Dave Beckett

And that was my last day at Twitter. Laid off by email. The experience has been indescribable from chaos to hilarious.

Congratulations to Charles H. Bennett (@IBMResearch) and Gilles Brassard ( @UMontreal) on receiving the 2025 ACM A.M. Turing Award! 🔗: awards.acm.org/turing

Good news everybody $DJT all time low. I'm confident he can do better, I'm sure he can collapse it to $0. He'll have to make it up with bribe jets and crypto scams.

Zero-dependency dotfiles for a homelab. This is how I and my coding LLM friends built my homelab dotfiles support with no frameworks and no installers. dajobe.org/blog/2026/03/1…

Eight coding LLM tools, one configuration. Same prompts, same workflow, different models on demand. The harness layer matters more than the model. dajobe.org/blog/2026/03/1…

I was going to write a post about how LLM based coding has changed the software interview process in 2026... but it hasn't. Over the 15+ interviews so far, it barely came up. Maybe it's due to the level I'm aiming at. My one pro tip: learn @excalidraw keyboard shortcuts.

I’ve spent the last 9+ months using AI coding tools heavily and I have thoughts: • The harness is becoming more important than the model • Agents are mostly code-writing loops with tools • Code might be becoming the new assembler dajobe.org/blog/2026/03/0…

What's the latest on Operation Epstein Fury? Did the objective of distracting everyone work?

TURNS OUT, TRUMP WILL SEND OUR SONS TO WAR

Looks like somebody’s going to have to give back their FIFA peace prize.

"Error: Claude Code cannot be launched inside another Claude Code session. Nested sessions share runtime resources and will crash all active sessions.” That sounds like a neat DoS attack maybe.

Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature / Late Show with Stephen Colbert #fcc #censorship youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?si…

This is quite an exchange with @DavidAFrench about whether we are witnessing the emergence of a "dual state."

I would offer that Alex Pretti putting his body—with his hands up—between a woman and the BP agent who had just violently shoved her into the snow, offer stark competing visions of manhood. Pretti, a nurse caring for veterans, who took a face full of pepper spray to shield that woman, is a much better masculine ideal that the masked coward shoving the woman and executing a man on his knees. MAGA may venerate the latter, but most people in a healthy society want the former.

You’re a fucking liar with blood on your hands.

YEAR ONE MAHA: 1. Measles returns to America 2. Pertussis returns to America 3. Chronic hepatitis liver cancer returns 4. Pandemic preparedness gone 5. Swung & missed on autism 6. CDC disassembled 7. Biotech industry shutting down 8. Brain drain underway

Cursor: Year in Code — 2025. History of what model was cheapest at the time (and occasional need for thinking) via ⁦⁦@cursor_ai⁩

@can expired: management systems?

tired: content management system wired: truth management system

At a weird stage of LLM stuff today. I caught Claude Code out and got it to admit failure and then asked it “how can I prevent you doing this in future?“ It's answer: How to Prevent Me From Disobeying in Future

20 years ago today I landed in America full of excitement and hope. Lots of wonderful life changes since then: marriage. However my hope for America is greatly reduced. This week TCM posted this 85 year old Charlie Chaplin clip, his voice and words: youtu.be/k0CzXi9e66M?si…