@chris.ashworth.io - Chris Ashworth

12 May 2026 11:21 +0000

school systems want my 18 person company to sign distinct binding contracts every time we sell a $600 product. meanwhile the Canva CEO is out here telling 60 million students "the hackers *promised very nicely* to delete your data and not extort you"

09 May 2026 20:52 +0000

social media is a little like us panopticoning ourselves

03 May 2026 23:36 +0000

sometimes I think that most millennials and younger are just absolutely terrified to have any skin-in-the-game relationships at all

14 Apr 2026 23:49 +0000

i'm not much of a car guy but i've been reflecting about how that is partially because so many cars are UGLY and BORING walking the dog tonight i'm monologuing to myself as I walk down the street looking at all the parked cars: "uhg, d'ya see? boring! boring!! boring! BORING! ... oop"

06 Apr 2026 20:31 +0000

these very nice people have maybe overdone it on who qualifies as "star talent" but I am very flattered and excited to be visiting Oslo Norway this June! [contains quote post or other embedded content]

05 Apr 2026 21:35 +0000

my neighbors have now started sending me articles about AI coding, in case you're wondering how the AI story is traveling through the normal population

30 Mar 2026 14:17 +0000

neighbor who has been awaiting trial for cooking meth and who has in the meantime been cutting down random neighborhood trees to cook more meth kept in fact cooking meth while we waited months for the city or police to do anything about the guy cooking meth (they did not) anyway no one is hurt

23 Mar 2026 00:32 +0000

we're out here minning. we're out here middling. we're out here napping. we're out here wondering and not being sure. we're out here being distracted & forgiving outselves for it. we're out here hugging. we're out here holding hands. we're out here going to bed a little early tonight.

22 Mar 2026 20:24 +0000

every single high school boy that plays a sport has a haircut that looks like they stick their finger in a socket and then apply a lot of product

18 Mar 2026 00:41 +0000

okay so what if everything is just getting too complicated

14 Mar 2026 01:56 +0000

also unsettling: stumbled across a Facebook fight about QLab today (someone was really angry that they think QLab is really badly designed, other people didn't think they were being fair, etc) it’s okay to be nice to each other online, y'know? we're all doing our best

14 Mar 2026 01:50 +0000

had an executive function dream last night where i realized i needed to pass the programmer licensing exam and when i went in to do it i couldn't get past the first question... just increasingly tied up in knots & confusion while everyone else around me calmly proceeded

08 Mar 2026 17:27 +0000

Lumping all of AI into one politically untouchable bucket is an unrealistic and sort of achingly bad move. There is no conceivable future technological infrastructure that does not involve high volume statistics. But e.g.: are we building a future soiled by cars or are we building mass transit?

08 Mar 2026 02:55 +0000

now that claude code exists no one is allowed to make any new Electron apps ever again even if the code is sh-*t it'll still be better than an Electron app

05 Mar 2026 00:27 +0000

if any local news outlet is looking for a story ( @thebaltimorebanner.com ?) the therapist pipeline for the entire state of Maryland is currently backlogged for MONTHS behind a single woman who processes licenses and has what I can only describe as a very loose relationship to "doing her job"

04 Mar 2026 12:13 +0000

i took a break from work yesterday to get my head out of computers and AI. I'm co-directing a production of Eurydice early next year, and I wanted to explore photos for that show. My co-director Tessara stepped in as a temporary model, but now I want to actually use some of these...

25 Feb 2026 15:02 +0000

I think this captures something fundamental about what is happening in the world of "organizing electrons to make them useful" [contains quote post or other embedded content]

25 Feb 2026 12:43 +0000

people are just walking around in the world, not understanding that they can make software now. like, the general public just doesn't get it yet.

24 Feb 2026 01:32 +0000

Almost a full month ago I started trying to get @voxel.org set up with an Apple Developer account so we can sign and distribute software. I have been through at last half a dozen support reps and still can not complete signing up, if you're wondering how the Apple Developer experience is.

22 Feb 2026 09:48 +0000

I was clearing out old files yesterday and found the rental agreement for the apartment I was living in when I wrote the first QLab code. They've fixed it up since we lived there (and now it costs a lot more! Listed for $2000 a month now — we paid $695). https://www.apartments.com/115-pine-st-carrboro-nc-unit-3/9mhw0l6/

18 Feb 2026 00:15 +0000

trying to explain to my younger self who is using an Apple II that his older self will be writing software for an Apple computer by talking to a robot that is running in a Linux computer that is running in the Apple computer

16 Feb 2026 21:50 +0000

Anecdotally (via myself, some friends, and some posts I've seen online) a lot of developers right now suddenly have: A) an incredible new level of output B) intense headaches

13 Feb 2026 20:26 +0000

the new threshold for "should i write a custom program to solve this problem?" is making me seasick in the Before Times it was "almost certainly not, but perhaps once in a great while, after pondering it and preparing for the commitment" now, for any given program, it's "lol probably???? try it!"

12 Feb 2026 15:00 +0000

Noting with amusement: In Star Trek, being part of The Borg means that "you" think like "it". (In seriousness, though, this doesn't seem novel; humans have been thinking like the stuff we expose ourselves to forever.) arxiv.org/pdf/2409.01754

12 Feb 2026 12:49 +0000

I used to tell people that you could make an impact by becoming an expert at two things. It didn't matter *which* two things, as long as one of them was programming. LLMs at least soften the barrier to expertise. All changes are both good and bad; let's find & support the ways this one is good.

12 Feb 2026 12:10 +0000

I am not personally a fan of the "don't even look at the code" camp of LLM generation but I think it's intellectually honest to note that if you provide, substantially, every input you care about to a program, and it produces correct output for all of them, then it is, by definition, working.

10 Feb 2026 17:12 +0000

I can see why this guy — the CEO of Anthropic — was either kicked-out-of or voluntarily escaped OpenAI. As my teammate phrased it: having both vision and ethics can be a huge buzzkill. https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology

03 Feb 2026 20:49 +0000

HE KNEW. [contains quote post or other embedded content]