Bluesky

Matt Kane

have you tried sleeping?

June 20, 2026 at 9:50 PM UTC
Matt Kane

#susanalbumparty

June 20, 2026 at 8:43 PM UTC
Matt Kane

Mine obeys the instruction to use British English but not the one to avoid those phrases, so says "belt and braces"

June 19, 2026 at 7:55 AM UTC
Matt Kane

I'd be unconscious by lunchtime

June 19, 2026 at 7:53 AM UTC
Matt Kane

It didn't. Firefox's translation uses a local LLM. Not quite as good as Google, but much better for privacy. There was no built-in translation before that. You needed extensions that called an external service. LLMs are by far the best tech for translation. That's what they were invented for.

June 19, 2026 at 7:52 AM UTC
Matt Kane

Never been happier to lose a bet

June 19, 2026 at 2:44 AM UTC
Matt Kane

I missed the most important, perennial one on Bluesky: - I don't understand the concept of "jokes"

June 18, 2026 at 11:51 AM UTC
Matt Kane

Taxonomy of angry replies to this: - I don't understand the joke and am very angry about this - my father is dead - my father is bad - you didn't mention single dads on mothers day - you ban too much/not enough - edit button

June 18, 2026 at 11:35 AM UTC
Matt Kane

The odds on Reform UK winning the Makerfield by-election seem absurdly generous right now. A tenner would win you £90 on Betfair, which would be enough to drink yourself into oblivion if the worst should happen.

Labour
-£10.00

1.02
£115

1.1
£132

1.12
£2542

1.13
£218

1.14
£556

1.15
£1418

Reform
£111.00

9.6
£34

10
£171

10.5
£4

11
£9

11.5
£109

14
£47

Restore Britain
-£10.00

46
£204

48
£152

50
£208

55
£52

60
£10

65
£30

Green
-£10.00

420
£1

430
£2

1000
£269




Conservative
-£10.00

220
£1

300
£10

1000
£429




Liberal Democrats
June 18, 2026 at 9:09 AM UTC
Matt Kane

Replies to that account are such a rich seam of blocks

June 17, 2026 at 8:16 PM UTC
Matt Kane

Hey, look, a silly post from the @bsky.app account that absolutely nobody could get super irrationally angry about! right?

June 17, 2026 at 8:11 PM UTC
Matt Kane

It's a joke Steve

June 17, 2026 at 8:07 PM UTC
Matt Kane

Borderline personality disorder, or antisocial personality disorder

June 17, 2026 at 5:30 PM UTC
Matt Kane

There's no way to login to the Bluesky app without username/password, even if the PDS uses passkeys. However you *can* authenticate third party OAuth services with just a passkey if the PDS allows it.

June 17, 2026 at 4:20 PM UTC
Matt Kane

We can but hope then

June 17, 2026 at 10:25 AM UTC
Matt Kane

It does if most of your valuation is based on AI but you don't actually really do much actual AI except a vibe coding thing everyone's forgotten about and two good npm packages

June 16, 2026 at 10:26 PM UTC
Matt Kane

Feel like pure shit just want here back
June 16, 2026 at 10:21 PM UTC
Matt Kane

But you know better than anyone that that telemetry is absolute gold! And they're also getting the ability to push their discovery skill to everybody. Controlling the default way to install skills – and for most people to not even realise they're controlling it – is amazing.

June 16, 2026 at 10:11 PM UTC
Matt Kane

Amazing work by Vercel there. They get to advertise their own "skill discovery" skill to everyone, and they get all the lovely analytics on skill usage. All for maybe $10k?

June 16, 2026 at 9:49 PM UTC
Matt Kane

This is the downsides to lexicons. It does make defining data types feel very high stakes

June 16, 2026 at 9:38 PM UTC
Matt Kane

The greatest luxury that I get from my having a good salary is not knowing my bank balance to the penny every day.

June 16, 2026 at 9:09 PM UTC
Matt Kane

There has been a lot of research into how once somebody has tied their identity to a belief that strongly, evidence to the contrary only makes them double down. As it gets harder to rationally support more of these beliefs I fear we'll see them go further off the deep end into conspiracy

June 16, 2026 at 9:00 PM UTC
Matt Kane

Oh there are plenty of people, deep in the Zitron replies, who insist the open source model hosts are somehow in on it and also selling at a loss for...unclear reasons. To be clear I have no inside information on Cloudflare's costs for serving these, but we're not a charity.

