Roy Tang 🇵🇭

Shared: Just Put It On Your Blog https://shellsharks.com/just-put-it-on-your-blog.

#Blogging

On a whim I bought this fun little #Transformers Blokees blind box to see what it was like. I got Wheeljack! These are pretty cheap - they're the smallest ones (ballpen for scale). You need to assemble them, but its not too hard even with my poor dexterity. Its a pretty clever product because I can see these as being nice cheap gifts for kids, but the blind box gives it collector appeal too.

If #ubuntu is gonna start doing "AI" nonsense (https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/the-future-of-ai-in-ubuntu/81130), I assume #LinuxMint will be affected as well? It would make me explore other distros earlier than i expected

#linux

It annoys me that this prompt has a checkbox to always open in app but not the opposite option i.e. never open links in apps, since I almost always prefer #web

Even if I'm not a particular fan of the content, it's always fun to find an active #blog on blogspot dot com especially in the year of our lord 2026.

#blogging

Shared: Do I belong in tech anymore? · Ky Decker https://ky.fyi/posts/ai-burnout.

#Genai #Tech

I always try to note whenever the #Philippines makes an appearance in international #comics. This page is from Punisher War Journal (1988) no. 21, written by Carl Potts #marvel

Shared: AI as a Fascist Artifact https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/.

#Genai #Fascism

Look, I'm tired of talking about "AI" too. Yet this essay was very good, framing the use of this technology (and others) through the lens of fascism. Very long though.

Shared: Books and screens https://aeon.co/essays/what-we-think-is-a-decline-in-literacy-is-a-design-problem.

#Tech

> "Your inability to focus isn’t a moral failing. It’s a design problem. You’re trying to think in environments built to prevent thinking. You’re trying to sustain attention in spaces engineered to shatter it. You’re fighting algorithms explicitly optimised to keep you scrolling, not learning."

Shared: The Artisanal Web | Another Rodeo https://another.rodeo/artisanal-web/.

#Web

> "Amidst all the commoditization there are small human spaces out there, waiting to be discovered, with people working diligently and with care in them."

I would like some kind of browser extension where if I click a link to a post on a #fediverse instance, it will automatically redirect to the server where my own fediverse account is (#mastodon for me, I suppose I will have to configure this in the extension settings) and load that post on my server, so I can comment/like/boost without having to go through the whole "To continue, you need to reply from your account." modal dialog

New blog post: The Banner Saga 1 and 2 https://roytang.net/2026/04/banner-saga-1-2/

#Gaming #Games

From Superman (2023) no. 36: Superboy Prime adapting the Spider-man theme song. Written by Joshua Williamson #comics #dc #marvel

Green Arrow on #GenAI (Detective Comics no. 1107, written by Tom Taylor) #comics #dccomics

Shared: Report from the march to Stop the AI Race https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/stop-ai-march/.

#Genai

> "Even if the danger isn’t as existential as the doomiest doomers imagine ... I believe this is a great opportunity for humanity to prove that we can actually make choices about the development and deployment of powerful technology. If we can’t, then we are not as sovereign as we imagine; if we can’t, a machine god has already taken over this planet, and it’s called the market."

"When a programming tool is unreliable, completely resists mental-modeling, and is incapable of consistently rejecting invalid input, I think it’s reasonable to say it’s not fit for purpose, and is certainly not the future of programming. We simply cannot develop mental models of AI through traditional means. But we have to remember that just because we don’t understand it doesn’t mean it’s hiding secret insight or power."

New blog post: Weeknotes 2026-05-03 https://roytang.net/2026/05/weeknotes-05-03/

#Weeknotes

Shared: How are we preparing for the Long Web? · brennan.day https://brennan.day/how-are-we-preparing-for-the-long-web/.

#Web

> "What can we pass on? What can we leave behind so that the next generation of netizens and internauts aren't reinventing the social wheel once again? To paraphrase a popular musical, what seeds are we planting in the digital garden that we never get to see?"

