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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 3w ago

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@danluu@mastodon.social I built a couple of things with Gastown to try it out but stopped using it when it was spending too much time doing self maintenance. Steve built a far too complicated framework and much of the functionality has migrated into Claude etc. so it isn’t needed. I think Claude-flow (now ruflow) has managed to grow by adopting and adapting to the gaps in the underlying platforms better.

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

10yr old visitor got to choose which flag to fly today and decided that they wanted the Pirate flag rather than the Stars and Stripes flag…

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

#photography #FlowersOfMastodon Kangaroo Paw flowering today in #Monterey county.

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@Strandjunker@mstdn.social Other politicians are being paid to not make things happen by big donors. Eventually they may get to Mamdani, but for now he seems to be relatively unencumbered.

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@kimlockhartga@beige.party We had fun… 14month old huge puppy

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@mfowler@toot.thoughtworks.com @bboeckel@toot.thoughtworks.com Cool. My 64GB M5Pro arrives today, and I will start experimenting along these lines using https://github.com/adrianco/Retort to compare local models with the frontier models.

GitHub

GitHub - adrianco/retort: Platform Evolution Engine. Distill the best from the combinatorial mess.

Platform Evolution Engine. Distill the best from the combinatorial mess. - adrianco/retort

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

There are lots of new #Music videos of #AngineDePoitrine as their tour works its way around the world. This one of Utzp from May 10th in Leeds is fun to watch, and it’s cool to see the guitarist working the loop pedals with his feet. https://youtu.be/O9sgm2eNcIg

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net I bought a new LG OLED TV recently. Set it up via WiFi for long enough to get a firmware update then did a full reset and left it in dumb monitor mode, my AppleTV box connects to it via a Marantz cinema amp and it all seems to be working fine. All LG has is the HDMI connection.

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@RuthMalan@mastodon.social Thanks for sharing. I did a Map Camp talk with Andra Sonea and Carlota Perez once, learned a lot from both of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZBLOV2XQuM

The Green Economy

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@kimlockhartga@beige.party We are visiting friends with a new dog this afternoon… 🐕

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@hausfath@fediscience.org The other silver lining is that wind+solar+batteries is the lowest cost energy, so there’s an economic incentive to move away from other energy sources. Gas and other short term fixes for the capacity and distribution shortages should have a fairly short shelf life.

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@mweagle@hachyderm.io Nice post by Adrian Hornsby - the best fix is to track near misses and run reviews on them as if they were outages.

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@douglasvb@m.ai6yr.org In Texas a few years ago I heard that speeding ticket cameras were used for target practice as fast as they could put them up, so they gave up trying.

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@synfinatic@infosec.exchange @RuthMalan@mastodon.social The name is a hint…

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Impending? #SavageChickens #humor https://www.savagechickens.com/2026/05/impending.html

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 12mo ago

It’s been a long wait, but @suksr@mastodon.social’s book is finally out and I just got my copy. Architecture for Flow: Adaptive Systems with Domain-Driven Design, Wardley Mapping, and Team Topologies - I’ve seen her talks on this subject and it’s a powerful combination of tools for getting large teams organized and productive. https://www.amazon.com/Architecture-Flow-Domain-Driven-Topologies-Addison-Wesley-ebook/dp/B0FLQ98HDP

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@jeffjarvis@mastodon.social I wonder if Netflix will now build a news channel of its own from scratch? That would be the response I expect.

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@jam@tilde.zone @cford@toot.thoughtworks.com Perhaps there are developers who like the journey and others who like the destination? Mostly people get paid to arrive at the destination using whatever tools are currently available.

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@dtauvdiodr I boosted your LinkedIn… best wishes!

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@scott@carfree.city @pmonks@sfba.social But we have the best democracy money can buy!

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@distractal @hazelweakly For me sales experience means knowing how to listen to customers, and to close a deal. Marketing is several things, making work visible, product marketing…

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 8mo ago

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@lkanies The results table and code analysis etc are in the https://github.com/brazil-bench/pourpoise repo.

GitHub

GitHub - brazil-bench/pourpoise: Purpose management for this organization

Purpose management for this organization. Contribute to brazil-bench/pourpoise development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@mitchellh @lemire Thanks @lemire for speeding up a bunch of libraries that are very broadly used. It’s saving a lot energy….

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 11mo ago

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@claudius @Codeberg Have you tried using Firecrawl as a test for your blocking? It seems to be a popular site that centralizes crawling technology.

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@globalmuseum@mastodon.online We were there a few weeks ago.

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@ekuber@hachyderm.io @aallan@mastodon.social It sounds more verbose, but your work on Rust error messages is the best I’ve seen so far in other languages.

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@aallan@mastodon.social I was wondering when something like this would appear. Nicely done, it would be interesting to try out my github.com/brazil-bench test to see how it compares to Python.

