Dan Jordan

Dad, optimist and geek. Founder & Trustee @hst

[Dan Jordan @deej81]

@dhh In Jeff we trust…

[Framework @FrameworkPuter]

@xdadevelopers Err, what? We’re currently sold out of all of our production capacity of Framework Laptop 13 Pro through October.

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

This week the most advanced AI model on the planet got switched off by a foreign government. British researchers were studying it. British companies were testing it. British hospitals were piloting it. Not any more.

This isn't an AI story. It's the story of every industry we used to lead.

Britain has some of the best AI talent in the world. DeepMind was built here. Our AI Safety Institute writes the rules other countries follow. We have the researchers, the universities, the standards.

What we don't have is the power stations to run the data centres, the planning system to build them, or the industrial base to make the chips. So the work happens here and the value lands somewhere else. We invent. Others build. Others decide. Then we read about it on Saturday morning.

Same story as the kit our soldiers don't have. Same story as the factories we used to.

I spent nine months in government making this argument inside the room. I'll make it louder from outside.

[Dan Jordan @deej81]

@dhh @TimSweeneyEpic Love fractal design cases!

[Scott Hanselman 🌮 @shanselman]

Why did it have access? If a junior engineer takes down prod, it's never the junior's fault. That's an access and SDLC issue

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

Demis Hassabis’s “Einstein test” for defining AGI:

Train a model on all human knowledge but cut it off at 1911, then see if it can independently discover general relativity (as Einstein did by 1915);

if yes, it’s AGI.

[Dan Jordan @deej81]

@markgurman Shade warranted?

[Eren Bali @erenbali]

Every technical founder who had stopped coding 10 years ago

[Chris Lattner @clattner_llvm]

@tetsuo_cpp Instead of living with fear and existential dread, programmers need to get on with building. Live life, learn new things, grow into your full potential and don't look back.

[Dan Jordan @deej81]

@dhh “Zero shade”? 🤔

[rob @heymynameisrob]

We've shipped a ton of stuff since the winter break in @usecushion 🚀

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💬 Cushion <> Slack mirror so you can communicate with your team that still haven't seen the light yet ;)
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30-day free trial. No CC. Link in replies ⬇️

[S.L. Kanthan @Kanthan2030]

How stock market bubbles work:

[Christopher Morley, MD @ctmorley]

Hundreds of questions were asked by my 4-year-old son as we assembled the Reachy Mini robot (2 hours), connected it with Claude Code (5 minutes), integrated real-time VLMs/web search APIs (10 minutes) and brought embodied Al to life at our kitchen table.

May the curiosity and creativity of this Generation Alpha, the first Al-native generation, be a wellspring of daily inspiration to us all.

Epic foundational work by @huggingface @pollenrobotics @claudeai

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

Slop drives me crazy and it feels like 95+% of bug reports, but man, AI code analysis is getting really good. There are users out there reporting bugs that don't know ANYTHING about our stack, but are great AI drivers and producing some high quality issue reports.

This person (linked below) was experiencing Ghostty crashes and took it upon themselves to use AI to write a python script that can decode our crash files, match them up with our dsym files, and analyze the codebase for attempting to find the root cause, and extracted that into an Agent Skill.

They then came into Discord, warned us they don't know Zig at all, don't know macOS dev at all, don't know terminals at all, and that they used AI, but that they thought critically about the issues and believed they were real and asked if we'd accept them. I took a look at one, was impressed, and said send them all.

This fixed 4 real crashing cases that I was able to manually verify and write a fix for from someone who -- on paper -- had no fucking clue what they were talking about. And yet, they drove an AI with expert skill.

I want to call out that in addition to driving AI with expert skill, they navigated the terrain with expert skill as well. They didn't just toss slop up on our repo. They came to Discord as a human, reached out as a human, and talked to other humans about what they've done. They were careful and thoughtful about the process.

People like this give me hope for what is possible. But it really, really depends on high quality people like this. Most today -- to continue the analogy -- are unfortunately driving like a teenager who has only driven toy go-karts.

Examples: https://t.co/n8xCcPYSjw

[Dan Jordan @deej81]

@nixcraft Chair’s too expensive

[Dan Jordan @deej81]

@davidperel It’s not going to go well…

[Dan Jordan @deej81]

@PaperBagInvest Joined in feb 24. Thank you for all the effort you put into your research and model! Easily worth the small contribution via patreon.

[Dan Jordan @deej81]

@floboflo Don’t suppose you happen to have sarcasm sign?

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

Suicide.

I'm choosing to be deliberately blunt and provocative in this post because it's necessary. Government, charities, football clubs are all pushing water up a hill in highlighting what is undoubtedly a major health crisis.

You take a rope.
You put it up in a garage or a tree nearby or far away.
You're thinking about every loved one you'll leave behind as you put that rope around your neck.
Then you drop.

Some are decapitated.
Some aren't.
All are found by someone who has a lifetime of trauma that will never leave them.
A son.
A daughter.
A brother.
A sister.
A mother.
A father.

I know 2 men who hung themselves.

One was found by his Mom.
One was found by his brother.
Neither have recovered fully. 20 and 30 years on.

A life sentence for people who were already worrying, terrified their loved one may do something.

So just visualise the above and ask, "is there another way"?

A segway for a moment.

I do a few Q&A's every year. Tales of yesterday with a 99% male audience of my age group.

After the stories and fun, my last question back to the audience is..

"Hands up if you struggle with a mental health issue".

Nobody ever puts a hand up. Despite 1 in every 3 of 500 attendees statistically struggling.

"Ah, nobody, that's fucking brilliant! Well I do! ". I then graphically tell people, stunned into silence about how a rope around my neck in the middle of nowhere jolted me to go home and cry like a baby to my Mom.

After the Q&A has finished, something always happens. I'll be chatting to a few guys, saying bye and one by one, men will come over and whisper " I struggle".

Or my mailbox the next day will have 30 emails from guys, their partners or kids saying " Dad/Uncle /Brother was there last night and what you said hit them hard".

And that's how some people realise that it's time to speak to a pal or family member or even rant to me in an email. It works, I often get a follow up email a year or 6 later saying that they took responsibility for their suicidal feelings and are now flying.

Humans are programmed to want to live, to have families and to keep the species growing and thriving. So for a human to want to short circuit that desire isn't normal, and it should never be spoken of as normal. It's the ultimate red flag.

If you suspect your mate, Dad, Brother, Uncle is struggling mentally, they deserve your intervention.

They deserve a " are you OK, please tell me what's up".

They deserve an opportunity to get past wanting to hang a rope over a tree or in a garage and slowly struggle until they die and you find them.

If you've been there and trust me I have plenty, then you'll know that text out of the blue, or a footie mate or one of your kids asking jow you are can open the curtains to some sunshine.

Because when suicide is your only answer, the room is already dark, and you can't see a way out.

So please, fucking pretty please, ask that husband, Dad, Uncle, Cousin, footie pal TODAY how they are.

You may be shocked what comes back but extremely glad that you asked.

For those who struggle, you're not alone.