Stanley Jones

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A #Solarpunk soul in a #Cyberpunk world. Excited by #Decentralization and #Sustainability.

@work: #DeveloperExperience (aka #DevEx, #DX) at Alchemy. Previously Lifted Initiative, Dfinity, Chartboost, and Rainforest Action Network. I write #TypeScript in #Neovim on #MechanicalKeyboards.

@home: #GirlDad and husband in the #SFBayArea. I used to make #Techno and will again someday. I doubled in #FineArt and #Philosophy at #CarnegieMellon and still use both every day.

Tulips IDhttps://tulips.id/u/ctpbsp

Update: I decided to be a grown-up and take the critique seriously.

I sat down to read it carefully and... it's wrong.

It hallucinates my arguments, takes statements out of context, and even says I "fail to mention the monorepo even once" when a simple Ctrl-F shows results across the whole doc.

I've been spinning out for two days because of this workslop. Now I'm just angry.

You guys I'm in trouble.

My CEO asked me to "drive AI strategy" at my company (because he clearly doesn't follow me here).

I really really tried to put together a reasonable strategy based on actual research and set aside my personal beliefs. It took me over a week of reading, synthesizing, and writing.

An hour later I received an AI-generated critique of my strategy with sections like "Major Gaps" and "Missed Opportunities".

What do I do now?

To be clear, the email server is still in the cloud because my ISP blocks port 25 both in and out. Oh and reverse DNS seemed tricky with a dynamic IP.

A big week for me and #selfhosting.

On Sunday I migrated my single-user Mastodon instance to a new server running out of my garage.

Then on Wednesday, I finished migrating my long-running (c. 2001) email account to a new machine running Mailcow. A lot of work but none of it was that hard.

Next up is migrating Nextcloud to my garage server. All of this is running on a cheap mini PC that still has more CPUs, RAM, and storage than I was paying for in a hosted solution.

everybody says ActivityPub is too hard.

so i'm building the thing that proves them wrong.

debug tools. validators. real docs.

built by someone who actually ships projects people use (@pixelfed (1M+ users) and @loops)

activitypub deserves better resources. i'm making them.

it only takes one person to spark a revolution ✨

coming soon. stay tuned.

#ActivityPubSocial

I've been made aware that, because I write documents using complete sentences, bullet points, em dashes, and embold important phrases, co-workers assume that I used LLMs to write them and don't read the whole thing.

Do I deliberately "dirty" them up so they look more human?

My ferry is in the Superbowl!
An unexpected perk of raising a theater kid is all the flowers around your house (at least when a show wraps).
Catching up on yesterday's document drop reminds me of vampires as metaphor for class struggle. The capitalist aristocracy, like vampires, cannot survive without the explicit exploitation of the rest of us. They occupy a different reality — their interests alien and appetites monstrous.

Last night I watched my wife doomscroll through Instagram — influencer, advertiser, influencer, advertiser pretending to be influencer, advertiser. Coming back to Mastodon was such a relief. Y'all can be crazy sometimes but you're authentic.

We're all so lucky that a place like this exists as mainstream media and social media both are not-so-subtly transformed into propaganda machines.