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  I realized that, even though I don't use LLMs for work, the fact that they exist was making me feel inadequate whenever I felt I wasn't operating at LLM-like speeds. And because I'm generally not, this was making me miserable. So I'm telling myself, and whoever else needs to hear it, to stop comparing yourself to the slop machines. Thinking calmly and thoroughly is worth something, even in an age where society at large seems to believe they can replace it with pushing a button.

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  Wordgard 0.2 is out, with more robust collaborative editing and a collab example on the website. I tell you all about it in a blog post: https://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/collaborative-editing-wordgard.html Editing nerds, help me find holes in my algorithm (or provide other feedback). I'm also at Local-First conf this weekend, and would love to talk about this stuff.

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  I just published a first version of my new editor project: Wordgard! https://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/wordgard-0.1.html

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  Mind boggles at the levels of enterprise nonsense that cause a company to send an email stating they are transferring a payment, and then take another 10 days to actually transfer the payment. Was some intermediary holding onto the money? The company themself? Or do US banks use horse-drawn coaches for transfers?

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  All things considered, I'm just glad I'm not working on the C++ standard. Seriously, imagine that.I'd never sleep again.

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  The idea that ownership provides moral permission to do whatever you want with the owned thing, along with the idea that almost everything can be owned, lies at the heart of our political system. While this works pretty well for a pair of pants or maybe even a house, when people or companies are able to to own large amounts of land, other people's homes, infrastructure, and influence, i.e. the things that make up a society, ownership becomes a form of irresponsibly unchecked power.

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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/116458928616811670 Sorry to gloat but I'm feeling better every day about migrating off GitHub.

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  I guess what bothers me most about 2026-era macro economics is how shameless it all is. The wealthy are siphoning the world's entire economic surplus into a harebrained attempt to replace workers with data centers, and they've captured society so thoroughly that we're just letting them. If they succeed, what do you think the world will look like? If they don't, you can bet the consequences will not be carried by these clowns themselves.

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  One thing I've learned in 25 years of software maintenance is that every time you commit crap that appears to work without being sure why it works, that's going to come back to waste a lot of your time later.

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  RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116324676116121930 This thread is pretty amusing

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  ProseMirror's code no longer lives on GitHub. Next up (soon): CodeMirror. https://code.haverbeke.berlin/prosemirror/

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  At this point when someone links their X or Substack account what I'm reading is "I am politically apathetic, if not worse".

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  At least for me, displaying comments on patches in GitHub has been broken for weeks (and I tried several browsers, clearing cookies, etc). I know software is hard... but not *that* hard. This looks like there's just no one around anymore who gives a damn.

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  Skated Wannsee to Grunewald Kuhhorn to Pfaueninsel this morning. Ice thick and mostly smooth, though there are occasional messy cracks and refrozen broken ice. Unfortunately the Havel further north is still ice free. Wonderful tour regardless. Saw a brave fox cross the river.

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  "Digital sovereignty," if taken to mean we should switch from unaccountable American companies to unaccountable European companies, is largely missing the point of the problem. In a globalized economy the two are going to be functionally indistinguishable. What we need is non-profit digital infrastructure that's not beholden to the perversions of financialization.

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  'Morged' as a verb meaning something like 'provenance-washed via AI, turned into nonsense in the process' could be a useful piece of terminology in the coming years. I propose we adopt it. https://nvie.com/posts/15-years-later/

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  So, Anthropic, you're saying someone just went and accessed your publicly available interface to train their language model? How outrageous! We need a new scary term—"distillation attack"—for this, because it's clearly something totally different from what you and your peers have been doing to, well, everything you could get your hands on. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/23/us-ai-anthropic-china

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  The thing with bubbles is that people have gotten impressively good at keeping them going. Even if built on pure nonsense, when there's a capital surplus a bubble that provides avenues for profitable speculation (and/or grifting) can just keep on running on the power of that alone. (Bitcoin still exists, for Christ's sake.)

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  Codeberg is under a heavy, long-running DDoS attack. The Forgejo docs warn that if you allow open sign-ups, you will be inundated in spam. The modern internet is a shark pool, and unfortunately part of self-hosting is learning to wrestle sharks.

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  Calling code generated with a large language model 'clean room' is just silly. These are trained on everything, including the code you're claiming isn't in the room.

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  I'll be attending @bobkonf Berlin tomorrow. If you're also going to be there and want to chat, let me know!