PTT

Technologist, Visionary, Berk.

[PTT @esterill]

@organised Let’s see the sig!

[PTT @esterill]

@Only9built Nope. Did it once. Caused all sorts of issues down the line. And that’s if you make it.

[hackaday @hackaday]

Easy-ish Glitch Camera? There’s a Pi 4 That https://t.co/SkbOzmYvFd

[Stitch by Google @stitchbygoogle]

Today, we’re open-sourcing the draft specification for DESIGN.md, so it can be used across any tool or platform. We’re also adding new capabilities.

DESIGN.md lets you easily export and import your design rules from project to project. Instead of guessing intent, agents know exactly what a color is for and can even validate their choices against WCAG accessibility rules.

Watch David East break down this shared visual language in action👇. New capabilities and links in 🧵

[Jane Manchun Wong @wongmjane]

My silly prompt injection in my LinkedIn bio actually worked

[Wes Bos @wesbos]

Claude Code leaked their source map, effectively giving you a look into the codebase.

I immediately went for the one thing that mattered: spinner verbs

There are 187

[hackaday @hackaday]

Play a .WAV Instead of Typing Line After Line Into Vintage Microcomputer https://t.co/ORVhNJCYZk

[Xavier Bellekens @noktec]

So @CiscoSecure went around all the rooms of the @Hilton at @OneRSAC at night to place one time use - small lcd video of their CEO delivering a message … loads of waste - let’s look what’s inside

[Shitty Future @Shitty_Future]

“OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.”
— OpenAI, 2024

“We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.“​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
— OpenAI, 2026

[PTT @esterill]

@MrJamesMay Yep. Same as plastic cheese.

[PTT @esterill]

@DConflying Oh, that is sad. Loved Ogri. Great artist.

[Ben Eater @beneater]

Anyone else out there vibe circuit-building?

[Shane 🦧 @TheMonkeyJungle]

This is a six hundred and fifty dollar Lego set $649.99 and it’s going to go platinum with Lego’s recently chosen primary demographic: computer programmer who recently got a new job, has more money than he knows what to do with, and posts a picture of everything he buys on Reddit

[Chase Passive Income @chasedownleads]

@HustleBitch_ This is devastating for the 7 people who still use printers

[PTT @esterill]

@MakeAugusta Pick and place is hard enough without the pcb stretching 😀

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[Felix Lee @felixleezd]

Apple's design team is outrageous.

The fact that Apple actually created liquid glass in real life just to make it realistic is mind-blowing.

[Jack @OrdinaryInds]

And then they removed 80% of what made it great because consumers whined. Wins all around!

[PTT @esterill]

@JohnSlinger @Rugby_Labour I agree. Keep it as it is. If you must campaign, then do so for better driving and lane discipline.