Notes
Short notes and observations.
New post: Agreement is not alignment. Alignment means knowing four things.
ciaranlyons.com/writing/2026...
On Bluesky
claudeslop one shot explainer for the Hugging Face incident.
I didn't ask it to do a takedown of the earnest @kurzgesagt.org version (and checked to be sure Opus hadn't seen it) but pitting it against the @cgpgrey.bsky.social style brought out the snark.
no copyright intended
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New TIL: Teaching a printed dragon to fly
h/t @flo-bit.dev @vibe-coded.com
https://ciaranlyons.com/til/2026/09/13/teaching-a-printed-dragon-to-fly/
On BlueskyExperimenting with Three.js and Box3D.
https://github.com/clyons/dragon-flight-til
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New post: A small collection of quotes about technology and how we're all gonna make it.
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On BlueskyNew TIL: two-state dark mode toggles.
I keep returning to @lea.verou.me’s argument: rather than making people think about `System`, a dark mode control should only switch away from whatever state looks “yuck”.
https://ciaranlyons.com/til/2026/09/07/two-state-dark-mode-toggles
On BlueskyNew TIL on using Blender with coding agents on macOS:
ciaranlyons.com/til/2026/09/...
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