🧜‍♂️ Surftware engineer. Stochastic parrot. CODE: https://github.com/callmephilip MD: https://callmephilip.com/https://bsky.app/profile/callmephilip.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/callmephilip.com/post/3mldmbo52as2mI still find this mind boggling: "The “referer” header in the HTTP specification is famously a misspelling of the word “referrer”, but they haven’t changed it, because we do not break userspace." - via https://www.seangoedecke.com/good-api-design/08 May 2026 11:18 +0000at://did:plc:ubdeopbbkbgedccgbum7dhsh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mldmbo52as2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/callmephilip.com/post/3mkpaw5sduc2hPeak Pickle, LFG - https://reidhoffman.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-ai-slop via @reidhoffman.bsky.social img from https://godfatherofmath.blogspot.com/2013/05/before-there-was-ketchup.html30 Apr 2026 09:02 +0000at://did:plc:ubdeopbbkbgedccgbum7dhsh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkpaw5sduc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/callmephilip.com/post/3mjyj7hnpnc2d"demos over memos" 🔥 [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Apr 2026 07:59 +0000at://did:plc:ubdeopbbkbgedccgbum7dhsh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjyj7hnpnc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/callmephilip.com/post/3mjr35ka4dk2hTIL: FOOM - A sudden increase in artificial intelligence such that an AI system becomes extremely powerful. ('Hard Takeoff', where an AGI turns into an ASI is a very short amount of time) Try pronouncing it to get a feel for it means. 🚀 h/t @gordon.bsky.social18 Apr 2026 08:59 +0000at://did:plc:ubdeopbbkbgedccgbum7dhsh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjr35ka4dk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/callmephilip.com/post/3mjlv62rvas25“The center is not biased towards novelty so much as towards contact with the thing that creates potential change. The middle ground is not between use and non-use, but between refusal and commitment” - https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/11/the-center-has-a-bias/ via @mitsuhiko.at16 Apr 2026 07:28 +0000at://did:plc:ubdeopbbkbgedccgbum7dhsh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjlv62rvas25https://bsky.app/profile/callmephilip.com/post/3mjhnbqudhs26Filing this under universal basic income tag14 Apr 2026 14:56 +0000at://did:plc:ubdeopbbkbgedccgbum7dhsh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjhnbqudhs26https://bsky.app/profile/callmephilip.com/post/3mjh5xzyrkk24Smth smth Designing Data Intensive applications cc @martin.kleppmann.com [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Apr 2026 10:23 +0000at://did:plc:ubdeopbbkbgedccgbum7dhsh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjh5xzyrkk24https://bsky.app/profile/callmephilip.com/post/3mjgyurclmk2hApr 2026 check-in on the local models via https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-top-local-models-list-april14 Apr 2026 08:51 +0000at://did:plc:ubdeopbbkbgedccgbum7dhsh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjgyurclmk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/callmephilip.com/post/3mjevzfkflc2yI will be working as a pollinator dressed up as a giant bee, traveling around the world providing my services to farmers [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Apr 2026 12:55 +0000at://did:plc:ubdeopbbkbgedccgbum7dhsh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjevzfkflc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/callmephilip.com/post/3mixvn4wan22v"Prototyping is the process of following loose threads in the Gordian Knot. You'll learn more about the space and spot opportunities you didn't know existed. You'll also uncover risks in places you hadn't expected." Build to think - https://gordonbrander.com/notes/build-to-think/ via @gordon.bsky.social08 Apr 2026 08:43 +0000at://did:plc:ubdeopbbkbgedccgbum7dhsh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mixvn4wan22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/callmephilip.com/post/3misxbgfpws2gI talked to Claude about my alleged LLM psychosis and he has assured me that I am fine06 Apr 2026 09:29 +0000at://did:plc:ubdeopbbkbgedccgbum7dhsh/app.bsky.feed.post/3misxbgfpws2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/callmephilip.com/post/3mio25wlggs2q"I am not outsourcing my brain, I am using my brain to outsource the work". Mr Tolinski, 🫡 [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Apr 2026 10:38 +0000at://did:plc:ubdeopbbkbgedccgbum7dhsh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mio25wlggs2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/callmephilip.com/post/3miny5pjas22v> Is it nominative determinism or a simulation glitch that everyone trying to terraform the web has some variation of “Matthew” in their name? I was in a call set up by Matthew Prince, talking to Matt Taylor and Matt Kane, with my right hand there, Matías. code reuse by the matrix [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Apr 2026 10:02 +0000at://did:plc:ubdeopbbkbgedccgbum7dhsh/app.bsky.feed.post/3miny5pjas22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/callmephilip.com/post/3mgjwnujx522c“Why do we have so many layers in the stack? […] Most abstractions […] exist because humans need help. We couldn't hold the whole system in our heads […] AI doesn't have the same limitation. It can hold the whole system in context and just write the code.” - blog.cloudflare.com/vinext/08 Mar 2026 08:34 +0000at://did:plc:ubdeopbbkbgedccgbum7dhsh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgjwnujx522chttps://bsky.app/profile/callmephilip.com/post/3mgjul7m2522p“As AI becomes better at cloning people's work, what ends up becoming most valuable are software contracts, tests, and API surface area.“ - https://saewitz.com/tests-are-the-new-moat08 Mar 2026 07:57 +0000at://did:plc:ubdeopbbkbgedccgbum7dhsh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgjul7m2522phttps://bsky.app/profile/callmephilip.com/post/3mghpfetixs2dThey took our jobs [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Mar 2026 11:19 +0000at://did:plc:ubdeopbbkbgedccgbum7dhsh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mghpfetixs2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/callmephilip.com/post/3mfqjrg7zyk25Good artists copy, great artists distill26 Feb 2026 06:07 +0000at://did:plc:ubdeopbbkbgedccgbum7dhsh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfqjrg7zyk25