almost certain that grok wrote this for him: it's just a hodgepodge of words that don't mean anything
"command is service" come on
"command is service" come on
September 11, 2026 at 6:15 PM
almost certain that grok wrote this for him: it's just a hodgepodge of words that don't mean anything
"command is service" come on
"command is service" come on
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Piper got a new look thanks to @charlesharri.es!
looks more inline with the current teal brand image 💖
more to come!
looks more inline with the current teal brand image 💖
more to come!
September 3, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Piper got a new look thanks to @charlesharri.es!
looks more inline with the current teal brand image 💖
more to come!
looks more inline with the current teal brand image 💖
more to come!
Reposted by Charles Harries
if your AI writing can’t hold up because it’s being fingerprinted maybe you shouldn’t be using it
August 17, 2026 at 4:26 PM
if your AI writing can’t hold up because it’s being fingerprinted maybe you shouldn’t be using it
the one thing I remember the HP books doing well was dropping a little plot hint in a very obvious way, so that when All Was Revealed at the end of the book & the hint came to make sense, you felt very clever for having noticed it
There's a whole nother discussion to be had about WHY Harry Potter was so popular and a lot of "read THIS instead of HP" takes miss the point. The books had accessible writing - 3rd graders could comfortably read #1-#3 - but longer and more sophisticated plots and themes than similarly written books
The idea that Harry Potter became popular because of a massive marketing budget is cope. I was there. It was an insane phenomenon. There were kids who had never read a book before bragging that their aunt was traveling to England so she was picking up Book 2 before it made it to America.
August 13, 2026 at 6:55 PM
the one thing I remember the HP books doing well was dropping a little plot hint in a very obvious way, so that when All Was Revealed at the end of the book & the hint came to make sense, you felt very clever for having noticed it
the blog post of a guy who has filled himself with productivity candy & is pretty much regretting it
charlesharri.es/stream/frict...
charlesharri.es/stream/frict...
Friction
Trying to slow down. Boy this is a 30-year-old topic of conversation isn't it just.
charlesharri.es
August 10, 2026 at 9:17 PM
the blog post of a guy who has filled himself with productivity candy & is pretty much regretting it
charlesharri.es/stream/frict...
charlesharri.es/stream/frict...
i’m convinced that the revulsion against destructive digitisation is a purely aesthetic one. the physical media is not the important part! you just don’t like the idea of destroying books because you saw the bad guys do it on The World At War
i don't see the issue with digitizing rare books. the true crime is that they don't submit them to the internet archive (they would be in even more deep trouble with copyrightholders if they did 🙄)
No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions.
Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
July 29, 2026 at 10:32 PM
i’m convinced that the revulsion against destructive digitisation is a purely aesthetic one. the physical media is not the important part! you just don’t like the idea of destroying books because you saw the bad guys do it on The World At War
Call me a typo because today has Charles feeling Harried
July 29, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Call me a typo because today has Charles feeling Harried
Parfait spoons are my favourite specialised utensil. Some things, especially sweet ones, just taste better on a tiny spoon: tiramisu, little cakes and custard, peaches & meringues.
The Japanese have figured this out: you will never seen someone eat chawan mushi with a big spoon.
The Japanese have figured this out: you will never seen someone eat chawan mushi with a big spoon.
July 13, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Parfait spoons are my favourite specialised utensil. Some things, especially sweet ones, just taste better on a tiny spoon: tiramisu, little cakes and custard, peaches & meringues.
The Japanese have figured this out: you will never seen someone eat chawan mushi with a big spoon.
The Japanese have figured this out: you will never seen someone eat chawan mushi with a big spoon.
i've been writing about taking my dog for walks. also i want to see whether this standard site stuff is working
charlesharri.es/stream/walki...
charlesharri.es/stream/walki...
