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This is a great way to explain Jevon’s Paradox:

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/11/datarama/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

@mathowie thanks for posting about Visor! I have a similar relationship to the car market, and I agree, it’s fantastic!

🚨 Great sci-fi alert! 🚨

These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs is *excellent*

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/2153ea5c-318b-40d7-a1f3-757b6f8225e1

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My review of Devil in the Stack: A Code Odyssey by Andrew Smith:

> I’m a software engineer and I was impressed by how well this book captures the *feels* to work on software today. Not only that, but there’s plenty of explanations of how computers work, all of which I knew already, but I was never tempted to skip those parts. They are refreshingly clear, straightforward, and accurate. The prose is clear, cogent, brisk, and wry. This all added up to a very enjoyable book.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/a8baf746-d4af-425b-ae7c-39fcd294b451

I’m trying Claude Code (CC) after reading [AI Changes Everything][1] by @mitsuhiko and my initial reaction is that I’m a bit baffled.

It keeps suggesting small, individual changes (diffs) to specific lines of specific files, and asking me to approve them or not. Most of them are OK, some of them are not. Whatever. But I have to sit here twiddling my thumbs between each interaction. It’s tedious. I could do this work faster on my own, and I’d have higher confidence that it’d actually work. (Some of the changes will need verification — especially because I’m running CC on a “quick and dirty” “temporary” project that has no automated tests.)

I’m guessing maybe Ronacher has CC configured to not prompt about each individual change, but to just go ahead and work through an entire change — in other words, the review/update/review cycles are larger, coarser-grained. So maybe I’ll try that.

[1]: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/6/4/changes/

My ex just offered to “find me a woman” — and I think she was half-serious 😱

I miss my under-desk treadmill. I gotta pull that thing out of storage.

Telo MT-1 prototype review by Out of Spec:

https://youtu.be/uzyRb1s2U5c

(A 4-door electric city truck with 300+ miles of range, a 5+ foot bed, locking storage, a mid-gate, same length as a 2-door Mini Cooper, 10" ground clearance)

Harrison, NY

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