Dan Lyke 00:40:50+0000 (2026-03-13)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Not even cross-eyed geese like looking at their bills.
Dan Lyke 16:22:53+0000 (2026-03-12)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
And while I'm bitching about Keynote and Zoom, dear Google Drive, yes, I just uploaded this video and you have not yet built a degraded version to show people, but have you considered that I might want to share it?
Who the fuck designs this software?
Dan Lyke 16:20:41+0000 (2026-03-12)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Similar to my complaint about Keynote, why the fuck would Zoom think that when I share my second screen what I really want is for the main interface to fragment and move all my controls around?
Dan Lyke 16:07:54+0000 (2026-03-12)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
Related to this note about "punch up, not down", and systems sabotage: When you finally reach a human, be really nice to them about filing a complaint about how the AI agent wasted your time. The customer rep is on your side on this, and likely loves having more ammo to tell to the dipshits managing them that customers fucking hate interacting with time wasting processes.
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@afreytes/116216814396531128
Dan Lyke 15:58:53+0000 (2026-03-12)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
There's two types of people on a group chat: Those who, when the request is to keep this group for event announcements only, shut the fuck up; and those who start new discussion threads talking about what they did or like.
Dan Lyke 15:10:56+0000 (2026-03-12)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
Yes, Keynote, the thing I want you to do in "Play" mode is *definitely* take over *both* screens and block me from alt-tab. There's no reason at all I'd want to access, say, other applications or notes on my laptop screen while playing the presentation on the projector.
Fuckers.
Dan Lyke 21:27:43+0000 (2026-03-11)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
Hit ⌘-space to bring up Spotlight, mistyped "squicktime", and... I'm not sure whether to be bummed or relieved that it gave me no results.
Dan Lyke 19:59:19+0000 (2026-03-10)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
Fuck me, The BEAM Chronicles has me on pins and needles waiting for the next episode... promised Monday.
Dan Lyke 00:24:58+0000 (2026-03-10)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
Hearing comparisons of using LLMs for coding to the same sort of revolution that word processors brought to skilled typists.
And wow does that say a lot about what those people think software is.
Dan Lyke 19:23:07+0000 (2026-03-09)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
Can someone familiar with solar systems give me any evidence that a slightly north-facing (4°) panel would give better performance (perhaps evenings or mornings) at 38.23N?
I think I'm being fed bullshit, but citable evidence would be really nice to have to smack this down.
Dan Lyke 21:51:10+0000 (2026-03-08)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Charlene had run across some African singing she really liked, so last night we tried to find a bit of it before we went to sleep. Looks like everything "Ubuntu Choir" on YouTube is AI generated. Along with all of the videos on Facebook. The slop really is taking over.
Eventually we figured out that "gwijo" was a useful search term, but I'm sure it's only a matter of time for that to get slipped.
Dan Lyke 16:53:21+0000 (2026-03-08)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
Went down to Marv's Big Sing https://www.singwithmarv.com with Riomas (formerly Shireen Amini, https://shireenamini.com ), and Rio's transformation has been accompanied by a shift from "good song leader" to "that was powerful and I feel compelled to learn those songs in order to share them".
Dan Lyke 20:12:33+0000 (2026-03-07)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Well, that's one way to market your old stock...
(With picture this time)Dan Lyke 19:31:38+0000 (2026-03-07)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2335,-122.636)
Well, that's one way to market your old stock...
Dan Lyke 05:43:43+0000 (2026-03-07)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
I'm being judgedDan Lyke 21:24:29+0000 (2026-03-06)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
The MeFi thread on Adam Neely's "Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future" video, and today's work implementing an MCP server in work project, are really reinforcing how the culture of AI tools lies in devaluing skill building.
https://www.metafilter.com/212422/3-Who-are-some-of-your-favorite-AI-musicians-that-have-influenced-you
Dan Lyke 18:13:03+0000 (2026-03-06)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
Anyone know if the MacBook Neo runs MacOS apps, or if it's a glorified iPad? A friend is excited about it, but only if it'll run https://squaredesk.net , and I don't have the tuits to try to make an iOS port right now...
