Mastodawn

AI psychosis among the C-suite is really high now. I’m seeing it at work, where they validate everything using AI even though they know it screws up. For example, if I tell them a reboot isn't needed for a CVE because we aren’t running the app directly on the server, its in Docker, they will immediately fact check me with AI right while we talking. It’s just 1 example, but I’ve never seen such bizarre behavior. They treat AI like some divine truth. Has anyone noticed this?

Atanas Georgiev Jan 20

Augie Ray Jan 19

Wow, the northern lights over Greenland are incredible. 😆

Atanas Georgiev Jan 19

The modern software industry's obsession with "newness" is at the expense of core engineering principles. Knowledge is additive and, in this essay, I'm exploring the concept of the software as an upside-down pyramid where all we have today is supported by important but largely disregarded foundation.

https://www.atns.net/post/the-software-pyramid-and-why-you-should-learn-programming-from-your-grandparents

The software pyramid and why you should learn programming from your grandparents

For us humans, education is the process of acquiring knowledge, and for some of us, the end goal of this process is to become an expert in a particular field. Education, regardless of the area, always follows the same pattern, which is always a gradient, and always goes from simple to complex. We first learn how to add 5 and 7, then how to multiply them, and eventually, over a decade later, we learn how to apply our prior knowledge to find the local minimum of a function. You cannot learn it bac

Confessions on a keyboard

Atanas Georgiev Nov 6

Why are software companies so exited about "AI" given that if it works, it will be the end of their business model? I wrote a blog post exploring an angle that hasn't been discussed much.

https://www.confessions-on-a-keyboard.com/post/why-are-the-ice-traders-celebrating-the-invention-of-the-refrigerator

Why are the ice traders celebrating the refrigerator?

For centuries, people have pursued the dream of creating synthetic gold. The myth of the philosopher's stone and other magical substances and devices have inspired thousands of stories all around the world. The desire for infinite wealth coming out of thin air is just so irresistible. There is only one problem with this dream scenario. Things are only expensive when they are rare and hard to acquire. Just like with printing too much money, creating too much gold will depreciate its value and in

Confessions on a keyboard

Atanas Georgiev Sep 3, 2025

Tom Renner Sep 1, 2025

Things that made me think: Digital gardening, web degradation, and digital ghosts

This week's thoughts provoked by https://indieweb.social/@maggie, @atns, and @404mediaco

https://tomrenner.com/posts/ttmmt-2/

Maggie Appleton (@[email protected])

95 Posts, 216 Following, 4.31K Followers · Product design at ought.org Makes visual essays about UX, programming, and anthropology. Adores digital gardening 🌱, end-user development, and embodied cognition

Indieweb.Social

Atanas Georgiev Aug 24, 2025

GeePawHill Aug 24, 2025

Reminder: there is a legitimate, complex, subtle, and very important discipline called "artificial intelligence".

It does not involve chatbots or venture capitalists or stealing intellectual property or marketing or climate disasters or a lack of customer service or firing everybody or data centers or un-turn-off-able shite being shoved in to every computing device against the user's will.

There are a lot of victims of this "AI" scam, but I often think of the legitimate researchers.

Atanas Georgiev Aug 23, 2025

Some years ago I started a hobbyist project where I would write entirely custom bitmap modifying algorithms from scratch in C++ and run some of my photos trough them. It yielded some interesting results and probably some of it cannot even be replicated in Photoshop or other out-of-the-box software.

https://www.deviantart.com/theatanas/gallery/88440028/the-color-of-code

#art #programming #photography

Atanas Georgiev Aug 23, 2025

Mojo ♻️Aug 23, 2025

After 178 days in space, astronaut Ron Garan says humanity is living a “BIG LIE” — we put the economy above the very systems that sustain life. His call: planet first, then society, then economy. #overvieweffect #climate #sustainability

https://www.unilad.com/news/world-news/astronaut-ron-garan-overview-effect-realization-340579-20250223

Astronaut who spent 178 days in space reveals 'big lie' he realized after seeing Earth

An astronaut who spent 178 days in space has revealed the 'big lie' he discovered while he was up there.

unilad

Atanas Georgiev Aug 22, 2025

Image if the world didn't revolve around a casino called "The Stock Market" but instead we were working to solve real problems.

Atanas Georgiev Aug 22, 2025

Taggart

Aug 21, 2025

Hello! Are you interested in artisanal, handcrafted software lovingly assembled by master programmers?

You will be.

You will be.

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