danfunk

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What we do to the web, we do to ourselves(spiffworks.substack.com)
1 points by danfunk 2d ago|1 comments
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Go Slow to Go Fast(spiffworks.substack.com)
1 points by danfunk 7d ago|1 comments
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by danfunk 7d ago
Why "Move Fast, Break Things" is a lousy motto. Slowly make haste, and without losing courage; Twenty times redo your work; Polish and re-polish endlessly, And sometimes add, but often take away
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Make Haste Slowly(spiffworks.substack.com)
2 points by danfunk 9d ago|1 comments
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by danfunk 9d ago
AI is having a profound impact on my creative process, as an artist, as an engineer, and as a business owner. Generative AI can remove some of the pain from making new things. What is the price we pay for it's help? Does it really m
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Bot Vs Bot (Philip K. Dicks Defenders and the search for work)(spiffworks.substack.com)
7 points by danfunk 17d ago|1 comments
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by danfunk 17d ago
What a Philip K Dick short story teaches us about a modern day job search.
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The Primitive Puppet Show: Makers and Doers(spiffworks.substack.com)
1 points by danfunk 24d ago|1 comments
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by danfunk 24d ago
The Maker movement offers some lessons on how to put AI agents to use in a more useful, less offensive way.
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by danfunk 29d ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." Upton Sinclair
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by danfunk 1mo ago
That is a travesty. I can't help but hope we can find ways to protect projects like this in a way that doesn't require government or corporate regulation. Others have mentioned a Web of Trust / Social Credit - if we could wi
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by danfunk 1mo ago
The current hiring process is a good example of the AI Arms Race that Cory Doctorow was writing about recently. https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/10/deep-state-wopr/#abelard-... - It's also a good
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The Primitive Puppet Show(spiffworks.substack.com)
5 points by danfunk 1mo ago|7 comments
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by danfunk 1mo ago
Can we use LLMs to improve human to human communication rather than thwart it?
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by danfunk 2mo ago
AI use in the creation of this article is inconsequential. There is obvious joy and high fidelity information here. Perhaps some vibe coding made the animations easier to develop, and made it possible to produce this in reasonable time. W
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by danfunk 2mo ago
Perfect kind of intuitive. It was a joy to figure it out, and just "learn by doing".
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The Relevance of BPMN in the Age of AI(medium.com)
3 points by danfunk 4mo ago|1 comments
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by danfunk 4mo ago
Focused generally on communication, with BPMN being one tool among many. No one here gives a 1/2 damn about BPMN, but I think you will find the article worthy of the 5 minutes.
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by danfunk 5mo ago
I love the story of Clever Hans, which says so much about humans and so little about horses - I get the point that it makes these experiments very difficult.
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by danfunk 5mo ago
my dad passed away within a year of retirement. I remember there being studies at the time saying this was common, but the research doesn't seem to hold this up as much any more. But I agree that "purpose" is critical to lif
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by danfunk 5mo ago
Reminds me of the quote from A Princess Bride - Life is pain. Anyone who says different is selling something.
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by danfunk 5mo ago
Accountability is especially beautiful when self directed. It isn't us holding the cat accountable for the vase. That is pointless. The cat holding itself responsible, that is what makes our relationship with them possible.
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by danfunk 5mo ago
I work for a small start up. We often work with corporations. It does, from a distance, seem like giving a shit separates the two. I feel that. But you look inside big companies, and lots of folks inside care a great deal. I've als
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Job Is to Give a Shit
14 points by danfunk 5mo ago|11 comments
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by danfunk 6mo ago
I love "small internet theory." Beautiful view of the future.
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by danfunk 6mo ago
You may have said it better than I, in shorter words. An LLM in the hands of someone with expertise is life changing, and in the hands of someone without it - it's a bit dangerous, but also wonderfully empowering, even if they can&#x2
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AI is to software as power tools are to woodworking
6 points by danfunk 6mo ago|10 comments
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by danfunk 7mo ago
Spent a delightful weekend in Quebec last month. Beautiful city, great culture, friendly people, best damn duck I have ever eaten in the a resteraunt they must having teleported from southern France
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by danfunk 8mo ago
Great tool for a Makerspace - really appreciate the ability to use the same tool for laser cutting, 3d printing, and CNC. These are big jumps for people typically - having a familiar tool would help people transition from one area to anoth
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by danfunk 8mo ago
What brings me back to hacker news are these posts that ask questions yanked unexpectedly directly from my own soul, in words more articulate than I could manage. And then somehow manages to answer those questions. Thank you.

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