Damian Hamill

building SaaS, web apps, mobile apps, dev ops, AI agents for commercial maintenance customers

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Meet @simonmaechling.

Simon has a PhD in organic chemistry.

He is very proud of his PhD in organic chemistry. He can't wait to tell you about it, it's in his twitter bio.

Simon identifies as a scientist.

In fact, he identifies as all scientists, ever, since the beginning of history, and his pronouns are we/us/ours. He uses these pronouns as he informs us that, by writing and defending a thesis, he has inherited credit for every engineering and technological advance in human history.

He fed billions of people because he is Norman Borlaug. He saved millions of cancer patients because he is both Francis Crick and James Watson simultaneously. He powered nations because he is inhabited by the very soul of Enrico Fermi.

If humanity conquers the stars, he will retroactively become Werner Von Braun and Elon Musk, as well.

Please clap.

Unfortunately, there has been one small oversight.
Simon doesn't actually know what science is.

Perhaps universities in France don't require coursework in the history or philosophy of science, to attain a PhD degree. Or perhaps he was sick that day. But whatever the reason, his hat or his shoes, Simon doesn't understand that science is an algorithm.

Not a person.

Not an institution.

Not a body of knowledge, or a set of data.

An algorithm.

It is a simple, stepwise procedure. It is the act of examining the universe to see what is there.

It is not the act of examining one's baguette to see which side it is buttered on.

Which is precisely why a lot of institutions, who prominently, proudly, and fraudulently use the word "science" in their names, have lost the public trust that Simon feels entitled to.

They took money.

They sold their judgement and modified their results.

They took money from Proctor and Gamble, and they told us that beef, butter, and eggs are bad for us, and we should eat crystalized cottonseed oil instead.

They took money from Coca-Cola, Kraft-Heinz, and Unilever, and told us a calorie is a calorie is a calorie, and that the worldwide obesity epidemic is your fault because you somehow magically were born lazier and greedier than previous generations.

They took money from a cabal of grifters in the federal bureaucracy, and told us the planet has a fever, and we all need to pay more taxes so they can give it to their grifter friends.

They told us that if we didn't use our entire population as guinea pigs for an untested medical technology, we were personally killing grandma.

These people expect to share in the respect we have for Newton and Einstein, for Watt and Tesla, for Fleming, for Turning and Von Neumann.

But they are not any of these. They are Pravda. They are Squealer. They are Baghdad Bob.

They are not scientists.

They are whores.

No, wait a minute... upon reflection, I wish to apologize to the world's whores for that last sentence. A whore is infinitely better than a fake scientist, because, however degrading her profession, however much it scars her mind and soul, a whore only takes money from those who freely give it, and delivers something they value in return.

I've never had a whore try to poison or rob me.

[Damian Hamill @zonocto]

Route through a proxy so your 30 apps always use the same model name and the proxy uses the real model name. You only have to change the data in 1 place

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Here's exactly what I mean:

On May 15, @xAI Grok will retire grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning and API requests for them will fail

I have 9 days to change the model name in 30+ sites/apps so they keep working

It'd make much more sense to me if they'd just update to the latest model with the same pricing, or let me use a model name like 'latest' that just auto updates

Although actually people's arguments against this make sense regarding pricing:

In this case there is no similar priced "latest" model, pricing goes up from $0.20/input + $0.50/output in Grok 4.1 to $1.25/input + $2.50/output in Grok 4.3

But I'd be fine with that too, I just don't want all my apps/sites to break and keep running forever without me having to change code!

[Damian Hamill @zonocto]

Actually the smart thing to do is run a caching tile server on a VPS. I am not sure exactly how many lines of code it was because I implemented this some time ago but it was something like 20 lines of code in Go.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

✨ I just replaced Mapbox on all my sites with OpenFreeMap by @hyperknot and my map bill is now $0

Mapbox's pricing is getting increasingly extortionary (which is fine, it's capitalism) but at some point you have to think, $857/month for what? A map? Really? A map is that expensive? How can loading a map be that expensive? It's just some PNG tiles you host somewhere? Why?

@OpenFreeMapOrg is 100% free and all you do is point your AI to openfreemap(dot)org and tell it to replace Mapbox with that

5 minutes and you save thousands $$$ per year!

Apparently @Cloudflare sponsors its bandwidth which is very cool and keeps it online!

[Damian Hamill @zonocto]

@paulnnaluo @heynavtoor You can use Resend for outbound SMTP

[Damian Hamill @zonocto]

@Reuters It is just a shame that you and your masters are not in there with them. We are sick to death of your propaganda. It isn't working. We know the truth and EL Salvador is nothing short of a miracle.

[Damian Hamill @zonocto]

@Corey3463788283 @drhossamsamy65 @Robert71906564 When they make the police report on the same day not 40 years later.

[Damian Hamill @zonocto]

@RyanRozbiani She ???

[Damian Hamill @zonocto]

@jordan_ross_8F HERMES

[Damian Hamill @zonocto]

@KyleHessling1 @grok Great, many thanks for that. Actually what I am really interested in is something along the lines of petals. I have a dozen devices (PCs, laptops, ipads, android tablets and phones) none of which is capable of running a 30B model but collectively they might

[Damian Hamill @zonocto]

@koylanai Yes this is right. In our system, extracting invoice data from a large pdf was not accurate. Breaking the PDF into sections and processing each section by distinct workflows gave us 100% accuracy.

[Damian Hamill @zonocto]

@PhantomStays Chase

[Damian Hamill @zonocto]

@sceniuslatam @forrestheath3 @somosinternetco The problem with Colombia is that the young and the poor are enticed to vote for the siren song of socialism, as they did in Venezuela. We all know how that worked out. Colombia is on the same path if they keep voting for the commie/guerilla. Wonderful country though....

[Damian Hamill @zonocto]

@MClaudeHawkes @oaksandlions I grew up in Staithes, a beautiful fishing village north of Whitby. We called the river that flowed through it into the sea 'the beck'

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

🚨‼️ We're in contact with the actor behind the Trivy and LiteLLM hack. They told us they are currently extorting several multi-billion-dollar companies from which they've exfiltrated data.

They've obtained 300 GB of compressed credentials and are working their way through them as we speak.

The LiteLLM compromise alone led to half a million stolen credentials, according to the threat actor.

Their message to the world: "TeamPCP is here to stay. Long live the supply chain."

They've sent us their new logo (see image) and also teamed up with several threat actors, including Xploiters and Vect.

[Damian Hamill @zonocto]

@burakeregar To avoid app store rejections I follow a specific checklist

❎️ PWA
⛔️ App store submissions

[Damian Hamill @zonocto]

We don't hate Google enough. We spends countless hours working on a legitimate start-up and BAAM! Fucking Google add your legitimate website to their unsafe website list for some unfathomable reason and all you can do is ask them to allow you to do business. Utter bastards.

[Damian Hamill @zonocto]

@elonmusk @beffjezos In general people can speak 1 language and have 1 specific skill. Start from that principle and build a universe of experts rather than 1 model that knows everything.

[Damian Hamill @zonocto]

@aakashgupta This has been obvious to me for a long time. I don't need or want a model with 127b weights that can write poetry or recipes or complex math, they are distinct areas of expertise. Humans have siloed knowledge. AI models should reflect that hence the MoE architecture.