Jamal J

Interested in natural languages and fintech.

[Jamal J @byjml]

Built a small HTTP client for VS Code that doesn’t require signing up for yet another website.

https://t.co/fZYAxynfWF

[Jamal J @byjml]

Shouldn't have a limit

[Beta Profiles @BetaProfiles]

iOS 26.6 beta 1 will show an alert if you’ve reached the blocked contacts limit, suggesting you remove blocked contacts in Settings before adding new ones.

via MacRumors

[Haider. @haider1]

Creator of C++, Bjarne Stroustrup:

AI-generated code isn't ready — it generates more bugs, more bloat, more security holes, and is nearly impossible to validate

"senior developers are already retiring rather than deal with it"

The problem is that even a small prompt change can shift the entire codebase in unpredictable ways

[Mustafa Y. Sheik @mysheekh]

Following discussions b/w @AnthropicAI & @SomaliaNCA Somali creators & innovators now have access to its services.
NCA is finalizing the National AI Strategy and regulatory framework to support secure, fair, and responsible AI deployment.https://t.co/HDUII3xQWF

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

My daughter hand-writes her college application essays, then types them up.

She plugs them into an “AI detector” like they tell kids to… and every one comes back 80%+ ‘likely AI.’

She’s been writing these all week.
She’s frustrated. She’s furious.
I don’t blame her.

[Isik Mater @isik5]

So we hide locations for government leaders but not for activists, journalists, or people in repressive countries. The hypocrisy is unreal...

[Jamal J @byjml]

@isik5 Because some have their accounts managed by "consultants" from other countries

[U.S. Graphics Company @usgraphics]

We must go deeper.

[Isik Mater @isik5]

After rejecting its past, X's solution to the awful Cloudflare outage is to run back to its ex (Twitter Inc. infrastructure). Twitter's tech legacy saves the day. Long live the ghost of the bird!

[Jamal J @byjml]

Meaning @ProtonPrivacy will need a new home

[Tuta @TutaPrivacy]

Swiss surveillance could become worse than US

If passed, chat, email & VPN providers from #Switzerland must:

🚨 Log IP addresses
🚨 Ask for ID upon sign up
🚨 Decrypt data upon request

Swiss Bundesrat is still discussing this draft bill, decision will likely be made in 2026.

Let's fight for #privacy! 👉 https://t.co/J7LnUr4apd

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Tens of thousands of people have marched through the streets of Brazil's city of Belem, which is hosting the #COP30 talks, in the first large-scale protest at a UN climate summit in years.

— in pictures https://t.co/zWIxeayzso

[Sky News @SkyNews]

A woman who called herself the "Goddess of Wealth" and was caught with £5bn in Bitcoin in the UK's highest ever value money laundering investigation, has been jailed after nearly five years on the run.

Full story: https://t.co/GA27JdYX7K

[Bram Govaerts CIMMYT @bramaccimmyt]

During the "Full Stack” session at #COP30, @TekSapkota2 will share @CIMMYT’s hub approach, which connects research, policy, & farmers to scale climate-smart practices across regions.
Let’s continue turning evidence into action for resilient food systems
📺 https://t.co/6elYyu04QW

[Jamal J @byjml]

Anyway you don't need a separate app for everything. Just use the web browser.

[Windows Latest @WindowsLatest]

Meta has just replaced WhatsApp for Windows 11 with a web wrapper that consumes up to 2GB of RAM (or up to 1 GB when idle).

New WhatsApp for Windows 11 is based on WebView2.

WhatsApp has been testing its new web-based app for Windows 11 for some time now, and it's rolling out today.

WebView2 is based on Chromium, using the same Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) rendering engine.

Do not update WhatsApp in the Microsoft Store.

[Victor @vponamariov]

So it's official: IG-type content is encouraged on X.

Not saying these posts are bad, but like other social networks, X promotes something outstanding—not knowledge, but unusual.

The only platform with valuable content left is YT: tutorials, courses, physics explained, etc. These channels get massive impressions.

No surprise overall quality declines.

Because:

1. YT creators spend a week on a video - hooks, editing, perfection. X should never punish posting once every 1-2 weeks then.

2. Educational content needs "wow-effect", but it's the. hardest to produce. Easier to dance drunk on a table saying "SaaS celebrates first customer" than share a coding tip with something unusual.

Either allow posting once every 1–2 weeks for YT-quality posts without being penalized, or distribute different types of content evenly.

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

Knowing how to write assembly is a skill you should learn, and these guys have a great resource for you!

I've debugged 10,000 lines of assembly for every line I've ever written... but writing assembly from scratch is a core computer science skill, I believe: even if you never use it.

Will you use it to write new code? Maybe not. But when you get dropped into a call stack without source code, at least you won't have to ask your Dad for help!

And the next thing you should do after learning to write ASM is to get a crisp understanding of what your C code actually compiles to. Like a switch() statement is often a jump table, but if you've never debugged one...

[Mohamed Said @themsaid]

The career of a software/infrastructure engineer is mostly doing boring things and asking ridiculous questions in hopes of making order out of chaos and making light work of something. That’s when that satisfactory smile is put on our faces.

Always a delight to read such blog posts.

[Jamal J @byjml]

Such monitors are allowed into the cabin?

[Irvin (in Japan 🇯🇵) @irvinxyz]

Flying back to SF.
You guys are not ready for what’s coming next week🤖

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

If you recognize this, you were a legend.