Evan Knowles

Java(*) developer from South Africa who thinks he's funny. The king of meta. God of procrastination.

[Evan Knowles @EvanJKnowles]

Hey @WOOLWORTHS_SA - when did you start packaging your fish in little balloons?

[Kyle 🚄 @KyleTrainEmoji]

PICARD: Data, shields up

DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy.

[camera shakes]

WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS

DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't

[Evan Knowles @EvanJKnowles]

@CityPowerJhb No power in Craighall, ref is CPWEB4985941

[Evan Knowles @EvanJKnowles]

so @OpenAI, that API-driven company, provides no way to check your remaining credits via an API, you have to log in to the website.

[Evan Knowles @EvanJKnowles]

@Phystoz @DStv Why can't it just hit Try Again for us?

[Evan Knowles @EvanJKnowles]

Municipal elections are like infrastructural Christmas.

[Evan Knowles @EvanJKnowles]

So @TAKEALOT's advice on how to submit a query is to try something else other than already talking to an AI bot who sent you to a page who told you to search for something then look for a button. How about my promised delivery for today?

[Evan Knowles @EvanJKnowles]

If the AI fixes the problem by deleting the production database, then the AI absolutely nailed it.

[Evan Knowles @EvanJKnowles]

With all the guardrails around AI video generation, the easiest way to verify that the person you're chatting to on a video call is a human is for them to flash you.

[Evan Knowles @EvanJKnowles]

@CityPowerJhb Power is back now.

[Evan Knowles @EvanJKnowles]

@CityPowerJhb No power in Craighall? CPWEB4945763

[superwhisper @superwhisper]

Superwhisper's next update might be too powerful to release publicly.

The new voice model is so fast at transcription it started finishing sentences users hadn't thought of yet...

We even put it in a sandbox and it dictated its way out.

It also identified a flaw in the English language that had gone unnoticed for 600 years. Linguists have been informed.

Out of an abundance of caution, we are withholding the update until further notice.

Sincerely,
The Superwhisper Team

[Evan Knowles @EvanJKnowles]

The best part @TAKEALOT is all the reviews saying they bought it for a kid and it's not bad for the price.

[Evan Knowles @EvanJKnowles]

@CityPowerJhb Power out in Craighall? Reference is CPWEB4935090

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

I taught Claude to talk like a caveman to use 75% less tokens.

normal claude: ~180 tokens for a web search task

caveman claude: ~45 tokens for the same task

"I executed the web search tool" = 8 tokens
caveman version: "Tool work" = 2 tokens

every single grunt swap saves 6-10 tokens. across a FULL task that's 50-100 tokens saved

why does it work? caveman claude doesn't explain itself. it does its task first. gives the result. then stops.

no "I'd be happy to help you with that." no "Let me search the web for you" no more unnecessary filler words

"result. done. me stop."

50-75% burn reduction

with usage limits getting tighter every week this might be the most practical hack out there right now

[Hanqing Zhao @hankein95]

We've been tracking public CVEs where AI-generated code introduced the vulnerability.

https://t.co/ENeLzSFfGx

50k+ advisories scanned. Dozens of confirmed cases so far.

Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, and others all show up. Common bug classes include XSS, command injection, SSRF, and path traversal.

And these are just the cases that leave metadata traces. The real number is almost certainly higher.

Open source, from Georgia Tech SSLab:

https://t.co/6UES6ruuQc

[Evan Knowles @EvanJKnowles]

@FlyCemAir bit tricky to accept cookies with a chat bot in the way

[Evan Knowles @EvanJKnowles]

The guy on stage said all of us are smarter than one person, but he didn't say who it was so we could laugh at them.

[Evan Knowles @EvanJKnowles]

Meta to shut down Horizon Worlds, that app that they didn't even launch in most of the world.

[Simone Double-Masked Puterman @SimoneAtLarge]

There appears to have been no progress for a MONTH on fixing the drain pipe which has caused a huge sinkhole and blocked off both lanes at 15 Chaplin Road, Illovo, heading east. CSDFMC0249536 @MyJRA @JHBWater @RenateCllrW90 @CrumRegionB 1st reported 11 Feb 2026