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Tawanda

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Builder of software. Watcher of movies. Writer. #MCFC for life Pink Floyd supremacist Creator of many software tools check out https://tawandamunongo.dev/projects

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official public beta launch of blento.app πŸŽ‰πŸ₯³

lots of new features and cards added and (mostly) works on mobile now too

share it with your friends, family, neighbors and random strangers on the street!

01.02.2026 12:22 πŸ‘ 153 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 5
The Substrate - Notes Quick thoughts and observations

The tech industry is giving me so much cognitive dissonance because everyone claims that #AI is here to stay but also everyone is trying to use it frantically as if it might all just go away www.tawandamunongo.dev/notes/#gasli...

27.01.2026 17:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not given to City of course. How is that is natural position?

24.01.2026 15:40 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I guess that the new ref is learning well.

24.01.2026 15:42 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

CNN must be on some other internet i don't know about

23.01.2026 05:29 πŸ‘ 826 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 2
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The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part One Podcast Episode Β· Better Offline Β· 01/20/2026 Β· 36m

Here’s part 1 of this week’s 4-part Better Offline Enshittifinancial Crisis Special. I walk you through stage 4 of enshittification, when companies decide to enshittify shareholders, and the concept of stock itself.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline

20.01.2026 05:37 πŸ‘ 326 πŸ” 56 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 5

I really just can't wait for Pep to throw Guehi at right back #mancity

That would be the most Pep thing ever

20.01.2026 09:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

...so much leverage to increase their prices knowing that their users have become so reliant on these tools that they'll just have to pay.

It has been so impactful, though, that I've genuinely found myself questioning whether I still want to be a software engineer.

19.01.2026 05:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

...by virtue of being used to those tools, but they still have an eye for design that they could, if forced, still use in a different app. But if #AI is writing all your code, you're susceptible to being rug-pulled by the provider. Not that they might discontinued the product, but they've got...

19.01.2026 05:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Let's say you're a developer who can code. You own the means of production. If you neglect that skill and lean heavily on AI products, you invariably end up relying on a tech company to do your work. In this sense, LLMs are not just "tools". A designer may be trapped in, for example, Adobe suite...

19.01.2026 05:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Google's AI overview are an absolute waste of screen real estate and fundamentally toxic to the web.

I also think that all this will accelerate the return of modern day feudalism. Even as I see the benefits of AI, I also recognise the danger of outsourcing your skilled labour

19.01.2026 05:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

LLMs can build genuinely usable demos, often with little input. I reckon their best use case will be for programmers. Outside of that, I don't want an "agentic OS". I've seen apps that replaced working native search with broken "AI-powered" alternatives. All those endeavours will probably fail

19.01.2026 04:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

As an avid reader of @edzitron.com's newsletter, I'm still skeptical about the economics of it all. I also hate the fact that it's all built on scraping independent creator content with 0 permission and compensation, but it's becoming clear to me that software engineering will never be same

19.01.2026 04:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I've written a lot on my blog about #AI in the last 2 years, expressing skepticism about all the hype, but the last couple of months brought improvements that I believe have made it hard to continue being a non-believer

19.01.2026 04:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
GW 16 FPL squad

GW 16 FPL squad

My free hit punt team. I need a big score this season has not been good to me #fpl

06.12.2025 12:26 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Another #cloudflare outage is just what my Friday needed

05.12.2025 09:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
AI and the Devaluation of Effort Part II explores how AI’s promise of frictionless creation has quietly eroded our sense of value and accomplishment.

The second part of my series on how I believe AI is changing the nature of work

#ai #programming

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24.10.2025 15:57 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

AI is Making Us Work More
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#ai

21.10.2025 15:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A friend recently asked me to log into his account on my #fpl rivals app and his password was frighteningly simple, so I wrote this to passively aggressively get him to change it

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#cybersecurity #blog #technology

09.10.2025 17:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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AI Bubble 2027 Soundtrack: The Dillinger Escape Plan - One Of Us Is The Killer An MIT study found that 95% of organizations are getting "zero return" from generative AI, seemingly every major outlet is now writing ...

