Ian

left politics, ✨technical✨ adtech, bike+climate stuff

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

saying "smooth move" undefeated

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

@BradAT There's also a suggestion that the platonic ideal of the web is plain text web pages. That might appeal to a small sliver of the population (including yours truly!) but are the masses consuming streaming TV, Reels/Tiktok and similar complaining about "ugh this video was 90 mbs"?

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

@BradAT There's some truth in here but a lazy critique IMO. The author implies that ad blocking would "fix" the user experience NYT. But the heaviest assets are all first-party video, photos and a bit of js:

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

florida is just wario california

[TransitingNerd @NerdTransiting]

bro.

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

I foolishly assumed the “New Yorker visits SoMa for 36 hours” trope became extinct in 2019.

pathetic.gif

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

the new "sent from my iPhone"

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

Is GPT-5.2 now live in the OpenAI API?

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

guy writing the rails app for finland's social security portal:

"fucking finally"

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

@adamheimlich https://t.co/8RrxikbpNg

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

I really fucked up my conference schedule this year.

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Hey Ian,

We’re attending Space Tech Expo in Bremen, Germany in November and would love to connect if you’ll be there.

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

@BradAT https://t.co/aI3jHI54EE

[Avi @avi_lum]

xAI Grok pretends to be an iPhone when browsing, to not get blocked. but is this legit?

"Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1"

This hack worked for me 10+ years ago.

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

𝟣̶𝟤̶𝟪̶ ̶𝖦̶𝖡̶ ̶𝖻̶𝖾̶𝖼̶𝖺̶𝗎̶𝗌̶𝖾̶ ̶𝗒̶𝗈̶𝗎̶'̶𝗋̶𝖾̶ ̶𝗋̶𝗎̶𝗇̶𝗇̶𝗂̶𝗇̶𝗀̶ ̶𝗅̶𝗈̶𝖼̶𝖺̶𝗅̶ ̶𝖫̶𝖫̶𝖬̶𝗌̶

128 GB because you have four Jetbrains IDEs open

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

https://t.co/nIz6O4hdyn

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

@HatesAdtech @JudSpencer @Scrilla100 Notably: https://t.co/Nl1Ws28n6N

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

fortunately middle of the night in the EU (and since recovered) but 😬

[Tharshan Venkadesan @tharshanlk]

@InMobi Your CMP just stopped loading globally. The SSL Certificate seems to be expired.

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

@BradAT Absolutely -- with pretty reasonable accuracy for most use cases. https://t.co/6NbRdduBkc

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

@BishPlsOk @mikeosullivan @101Programmatic Thank you for _also_ providing the overly-detailed impressions! The level of time and detail you put into this is a huge compliment, truly.

Re: more granular data, to what extent, if any, would a "representative sample" of the publisher meet your need?

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

for the heathens: https://t.co/0Vip8G5fG7

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

wasn't expecting to find that there