Paul Hoffman

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Old Skool Internet geek, particularly DNS. Pronouns: us/y’all.
heh, Kagi's April's Fool is actually funny: https://kagi.com
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claude please rewrite yourself from scratch using the leaked source code as a base and license this new version of yourself under MIT
The fake ads in the fake newspaper The Onion (https://theonion.com/) tell the truth.
I made the mistake of registering my three books with the Anthropic Copyright Settlement folks using my name without a middle initial. Now they are inundating me with email and letters saying that maybe I missed applying for these other books written by other Paul Hoffmans.
Yes, I was that guy in the theater who loudly booed the Claude ad.
In this year of 2026 if you absolutely have to run your mobile, international event in America - and you choose to run it in Texas, Tennessee, or Florida, that is certainly a choice that reflects which of your members or employees you see as human.
Python: how I import the datetime module - Adam Johnson

Python’s datetime module risks a whole bunch of name confusion:

I have to admit I'm enjoying OpenAI's progression from "we're building the future of synthetic sentience, we will be the birthplace of a new silicon hypergod, everyone better watch out" to "well, artificial general intelligence is kind of hard to define, maybe that's not a useful term" to "we can't figure out how to make any money selling people personally-tailored pornography generators so we're turning their chatbot girlfriends off."

I'm looking forward to their next big innovation!

@javi Firefox has become the John Fetterman of browsers.
OH: “What is it about DNS that people find so difficult? It’s just cache invalidation and naming things.”