Shared: Chasing life goals is a recipe for disaster – so try these tiny experiments instead | Life and style | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jun/21/improve-career-health-relationships-experimental-mindset.

New blog post: Weeknotes 2026-07-19 https://roytang.net/2026/07/weeknotes-07-19/

#Weeknotes

Shared: I Hate The Way We Talk Online – Jason Toney https://misterjt.com/2026/07/11/i-hate-the-way-we-talk-online/.

#Web #Tech

Shared: The 49MB Web Page | thatshubham https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit.

#Web

> "They built a system that treats your attention as an extractable resource. The most radical thing you can do is refuse to be extracted. Close the tab. Use RSS. Let the bounce rate speak for itself. These are vanity metrics until enough people stop vanishing into them and then suddenly they become a crisis."

"The speed of writing code was never your problem. If you thought it was, the gap between that belief and reality is where all your actual problems live. The competitive advantage doesn't go to the team that writes code fastest. It goes to the team that figured out what to build, built it, and got it into users' hands while everyone else was still drowning in a review queue full of AI-generated PRs that nobody has the time or the energy to read."

Shared: Between the Impossible and the Inevitable: The Case for Defiance (aka Never F**king Surrender) https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/between-the-impossible-and-the-inevitable-the-case-for-defiance-aka-never-f-king-surrender/.

> "There is a lot of space between inevitable and impossible, and that is the space of the possible, good and bad. "

...

> "We make the future in the present, when we show up. Don't surrender it to those who would destroy it. "

Shared: (Youtube) Don't Take the Black Pill - Andrew Kelley | SSW 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLZwpH5lCD4.

#Tech

Shared: A simple Twitter archiver https://tinysubversions.com/twitter-archive/make-your-own/.

#Twitter #Archiving

Shared: General Excellence: Origins of Koei – Gaming Alexandria https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2026/04/general-excellence-origins-of-koei/.

#Gaming #Koei

I spent a good chunk of my early gaming years playing the early versions of KOEI's Romance of the Three Kingdoms series and some of their other games, so I enjoyed this retrospective

New blog post: Movies / TV - Mar & Apr 2026 https://roytang.net/2026/05/movies-tv-mar-apr-2026/

#Movies #Tv #WatchingLately

Shared: You don’t have to blog like me – Dan Q https://danq.me/2026/07/02/you-dont-have-to-blog-like-me/.

#Blogging #Poetry

Shared: A Commentary On GenAI Inspected Through Different Lenses | Brain Baking https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/04/a-commentary-on-genai-inspected-through-different-lenses/.

#Genai

Maybe someday I will maybe gather the energy needed to also detail my thoughts on genAI (the general trend should be obvious from what links I share), but until then I appreciate that people I follow like Wouter tend to have largely similar sentiments

Shared: Understanding friction in software engineering | deadSimpleTech https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/friction_software_engineering.

#SoftwareDevelopment #Genai

Comparing friction in the Iran War to friction in software dev projects, with a bit of LLM-related stuff towards the end. (The essay is a bit long)

"...but this is precisely the reason Silicon Valley keeps trying to force futures on consumers that they emphatically don’t want. A VC who is incapable of self-reflection will never notice that his bets on the future of consumerism are failing in exactly the same way every time. That VC hasn’t noticed, and indeed can’t notice, that his experience isn’t representative of what the ordinary person wants or needs."

(archive.org link because paywall)

Shared: What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all https://stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-happened-to-thenumberscom-should-worry-us-all.

#Genai #Web

(Sadly Substack)

> "A beloved, useful, free website, run carefully by a competent, honest person for nearly thirty years, was crushed between two features of the new AI economy. "

Yet another story of genAI-powered bots breaking the open web

Shared: Soko Striker https://axylaric.itch.io/soko-striker.

#Games #Gaming

Soccer-themed sokoban-style puzzle game with 30 levels. I spent almost an hour of my life playing through this, so it's worth sharing

New blog post: Weeknotes 2026-04-12 https://roytang.net/2026/04/weeknotes-04-12/

#Weeknotes