Jose Montfort

@montfort.dev

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Law degree + CS studies. Building StrayMark — governance for AI-assisted engineering. Writing about building it in public.

Screenshot of Linux kernel email list with a response from Linus Torvalds about the use of AI on kernel development. Url: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/CAHk-=wi4zC+Ze8e+p3tMv8TtG_80KzsZ1syL9anBtmEh5Z40vg@mail.gmail.com/
Elvis Presley albums and a CD player.
Screenshot of Claude Desktop, showing a botched Fedora Linux logo in ASCII art.
Fedora 44 settings app screenshot, showing version and other system details.
AI chat screenshot. AI agent said: You're right, and it's a serious mistake on my part. When I posted the update to Issue #81, I assumed that F4/F5/F6/F7/F8 were still pending based solely on the visible diff of the framework files (which only showed fixes to `check-charter-drift.sh`), without empirically verifying whether each friction issue was reproduced in the current version. The CLI is binary—fixes aren't visible via `git diff`. My `feedback_audit_quality.md` file states exactly this: "always verify claims against source files." I violated it. I will: 1. Read the entire history of Issue #81 2. Empirically verify each "pending" friction issue against CLI-3.7.2 3. Post an honest fix to the Issue
Screenshot of Fedora updater, announcing the 44th version availabillity.
EPiC Vinyl cover
RottenTomatoes website screenshots. Elvis Presley in Concert score 96% tomatometer; 99% popcornmeter.
Poster for the movie Elvis Presley in Concert at the entrance of an IMAX movie theater in Mexico City.
Composite image. David Bowie (as Ziggy Stardust with an eye patch) left and a young Elvis Presley right. Both playing a guitar while standing up.
Screenshot. System info view from main config app in Gnome.
Screenshot. Announcement of the availability of Fedora Linux version 43.
@dustedcodes at X.Com comments about a capture of c# code "var builder = WebApplication.CreateBuilder(args);" --- The very first line captures everything I dislike about .NET. No C# developer actually knows what this one magic line does. It configures a shitload of magic stuff there and nobody knows what it is. Literally every .NET dev just hopes it works for them and when it doesn’t they jump between 20 different StackOverflow threads and try 20 different builder permutations until it somehow works for them. Then when it finally does they get build errors because that builder function which finally worked is from .NET 7 and now in .NET whatever-fucking-version-it-is-today, it’s meant to be initialised differently and then they are back to StackOverflow again. That’s how C# devs spend 4 hours just fucking around being unproductive because the magic always stops working at some point and then there is nothing left but a shit show.
Screenshot of an Instagram reel, showing a tree carved with a rectangle shape, receiving a video projection on it.
Screenshot. A PowerShell terminal showing my PC's Windows Experience Index (WEI) score. CPUScore 9.4, D3DScore 9.9, DiskScore 9.6, GraphicsScore 9.9, MemoryScore 9.4, WinSPRLevel 9.4
A red Vinyl LP played in a Victrola near to the Portishead roseland nyc live album cover.
Poco F7 Ultra and Redmi Pad SE 8.7 boxes.
Chihuahua dog, with light brown and black fur, wearing a pink jacket and lying on a cushion.
Stitch and the "Up" house by Lego, on a bookshelf.
Ghibli style picture. A warm and inviting room features a young girl playing an electronic keyboard, surrounded by musical details, plants, and decor that conveys serenity and nostalgia.
Screen capture with a request aproved message from the Google battery performance program for the Pixel 6a.
Elvis on stage.
Victrola record player next to a vinyl record holder showing the album Elvis/Memphis on the front.
A Digital PDP 11/70 replica in a bookshelf.
Cover and vinyls of Elvis Presley Sunset Boulevard LP Album.
Latinamerican tower, México City.
Partial view of Palacio de Bellas Artes matching its right border with the left border of Torre Latinoamericana sighted in the background.
Beach and Caribbean Sea, palm trees seen from a cliff, partially in the background, another cliff with the ruins of a stone structure from the pre-Hispanic urban complex of Tulum.
The Simpsons tv show screenshot. Reporter Ken Brokman speaking to the camera and a square on the screen showing Michelangelo's David with pants.
Deepseek register page screenshot with a warning on top: "Due to large-scale malicious attacks on DeepSeek's services, registration may be busy. Please wait and try again. Registered users can log in normally. Thank you for your understanding and support."
Cover of Hound dog joint autobiography of Leiber & Stroller, a picture of them with a young Elvis reading a music sheet.
Tweet: "Despite over 12.7 K followers for our @plazi_species we are moving house. You can follow us on Mastodon, Bluesky, Instagram."
We believe in democracy, human rights and access to unbiased information on sexual and reproductive health care, including abortion. That's why we will no longer engage on X. You can find/follow us on Bluesky, LinkedIn & Instagram. Our full statement: bit.ly/4g2pJBR
Tweet from Institut Pasteur: "The Pasteur Institute will leave X. Due to the serious abuses observed since its acquisition by Elon Musk, the Pasteur Institute is suspending its activities on this network as of today, and invites its subscribers to follow it on other platforms"
A pool surrounded by palms with a deep blue sky in the background .
A menacing black bird staring at me from the bunk next to me.
A Caribbean beach, turquoise sea and blue sky.
Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg Dear Mark, I hope this finds you well. I noticed something interesting today - it seems Instagram is blocking links to my little open-source project. You know, the one that lets people share photos without harvesting their personal data or forcing algorithmic feeds on them. I have to admit, I'm flattered. Who would've thought a small team of volunteers could build something that would catch your attention? We're just trying to give people a choice in how they share their memories online. No VCs, no surveillance capitalism, just code and community. Remember when Facebook started? It was about connecting people, not maximizing engagement metrics. Our project might be tiny compared to Instagram, but we're staying true to that original spirit of social media - giving people control over their online presence without turning them into products. You could've ignored us. Instead, by blocking our links, you've given us the best endorsement we could ask for. You've confirmed what we've been saying all along - that big tech is more interested in protecting their walled gardens than fostering genuine innovation. Every time you block a link to our platform, you remind people why we built it in the first place. Your action tells them there are alternatives worth exploring, ones that respect their privacy and agency. So thank you, Mark. You've turned our little project into a symbol of resistance against digital monopolies. Perhaps one day you'll remember what it felt like to be the underdog, building something because you believed in its potential to make the internet better. Our doors are always open if you want to remember what that feels like. Best regards, Daniel Supernault P.S. Keep blocking those links. Every error message is just free advertising for the social web.
Tweet from Libération: To our readers.LiberationLibération has decided to no longer share its content on the social network X as of January 21, 2025.Collaboration with this platform is no longer compatible with the values ​​of our newspaper. Find our articles, investigations, posts and videos on Liberation.fr our and other social networks active to date.
Vista de una alberca, al fondo palmeras y un prominente cielo azul intenso.
The Guardian news site, opinion post by Rebecca Shaw titled "I knew one day I'd have to watch powerful men burn the world down - I just didn't expect them to be such losers".
A guy wrote in bsky: "killing myself repeatedly trying to get this .net winui project to build right. This shit was so easy with wpf! What happened?"
BlueSky screenshot, two posts with the same legend: "access to this page has been denied" and a link to a website with the same legend.
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #4.886.668, Pepe Montfort ‪@montfort.bsky.social‬, joined on 19 feb 2024"
Trabajador sobre un andamio arreglando cajas de envío de paquetería circulando en bandas transportadoras en almacén de Amazon.