Danny Smith

hey claude make a script that moves all the files from this folder to another folde okay done, and all 679 tests pass

Incredible

If closing surely the least expensive radio channel the BBC has (run by a tiny number of people, broadcasting the work of mainly dead people), bothers you, then why not sign this petition you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

this is basically the current state of things Scam site: Hi, I'm Amazon dot com! Microsoft Edge: Prove it Scam site: 4️⃣ Microsoft Edge: Pleasure doing business with you, Amazon

I wish there was a universally adopted atproto-based stock (of products in stores) lexicon I want this thing, I want to buy local, but where has it? A “we stock this”, and “we have it in stock” boolean for everything (by EAN, to start?) would be *so* useful in cities. Any POS providers here? 😅

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Atmosphere update: atproto apps are growing 20% month over month, and last week we passed 1,000 daily active apps.

you could get so far ahead as a vibecoder if you literally just wrote the readme by hand

The BBC's ability for self immolation is extraordinary. How can a new Midlands BBC centre be without a drama and broadcasting studio,the plans for which have now been scrapped? Undermining the audio medium (which they've been nibbling away for years). 1/2 www.change.org/p/keep-the-a...

Ironic that a non-deterministic system has a relatively deterministic response to a prompt asking for a non-deterministic response.

Like it or not, AI is here to stay. It's too profitable to ignore. We can either let a few companies win and further increase the gap between the haves and the have-nots, or we can stake a claim on the future and build the web we want to see. One that benefits everyone.

Almost done with this iOS / macOs app which lets me record voice notes from my phone/watch/CarPlay and puts them and their transcripts on my mac. Next up: Using jev and/or claude to sensibly turn them into files in my Obsidian inbox.

Extraordinary undercover reporting in Reform by ITV, uncovering what many of its councillors and activists are really like, when they think the cameras are off. A racist party which attracts racist people. www.itv.com/news/2026-10...

Work on Spaces is maturing, and that means we can start to talk more about the ~developer experience~!! Beginning today, a new weekly Spaces blog series: atproto.com/blog/devex-g...

Some actual data on the Yandex DC drone strikes

There’s really only one way to mark the 99th anniversary of Roger Moore’s birth

I do wish more people would browse the Wikipedia articles of medieval European rulers. So many of them have sentences like “Charles the Stupid, Duke of Flanders, was campaigning in Burgundy when he contracted dysentery after eating apples. He died a week later at age 36.”

gentlemen, this is democracy manifest! what is the charge? enjoying slopgem? consuming a succulent chinese model?

Oh goodness, likewise ❤️

How on earth is Apple Voice Memos not available in CarPlay? Does Apple really thing it's safer for folks to dictate into their phone that to press a big "New Voice Note" button in CarPlay and just talk at the car?

RIP Margret Hamilton

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

This is wild. But unsurprising I guess

Doing 3 sets of 12 reps Reading Book then a High Intensity Sudoku routine and short Intellectual Conversation sesh to warm down bro

feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them

I love this artefact of The Old Web. I wonder when it was last updated? (The acknowledgments page is lovely)

Product design matters folks

Hugely dishonest to pass off a sentence for setting off a bomb as "destroying a camera"

“I’m Embarrassed on Behalf of the Tech Industry” blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/embarra... Relatable piece by @jim-nielsen.com

Lmao arxiv.org/pdf/2404.00732

weird, useful robots are the future el.kz/en/south-kor...

I just had Claude make a thing explaining how the sails of a Napoleonic-era ship-of-the-line work. tools.danny.is/ship-of-the-...

feels like there is a group of smart and well-intentioned people who long ago made up their minds that AI Is Bad, swore off using it, and now get all their info about AI from each other. not saying they're wrong that ai is bad! but i think they're gradually losing touch with what it is and does

Please stop calling two computers establishing a connection a "handshake." A computer cannot shake hands because it does not have a body.