Jon Udell@judell

Patron saint of trailing-edge technologies, grateful resident of the nation-state of California. @judell@social.coop

 Santa Rosa, CA
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Joined March 2007
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"The military contractor came under scrutiny in 2007 following the Nisour Square Massacre, when Blackwater contractors opened fire and killed 17 Iraqi civilians and wounded 20 others." "Trump pardoned them." #Nazi #ConcentrationCamps politico.com/news/2025/02/25…
Blackwater was formed by Prince in 1996 to provide training services to law enforcement, military personnel and other government agencies. It gained widespread attention for its work in Iraq and Afghanistan, providing security services for U.S. officials and military personnel, with critics viewing its rise as a result of the U.S. military’s overextension in the Middle East. The military contractor came under scrutiny in 2007 following the Nisour Square Massacre, when Blackwater contractors opened fire and killed 17 Iraqi civilians and wounded 20 others — raising questions about oversight and accountability of private contractors. Several contractors were charged with manslaughter, and four were convicted in 2014. Trump pardoned them at the end of his first term in December 2020.

ALT Blackwater was formed by Prince in 1996 to provide training services to law enforcement, military personnel and other government agencies. It gained widespread attention for its work in Iraq and Afghanistan, providing security services for U.S. officials and military personnel, with critics viewing its rise as a result of the U.S. military’s overextension in the Middle East. The military contractor came under scrutiny in 2007 following the Nisour Square Massacre, when Blackwater contractors opened fire and killed 17 Iraqi civilians and wounded 20 others — raising questions about oversight and accountability of private contractors. Several contractors were charged with manslaughter, and four were convicted in 2014. Trump pardoned them at the end of his first term in December 2020.
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Just curious about free speech absolutism here, @elonmusk.
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I have not deleted this account because there is history I care about. But I have been silent and will remain so except to say this. If you stay active here, I will consider you complicit in the financing of evil. #BoycottTwitter nytimes.com/2024/10/11/us/po…

Musk Is Going All In to Elect Trump (Published 2024)

Elon Musk is planting himself in Pennsylvania, has brought his brain trust to help and may even knock on doors himself.

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If I deadname Twitter on Twitter can I get banned?
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I try not to judge people who remain on Twitter for professional reasons. But it's getting harder and harder to respect that choice. I just peeked at my feed and this is what I saw. How, at this point, do you justify being there? #CognitiveDissonance #SelfRespect
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Dear @expensify, Please do better. Thank you.
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"Some explanations can, will, and should be written by code authors alone, or by those authors in partnership with LLMs. Others can, will, and should be conjured dynamically by code readers who ask LLMs for explanations on the fly." blog.jonudell.net/2023/10/12…

How to Use LLMs for Dynamic Documentation

Here’s #11 in the new series on LLM-assisted coding over at The New Stack: How to Use LLMs for Dynamic Documentation My hunch is that we’re about to see a fascinating new twist on the old ide…

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Heh. I meant to do this differently, then tried to edit, but oops, this isn't Mastodon. Oh well.
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Should LLMs Write Marketing Copy?

No, but they can help people learn how to do it better.

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I'm still most interested in using LLMs to help me inhabit and extend complex code bases that I don't understand well. But for now, their ability to accelerate routine scripting continues to be the major productivity win. thenewstack.io/how-large-lan…

How Large Language Models Assisted a Website Makeover

A successful first use of GPT-4 Code Interpreter raises the hope that LLMs can help democratize scripting.

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That's why the key question I'm investigating in my new series is: Can LLMs help us orient to existing systems and make better progress maintaining and extending them? blog.jonudell.net/2023/07/19…

A new series on LLM-assisted coding

In the 20th episode of my Mastodon series I pivoted to a new topic: LLM-assisted coding. After three posts in the new series, it got picked up by The New Stack. Here’s the full list so far, I…

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Tudor Girba@girba
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Every corporation I meet these days, is talking about how to generate new code using AI. Yet, they have into thousands of systems. It’s quite apparent that creating new code is not much of a problem. Instead their problem is dealing with the systems they already have. 1/
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""I’m only an average programmer. There’s no doubt that LLM assistants can help me be better. But how much better? In what ways exactly? That’s what I aim to find out." blog.jonudell.net/2023/07/19…

A new series on LLM-assisted coding

In the 20th episode of my Mastodon series I pivoted to a new topic: LLM-assisted coding. After three posts in the new series, it got picked up by The New Stack. Here’s the full list so far, I…

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"If you want to see connections among the people and objects represented by diverse APIs, you can now use SQL idioms to graph them. The only limit is your imagination." blog.jonudell.net/2023/01/16…
A Steampipe relationship graph showing people on a selected Mastodon server boosting other people there or elsewhere.

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"Who are the experts you follow in various domains? Can I cherrypick from your lists?" blog.jonudell.net/2023/01/21… #steampipe #mastodon
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How many people in my Mastodon feed also tweeted today? tl;dr 75% blog.jonudell.net/2022/12/29…

How many people in my Mastodon feed also tweeted today?

I lasted tweeted on Dec 22. (It was, unsurprisingly, a link to a blog post about Mastodon.) Today I wondered what percentage of the people who appear in my Mastodon timeline today also appeared on …

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Lists and people on Mastodon. blog.jonudell.net/2022/12/22…

Lists and people on Mastodon

I hadn’t thought to use Mastodon lists until I read the Frustration with lists chapter of Martin Fowler’s Exploring Mastodon, in which he writes: I like lists because they allow me to d…

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Create your own Mastodon UX blog.jonudell.net/2022/12/19…
Screenshot of an alternate Mastodon UX made with Steampipe

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A Bloomberg terminal for Mastodon blog.jonudell.net/2022/12/17…

A Bloomberg terminal for Mastodon

As I mentioned last time, the Steampipe dashboard for Mastodon has evolved in unexpected ways. I imagined that the components — a

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Is it true that mentioning Mastodon here provokes a warning? This is just a test.
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"I began to see the suite of dashboards as a Mastodon reader/browser that complements the web and phone clients, and that’s how I mainly use them now." blog.jonudell.net/2022/12/10…
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