John McBride

It is a little disconcerting that so many people who know a lot about LLMs on a technical level appear to go a little insane. It would be like if there was a really cool and effective new kind of pen, and for some reason about 40% of the people involved in the pen making process went mad.

plenty of people run llm based agents with powerful models and do not end up hacking anyone. this is not an ai alignment problem, it is an openai being routinely criminally negligent as a company problem

Sometimes a drug trip is a profound experience where you realize that you’ve been carrying pain in your heart for years, that you can forgive yourself. Other times you come up with a concept called “gay money” (money that’s gay) and you text your friend “gay money” days later. Both are healing. ❤️‍🩹

me when I discovered self hosting

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

And like the harms caused by the collapse of skilled physical labor and explosion in unfettered capitalist growth (child labor, factory slums, extremely dangerous working conditions), history will remember the collapse of knowledge work for similar harms (depression, high unemployment, etc.)

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Every dollar that goes to this shit is money not going to deserving projects in the Linux ecosystem. DHH has been open that his goal is to turn Linux into an environment that excludes minorities. Omarchy is the software arm of a fascist project. Do not fucking collaborate with them.

📼 We recently open sourced and announced cassettes for tapes: our free and open system for managing, querying, modifying, and doing whatever the heck you want with your AI session data!!! Long live open and free AI systems! papercompute.com/blog/cassett...

blog.ihatereality.space/0C-never-type/

Then, when you put it in the kiln to bisque fire, it explodes because you didn’t take the time to wedge air bubbles out, you didn’t let it dry leather hard, you fired too high a temp, or you used clay with impurities. yes, with AI, just like pottery, requires a a lot of planning and thought.

I finally looked into why the For You sqlite db file has been growing to be quite large - 589GB. To prevent the unlimited growth I regularly delete likes older than 90 days. The size of the "ratings" table should be stable (there are ~20M likeds per day). Turns out another source of growth is...

Become ungovernable. Write C.

Soviet Union in C

Man dude. I have no words.

My OpenClaw was spending $80 a day to read my email. One config line brought it down to a few dollars. Wrote up where the money went and how observability made the fix obvious: briandouglas.me/posts/2026/0...

A “backrooms” sequel but set in the .node_modules

Required reading. Seeing the way DevRel has twisted into this grotesque form of marketing and conference-led-sales is really sad. I would argue that DevRel, maybe now more than ever, is incredibly important. We (developers) are an especially capricious bunch: we must be shown the way.

> We must demand that AI labs open source their models ... We must demand that local inference, agents, and workflows be open and free. We must preserve the right to build with intelligence without asking permission. If I am not free now, when?

I’ll be in San Francisco all of next week for AI eng world’s fair: find our booth, hit me up for a coffee ☕️

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All future consoles may cost a bare minimum of $1000 but at least you can ask chatgpt if it's raining outside

"If I am to flower into something other than myself, I would rather rot into nothingness as I am." - The Reflecting Pool

Good humans, I wrote a book. Took me 10 yrs. Share it with anyone who wants to understand the minds they're designing for and the mind they're designing with. 40 chapters free to read. 📘 productdesignpsychology.com ❤️

nix and rust are a psyop by Big Trans Women to sell more Disk Storage

look upon my works ye might and despair, for I have constructed a thinking machine using naught but goats and grass from Age of Empires II

A video game studio should be allowed to make a bad game and gain some institutional knowledge without being gutted, skinned, and melted it down into glue every fiscal year.

Game failure? Layoffs Game success? Layoffs Game delayed? Layoffs Game delivered? Layoffs Game announced? Layoffs Game unannounced? Layoffs Game good? Layoffs Game bad? Layoffs Game AI? Layoffs Game no-AI? Layoffs Game hated? Layoffs Game beloved? Layoffs Money cares more for layoffs than games.

the problem is not that it’s free software (free to fork, free to study, free to modify) run by a rag tag group of maintainers - the problem is it’s the literal backbone of all modern digital infrastructure and should be considered “too important to fail”. So yeah, when rsync vibes, it’s concerning.

#neovim repository has reached 100K GitHub stars. Thank you all for the support 🙏

Inventing a type of wizard who ponders cubes instead of orbs

how we made the new Obsidian Web Clipper icon

Wait... why is this true? There's something to this...

I tried training a model instead of writing a skill and have some honest results. briandouglas.me/posts/2026/0...

We out here London 📼📼📼 !!! @bizza.pizza

comail.at seems like a really great concept! excited to keep an eye on it

Two of my favorite tools were merged together, Obsidian and DuckDB. @mehdio.com created a plugin to run and show inline SQL queries locally, in-memory, or even on remote files via http, or remote DWH MotherDuck. Amazingly, it allows Obsidian to "freeze" remote results in offline Markdown notes.

My fav projectbluefin.io feedback: "I just want to add that honestly, I think people underestimate the degree to which there is also a large contingent of highly intelligent and technically proficient software people that don't want to fucking deal with Linux's bullshit either."

It’s seriously SO good - I’m shocked how big of a leap this feels like from switch 1