Notices by Daniel Terhorst-North (tastapod@mas.to)

@kevlin Google has never been a search company. It is an advertising company that uses search as the means to sell your attention to advertisers.

It subsequently discovered that it can use streaming video to sell your attention to advertisers.

Now it is using AI to sell your attention to advertisers.

The mistake is in believing it has any interest in search beyond that.

@anildash yep. I have an Apple Watch which is the 90% case, and my laptop open on a stand _almost_ within reach, which I can lean across to, swearing, when I need it.

ngl I am having some of the _best_ and most productive design discussions with Claude-as-enhanced-rubber-duck that I have had in years. Domain model, architecture, design considerations falling out of my side project like a boss.

I would like to propose SOSS: Sponsored Open Source Software.

If your company uses OSS, you sponsor the project $100/year.

Not per seat, or per team, just $100/year, all in.

- 30 developers using Ghostty? $100
- 300,000 engineers using tmux? $100, total

You audit the OSS you use (OSS tools for this would quickly emerge, $100, thank you). You set up a bunch of annual $100 sponsorships. Everyone wins.

This guarantees the longevity of that tiny piece of code propping up your bank.

#SOSS

Inside you there are two wolves. One of them knows SQL. This is the WHERE-wolf.

There are two Volvos inside you.

Bloody autocorrect.

@angelmountain @jeffowski you haven’t read the bible, have you? Jesus has a lot to say about equality, humility, love, mercy, grace, as do his followers. You might find some of it refreshing. Fairy tales it isn’t.

‘The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.’

@fribbledom ooh I like this! Now do Rust.

My tricycle rental business, CrowdsTrike, has been getting a lot of angry messages today. I don’t know why I bother some days.