ‘uranium rays’ just what it would eventually lead to.” In reference to the atomic bomb.
On page 222, it says “Little did Marie Curie know when she started her investigation of Becquerel’s mysterious ‘uranium rays’ just what it would eventually lead to.” In reference to the atomic bomb.
December 19, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I am reading The Dating Game: One Man’s Search for the Age of the Earth by Cherry Lewis.
On page 222, it says “Little did Marie Curie know when she started her investigation of Becquerel’s mysterious ‘uranium rays’ just what it would eventually lead to.” In reference to the atomic bomb.
On page 222, it says “Little did Marie Curie know when she started her investigation of Becquerel’s mysterious ‘uranium rays’ just what it would eventually lead to.” In reference to the atomic bomb.
One of the signs of enshitification is products with features that don’t really work. They appear to be there but they actually are not there.
December 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
One of the signs of enshitification is products with features that don’t really work. They appear to be there but they actually are not there.
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Available through the MIT license, the schemaless data store supports multiagent session history, memory and collaboration.
What DocumentDB Means for Open Source
Available through the MIT license, the schemaless data store supports multiagent session history, memory and collaboration.
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December 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Available through the MIT license, the schemaless data store supports multiagent session history, memory and collaboration.
Reposted by Steve Knoblock
New: ALA and @aaslala.bsky.social welcome the reintroduction of the Right to Read Act by @reed.senate.gov and Rep. Adelita Grijalva!
This legislation would help ensure that all students have access to a school library, staffed by a certified school librarian. More: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This legislation would help ensure that all students have access to a school library, staffed by a certified school librarian. More: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
New: ALA and @aaslala.bsky.social welcome the reintroduction of the Right to Read Act by @reed.senate.gov and Rep. Adelita Grijalva!
This legislation would help ensure that all students have access to a school library, staffed by a certified school librarian. More: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This legislation would help ensure that all students have access to a school library, staffed by a certified school librarian. More: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
Reposted by Steve Knoblock
Inference will be an obsession, WebAssembly has promise, and observability and infrastructure will get more complicated, said a panel at #KubeCon + CloudNativeCon.
By @hjoslyn.bsky.social
By @hjoslyn.bsky.social
From Cloud Native To AI Native: Where Are We Going?
Inference will be an obsession, WebAssembly has promise, and observability and infrastructure will get more complicated, said a panel at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon.
bit.ly
December 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Inference will be an obsession, WebAssembly has promise, and observability and infrastructure will get more complicated, said a panel at #KubeCon + CloudNativeCon.
By @hjoslyn.bsky.social
By @hjoslyn.bsky.social
In the early years of search engines, a big question was on my mind: Will the Google type of search engine succeed or will the other kinds of search engine succeed in dominating web search?
December 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
In the early years of search engines, a big question was on my mind: Will the Google type of search engine succeed or will the other kinds of search engine succeed in dominating web search?
The future is probably an AI chat notebook with everything in it, your email even.
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The future is probably an AI chat notebook with everything in it, your email even.
I notice that the AI summary in a search engine results frequently contains some information that almost never shows up in the indexed websites. I think it’s giving us a glimpse of what’s behind the paywall in published books.
November 13, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I notice that the AI summary in a search engine results frequently contains some information that almost never shows up in the indexed websites. I think it’s giving us a glimpse of what’s behind the paywall in published books.
Reposted by Steve Knoblock
Kingdom review – David Attenborough never fails to make nature awe-inspiring
Kingdom review – David Attenborough never fails to make nature awe-inspiring
Attenborough’s latest extravaganza is packed with such high drama it’s like Game of Thrones … if Cersei was a hyena. If only it hadn’t been bumped down the schedules because of Strictly
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Kingdom review – David Attenborough never fails to make nature awe-inspiring
I am so frustrated with the piece of sh!t software the iPhone notification system is.
November 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I am so frustrated with the piece of sh!t software the iPhone notification system is.
The Tokyo subway is so clean you could eat off the floor. When I was there I was tempted to do it.
October 28, 2025 at 10:57 PM
The Tokyo subway is so clean you could eat off the floor. When I was there I was tempted to do it.
Vibe coding may increase the usage of strongly typed programming languages.
October 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Vibe coding may increase the usage of strongly typed programming languages.
I've said it before but it's worth repeating, that a true social media would only allow actual persons to be represented, not organizations or corporations, so that only friends share posts with their actual human friends, and that posts in the social feed are only time ordered.
