Open-source communities grew from the outside in for decades. Due to friction. People with questions appeared on forums, IRC or in an issue tracker. And gradually moved to more inner circles of the community.
The advent of LLM’s changed this, and Mara Averick eloquently describes how AI is absorbing the visible friction that open-source communities have always relied on to see - and welcome - newcomers:
The playbook for building and sustaining open-source communities—accumulated over decades by a lot of people who took the question seriously—assumed newcomers would keep becoming visible on their own.
Q: “Wat ik nu wel kan waarderen?”
A: Nieuwsgierige theezakjes.
Soms moet je gewoon even naar de kapper.
This will happen:
Five thousand years in the future, anthropologists studying our electronic debris will conclude that our civilization believed the definition of a human was “a creature that can properly identify crosswalks.”
Acquiring one grape costs Alex $2 billion. Alex offers to sell Mike one grape a month for the next 12 months for $1 billion per grape. Alex asks for the full $12 billion up front and provides Mike with one grape for the first month. Alex makes a $10 billion profit this month; his ARR is $120 billion, and his profits are trending up at an infinite rate. The Wall Street Journal’s business editor moves into Alex’s house, having accepted a part-time position as Alex’s human footstool. He never asks to see the books.
Very enlightening.
Yesterday I brought my camera to a local cycling race, experimenting with how to visualize it. I posted a selection on Glass. These are 2 of my favourites:
Omdat Felienne Hermans een social-vrije mei-maand heeft plug ik haar nieuwsbrief van deze week maar even: www.felienne.nl/2026-21/
An iOS app just asked me to share my age range. First example of the Declared Age Range API I encountered in the wild. From a ‘software brain’ perspective, it makes sense to handle this on the (mobile) OS level. But I still like the Yivi approach better (personal control, digital autonomy).
Ran my first official 21K today! 💪
Pfff, weer een klant waar ik niet meer kan inloggen in Microsoft365 omdat ineens Microsoft Authenticator vereist wordt. En ik een eigen TOTP-app gebruik. En de ICT-leverancier beweert dat het moet van Microsoft, zonder dit te kunnen onderbouwen waarom het veiliger zou zijn. Zucht…
Van het weekend zag ik bij iemand een Don’t Panic wallpaper op z’n telefoon. Beetje nerd cred natuurlijk, maar ook wel fijn om te zien voordat je je telefoon pakt om weer te gaan doomscrollen. Dus mijn telefoon is nu ook geruststellend. :)
Werk-update: Na bijna 12 maanden werk hebben we vandaag een nieuw platform voor de 67.000 mensen in Nederland met een parkinsonisme, hun naasten, en betrokken zorgverleners gelanceerd. Met betrouwbare informatie, ondersteuning en plek voor het uitwisselen van ervaringen: www.parkinson.nl
Na jarenlang een simpele pagina te hebben gebruikt als ZZP-uithangbord, heb ik daar toch maar eens aandacht aan besteed.
Nog steeds een onepager, nu met projectinformatie, betere typografie en witruimte, subtiele animatie. Op een nieuwe, logischer URL: www.roelgroeneveld.nl
Niemanlab over hoe de NY TImes generatieve AI inzet voor data-analyse en onderzoeksjournalistiek:
Built in-house and known internally as the “Manosphere Report,” the tool uses large language models (LLMs) to transcribe and summarize new episodes of dozens of podcasts.
When one of the shows publishes a new episode, the tool automatically downloads it, transcribes it, and summarizes the transcript. Every 24 hours the tool collates those summaries and generates a meta-summary with shared talking points and other notable daily trends.
I’ve watched all three of my children learn what a cat is, and in each case the number of pictures of a cat they needed to see was not “all of them.” It was like, two or three? Half a dozen, tops. I helped them learn to speak and read fluently, and the number of Reddit posts required was not “every Reddit post.” I don’t need to know what mechanism underlies human intelligence to rule out the possibility that it’s the same as what a large language model does.
Wat een indrukwekkende film is Mr. Nobody Against Putin (Letterboxd). 🍿
Het verhaal draait om Pavel Talankin, leraar en videograaf op een middelbare school diep in Rusland. Daar brengt hij stiekem in beeld hoe, na de start van de oorlog in Oekraïne, het schoolleven stapsgewijs verandert in een propagandamachine.
Finished reading: Blood Over Bright Haven by M. L. Wang
In our local bookstore, some books are wrapped in personal recommendations of the book sellers. This was one of those, and it did not disappoint.
A strong female protagonist breaks through the glass ceiling and reaches the highest levels of the mage elite. In a society where women are not supposed to excel, she has to keep proving herself even after becoming a high mage.
