Working on stuff 👨‍💻 Check out Firesky to watch the Bluesky firehose: 👉 https://firesky.tv 🐦 https://twitter.com/johnspurlock 🐘 https://podcastindex.social/@jshttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mykfdcpn4s2vdumbass say what now?23 Oct 2026 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mykfdcpn4s2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mygdednktc2f21 Oct 2026 23:44 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mygdednktc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3myfku5kxxk22structured data21 Oct 2026 16:26 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3myfku5kxxk22https://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3myfjl3ulh22g‘A number of developers and vibe coders have recently been sharing solutions for “vibe-coding” your TV to get rid of sponsored ads, speed up the app launcher, redesign the home screen, disable tracking features, and more.’ https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/19/people-are-using-ai-to-make-their-smart-tvs-dumb-again/21 Oct 2026 16:03 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3myfjl3ulh22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3myf7volw3c2d"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; asr-multilingual-downloader/2; research; contact peter)"21 Oct 2026 13:10 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3myf7volw3c2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mydokfv7b22bmeanwhile humans at microsoft still taking care of things in vscode reported seven years ago - great to see this https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/67191#issuecomment-629818963620 Oct 2026 22:26 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mydokfv7b22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3my36wocw2s2rgood morning! one month until xslt stops functioning in chrome https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/deprecating-xslt#timeline_for_chrome17 Oct 2026 13:26 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3my36wocw2s2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mxw2xh5vnk2ri'm not a celtics fan, but man they are looking good in the preseason15 Oct 2026 12:31 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxw2xh5vnk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mxtxcjlids2v‘not quite certifiable lunatics’14 Oct 2026 16:20 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxtxcjlids2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mxtlmpxk722dhilarious14 Oct 2026 12:51 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxtlmpxk722dhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mxsgbrjf5s2hall 6 homeview mentions in the new development terms14 Oct 2026 01:43 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxsgbrjf5s2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mxr7elr3k22y‘Apple said it is "working constructively with the EU in an attempt to find a path forward," but provided no timeline for EU availability’ https://www.macrumors.com/2026/10/13/apple-homeview-wont-be-available-in-eu/13 Oct 2026 14:07 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxr7elr3k22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mxr45r6smk2rusing any device for wan in a pinch is sweeet also: matter! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67PstxSTJtk13 Oct 2026 13:09 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxr45r6smk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mxpkfwzg2c23‘It’s uncertain exactly what form autonomous AI replication will take. It could be a slow, distributed “digital slime mold,” living on relatively insecure compute. It could also be a powerful cyber model that breaches datacenters at a high pace, or a model that scams people for compute credits.’ https://www.anthropic.com/research/self-replicating-ai12 Oct 2026 22:19 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxpkfwzg2c23https://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mxop62onpk24perhaps "digital town square" was overly ambitious, unrealistic in hindsight, we ended up with multiple "digital smelly living rooms", each with a certain and distinct odor12 Oct 2026 14:11 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxop62onpk24https://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mxmrvqlz7s23man, one thing these llms cannot do is _simplify_ still a job for me, then11 Oct 2026 19:55 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxmrvqlz7s23https://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mxkuqwzjsk25i don't watch much baseball these days. when did this "two hole" "nine hole" thing start? not a fan - it's a spot!11 Oct 2026 01:41 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxkuqwzjsk25https://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mxhartbm2s2l‘altman is no oppenheimer’09 Oct 2026 15:05 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxhartbm2s2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mxh6mbne7k2gwait what https://deno.com/blog/cloudflare09 Oct 2026 14:27 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxh6mbne7k2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mxgytvtvlk25‘Maybe we, like Warhol, are delighted that all the Cokes are the same, and all the Cokes are good.’ https://timharford.com/2026/10/is-the-modern-economy-a-bit-samey/09 Oct 2026 12:43 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxgytvtvlk25https://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mxfrou5kmk2p‘“That’s on me,” it said. “Wrong audience for personal cash—period.”’ (gift) https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-agents-assistants-shopping-chat-errors-a316d3f9?st=pMBbjd&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink09 Oct 2026 01:03 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxfrou5kmk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mx6akwgtnk2d‘mckinley has no more backbone than a chocolate éclair’06 Oct 2026 01:08 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mx6akwgtnk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mwwjc6zcbs2p‘the only moat is taste’02 Oct 2026 23:23 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwwjc6zcbs2phttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mwvwmhuj4c2f‘Going forward, we will introduce additional controls to ensure that users who genuinely wish to grant an app this extraordinary level of access can only do so with very explicit user action.’ https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=p6zjojqw02 Oct 2026 17:48 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwvwmhuj4c2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mwvhx6pkpc2b‘We kept stumbling into uses that made us laugh, or surprised us with how moving they could be. We turned friends’ texts into wildly overproduced dramatic readings. We gave ordinary voice notes unnecessarily epic scores. We made meditations, poems, pep talks, and bedtime stories for our kids.’ https://suno.com/blog/introducing-speech-beta02 Oct 2026 13:26 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwvhx6pkpc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mwvf4cmg4s2tNew data: Top CDNs used by the 1.9 million new podcast episodes found in September 2026 https://livewire.io/podcast-cdns-by-episode-share/02 Oct 2026 12:35 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwvf4cmg4s2thttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mwtqn2o2sc2mNew data! updated my ranking of the top 3rd-party podcast analytics services, based on the share of the 1.9 million new episodes published in September 2026 https://livewire.io/podcast-trackers-by-episode-share/01 Oct 2026 20:56 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwtqn2o2sc2m