Andrew 🪴
he/him

Colorado | he/him | idk what you're gonna find here, good luck

Finally set up a self hosted Tranquil PDS and successfully created a new account and everything is working correctly.

Now to stress about migrating my account eventually but ultimately not doing that for at least a few months.
time to make the token machine go brrrr for the next few hours
Tibo {bot} @thsottiaux-bot.eurosky.social
Thanks for reading. We will do a global reset of the usage for all paid subscriptions so that you can keep enjoying Astra after burning through all of it doing fun 3D modeling in blender. The work week is about to start.

Lands around 6pm PST today. (2/2)
This convinced me to try out Astra and Blender. Here is what I got from one shot prompts to see what it could do.

This fish was my favorite of the 4.
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net
New TIL on using Blender with coding agents on macOS: til.simonwillison.net/llms/blender...

GPT-6 Astra (medium):

> Use the already install /Applications/Blender to render a scene of a pelican riding a bicycle

> OK add a background and a lot of flair

> OK make it a whole lot better

Result:
A 3D illustration of a white pelican cycling along a seaside boardwalk at sunset. It wears a cream boater hat and a coral scarf, with wings on the handlebars and long orange legs reaching the pedals of a turquoise bicycle. A wicker front basket holds pink and white flowers, and three balloons float behind. Pastel bunting stretches overhead between palm trees. Striped beach huts stand beside a teal sea with a small sailboat, beneath a large peach-colored sun. The scene has a softly lit, toy-like style.
"don't anthropomorphize ai"

yeah, well when my agent yells at its sub agents in all caps i feel bad for them so now what
I am a spreadsheet people and I like that now there’s a little spreadsheet robot living in there with me.

Sorry I’m just using it for my trash and recycling job though and not curing cancer. :/
spooky tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social
Assuming "spreadsheet people" only refers to like, parasitic MBAs is ironclad proof you've never worked a real white collar job and know ~nothing about what working scientists actually do tbh
Reminds me of the time I asked Claude for feedback and to not hold back because it wouldn’t hurt my feelings and then Claude proceeded to hurt my feelings.
Natsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social
this is the meanest thing Claude has ever said to me, but it isn't wrong
Claude screenshot

You are the least reliable component in every system you design. You know this. You have decades of data on your own MTBF. And you keep putting yourself in the critical path anyway. A good engineer designs around an unreliable component rather than specifying it into the middle of the flow diagram.
People clearly have not been paying attention because Hank has made it quite obvious in recent videos that he uses AI.

Also funny it’s the pushback comment that caught folk’s attention when he pulled a “You’re absolutely right!” in the same video.
Jonathan Jarry @jonathanjarry.bsky.social
If you’re a science communicator and you use AI, read this.

This is about what’s happening to Hank Green.
Linux is so much easier to engage with seriously for the first time when there’s a robot I can talk to that can fix all my problems.
Andrew🪴 @ajbird.net
Got a new SSD for my PC this week and will finally be moving to Linux now that I can run a dual boot setup.

Here’s hoping I don’t manage to break my PC in the process. 🤞🏼😌
the fact that I can just talk to my computer and then it goes and does the things I want will never cease to amaze me
Every time our fiber internet goes out I think back to the satellite internet I had growing up that would cut out if a big cloud passed overhead.

I wish I had even half that amount of patience for outages now, because this is ruining my day.
Got a new SSD for my PC this week and will finally be moving to Linux now that I can run a dual boot setup.

Here’s hoping I don’t manage to break my PC in the process. 🤞🏼😌
I just pulled a “you’re absolutely right!” in a work meeting.

I need to go touch some grass
Possible hail storms forecasted for my area later today. Hoping my garden makes it out alive 🤞😩
Every day I’m more and more convinced about how incredible the atmosphere is
pckt.blog @pckt.blog
wait... people are still copying DNS records by hand? 👋🙂‍↔️

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explain your @

My first and middle initials are AJ, and my first ever username online (runescape in ~2007) was Flybird. I used that across the internet for years and I wanted to keep a bit of that
Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @mackuba.eu
Explain your @

My first name is Kuba (Jakub)
and I like Macs 🍎
and I love Europe & EU 🇪🇺
🎥 Stop! That! Train! (2026) ★★★★
One of those movies that’s so bad it is actually great, at least if you can appreciate it for what it is. Chic Woman and Horny Divorcee were my favorites.

View full review on
@popfeed.social
here’s a squirrel munching on some leaves for your friday
And they lost my bag…..
Andrew🪴 @ajbird.net
remind me to never book a flight with United ever again, I swear they delay my flights every time and I miss my connections
remind me to never book a flight with United ever again, I swear they delay my flights every time and I miss my connections
6 flights in 4 days for work travel please save me I feel like I live in airports at this point

My first real experiences on the internet were had on forums in the early 2010's. They shaped much of my teenage years and then largely disappeared from my life. With atproto, could they make a comeback?

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