Mastodawn

Dickson Tan Apr 22

The irony is too delicious
https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/22/meta_employee_surveillance_software/

Magnificent irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs

: Zuck reportedly needs to capture workers’ keystrokes to build AI

The Register

Dickson Tan Apr 15

ekiledjian Apr 14

Backblaze has quietly stopped backing up user data from cloud storage folders like OneDrive and Dropbox, and also .git folders, despite previously promising to back up all data. This change, implemented without direct user notification, means Backblaze is no longer fulfilling its core function of comprehensive data backup, eroding user trust.
https://rareese.com/posts/backblaze/

Backblaze has quietly stopped backing up your data | Robert Reese's Website

Dickson Tan Apr 13

@matt Hey, I started experimenting with making an open-source game written in C++ accessible using AccessKit, though admittedly I'm using AI to help.

Ran into an odd issue where when I press tab, there would be a 3-second lag between the keyboard focus moving in-game and NVDA or Narrator announcing the focus change.

The issue went away when I did a release instead of a debug build. Not sure if that's expected behaviour, at least not lag to this degree.

Dickson Tan Apr 7

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Jakob Rosin Apr 6

I took some time to write down why did I build the artemis tracker and why I feel presenting data in an accessible, multimodal way is useful and fun. https://artemis-tracker.netlify.app/story

How I Built a Space Mission Tracker — and Why It Matters

Raw data is more vivid to me than any description. A blind developer's story of building an accessible Artemis II tracker.

Dickson Tan Mar 2

Fesshole 🧻Mar 1

Forced to use AI at work, hate it. Usage is monitored so I can't avoid it. I've set up mine to play a Sim City clone. It burns through tokens, making crap cities that quickly go bankrupt. Just been told that I'm getting a bonus for being a top user.

Dickson Tan Mar 1

Found this to be a balanced take on AI. Good to know what we're giving up by delegating the act of writing code

https://tomwojcik.com/posts/2026-02-15/finding-the-right-amount-of-ai/

What AI coding costs you | Tom Wojcik

What's the effect of the prolonged AI usage among coders and is it tracked correctly, if it all?

Tom Wojcik

Dickson Tan Feb 11

Mayank Feb 10

this is the kind of feature i would love to see built into browsers: https://hister.org/posts/how-i-cut-my-google-search-dependence-in-half/

useful local search, not chatbots.

How I Cut My Google Search Dependence in Half

I built Hister, a self-hosted web history search tool that indexes visited pages locally. In just 1.5 months, I reduced my reliance on Google Search by 50%

Dickson Tan Feb 5

Cat Hicks Feb 4

So many developers have sent me that Anthropic skills/mastery case study that I realized I should ungate what I *already wrote* about this whole topic back in October: beginning principles to design workflows that work *with* your mind, not against it, & protect your problem-solving

https://www.fightforthehuman.com/cognitive-helmets-for-the-ai-bicycle-part-1/

Cognitive Helmets for the AI Bicycle: Part 1

I hear people name these three fears: will developers lose their problem-solving skills, learning opportunities, and critical thinking? One science-backed area can help: better metacognitive strategies.

Fight for the Human

Dickson Tan Feb 5

qdot Feb 4

inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me

for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment

Dickson Tan Jan 28

Jade Jan 27

Cloudflare just published a vibe coded blog post claiming they implemented Matrix on cloudflare workers. They didn't, their post and README is AI generated and the code doesn't do any of the core parts of matrix that make it secure and interoperable. Instead it's littered with 'TODO: Check authorisation' and similar

https://blog.cloudflare.com/serverless-matrix-homeserver-workers/

Building a serverless, post-quantum Matrix homeserver

As a proof of concept, we built a Matrix homeserver to Cloudflare Workers — delivering encrypted messaging at the edge with automatic post-quantum cryptography.

The Cloudflare Blog