October 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I've said it before but it's worth repeating, that a true social media would only allow actual persons to be represented, not organizations or corporations, so that only friends share posts with their actual human friends, and that posts in the social feed are only time ordered.
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Big news: Internet Archive Europe ( @internetarchive.eu ) has opened its new HQ in Amsterdam! 🎉 A home for preservation, access & shared cultural heritage.
Read coverage from @mariabustillos.com in Flaming Hydra: flaminghydra.com/freedom-and-...
Read coverage from @mariabustillos.com in Flaming Hydra: flaminghydra.com/freedom-and-...
Freedom and Sharing at the Internet Archive Europe
On Friday, in a narrow, cream-painted 17th-century row house facing a wide canal bathed in golden light, the Internet Archive Europe celebrated the opening of its new headquarters in Amsterdam. Around...
flaminghydra.com
September 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Big news: Internet Archive Europe ( @internetarchive.eu ) has opened its new HQ in Amsterdam! 🎉 A home for preservation, access & shared cultural heritage.
Read coverage from @mariabustillos.com in Flaming Hydra: flaminghydra.com/freedom-and-...
Read coverage from @mariabustillos.com in Flaming Hydra: flaminghydra.com/freedom-and-...
The notification system on the iPhone is a horrible user interface. Notifications interfere with touch input, block input, and they seem to load a heavyweight library every time one comes in.
September 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The notification system on the iPhone is a horrible user interface. Notifications interfere with touch input, block input, and they seem to load a heavyweight library every time one comes in.
A perspective on how to think about an AI chat bot. It's important to remember that you're talking to a machine learning system, not actual artificial intelligence. While the result can be amazing and useful, it's important to understand what is happening.
September 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
A perspective on how to think about an AI chat bot. It's important to remember that you're talking to a machine learning system, not actual artificial intelligence. While the result can be amazing and useful, it's important to understand what is happening.
I believe creativity should be available to people who cannot or even choose not to, become skilled in realization of art.
September 7, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I believe creativity should be available to people who cannot or even choose not to, become skilled in realization of art.
If an information space is so large you must explore it first before using it, or while using it, you may not find what you're looking for without eons of navigation. Robots
navigated with web for you, and then you could search an index as if you were asking the web a question.
#worldwideweb
navigated with web for you, and then you could search an index as if you were asking the web a question.
#worldwideweb
August 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
If an information space is so large you must explore it first before using it, or while using it, you may not find what you're looking for without eons of navigation. Robots
navigated with web for you, and then you could search an index as if you were asking the web a question.
#worldwideweb
navigated with web for you, and then you could search an index as if you were asking the web a question.
#worldwideweb
There is no need for navigation as a means of finding information on the web, we no longer need a browser or a web, given that the web is actually used as a data source to query against.
August 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
There is no need for navigation as a means of finding information on the web, we no longer need a browser or a web, given that the web is actually used as a data source to query against.
What if there was SaaP Software as a Prompt where you just write a prompt and then you can let any LLM build it, when things change in the world, you just connect to another LLM to recreate the app?
#whatif
#whatif
August 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
What if there was SaaP Software as a Prompt where you just write a prompt and then you can let any LLM build it, when things change in the world, you just connect to another LLM to recreate the app?
#whatif
#whatif
Critics of science fiction often focus on the elements leading to to the suspension of disbelief, but they almost never focus on the elements of philosophy, politics, commentary on humanity that the rest of the narrative represents.
#storytelling
#storytelling
June 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Critics of science fiction often focus on the elements leading to to the suspension of disbelief, but they almost never focus on the elements of philosophy, politics, commentary on humanity that the rest of the narrative represents.
#storytelling
#storytelling
Do artificial intelligences need calculators? I think so. Humans are intelligent beings and they use calculators. It seems an AI would need to use a calculator for--calculation. This is actually the case and there is a protocol for accessing data outside the AI called Model Context Protocol.
June 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Do artificial intelligences need calculators? I think so. Humans are intelligent beings and they use calculators. It seems an AI would need to use a calculator for--calculation. This is actually the case and there is a protocol for accessing data outside the AI called Model Context Protocol.
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Dr. Fiona Havers resigned on Monday after 13 years at the CDC, saying she could no longer continue while the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., dismantled the careful processes that help formulate vaccination standards. Read her first interview since resigning. nyti.ms/4k0mbCn
June 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Dr. Fiona Havers resigned on Monday after 13 years at the CDC, saying she could no longer continue while the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., dismantled the careful processes that help formulate vaccination standards. Read her first interview since resigning. nyti.ms/4k0mbCn