James Pain

Tolerates computers for money

[James Pain @jpainio]

I've never felt the fear of god more than watching Microsoft explain why their AI data centres won't take all of the electricity, water, and jobs from their local communities.

I never thought Microsoft would have to explain something like that, but here we are.

[James Pain @jpainio]

Here's a sign of the times. When registering for the Microsoft Build conference, this drop down box used to give options like Developer, Engineering Manager, Exec. Now it's AI, AI, AI.

[James Pain @jpainio]

The best article about AI-generated writing I've ever read.

https://t.co/3kBtVwlSbI

[James Pain @jpainio]

New post, some honest thoughts about my AI usage
https://t.co/GuA2vpdQFW

Had a nice response on Hacker News: https://t.co/JU7vAbgsRy

[James Pain @jpainio]

@scottygb Happy to help!

[James Pain @jpainio]

@simonw One of the first left facing pelicans I've seen

[James Pain @jpainio]

@markcooperjones @jayforeman @OrdnanceSurvey Love the video btw ❤️

[James Pain @jpainio]

@markcooperjones @jayforeman @OrdnanceSurvey You would have known how far away Southampton was and thus how long it'd take to get there if you used a MAP

[James Pain @jpainio]

@AuntyDonnaBoys @Patreon As a huge fan, I say this from the depths of my heart...
What are you doing? What have you become?

[James Pain @jpainio]

I'm surprised we haven't had many specialised AI Gen Models yet, like a model specifically for typescript projects.

[James Pain @jpainio]

@builtformars Could you, just, stop?

[nixCraft 🐧 @nixcraft]

The creator of Vim, Bram Moolenaar, allegedly wrote the entire initial version of Vim using only a magnetized needle and a steady hand to directly manipulate bits on a hard drive. Thus, Vim is pure, made without using any other text editor.

[James Pain @jpainio]

@troyhunt @marksandspencer Hopefully they know that this doesn't count as customer notification of a data breach.

[James Pain @jpainio]

@zen_browser Bloody hell you had me going! Absolute heart attack!

[James Pain @jpainio]

Super impressed with Ladybird. Absolutely mammoth task to build a web browser. Great to see more sponsors on board. 👏👏👏

[Ladybird @ladybirdbrowser]

🐞 This Month in Ladybird: February 2025

📈 Progress on web-platform-tests
📸 "Flash Of Unstyled Content" prevention
🔐 Continued adoption of curl and OpenSSL
⏲️ Resource Timing
🧑‍🎨 New CSS features
🦊 Support for the Firefox DevTools protocol

Link to full newsletter below!

[Paul Butler @paulgb]

UI codegen demos are all like “check this out, I used AI to build a whole row of houses!”

[James Pain @jpainio]

Proud to share my first public Gen AI project (and only my 2nd blog post this year!). Curious about our journey? Dive into the full story 👉 https://t.co/5S78InRkSt

[Cheng Lou @_chenglou]

When your date sends you the simplest message

[James Pain @jpainio]

@vrashabh I guess this proves that pavlov's dogs didn't have ADHD