June 16, 2026 at 8:18 PM UTC
Matt Kane

A had to stifle my laughter, having six(!) people turn up from the parish and county councils bearing clipboards and hi-vis to complain about a fence, clearly raring for an argument, and seeing them visibly deflate when I was super friendly and helpful and immediately agreed to their requests.

June 16, 2026 at 9:44 AM UTC
Matt Kane

That's my point though: one wins on some axes, another wins on others

June 15, 2026 at 8:14 PM UTC
Matt Kane

I'm not sure module-replacements should be including packages like this where there are multiple trade-offs and not one that is strictly better

June 15, 2026 at 8:00 PM UTC
Matt Kane

Disco record sales have gone exponential
June 15, 2026 at 12:54 PM UTC
Matt Kane

This isn't about banks, this is about Facebook AI slop aimed at boomers that happened to use a post about banks as the example image.

June 15, 2026 at 12:52 PM UTC
Matt Kane

Nobody is saying they only discovered it today. Most started using it 10-15 years ago – so 5-10 years after it was released. That's late adopter for tech by any standard.

June 15, 2026 at 12:50 PM UTC
Matt Kane

They didn't stop serving Australia, which is a much smaller market

June 15, 2026 at 8:26 AM UTC
Matt Kane

They'll be the ones enforcing it

June 15, 2026 at 8:03 AM UTC
Matt Kane

Somebody recently wrote a blog about exactly this and I can't for the life of me remember who. The tl;dr was let people choose. Don't use the bsky graph in your app, but do use it when on-boarding to suggest people to follow. This lets people maintain separate graphs for different things. I agree.

June 14, 2026 at 5:13 PM UTC
Matt Kane

Yeah, so do I most of the time

June 14, 2026 at 1:41 PM UTC
Matt Kane

Amazing quote in the FT from a Makerfield voter. Supports the far right, but *still* wants Burnham to win. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

“I’m going to vote Restore because I want their voice to be heard, but I want Andy Burnham to win,” he said. “I don’t want Labour to win, I want Andy Burnham to win, because I think he’ll get PM and I do think he’ll make a change, and then in two years’ time we can have a general election.”
June 14, 2026 at 11:04 AM UTC
Matt Kane

If you think a little about it you'll realise it doesn't make sense, and maybe instead of being a funny paradox it's just factually incorrect. Europeans wanted spices because they used lots of spices, and still do. And the countries that had the empires are the ones that use the most spices.

June 13, 2026 at 10:10 PM UTC
Matt Kane

I can't speak for other companies, but at Cloudflare we already had no hard limits on our use of any models for security research. I would imagine others are similar. I spent thousands on hardening EmDash before launch.

June 13, 2026 at 10:08 AM UTC
Matt Kane

They've probably been inside Glasswing for months

June 13, 2026 at 9:07 AM UTC
Matt Kane

Neil Houlsby and Amanda Askell simultaneously turn their keys and the lift begins to slowly descend towards the vault, deep below Anthropic Zurich.

June 13, 2026 at 8:55 AM UTC
Matt Kane

I feel like a medieval peasant

June 13, 2026 at 8:13 AM UTC
Matt Kane

Using export controls rather than just banning it does seem uncharacteristically smart. I'd imagine they have a lot more leeway there.

June 13, 2026 at 7:36 AM UTC
Matt Kane

The media really seems to be missing the significance of the Fable ban. The FT is the only major news outlet that I've looked at this morning that gives it any kind of prominence.

June 13, 2026 at 7:32 AM UTC
Matt Kane

I dunno. This is a really, really bad decision, but I do know that large parts of the industry have spent the last couple of months working non-stop to fix a deluge of Mythos vulns at a scale far beyond earlier models.

June 13, 2026 at 6:59 AM UTC
Matt Kane

Install what? A camera? A messaging app?

June 8, 2026 at 11:15 PM UTC
Matt Kane

Which is more intrusive to kids though: on-device scanning, or parents going through their camera roll and WhatsApp messages? I'm not saying this is good policy, but "control their child's devices" has to be balanced against a child's own privacy.

June 8, 2026 at 11:06 PM UTC
Matt Kane

Oh no!

