Daily Journal 📓 September 2025

Disqus on ATProto with some extended ideas around aggregating links and trending

Vitalik digging into software and bio/science supply chain and verifiability

A significant majority (65%) of those surveyed are heavily relying on AI for software development, with 37% reporting a “moderate amount” of reliance, 20% “a lot” and 8% “a great deal.” This indicates a strong adoption and dependence on AI within the field, and the advantages for users of these tools are evident in this year’s research: Significant productivity gains: Over 80% of respondents indicate that AI has enhanced their productivity. Improved code quality: A majority (59%) report a positi

On Aaron Schwartz

“The best way to be truly productive on the margin, is to try to build for other people and connect them together.”

“ If scenius is indeed much more productive and creative than individual genius, then you ought spend more of your time cultivating it - finding interesting people who might fit together in unexpected ways and figuring out how to connect them and build spaces where they can do their own stuff. And doing the dishes while you’re at it.”

“ I’ve found it very useful to use jj to continuously and automatically snapshot the changes that Claude makes. This way if it does anything that I didn’t want, it’s incredibly easy to undo it and still keep a clean history.”

At the end: “ I think at this point I kinda forgot how I would do this in git and I’m also not particularly interested in learning it anymore either.”

“Demsas’s argument represents a broader problem: the learned helplessness that has infected how we think about the internet. We’ve been trained to believe our only options are to beg tech billionaires to be nicer, lobby the government to regulate them better, or hope a “good” billionaire swoops in to save us.”

Mike Masnick responds to Jerusalem Demsas’ The case for staying on Twitter https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/we-have-to-stay-at-the-nazi-bar

Bookmarklet maker, with some examples of submitting to Reddit etc. Going to need an API endpoint to work with this on Semble.

Extremely long write up on werebeasts in Dwarf Fortress, including how you might purposefully infect soldiers. Nothing really helpful about killing them in a way that others don’t get infected!

“ Production depends on sustainability, predictability, and trust. Right now, Bun’s design choices, versioning, and marketing weaken those foundations. If these matter to you, think twice before building on Bun today.”

When it was completed in 1912, it was called the World Building and was the tallest building in Vancouver at 82 m (269 ft), surpassing the previous record-holder, the Dominion Building located just around the corner. (According to the heritage plaque, upon completion it was also the tallest in the British Empire.) For one year, it was the tallest building in Canada, until Toronto’s 85 metre Canadian Pacific Building opened in 1913.

“The tools we use in our societies to make sense of the world are in the hands of a few fascist oligarchs, and it turns out that this has pretty bad consequences”

Test posting a link to my own post!