Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him)

Moderately well-known software developer. American living in France/Malta.

I have a poetic license to kill.

I build big things with AI and teach devs how to use it effectively.

Feel free to disagree with me. Feel free to push back on my ideas. That's how we learn. If you revert to insults, I'm happy to block you. We all should strive to be better. Yes, that includes myself.

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2026-06-12 09:35:19 UTC

In Malta, August 15th is a holiday: The Feast of Mary's Assumption. Unfortunately, this did not fit on our calendar.
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2026-05-25 08:41:39 UTC

This is the extraction I've been writing about. See https://fosstodon.org/deck/@ovid/116334866923361500 for more info.
I desperately need time to finish the book on this, but it's going to take a while.

2026-04-09 06:42:41 UTC

Current research on Extraction: Discussing with a friend why so many laws are inscrutable—they read like diffs. This is a problem because "legibility" (not just transparency) is critical for inclusive institutions.
As it turns out, there's fair amount of research which suggests that many of these illegible laws are deliberately written to conceal who gets to benefit.
Here's a starter, in case you're curious: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0954349X21000266

2026-04-03 12:36:57 UTC

For anyone following my posts about "Extraction" (the Elite consolidating power and taking your money) being a universal threat across all economic systems, I built a CustomGPT for that: https://chatgpt.com/g/g-69c792b282d88191a6c392dbd56b6c3f-extractive
Type in the name of any institution/organization and it will give you a report about its extractive behavior. If you think it's wrong, share the chat with me. Run it a few times, though, to understand what it's reporting.