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Tim Bray 🇨🇦

@timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy

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Web geek and environmentalist with a camera at the bottom left corner of Canada. He/him.

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@timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gyOct 10, 2026, 10:45 PM

Color Study: Fujifilm vs Pixel
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/10/10/Color-Study-Fuji-vs-Pixel

#fujifilm #photography

Fallen autumn leaves, mostly maple,  in dappled light.Fallen autumn leaves, mostly maple,  in dappled light.
@timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gyOct 10, 2026, 8:45 PM

Advance voted in the #Vancouver municipal election, will be away on voting day. Plan to take some time, the ballot is a monster.

I voted for Greens & COPE. Ken Sim gotta go.

@timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gyOct 10, 2026, 6:44 PM

Keeping watch on the front garden.

#caturday #photography

A calico cat is starting to climb a large hydrangea bush, looking alertly to one side.
@timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gyOct 10, 2026, 6:40 PM

Just got offered MacOS 27. I assume the conventional wisdom is to wait a bit?

#mac

@timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gyOct 9, 2026, 6:37 PM

Juvenile, doubtless AI-generated, but I laughed a few times. “LGTM (Looks Good to Me)” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TNpOD6bov8

From which:
LGTM, let's ship it to prod
It's Friday at five, so
I’ll leave it with God.

#genAI

@timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gyOct 9, 2026, 5:53 PM

https://petapixel.com/2026/10/09/curiosity-rover-snaps-another-banger-photo-a-martian-mountain-at-dawn/

#Photography #Mars

@timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gyOct 9, 2026, 1:07 AM

With any luck, their CDN provider will decline service. I don't think this kind of livestream is possible without one?

@timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gyOct 9, 2026, 12:50 AM

Heh… I guess those got snapped up, because Qobuz just sent me 5 more, try.qobuz.com/invitation/?code=CB7C14C9

@timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gyOct 8, 2026, 10:59 PM

That’s twice today. Feeling seriously grumpy. Having said that, while I generally trust Pangram, in this case I find the result surprising.

@timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gyOct 8, 2026, 10:57 PM

Blecch. Another lesson in why you should not post before reading. I just read the abstract, it seemed a reputable source and a hot issue. Shame on me.

@timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gyOct 8, 2026, 7:02 PM

I listen to music mostly on Qobuz and have plugged it on here and the blog several times, for example https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/06/22/Qobuz-and-Others#p-1

Got an email with 5 free invites for first 2 months to see if you like it […]

@timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gyOct 8, 2026, 4:26 PM

“Artificial Intelligence in the Firm: Bottlenecks in Software Production”:

https://fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf?ref=404media.co

[Long and dense, have only scanned it, which was enough to convince me to share it.]

#genAI

Artificial Intelligence in the Firm:
Bottlenecks in Software Production
Fiona Chen
Harvard University
Job Market Paper
James Stratton
Harvard University
Current version: August 4, 2026
First version: January 7, 2026
Click here for current version
Abstract
We study the impacts of AI coding assistants and agents on software engineering work, using
a novel proprietary dataset from an engineering analytics platform, covering 300 million work
events — including GitHub coding activity, Jira issues, and Google Calendar events — across
718 firms. We use a staggered difference-in-differences design, exploiting variation in firm-
level adoption timing of AI coding assistants and agents. Both technologies increase coding
productivity. However, productivity gains do not fully pass through to changes in software output
or employment. For AI agents, this incomplete pass-through reflects a bottleneck from code
review: review times increase, a larger share of code updates require revisions, and reviews
involve more comments. We develop a model of software production to structure these results, in
which AI affects both productivity and quality of intermediate outputs, and in turn can generate
a review bottleneck and limit pass-through.
@lrosa.mastodon.uno.ap.brid.gyOct 8, 2026, 6:43 AMReposted by @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy

The quiet ones are the ones that change the universe...
The loud ones only take the credit.
(Londo Mollari, "In The Beginning")

@internet

https://sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-the-internet

@timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gyOct 7, 2026, 9:47 PM

@brianvastag @Ruth_Mottram Yeah, in North America PlugShare is the best. It's easy to know where the chargers are, but because of the “check-in” feature, PlugShare often knows when they’re working or (too often) not.

@timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gyOct 6, 2026, 11:04 PM

@jn @anildash Weirdly, that review never actually visited the subject of what the algorithm is and whether or not it empirically is bending the curve of language evolution. Which he seems to think is not the central topic of the book; I disagree. Having said that, the other books he recommends […]

@timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gyOct 6, 2026, 9:49 PM

FWIW: https://github.com/timbray/quamina/pull/591/changes

#GenAI

@timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gyOct 6, 2026, 8:29 PM

@jn @anildash The facts are against you. Check out that book.

@timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gyOct 6, 2026, 6:01 PM

Hm, @anildash has published WE ARE GOING TO KILL “UNALIVE” at https://www.anildash.com/2026/10/06/kill-unalive/ - you might enjoy it. Two things:

1. There’s a whole book on the subject called “Algospeak”, where the first chapter is entitled Why Your Kids Are Saying “Unalive”, read about it at […]

@timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gyOct 6, 2026, 2:07 AM

TNT announcer: ”The Yankees are just tragic defensively in Game Two”

#mlb

@timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gyOct 5, 2026, 8:53 PM

Good lord … seriously into mindfuck territory: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/online-in-2026/

#genAI #TheSimpsons

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