Dan Hon

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Dan Hon@danhon· 28d

Just got reminded of this off-brand iPod ad I saw at a wedding we went to 7 years ago yes you remember the iPod ads, you should schedule your colonoscopy if you haven't had it already

Dan Hon@danhon· 28d

this is also why!

An Apple watch notification that reads "The back patio camera has detected someone who may be dan hon and an animal"

Dan Hon@danhon· 29d

heh

it's the flag for help, innit

the international maritime signal for help is "argent, a saltire gules" which is to say a white flag with a big red x on it

only this one also has the text --help on it, too

Dan Hon@danhon· Jul 13

holy shit biggest and reddest of red flags! parents hosting a sleepover go against guest kid parents' wishes, and then host dad tells the 9 yo guest to keep it a secret from her parents?!

r/parenting post:

My daughter's friends parents showed her a horror movie at her sleepover last night.

Ok! My kid loves horror, right? 9 years old. Loves Coraline, Nightbooks, ParaNorman, Goosebumps, you get the gist.

So I got a text from the supervising mom asking if she could watch Hearteyes. Now while I haven't laid eyes on the movie I have seen clips and previews so that's a no for me. I texted back that she can't watch any rated R horror. I was told ok. Today I asked my daughter what they did and the long and short of it is that because I "took too long to answer" they decided to turn on NOBODY GETS OUT ALIVE and the dad in charge told her not to tell us so they wouldn't get in trouble. I have had to spend the last few hours with my husband trying to show her special effects explanations because she needed to know how they make getting a head bitten off look real.

I AM PISSED. She's so fucking bothered that she's afraid to sleep without her lights again.

So my question is, does anyone have any ideas on how I can start this conversation CALMLY with the other parents? I don't want my child to lose her friendship over this but God DAMMIT we're so damn mad. I just don't want to approach them in anger. My husband is ready to FIGHT. All I want is simply explanations and discussions if we can help it.

Any advice?

Dan Hon@danhon· Jul 12

Dan Hon@danhon· Jul 12

Does yours do this too?

Recalcitrant bugger of a cat looking through a skylight

Dan Hon@danhon· Jul 10

OpenAI surges into the lead in the annual "who can beat Google's social network/chat/messaging product strategy" award from 9to5mac.com/2026/07/09/o...

Crop of a 9to5mac summary of OpenAI's product announcements:

To summarize today’s desktop app changes:
The existing ChatGPT app is now ChatGPT Classic.
Codex is now the new ChatGPT desktop app. It still looks like Codex and includes the Codex icon as an option, but it’s now called ChatGPT.
ChatGPT for desktop includes ChatGPT Work and ChatGPT Codex, which share plug-ins. ChatGPT Codex mode shows more technical details that ChatGPT Work abstracts away from the user.
It’s possible to have ChatGPT Classic, ChatGPT, and Codex installed, but the way forward seems to be just running the new ChatGPT desktop app. Codex users can still use the Codex app icon, but the app will be called ChatGPT.
The ChatGPT Classic app looks more native Mac-like, so that might be an issue for users.

Dan Hon@danhon· Jul 10

Just look at the office furniture of Doug Chiang, ILM vfx art director on Terminator 2, via vfxblog.com/2017/08/23/t...

Visual effects art director Doug Chiang, in addition to sketching many incarnations of the T-1000 at different stages, also performed digital manipulation fix-its to final shots. Image via ILM Facebook page.

Two workstations on a desk, big CRTs, each with its own keyboard. Maybe they're SGIs? Maybe Sun? They're sat on a thick wooden desk, super sturdily built, plus a pull out surface of the same material for sketches. Doug is sat in another chunky (comfortable?) wooden chair that matches. It might not be a big office. There's an anglepoise lamp on the desk, the walls are adorned with sketches and storyboard frames. There's what looks like a door to the office that's also made out of what looks like high quality chonky wood.

via https://vfxblog.com/2017/08/23/the-tech-of-terminator-2-an-oral-history/

Dan Hon@danhon· Jul 10

Again, major problems if you don't use the right cables.

That bit from the tng season 7 episode Emergence when there's bendy glowing plastic straws which is a sign of an emergent intelligence.

Dan Hon@danhon· Jul 10

The Enterprise, attempting to fast-charge through a faulty port.

Image of the Enterprise attempting to fast-charge.

Dan Hon@danhon· Jul 9

Book cover for Who Moved My Cheese by Dr Spencer Johnson

Dan Hon@danhon· Jul 9

Tomorrow at 9am PT join @jukes.ie and myself for the very first How People Work, Live! where we'll be talking about how the tricky thing about making software isn't really the code, it's people. It's always just people. July 10, 0900, free on Zoom! calendly.com/verylittlegr...

Banner for the How People Work, Live! event on Friday 10 July at 9am Pacific.

Dan Hon@danhon· Jul 9

This website of the international earth rotation and reference systems service is a) amazing and b) exactly how it should look if it were seen on-screen on someone's SGI in a late 90s science fiction film when the scientist figures out what's happening hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc/index...

Screenshot of the Observatoire de Paris website that looks like it's ripped straight from the 90s. It's a php site, but that doesn't explain the left hand nav, the specially rounded corners, and the cute graphics of the earth's globe and wiggly lines.

Dan Hon@danhon· Jul 9

Best STAR TREK captain. Wrong answers only.

It's that there colonel Danning, isn't it.

Dan Hon@danhon· Jul 9

@simonwillison.net I got you

Dan Hon@danhon· Jul 8

I mean what is this madness.

It's a 600g plastic tub of Marmite and it doesn't even work right, it's not what god intended I tell you.

Dan Hon@danhon· Jul 7

Friday, 9am PT on Zoom, free! Come to How People Work, Live! a live show where I talk with interesting people like @jukes.ie about the messiness of making products and services a) for humans, and b) with humans, which is the only way software gets made, to be honest. calendly.com/verylittlegr...

Dan Hon@danhon· Jul 7

New Newsletter! s21e10: Well, What Would You Do? In this episode: how would you handle the implementation of driver distraction warning systems, and why is that important? newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s21e...

Banner for s21e10 of Things That Caught My Attention: Well, What Would You Do?

Dan Hon@danhon· Jul 7

If there's nothing wrong with me... maybe there's something wrong with Bluesky.

Beverly Crusher figures out she's stuck in a horribly broken egotistical universe.

Dan Hon@danhon· Jul 6

that should do the trick

Bluesky screenshot showing muting the words "Tilly Norwood"

Dan Hon@danhon· Jul 3

Rude

Crop of an Apple Home notification on an Apple Watch that reads: "The "Back Patio Cam" camera has detected someone who may be Dan Hon and an animal."

Dan Hon@danhon· Jul 3

I'm being totally sincere here pointing out the validity of Sarah Connor's perspective in T2 & comparing LLM usage: "It would never leave him, and it would never hurt him, never shout at him, or get drunk and hit him, or say it was too busy to spend time with him" THAT SAID [cont]