Mastodawn

Romain Dillet Nov 26

Lady Laura

Nov 26

Twenty streets of Paris before and after in one minute

Romain Dillet Aug 12, 2025

Steve Troughton-Smith Aug 12, 2025

I want the Halt and Catch Fire people to remake Pirates of Silicon Valley

Romain Dillet Aug 4, 2025

Colin Cornaby Aug 3, 2025

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen

https://www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-the-future-all-food-will-be-cooked-in-a-microwave-and-if-you-cant-deal-with-that-then-you-need-to-get-out-of-the-kitchen/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen

Update 8/8/2025 – I wrote this the day before a certain post by a popular developer services company. I’ve seen some comments this is a rebuttal – it wasn’t meant to be! But…

Random Thoughts

Romain Dillet Aug 2, 2025

mhoye Aug 2, 2025

This is both hilarious and I think informative.

https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2025/07/22/the-sound-of-silence/

The Sound of Silence

A GitHub Issue on OpenAI’s Whisper, which is a good speech-recognition and transcription model with support for a large number of languages. A lot of people use it. The issue: Complete silence is always hallucinated as “ترجمة نانسي قنقر” in Arabic which translates as “Translation by Nancy Qunqar” In the comments, people note that this class of error has been known for a while and there are equivalents or counterparts in other languages:

Romain Dillet Jul 1, 2025

Christina Warren Jul 1, 2025

Imagine paying $300 a year for email and it gets acquired by a glorified keylogger.

Romain Dillet Jun 21, 2025

Brent Simmons Jun 20, 2025

New website I had to make. Hopefully I got the SSL part right. 🐥

https://nolearnings.com/

No Learnings

Romain Dillet Apr 27, 2025

512 Pixels Apr 21, 2025

Corruption is Winning

https://512pixels.net/2025/04/corruption-is-winning/

Corruption is Winning - 512 Pixels

On Friday’s episode of The Vergecast, there was an exchange that really caught my attention. David Pierce mentioned the photos of all the tech CEOs at Trump’s inauguration in January, to which Nilay Patel replied: The thing that kills me at that is the expectation they had going into that photo was corruption. Right? Tim […]

512 Pixels

Romain Dillet Mar 27, 2025

Twin’s first AI agent is an invoice retrieval agent for Qonto customers

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/27/twins-first-ai-agent-is-an-invoice-retrieval-agent-for-qonto-customers/

Twin’s first AI agent is an invoice-retrieval agent for Qonto customers | TechCrunch

When Twin came out of stealth in January 2024, AI agents were more of a theoretical concept than a reality. Today, the Paris-based company is releasing an

TechCrunch

Romain Dillet Mar 25, 2025

Daphni secures $215M for its third fund

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/24/daphni-secures-215m-for-its-third-fund/

Daphni secures $215M for its third fund | TechCrunch

French VC firm Daphni is announcing the first closing of its new fund, Daphni Blue. The firm has raised €200 million (around $215 million at current

TechCrunch

Romain Dillet Mar 24, 2025

French VC firm Founders Future plans US expansion

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/24/french-vc-firm-founders-future-plans-us-expansion/

French VC firm Founders Future plans US expansion | TechCrunch

Founders Future, a Paris-based VC firm with €300 million in assets under management (around $324 million at current exchange rates), is opening up the

TechCrunch