Premium newsletter: My 14.5k word piece, "AI Bubble 2027" - extrapolations of what may happen in the next 18 months, conditions that might accelerate a collapse, and how OpenAI and Anthropic overstate user numbers and revenues while hiding their awful burnrates.
www.wheresyoured.at/ai-bubble-20...

27.08.2025 15:04 πŸ‘ 661 πŸ” 122 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 12
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Now also on YouTub!

AI prompts are driving me ✨insane✨\

youtu.be/oXtvAQ-e0iE

20.06.2025 11:07 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3
Morning Star newspaper page with the headline "will FIFA stand up for World Cup fans over US travel bans?"

Morning Star newspaper page with the headline "will FIFA stand up for World Cup fans over US travel bans?"

Infantino once said that if supporters can't access a World Cup host country, there will be no World Cup. This week, Trump banned travel to the US from 12 countries, including one already qualified for the 2026 World Cup. What will FIFA do? This weekend's Morning Star column.

07.06.2025 09:28 πŸ‘ 57 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 4
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Former Meta official's 'explosive' memoir about the social media giant to be published next week An insider account being billed as an β€œexplosive” memoir about β€œseven critical years” at Facebook/Meta will be published next week.

Perfect title β€” the famous quote from The Great Gatsby which i also used as the opener of my memoir Burn Book. We need more insiders there and elsewhere to come forward and explain what happened since these careless people have never been more powerful. apnews.com/article/meta...

05.03.2025 17:12 πŸ‘ 5022 πŸ” 961 πŸ’¬ 83 πŸ“Œ 36
Wise man in a sweater in his home library πŸ“š contemplating: 

I don't know what word in the English language --I can't find one-- applies to people who are willing to sacrifice the literal existence of organized human life so they can put a few more dollars into highly stuffed pockets.

The word 'evil' doesn't even begin to approach it.

~Noam Chomsky

Wise man in a sweater in his home library πŸ“š contemplating: I don't know what word in the English language --I can't find one-- applies to people who are willing to sacrifice the literal existence of organized human life so they can put a few more dollars into highly stuffed pockets. The word 'evil' doesn't even begin to approach it. ~Noam Chomsky

Wise man…

22.02.2025 12:57 πŸ‘ 32263 πŸ” 7408 πŸ’¬ 677 πŸ“Œ 304
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#ManCity are out of the UEFA Champions League.

19.02.2025 21:52 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1

If I didn't know any better, I'd think City are playing with 10 men

19.02.2025 20:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you're a #mancity fan like me looking for some source of optimism before tonight's game, remember that we've played Madrid 7 times in the #UCL since 2022, and they have only beaten us twice in normal time.

If we go all the way back to 2020, we've won 4/9 to their 2/9 with the rest being drawn

19.02.2025 10:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Amazon Prime streamer screen showing description for Dog Day Afternoon β€œa man takes mistakes at a bank in Brooklyn. Unfortunately I do not have enough information to summarize further within the provided guidelines.”

Amazon Prime streamer screen showing description for Dog Day Afternoon β€œa man takes mistakes at a bank in Brooklyn. Unfortunately I do not have enough information to summarize further within the provided guidelines.”

Oh damn Prime actually published their failed chatgpt prompt in the description

18.02.2025 06:39 πŸ‘ 14560 πŸ” 2999 πŸ’¬ 155 πŸ“Œ 443

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

18.02.2025 23:06 πŸ‘ 67376 πŸ” 17436 πŸ’¬ 1852 πŸ“Œ 745
How Trying Became Cool Again
How Trying Became Cool Again YouTube video by Nathan Zed

This video kicks ass: youtu.be/o2jzKo1RqWU?...

18.02.2025 04:02 πŸ‘ 5878 πŸ” 687 πŸ’¬ 116 πŸ“Œ 75