Dan Lyke 02:26:25+0000 (2026-03-06)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
Ahhh, Facebook Marketplace listings: "Brass ... is the gold standard..."
Dan Lyke 01:48:19+0000 (2026-03-06)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
OMG. I'm digging through various documentation for configuring AI "Agents", and Microsoft Copilot actually uses configured trigger phrases, apparently with string matching, to figure out when to trigger a particular configuration. Like "will it rain", "today's forecast", "get weather", etc.
Dan Lyke 01:31:11+0000 (2026-03-05)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
Office dog is awesome and cuddly and I appreciate that she comes to me for scritches and when she thinks it's time for lunch, but that somewhere between 3:30 and 4:30 afternoon fart is... somethin' else.
Dan Lyke 22:37:07+0000 (2026-03-04)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2366,-122.641)
The soup is not rotating that fast...Dan Lyke 19:47:14+0000 (2026-03-04)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2364,-122.643)
Work conversation has me thinking about Sidekick, and DESQview, and how Windows was maybe only a foregone conclusion once WfW 3.11 started to actually get a foothold.
Kind of amazing to think that the 4.77MHz 8088 PC architecture was a viable platform and software target for over a decade.
Dan Lyke 17:02:01+0000 (2026-03-03)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
_Target's new CEO unveils his turnaround plan_ (https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/business/target-earnings-stock-ceo)
Or, he could, you know, actually listen to what your former customers are telling you and decide to embrace them, rather than alienate them.
Dan Lyke 15:38:48+0000 (2026-03-02)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
Today's Timdle putting the beginning of the Discovery Channel up against Anna Wintour's Vogue era, *and* the Glee pilot episode against the world population hitting 7B, feels unfair...
https://www.timdle.com/daily
Dan Lyke 21:37:58+0000 (2026-03-01)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
The worst part about setting up filters to mute armchair pundits spewing about an assassinated foreign leader is trying to capture all of the different spellings that people shamelessly trying to acquire eyeballs and followers are slamming out there.
Dan Lyke 19:01:46+0000 (2026-03-01)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Charlene wanted a surface to resin dried flowers on to, so I hit the scrap bin. Now we start the sanding and polyurethane.Dan Lyke 17:36:25+0000 (2026-03-01)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Greta is confused that the warm seat is making gentle noises.Dan Lyke 05:08:33+0000 (2026-03-01)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Late to the party, I know, everyone has been suggesting this, but if you haven't seen it yet carve out 22 minutes and watch "A Friend of Dorothy". And I will pre-buy tickets to whatever film Lee Knight makes next.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMqUMXn7y5g
Dan Lyke 00:57:37+0000 (2026-03-01)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
So we prune bushes, do we use the name of other dehydrated stone fruit for the act of lopping off bits of other things?
Dan Lyke 04:51:54+0000 (2026-02-28)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
This heat and serve Veg Kolhapuri has witty comebacks for all occasions.Dan Lyke 22:54:25+0000 (2026-02-27)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
Yeah. New rule. I check your website, I see any hint of "AI assistant" or "AI" used in support, I nope the fuck out of your services or products.
Holy shit this is bad.
Dan Lyke 22:26:09+0000 (2026-02-27)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
Friend has Hostinger hosting. We've been trying to get their "Kodee" LLM assistant to fix things.
If your business advertises an "AI" assistant, we can assume that you are actively customer hostile and want to waste customer time rather than fixing anything. Blanket rule.
Dan Lyke 22:18:31+0000 (2026-02-26)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1)
Me too, air fryer. Sigh.
Sign reads "I'm dirty, I'm noisy, but I work and I'm free".Dan Lyke 19:27:38+0000 (2026-02-25)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
Voice teacher suggested we try Moody's Mood For Love, the sheet music version is Amy Winehouse's version, and... holy crap do the producer and I have ... different visions.
Hope someone else follows the same sheet music structure so I don't have to listen to that percussion over and over...
Dan Lyke 21:48:22+0000 (2026-02-24)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
If Microsoft creates a modern Aibo, does that mean CoPilot is your dog?
