Notices by Eaton (eaton@phire.place)

@RuthMalan oof, I need to finish my templating on the blog — the underlying data it’s using has all kinds of atuff about where the talk was given, etc. it’s from Confab, in early 2023!

@jmeowmeow @RuthMalan yup. That quest to find and articulate the useful stuff beyond “works on my machine/for my project/in my org” feels like it can be a lifetime’s work, lol

@RuthMalan man, your stuff is always such a treasure trove.

And I hear you about evolving — one of the reasons I’ve been building more of an archive of older writing and talks is how easy it is to lose the layers of change, and just remmeber the “conclusion” of 10y of iterating on a subject…

@landley this has so many roots of the stuff I was trying to get at in my “institutional doctrine” talk… thank you for reposting it here! https://eaton.fyi/talks/the-doctrine-gap/

@N0ty3p @Cdespinosa wtf, people think ONE IN FOUR workers makes half a mil a year

@ireneista @xgranade genuinely treasure the old print copy I got a while back. It’s like holding my formative years in my hands

@so_treu the blacksky starter pack has dropped

@adrienne @craftcms the ACF and Gutenberg support is WILD AF

@andrewhinton @SwiftOnSecurity well, “more than a few” still leaves enough room for my entire 20s, sooooooooooo :D

@dachary but yeah, A+ for Qwen out of all the local models https://vega.github.io/editor/#/url/vega-lite/N4IgJAzgxgFgpgWwIYgFwhgF0wBwqgegIDc4BzJAOjIEtMYBXAI0poHsDp5kTykBaADZ04JAKyUAVhDYA7EABoQAEzjQATjRyZ289AEEoUBuqRQAngAJS6iAwiWdCOJYDu8WZahJM5NpoAvGlkyS2U2Y2dZTAcmK0w2HBooRRUfFFRQE0E0DGw8QgJTV2o6RiZ7OHUoOV9oyhqEAjgfOSK2CDhZADM4QWUiuG6IAngkZRHkYII2Blw5ggQ2VUF+M2NTCwaIYhAAXyVXGmV6NAA2AAYLpXgaMiw0ABYrpRwkUwQINABtUFkkZy5BJkMiCOAAMQBNEE5lSnTBUEwaFAmHMODguRwbGCSKU3RofQmPxA3ShMJAAF0DiAmMFlLkwWQuvS9hSlF0aspgmRkSAAB68-GE3IIYJzNSpVHo3IARwYSGidB8NFIcO8YN5ASqbDQpMEnSUUox6AgMvUSL21NhmRJBP6uXWJjMsMNaONIDlCp0mGVqqU0CQGptWvUOtQeoNKjYU1kAFkkALUGILpbDWw2IIdDgfqAhfb0EsVpK3bl-Fz-jlDXQgyBY8s+vsFLm7fT0I7Ni6QN6a4YNs7G83hQWfLAJVXMDX45hR18DoP8yAqqHbJLq+6AKLqZezpu2ocgUWycVfceTsW+BwAFSQAGsugO9wuahBcV217kAMIdTCWYKWAAiGaCO8s5siAiRmHQ1qgDUshcjoci8m8HxAmwIJgpCorkkoxCBgwxoXJQACc1K4YI+FoIRABM1IQDASDSjaeatiSZKdkauSyNGwSBo2IA1II-iCi2QJwLAsg0HKGKuoxIBcYevGpiAwHmFUOYHu8N68hx6BYjicI0FqaAABwpqySiwfiPI2i+5hBqAwFMA2NqBnceggJo9yvkwSDwsE7qisoygakoyiJvwYihda-DGZalpAA/view

@dachary Qwen 2.5 is the best of the local models in my testing for the same purpose — and the same gap w/gtp4o mini. The biggest thing that jumped out for me was to stay alert for taxonomy decisions that rely on intentions outside of the documents themselves (ie this is for beginners). Nice to see you’re seeing similar results!

@skinnylatte I… I want noodles in every meeting *sob*

@3psboyd @dave_cochran truly a cultural moment for bsky shitposters, who are credited with suggesting the acquisition

@RuthMalan holy shit. What a treasure, thank you!

That is, conversations include accidental and intentional informal conversations, as well as intentional (deliberate) deliberations that really work on an issue — over time (as we understand more, as things change, etc.) too.

The architect role, by whatever name, gives some organizational commitment to sustaining that system expertise, attention and relationship space — in part to provide anticipatory awareness and continuity of attention to system capabilities, properties, and challenges.

Complexity is rarely eliminated, only shuffled from desk to desk to make room for other work.
https://soylent.green/@paul/113471873996027500

@markllobrera @beep @Wilto i like to think of myself as the Cockney rhyming slang of NPM project named

@dachary So! I’ve been doing a buuunch of classification and categorization tests with LLMs lately and that’s really one of the best matches IME!

Would love to compare notes!

@SwiftOnSecurity Remembering the latter bit saved me from more than a few quixotic “reinvent the world” autodidact adhd adventures…

@SwiftOnSecurity it’s an absolutely insufferably “podcast guy” kind of narrative but Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is so closely related to these themes for me; curious if you’ve read it.

It touches on both the pursuit of “quality” as an inherent elegant match between the tool and the task, and the poisonous “freshman’s disease” of learning enough to be frustrated and stalking off to change the world without studying the insights of those who’ve gone before.