Walking Ghyll, 5 June
Moving, slowly, into the peak of summer. Still windy, lots of flowers.
charlesharri.es
June 9, 2026 at 10:12 PM
i've been writing about taking my dog for walks. also i want to see whether this standard site stuff is working
charlesharri.es/stream/walki...
charlesharri.es/stream/walki...
a small human is a HOMUNCULUS
a small succubus is a SUCCUBUNCULUS
a small succubus is a SUCCUBUNCULUS
June 2, 2026 at 9:48 PM
a small human is a HOMUNCULUS
a small succubus is a SUCCUBUNCULUS
a small succubus is a SUCCUBUNCULUS
the trick to coping with this is to start identifying powerfully with the generated code (“i made this”) which coincidentally also forces you to take responsibility for it
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May 8, 2026 at 9:31 AM
the trick to coping with this is to start identifying powerfully with the generated code (“i made this”) which coincidentally also forces you to take responsibility for it
i want to see the picture for the sentence
“we invited the strippers, jfk and stalin”
“we invited the strippers, jfk and stalin”
remember friends: the oxford comma makes your lists ambiguous! you should never ever use it!
April 29, 2026 at 8:22 AM
i want to see the picture for the sentence
“we invited the strippers, jfk and stalin”
“we invited the strippers, jfk and stalin”
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like yeah sure you hate it because it won and then a generation grew up who never wrote imperative view model syncing manually. and yes sure it’s weirdly fp. and yes biggest sin of all, it’s effortlessly composable which unleashed a proliferation of componentized junk. components were still worth it
April 21, 2026 at 8:48 PM
like yeah sure you hate it because it won and then a generation grew up who never wrote imperative view model syncing manually. and yes sure it’s weirdly fp. and yes biggest sin of all, it’s effortlessly composable which unleashed a proliferation of componentized junk. components were still worth it
why are we still litigating this? new lines of code has not been a vanity metric since circa 2007; everyone agrees that code is a liability and that’s why we all share our prs that are like
+13 -145,338
+13 -145,338
April 5, 2026 at 7:52 AM
why are we still litigating this? new lines of code has not been a vanity metric since circa 2007; everyone agrees that code is a liability and that’s why we all share our prs that are like
+13 -145,338
+13 -145,338
Reposted by Charles Harries
Reposted by Charles Harries
created a new @teal.fm client that joins musicbrainz artist genre data with plays and syncs your bluesky followers, everything is a feed
teal-appview-production.up.railway.app
if you're interested in building appviews like this, come check out my workshop at #atmosphereconf 👋
teal-appview-production.up.railway.app
if you're interested in building appviews like this, come check out my workshop at #atmosphereconf 👋
March 5, 2026 at 5:04 PM
created a new @teal.fm client that joins musicbrainz artist genre data with plays and syncs your bluesky followers, everything is a feed
teal-appview-production.up.railway.app
if you're interested in building appviews like this, come check out my workshop at #atmosphereconf 👋
teal-appview-production.up.railway.app
if you're interested in building appviews like this, come check out my workshop at #atmosphereconf 👋
Reposted by Charles Harries
having used claude extensively for the past couple of months, i think there is still a lot of value to understanding your code and steering it intentionally. the amount of incidental complexity claude accumulates otherwise (which mostly results in bugs that it can't ever fix reliably) is staggering.
March 7, 2026 at 3:00 AM
having used claude extensively for the past couple of months, i think there is still a lot of value to understanding your code and steering it intentionally. the amount of incidental complexity claude accumulates otherwise (which mostly results in bugs that it can't ever fix reliably) is staggering.
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had a death in the family and was almost completely off the internet for a few days & my observation is that there is too much happening too fast such that basic facts abt the world are difficult to ascertain unless you are mainlining info all the time & doing that seems to drive people insane
March 2, 2026 at 10:35 PM
had a death in the family and was almost completely off the internet for a few days & my observation is that there is too much happening too fast such that basic facts abt the world are difficult to ascertain unless you are mainlining info all the time & doing that seems to drive people insane
i can’t believe that rubbish is going to be the hill i wind up dying on
charlesharri.es/stream/now-r...
charlesharri.es/stream/now-r...
Now: Rubbish
What a load of rubbish.
charlesharri.es
February 15, 2026 at 7:40 PM
i can’t believe that rubbish is going to be the hill i wind up dying on
charlesharri.es/stream/now-r...
charlesharri.es/stream/now-r...
so relieved to learn that it was OK to like infinite jest this whole time
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...
Never mind the lit-bros: Infinite Jest is a true classic at 30
Forget its reputation as a performative read for a certain breed of intense young man, thirty years after its publication, David Foster Wallace’s epic novel still delivers, says the Crying in H Mart a...
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:16 PM
so relieved to learn that it was OK to like infinite jest this whole time
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...