June 7, 2026 at 5:17 PM UTC
Matt Kane

All that post does is very laboriously show that the subscriptions are a lot cheaper than paying API prices. It says nothing about what the cost of tokens is to the providers.

June 7, 2026 at 5:00 PM UTC
Matt Kane

crates.io/crates/rolld...

June 5, 2026 at 11:31 AM UTC
Matt Kane

Rich Harris very much hasn't though

June 5, 2026 at 8:29 AM UTC
Matt Kane

We can argue about whether these or the Chinese models are frontier, but it's irrelevant because the question isn't "what counts as a frontier model", it's "which labs was OP referring to"

June 4, 2026 at 4:47 PM UTC
Matt Kane

You can argue about the definition, but I would imagine that @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social was referring to the three labs that are producing frontier models: OpenAI, Anthropic and Google

June 4, 2026 at 3:59 PM UTC
Matt Kane

None of those are frontier AI labs

June 4, 2026 at 3:40 PM UTC
Matt Kane

Google is the only one that's publicly traded (for now)

June 4, 2026 at 3:28 PM UTC
Matt Kane

Astro is the official sponsor of Club Deportivo de Astronautas

June 4, 2026 at 3:24 PM UTC
Matt Kane

Welcome!

June 4, 2026 at 2:28 PM UTC
Matt Kane

Yeah, I didn't know it was coming, but I predicted it.

June 4, 2026 at 2:13 PM UTC
Matt Kane

Hey! Welcome!

June 4, 2026 at 1:29 PM UTC
Matt Kane

In fact I believe I did actually lean over to @pi0.io, who was sitting next to me, and say that

June 4, 2026 at 1:28 PM UTC
Matt Kane

I thought Evan was going to do a "and we're joining Cloudflare" thing at the end of his Vue Amsterdam keynote announcing that (I knew nothing before today)

June 4, 2026 at 1:20 PM UTC
Matt Kane

YESSSSS!!!!!!

VoidZero is joining Cloudflare

blog.cloudflare.com

VoidZero is joining Cloudflare

VoidZero, the team behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+, is joining Cloudflare. Vite stays open source, vendor-agnostic, and built for everyone.

June 4, 2026 at 1:09 PM UTC
Matt Kane

OK, that's good to hear!

June 3, 2026 at 4:16 PM UTC
Matt Kane

Wait, what the fuck? Yes, it's *that* Steve Hilton. For Americans: this is like if you suddenly heard that David Axelrod had gone full Marxist and was favourite to become Mayor of London.

June 3, 2026 at 4:11 PM UTC
Matt Kane

So many things that while technically associated with Britain, is actually mostly popular with Americans. It's the Angus Steakhouse of punctuation.

June 3, 2026 at 5:57 AM UTC
Matt Kane

The WSM comma is followed by featureless filler, seemingly without end, then disappointment when you finally get to it

June 3, 2026 at 5:52 AM UTC
Matt Kane

Your sitting here asking questions of Sturgeon while JonBenet Ramsey's murder remains unsolved

June 2, 2026 at 6:28 PM UTC
Matt Kane

It's all happening on X, the everything app

The Primeagean is hosting 🚨 PEWDIEPIE - I disagree with DHH - Is AI Profitable
June 2, 2026 at 4:30 PM UTC
Matt Kane

Most businesses are paying per token already.

June 2, 2026 at 1:01 PM UTC
Matt Kane

It was beautiful. Shame the movie didn't live up to it!

June 2, 2026 at 12:13 PM UTC
Matt Kane

One of the very first things I did with my iMac after I'd bought it was to download the Phantom Menace trailer from there. It took all night! I then invited friends over to watch it!

June 2, 2026 at 10:04 AM UTC
Matt Kane

This is how I learn that Polish has the best word imaginable for "blocked"

June 2, 2026 at 7:56 AM UTC
Matt Kane

I think the idea is that you then hold onto it for two weeks, then offload to the index funds that are forced to buy at any price

June 2, 2026 at 7:49 AM UTC
Matt Kane

Not just that, but for the first 5 years or so of Chrome it directly used WebCore (with V8 replacing JavaScriptCore). It wasn't til Chrome 28 that they forked it to create Blink.