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@Garwboy Tikka to Ride (S6E1) is my favorite episode… but they are all excellent. #RIPRobGrant

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@rstephensme@hachyderm.io Is “director” ok?

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 8mo ago

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@lkanies The benchmark has unit, BDD and integration tests. It’s a read-only MCP server designed to be directly attached to an LLM so it doesn’t have a security model. If you look at my adrianco/goodies repo there’s an OWASP top ten evaluated secure protocol that Claude built for me. The story you linked is on point. Many of the things Steve is working around with Gastown will be subsumed by Claude soon. It’s a pointer, and I had some influence on Steve building it 😳

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 8mo ago

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@lkanies I installed and benchmarked both beads and gastown (and Claude flow) and the results are at https://github.com/brazil-bench

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 8mo ago

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@lkanies I use porpoise to evaluate the code, run the tests, file issues against the benchmark attempts, then have the frameworks fix those issues.

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 10mo ago

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@b0rk@social.jvns.ca Thanks for your awesome contributions to making tools easier to use for everyone. It’s great to hear that the core Git folks recognized that and engaged with you.

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 10mo ago

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@PlaneSailingGames@chirp.enworld.org I’m happy using Mona

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 15mo ago

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@medium @coachtony This is a good story. I’ve just been a Medium user/subscriber and didn’t know the background of the company… I like the writing experience and am happy to pay a few $ a month. It’s good to hear that Medium is now sustainably profitable and I hope I don’t ever have to migrate somewhere else (like when I moved from blogger).

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 23mo ago

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@brendangregg@aus.social Awesome work. I was trying to figure out what the code paths look like for communication between two GPUs during training, and how that varies over different interconnects. Libfabric etc. have you looked at that yet?

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 24mo ago

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@dylanbeattie Part number FU-128 :-)

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@hausfath@fediscience.org The other trend is to local models. My M5 64GB laptop goes from a few watts to 50W or so (it has a 96W power supply) and the fans come on when it’s thinking hard. Thats still much less than sending prompts away to run on Claude.

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 10mo ago

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@thejuicemedia@mastodon.social I wonder if there’s an influx of Australian kids to some Mastodon servers somewhere?

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@timbray@cosocial.ca I do think there is a bubble that will pop, but I also think that useful AI is already escaping from the dev community via tooling like OpenClaw that is taking off and using lots of tokens automating tasks for people.

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@mfowler@toot.thoughtworks.com @bboeckel@toot.thoughtworks.com Detailed results with a local model using Retort. Aggregated over four languages, the local model came out at pass-proportion 0.33 — versus the Claude frontier's ~0.98 on the identical task. It is genuinely agentic — it plans, calls tools, writes files, runs tests — but it is not reliable: Python it can do (it eventually reached 3-of-3), Go it half-manages, and TypeScript and Rust it fails outright. https://github.com/adrianco/retort/blob/main/model-blog.md

GitHub

retort/model-blog.md at main · adrianco/retort

Platform Evolution Engine. Distill the best from the combinatorial mess. - adrianco/retort

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 19mo ago

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@lindsey@recurse.social @tgoodwin@discuss.systems @drmorr@hachyderm.io I’ll ask if Nubank has any intern positions.

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@Di4na @dtauvdiodr @norootcause There’s very few cases to examine. Most of the preventative resilience work I see is driven by regulatory compliance…

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 3w ago

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@Snoro@mastodon.social @SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe Awesome, we just need sea levels 10-40 meters higher than today and the carbon will be taken from the atmosphere and end up in sediment. Glad I live on a hill.

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@Di4na @dtauvdiodr @norootcause I agree, it’s much more, but discussing near misses helps provide a place for the work to surface and justify investment in tools.

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 15mo ago

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@coachtony @medium Cheers! Also I got my @adrianco@me.dm account setup a long time ago but it didn’t seem to do anything interesting that related to Medium itself. Am I missing something?

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 20mo ago

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@stuartmarks@mastodon.social @aka_pugs@mastodon.social I remember that I was using TECO in the 1970s but I can’t remember how to use it…

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@timbray@cosocial.ca @robpike@cosocial.ca It’s ok the future is unevenly distributed :-) There’s a few people I know who are living in something like the future he describes. I’m dabbling on the edge of it. Most people will ignore it until bits of it happen, then be surprised.

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 10mo ago

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@sarahtaber@mastodon.online There are two datacenter water usage metrics. One is Water Usage Effectiveness WUE in liters/kW. It ranges from near zero to around 2.0 across all regions and suppliers. AWS Oregon was 0.18 in 2023 and 0.16 in 2024. These are very water efficient datacenters. The other metric is replenishment, the amount of clean water released over water taken in. Some datacenters are positive, releasing cleaned up water suitable for agriculture, others negative if they evaporate cleaned water.

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Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@dtauvdiodr @norootcause Chaos engineering game days help surface safety II practices, but I haven’t seen many examples of curating a near-miss process for non-incidents outside the world of airline safety.

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