Tootfinder

Had a fun time talking about my tiny CM system at @…. Lots of good questions and discussion.
It’s pretty well baked now, as ever more to do but keen to find more users for feedback and discussion.
Check out its revamped website:

Bending Spoons acquires Eventbrite for ~$500M in an all-cash deal, following its $1.38B purchase of Vimeo and a pending acquisition of AOL (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/12/02/bending-spoons-to-acquire-eventbrite-in-500m-all-cash-deal/

Bending Spoons to acquire Eventbrite in $500M all-cash deal
Bending Spoons is acquiring the global event management platform Eventbrite in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $500 million. Eventbrite would become the latest major global brand to join the Bending Spoons portfolio. Last month, the company announced a definitive agreement to acquire AOL, pending customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals. Bending Spoons also recently completed its $1.38 billion acquisition of Vimeo. “For two decades, Eventbrite has stood at the…

I sat for a long while with my complicated feelings about "vibe coding". It is _genuinely_ empowering for many — opening a door to creating with code that otherwise would never exist. Also? It enables a dangerous dependency that could be a path to serfdom for coders. https://www.…

Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

"producing the feeling of knowing without the labor of judgement"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19466
oh what a great line

Epistemological Fault Lines Between Human and Artificial Intelligence
Large language models (LLMs) are widely described as artificial intelligence, yet their epistemic profile diverges sharply from human cognition. Here we show that the apparent alignment between human and machine outputs conceals a deeper structural mismatch in how judgments are produced. Tracing the historical shift from symbolic AI and information filtering systems to large-scale generative transformers, we argue that LLMs are not epistemic agents but stochastic pattern-completion systems, for…

💸 Trillions Spent and Big Software Projects Are Still Failing
#software

Software Failures and IT Management's Repeated Mistakes
Why do software failures persist despite soaring IT budgets? Dive into the complexities that keep success elusive.

I tried vibecoding again. Gave Opus 4.5 what I thought was a fairly hard assignment: generate a TypeScript compiler transform, using ts-patch, to let me mark functions with a magic decorator to make the compiler inline all calls to them.
It one-shot a basic implementation.
Getting to a higher-quality implementation required guidance from me – at times it had bad instincts – but when I gave guidance, it was competent at following it.
Overall, I'm spooked.

What @… said:
Providing employment after deployment = supporting troops
Providing housing = supporting troops
Destigmatizing mental health care = supporting troops
Preventing armed conflict = supporting troops
You know what’s NOT supporting troops? Starting wars as political cover for a failing president. Deploying National Guard just to terrorize people and provoke a backlash. Issuing illegal orders. •That• is not supporting troops.
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/115634994186527377

These were my favorite movies of 2025. Pretty much all horror, sci-fi, comedy. There's still a couple I need to see from this year (Cold Storage!) but these are all my favorites as of now.
#2025Films

Favorite films of 2025
A list of 18 films compiled on Letterboxd, including The Toxic Avenger (2023), Wolf Man (2025), Freaky Tales (2024), The Running Man (2025) and Bugonia (2025).

After a magistrate judge left AG Pam Bondi furious by rejecting a criminal complaint against Lemon on January 18, she tried to get her revenge Friday morning
A few hours later, the DOJ’s case is falling apart as prosecutors in Minnesota and LA refuse to get involved.
https://newre…

Microsoft shares fell ~10% on Thursday following an earnings report that disappointed some investors, the stock's sharpest daily decline since March 2020 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/29/microsoft-market-cap-earnings.html

Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020
As investors sold shares of Microsoft on Thursday, the $3.2 trillion company dragged down the software complex and the S&P 500 index.