Three brothers age 92, 94 and 96 live in a house together.

One night the 96 year old draws a bath, puts his foot in and pauses. He yells down the stairs, "Was I getting in or out of the bath?"

The 94 year old yells back, "I don’t know, I’ll come up and see." He starts up the stairs and pauses, then he yells, "Was I going up the stairs or coming down?"

The 92 year old was sitting at the kitchen table having coffee listening to his brothers. He shakes his head and says, "I sure hope I never get that forgetful." He knocks on wood for good luck. He then yells, "I’ll come up and help both of you as soon as I see who’s at the door."

The thing I find most interesting about Armin's new sloppy-xml-py open source package, written almost entirely using Claude and Claude Code, is that the code is good https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/21/my-first-open-source-ai-generated-library/

https://hachyderm.io/@mitsuhiko/114721660586473031

#AudioMo day 21:

I was feeling particularly depressed on Saturday, November 30, 2024. I tend to sometimes do silly and/or terrible things when I reach certain low points. This was one such thing.

My grandmother had a neat old Seth Thomas Legacy 6W mantle clock from 1956, which she gave me in 2015. Sadly, it isn't currently working, and is also not accessible to me at the moment. It's in storage, along with 99% of everything else I own, and has been for the better part of six years, with no end to this situation in sight.

Anyhow, my premise behind this was let's take a thing with a lifetime's worth of good memories, and ruin it by making it terrible/nightmare inducing, because that really fit my mood at the time.

So, I loaded up twelve tracks of the clock striking the 1 o'clock to 12 o'clock hours, lined up to the start of each strike, rather than the start of each mechanism spinning.

Because clockwork is clockwork, they all drifted against themselves pretty fast.

I decided to help them out a bit by causing each track to start drifting in speed at different rates, slowly at first, then not so slowly.

This creates a cacophony of sound, eventually culminating in a long, sustained note an octave down from it's original pitch.