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kentbrew

551 karma · joined February 22, 2007

Hacker, writer, dad; eating pixels, crapping fun.
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kentbrew··on Amazon Achieves Enshitification Inception
Came here to say this. Otherwise it's pronounced "en-SHITE-if-fication."
kentbrew··on A practical index for evolving peptide research
Researcher6076 organizes accessible summaries of peer-reviewed and preclinical research across performance, recovery, longevity, and more. Explore topics, sources, and the limits of the current evidence.
kentbrew··on Forth
My dad proudly flew one that said FORTH <3 IF HONK THEN. Yes, people did honk.
kentbrew··on Sets of Overlapping Circles
Lest we forget:

https://mashable.com/archive/new-twitter-bird-batman

kentbrew··on Leaving Mozilla
That would be JR Conlin, national treasure. Worked with him on YDN in 2007 and Netflix in 2009; veterans of the Netflix API team will never forget his hack day entry, which was "Mac and Me" playing on a toaster oven.
kentbrew··on Drone Swarms: Uncomfortably Plausible
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU
kentbrew··on Duso
Most languages prioritize human expressiveness and can be challenging for AI. Duso is intentionally boring and predictable. No clever syntax tricks. No multiple ways to do the same thing. Every pattern is consistent and straightforward so AI can reason about code reliably, write better scripts faster, and use fewer tokens doing it.
kentbrew··on Thagomizer
Last night I heard Morgan Freeman solemnly intone the word "thagomizer" on Episode 2 of Netflix's The Dinoosaurs, and simultaneously felt very old but also very good.
kentbrew··on Let's Burn Some Tokens – AI Chatbot Cost Exploitation as an Attack Vector
If I were an evil person I would be thinking about how to get the Walmart bot to talk to the Amazon bot.
kentbrew··on New Epstein files just dropped; data set 9 has no archive
r/DataHoarder is a national treasure. That's it, that's the tweet.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1qrd9ma/commen...

kentbrew··on New Epstein files just dropped; data set 9 has no archive
Data sets 10 and 11 have zip archives; no archive available for data set 9. And no idea how many pages are actually in here; I'm in the 6000s and climbing with no end in sight.

Some pages, like this one:

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures/data-set-9-f...

... all show the same set of files, starting with EFTA00039025.pdf and ending with EFTA00039881.pdf. This is the same page you get when you ask for page 0.

Not sure how to find the end of this dataset ... setting up the server to supply an infinite number of busted Next links with something important on page 8675309 seems like a fine way to keep things hidden.

kentbrew··on Eat Real Food
Beef <= cows <= corn <= fertilizer <= oil. It always circles back to oil.
kentbrew··on Sauron, home security startup, plucks CEO out of Sonos
Right, right, because Sauron's home had really great security. :/
kentbrew··on 2025 Word of the Year: Slop
I was thinking "upended," but "slop" is also a fine choice.
kentbrew··on Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter
Maybe consider vacuforming?

https://www.instructables.com/Vacuum-Forming-for-Free/

kentbrew··on Why do AI models use so many em-dashes?
Robert A. Heinlein used a lot of em-dashes and much of the Internet was created by Heinlein fanboys?
kentbrew··on Ask HN: Web app freezes, but not when Chrome is recording. How to debug?
How many machines have you tried? This sounds like it might be one of those things that only happens on a dev box.
kentbrew··on Why Self-Host?
Small typo: under Calendar and Contacts, "let's other" looks like it wants to be "let others."
kentbrew··on I accidentally became PureGym’s unofficial Apple Wallet developer
Truth: "PureGym probably has a roadmap, sprint planning, and very good reasons for not implementing Apple Wallet. Maybe it's not a priority. Maybe they have data showing only 0.3% of users would use it. Maybe their KPIs are based on the number of online classes previewed in the app, and forcing users to see them every time the app loads secures someone's annual bonus."
kentbrew··on Show HN: Prime Number Grid Visualizer
columns = 420 has an interesting set of troughs down the sides and middle.
kentbrew··on Snapshots of Kids Bike Jumping in the 1970s
Oof, that one kid way out behind his seat, about to come straight down onto the front wheel? That's me, fall 1974, about to scrape most of my face right off.
kentbrew··on The Rickover Corpus: A digital archive of Admiral Rickover's speeches and memos
This sounds like the title of a Charlie Stross novel.
kentbrew··on There Is a Monster in the Forest
Sorry, this is a duplicate to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43944951 ... please send all good karma that way.
kentbrew··on Plain Vanilla Web
That's a code smell. If you're creating the element you ought to already know about it. If you're not creating the element you should inventory them all at once as the page (or component) loads.
kentbrew··on Trump's Tariffs Wipe Out over $6T on Wall Street in Epic Two-Day Rout
"Mama always said ... stupid is as stupid does"
kentbrew··on Show HN: Cascii – A portable ASCII diagram builder written in vanilla JavaScript
I love this so much. Thanks for using vanilla JS!

Please consider changing the link colors in the scrolling intro to yellow when in dark mode. They were really hard to make out.

kentbrew··on Why are QR Codes with capital letters smaller than QR codes with lower case?
Sorry, meant no disrespect. I am assuming he's a guy; apologies if I'm wrong. :)
kentbrew··on Why are QR Codes with capital letters smaller than QR codes with lower case?
Here's a guy making a QR code by hand on a Go board, just the way the inventors did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5ebcowAJD8
kentbrew··on Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji
That's neat! Now I'm wondering if this could be used to smuggle Signal links through Xitter....
kentbrew··on 3D-printed neighborhood nears completion in Texas
Getting a strong cybertruck vibe from this neighborhood.
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