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Matt Simpson on 2026-01-07 11:18 pm 🚀

Lesley Carhart :unverified: on 2026-01-07 10:39 pm

I was on @smashingsecurity and we were extremely silly but educational. Come find out the correct star sign to catfish people. It is not Wars or Trek, sadly.

https://www.smashingsecurity.com/449-how-to-scam-someone-in-seven-days/

449: How to scam someone in seven days

Romance scammers have apparently discovered astrology... and Taurus is their secret weapon. In episode 449 of "Smashing Security", we take a look inside an actual romance-fraud handbook - complete with scripts, personality “types”, corporate jargon, and a seven-day plan to get victims from hello to

Matt Simpson on 2026-01-06 06:19 am 🚀

Weyland-Yutani Corporation on 2026-01-04 11:05 am

#programming #software

Matt Simpson on 2026-01-05 10:08 pm

Using #Android? Listen to #podcasts? How did I not know about AntennaPod before today? I've been listening to podcasts for more than a decade, and this is the missing app. So good. Immediately my new favourite app. https://antennapod.org

Thank you @AntennaPod

AntennaPod – The Open Podcast Player

AntennaPod is a podcast player that is completely open. The app is open-source and you can subscribe to any RSS feed. AntennaPod is built by volunteers without commercial intere...

Matt Simpson on 2025-12-31 03:16 pm 🚀

Mitchell Hashimoto on 2025-12-30 04:22 pm

Slop drives me crazy and it feels like 95+% of bug reports, but man, AI code analysis is getting really good. There are users out there reporting bugs that don't know ANYTHING about our stack, but are great AI drivers and producing some high quality issue reports.

This person (linked below) was experiencing Ghostty crashes and took it upon themselves to use AI to write a python script that can decode our crash files, match them up with our dsym files, and analyze the codebase for attempting to find the root cause, and extracted that into an Agent Skill.

They then came into Discord, warned us they don't know Zig at all, don't know macOS dev at all, don't know terminals at all, and that they used AI, but that they thought critically about the issues and believed they were real and asked if we'd accept them. I took a look at one, was impressed, and said send them all.

This fixed 4 real crashing cases that I was able to manually verify and write a fix for from someone who -- on paper -- had no fucking clue what they were talking about. And yet, they drove an AI with expert skill.

I want to call out that in addition to driving AI with expert skill, they navigated the terrain with expert skill as well. They didn't just toss slop up on our repo. They came to Discord as a human, reached out as a human, and talked to other humans about what they've done. They were careful and thoughtful about the process.

People like this give me hope for what is possible. But it really, really depends on high quality people like this. Most today -- to continue the analogy -- are unfortunately driving like a teenager who has only driven toy go-karts.

Examples: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions?discussions_q=is%3Aclosed+crash+author%3A0xBigBoss

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