June 2, 2026 at 6:48 AM UTC
Matt Kane

My kids ensure that despite being old and grey of beard, I am fully briefed on all the latest trends and slang

June 2, 2026 at 6:35 AM UTC
Matt Kane

The creators of Severance have said in the past that it was inspired by the Backrooms

June 2, 2026 at 6:33 AM UTC
Matt Kane

A low budget indie horror, too! It's like Blair Witch Project all over again.

June 2, 2026 at 6:29 AM UTC
Matt Kane

Yeah, I was fully briefed on the lore years ago by my 14 year old horror fan daughter. She often points out spaces that look like backrooms

June 2, 2026 at 6:27 AM UTC
Matt Kane

And, mostly importantly, is apparently really good! It's a 15 certificate in the UK, which prompted my 12 year old to desperately try various makeup and clothing combinations in an attempt to pass as 15, and when we told her that she'd failed, to beg us to get her a fake ID

June 2, 2026 at 6:21 AM UTC
Matt Kane

Age assurance is implemented by the PDS, so if you self host you decide what the response is

June 1, 2026 at 11:03 PM UTC
Matt Kane

Whoa, great idea. Never considered that

June 1, 2026 at 12:17 PM UTC
Matt Kane

Whatever you think of LLMs, I'd hope most people would agree that's a shitty way to behave towards any OSS maintainer, but particularly one who has been maintaining this for *30 years*

June 1, 2026 at 12:06 PM UTC
Matt Kane

Nanosaur for me, which came with it

June 1, 2026 at 11:29 AM UTC
Matt Kane

But where would you put your coffee?

June 1, 2026 at 11:28 AM UTC
Matt Kane

peak

Bondi Blue iMac G3
June 1, 2026 at 11:16 AM UTC
Matt Kane

Actual lol

June 1, 2026 at 10:31 AM UTC
Matt Kane

👋

June 1, 2026 at 10:31 AM UTC
Matt Kane

Good example of the bad news getting a lot more reach than the climbdown!

June 1, 2026 at 7:49 AM UTC
Matt Kane

Looks like they backtracked github.com/resources/in...

github.com

Pricing changes for GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions pricing update: Discover lower runner rates (up to 39% off) following a major re-architecture for faster, more reliable CI/CD.

June 1, 2026 at 7:46 AM UTC
Matt Kane

Don't they still charge you for self-hosted minutes? Istr them introducing something like that

June 1, 2026 at 7:43 AM UTC
Matt Kane

And you can't use passkeys in the app, even if your PDS supports them.

June 1, 2026 at 7:29 AM UTC
Matt Kane

People do use it as it's the default. However there are a lot of problems with it, particularly for new accounts. It gets a lot of US politics, whether or not the user is interested in that, and it tends to over-represent a few large accounts.

June 1, 2026 at 7:26 AM UTC
Matt Kane

It would be super interesting to A/B test offering a small percentage of users "For You" (or a version with cold start handling based on followed accounts) at account creation time and then comparing the retention.

June 1, 2026 at 6:52 AM UTC
Matt Kane

And the colour pink is named after the flower

June 1, 2026 at 4:57 AM UTC
Matt Kane

It looks like that's fixed it for me!

May 31, 2026 at 10:37 PM UTC
Matt Kane

It looks like my PDS is throwing when looking up your DID, because foryou.club/.well-known/... returns duplicate content-type headers. The fetch collapses them to "application/json, application/json", which atcute doesn't recognise as valid for a DID document.

May 31, 2026 at 6:37 PM UTC
Matt Kane

Rewind works, but when I last checked it was still all old stuff and the For You feed still had loads of old stuff

May 31, 2026 at 5:23 PM UTC
Matt Kane

I changed mine to send the feed DID and it still doesn't seem to have helped

May 31, 2026 at 5:19 PM UTC
Matt Kane

Wordle 1,807 3/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

May 31, 2026 at 1:19 PM UTC
Matt Kane

It's up to the PDS to verify age. Just saying.

github.com

May 31, 2026 at 10:18 AM UTC
Matt Kane

bsky.app/profile/bluw...

May 31, 2026 at 9:24 AM UTC
Matt Kane

I jumped through all kinds of hoops too get release-please working with pre-jsr Deno for Unpic. Got there in the end, but it wasn't fun.

May 31, 2026 at 9:22 AM UTC
Matt Kane

Won't stop Mac OS opening .ts files in QuickTime Player until the end of time

May 31, 2026 at 9:09 AM UTC