(Ref: "CoPilot is my Jesus" from flabdablet https://www.metafilter.com/212314/Ftrain-Has-Left-the-Station#8817052 )
Dan Lyke 20:13:00+0000 (2026-02-23)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
OH: "In biz AIs don't have to be any smarter, or able to appear smarter, than the folks making the purchasing decisions"
and: "an ai can appear to be an expert, to the person making hiring decisions."
Dan Lyke 04:37:31+0000 (2026-02-23)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Two excellent dystopian fiction podcasts that are having trouble delivering their last few episodes, Life with Althaar, and Metropolis, have me wondering if part of why they're stalled is just that the predicted current events so well that they're struggling to satirize the present.
Dan Lyke 23:33:47+0000 (2026-02-21)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.548,-122.817)
Two teenage girls ordering at the kiosk in Fruity Moto: "What are you doing, bro?"
Apparently it is a gender neutral term.
Dan Lyke 22:52:07+0000 (2026-02-21)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.5482,-122.815)
I sometimes wonder about Petaluma's chicken and eggs identity, but we're wandering around Windsor and I think chickens beats out alcoholic mom as a town identity.
Dan Lyke 20:35:38+0000 (2026-02-21)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Well, ClipperCard, if you're gonna block my card with a -$6.60 balance on it from being enrolled in auto-pay because "suspected lost", I'm gonna take that balance as payment for dealing with your bullshit.
Dan Lyke 17:52:22+0000 (2026-02-21)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Working on my shoveling vs excavator analogies for LLM use, and thinking that LinkedIn is archeologists bragging about their backhoe trenching efficiency.
Dan Lyke 03:40:08+0000 (2026-02-21)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Wait, if you mark your YouTube video as "made for kids" I can't add it to a watch list? Like if I'm on my phone and want to watch it on my TV I have to search for it there or something? What the fuck?
Dan Lyke 00:08:43+0000 (2026-02-21)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
My CMS way back then didn't log *when* in February 1998 my first blog post happened, so whenever in February I remember that it's my blog's birthday is good enough for me. Happy 28th(!) to the Flutterby.com weblog.
Dan Lyke 20:59:44+0000 (2026-02-20)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
Email subject line: "Chevrolet is teaming up with Electrify America for you".
Given the compatibility issues I've had with Electrify America chargers and our 2022 Bolt EUV, I think "against" is a more apt word than "for".
Dan Lyke 20:44:16+0000 (2026-02-20)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
Apropos of nothing at all, I think https://ghostty.org is my new favorite thing this morning.
If you had told me in 2026 that a terminal could be snappier, I'd have laughed at you in "modern software sucks", but damn this is cool.
Dan Lyke 20:19:11+0000 (2026-02-20)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/0) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
An Atlas Shrugged rewrite where the "I'm more of an ideas person" people fuck off to Galt's Gulch and the rest of us just take care of the backlog of shit that needs to get taken care of.
Dan Lyke 20:02:48+0000 (2026-02-20)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
Crap. Somewhere recently (past month) I read about a personal search engine that used browser plug-ins and history. I cannot find that link now.
I'm thinking that this would be really really useful. And I'd rather build on someone else's code. Any hints?
Dan Lyke 19:49:06+0000 (2026-02-20)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
Time Magazine article titled "‘We May Have a Crisis on Our Hands’: The Unregulated Rise of Emotionally Intelligent AI" offering a chatbot with "ask me anything" placeholder text...
:are_we_the_baddies_dot_gif:
Dan Lyke 18:51:54+0000 (2026-02-20)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
Hmmm... when the grant application is deferred "if Dan doesn't have the bandwidth for [that]".
I mean, I'm loving helping various groups move forward, but I need to make sure that where I'm in the critical path it's about capacity building...
Dan Lyke 17:55:51+0000 (2026-02-20)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
One of the hardest parts about growing up rural and suburban is getting to late middle age and realizing just how much I've missed because of the anti-city prejudices of my youth.
Feeling like I now live in a place where old people cosplay as having culture, rather than actually having a culture.