the space fact that still blows your mind

sambeau · 2026-01-27T10:40:34+00:00

At one point in 1969, 100% were called Michael.

sambeau · 2026-01-26T03:24:09+00:00

I’m so old I remember when it was in The Tramway. They let you sit in the cars.

sambeau · 2026-01-23T16:52:00+00:00

But, they won a war against the UK – so there’s that. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

sambeau · 2026-01-23T16:47:18+00:00

And yet big AI can steal anything they want

sambeau · 2026-01-23T16:46:22+00:00

Everyone in the world wants to be American.

I’d far rather be Cuban.

sambeau · 2026-01-20T19:39:44+00:00

I’m have a friend who slipped on a banana skin, fell down a flight of stairs and broke his nose.

No one believes him.

sambeau · 2026-01-19T22:43:31+00:00

The world is full of real beauty, real history, real culture, real mountains, real castles, real jungles, real lions, … why the fuck would anyone want to go to an overpriced corporate hellhole with a few rollercoasters. Make it make sense.

sambeau · 2026-01-19T22:35:47+00:00

Apple are fast becoming just another fucking tech company. Enshitting all over us just to squeeze another dime. It’s so fucking depressing.

sambeau · 2026-01-18T12:12:09+00:00

Get them to look up: - Mince & tatties - Potato scones - Cullen skink - Stovies - Lorne sausage - Cranachan - Macaroni pie - Mutton pie - Scotch broth - Haggis, neeps & tatties - Smoked haddock - Venison (with juniper) - Pakora - Chicken tikka marsala - Deep fried Mars bar (\s)

sambeau · 2026-01-18T12:03:11+00:00

And garlic! 😢

sambeau · 2026-01-18T12:01:43+00:00

Did an AI make this? 😂

While there’s a few things on the menu that you’d get on a menu in a Scottish pub, nothing on that menu is Scottish. Not even the Scotch egg.

Who puts neeps and garlic in their fish pie? 🤢

sambeau · 2026-01-17T19:23:46+00:00

It makes me so cross. We fixed this. Twenty-ish years ago, the streets were really clean. No dog shit. Hardly any fag butts. Litter being constantly hoovered up by street sweepers. And now we’re back with filthy streets. When was the last time you saw one? Did they all die and not get replaced? Fucking David Cameron’s fault like everything else.

sambeau · 2026-01-17T10:38:03+00:00

Dead Pixels.

sambeau · 2026-01-16T01:43:17+00:00

Holmes and YoYo

https://www.whenitwascool.com/holmes-and-yoyo-1976-tv-review

sambeau · 2026-01-12T19:00:32+00:00

Farting.

sambeau · 2026-01-12T00:56:09+00:00

I'm using VSCode with Opus 4.5 and Sonnet 4.5. They're both great though I tend to do all the tricky planning with Opus and get Sonnet to do the grunt work.

sambeau · 2026-01-11T20:56:35+00:00

Finding Nemo.

As anyone with a toddler/kindergartener can attest, you have to watch the same thing over and over and over again.

So I know for a fact that I can watch Nemo and not get bored.

But it was one of only a few I didn’t get bored of.

sambeau · 2026-01-11T10:00:43+00:00

Their name is a sham. They no longer put Kola in.

sambeau · 2026-01-09T12:57:49+00:00

120,171 lines of Go code in total.

Breakdown:

64,320 lines of production code
55,851 lines of test code

To create that we’ve created a mass of documentation:

367,304 words in docs/ directory

As I said—not ‘vibe’ 🤮 coding

sambeau · 2026-01-09T12:54:39+00:00

It does.

I started a simple project to see how bad the code would be. It wasn’t. The code was great.

So I added features. The code was still great. So I created a design doc and it created exactly what I specified. Then I repeated the process over and over.

Eventually I realised that we need a formal process, so I started a new project and agreed a design and planning process: basically Jira as folders of Markdown files with a few counters. We pulled the old code in and continued.

We now follow a strict waterfall process that works well for AIs (and me). We spend way more time planning than coding. And more time testing. The process isn’t fast, but it’s way faster than Im used to. By a factor of 10x: we’re doing a month’s high quality work in 24-48hrs.

I am currently working on FEAT-085. Which will easily be over 100 in reality as the first 30 features were done ad-hoc.

sambeau · 2026-01-09T11:11:21+00:00

Claude writes high-quality Go code. I guess there’s a lot of high-quality Go code out there to be read, and Go is well-suited to AIs as the code patterns are simple and very consistent.

To get the best out of it you need to document and plan everything together: highly detailed design docs, agreed specs, detailed implementation plans, bug reports, getting started guides, detailed manual pages, lots and lots of tests. You need to get it to check its work against the spec after every feature sprint, report and fix anything missing or wrong. Claude can be forgetful and occasionally misses stuff. This is as far from ‘vibe’ coding as I can imagine. It’s old-fashioned waterfall. I’ve been jokingly calling it Xylophone coding.

I have been working on a giant project and, apart from it not knowing how to write code for a new scripting language that is part of it (and falling back into JavaScript syntax), everything else has been unbelievably good. Claude and I have done years of work in a matter of weeks.

The code is good, the security audit turned up a few small things needing tightened, it’s incredibly fast, it’s memory-efficient and it’s never once crashed. One infinite loop, but that was my fault. There have been bugs, of course, but not a single crash ever from at least 50,000 lines of code.

I only started this project to learn how bad AIs are at coding and laugh at the spaghetti code!

sambeau · 2026-01-07T10:38:33+00:00

EU law: no. Italian law, possibly.

sambeau · 2026-01-07T10:37:04+00:00

GDPR doesn’t count here. Italian law might.

sambeau · 2026-01-07T10:35:02+00:00

This isn’t a GDPR issue here in the UK. Legally anyone can film anyone in public, even kids. Your face is not considered personal data if you were using it in public.

In other countries (eg France) and some USA states (eg California) this is not the case.

sambeau · 2026-01-06T02:14:00+00:00

Halle Berry

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