Subway ads
I have a silly dream. I just want my company to be advertised on the NYC subway system at some point. I don't know why, but to me this is my definition of success.
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Castria: Product Hunt
I've created a Product Hunt Launch for tonight at Midnight PDT (3am ET tomorrow).
Why have children?
There are many reasons people give for why you should have children. Most didn't move me but I have a new one.
The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales
I like this game, it scratches the Zelda itch. Plus I've always wondered what a 16-bit game would look like if it was fully ray-traced
Castria Now Supports CarPlay
Your commute just got a lot more enjoyable.
I get why people are confused
Recently I've been trying to codify some of the things I've been doing with AI to be a little more rigorous. That's when things got weird.
Castria: Android mp3 decode 18x worse than iPhone
On of the critical workflows for Castria is doing the ad detection on the client. It needs to be done on the client for copyright reasons. Castria never modifies any files, clients each download their own copy allowing podcasters to collect their download for CPM as well as do dynamic ad insertion…
Weekly limit hit
Wow, it's been a long time since I've hit my weekly limit on Claude Code Thanks Mythos!
What is the Wealth Pump?
The wealth pump, as it exists in the United States, is when you accumulate wealth and use it to buy political influence, which lets you change the rules to accumulate even more wealth. Rinse and repeat.
The Pendulum Swings
Prediction: Over the next couple years Apps will stop being Mobile first and will return to Web and desktop as Agents become the primary user.
Rumor
Rumor is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything. It does not need doors and windows -- sometimes it does not need people. It can exist free and wild, running from ear to ear without ever touching lips. Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
Hello, world (again)
After many years on WordPress, this site is being rebuilt as a custom ASP.NET Core + Vue 3 + vite-ssg app. SEO-first, single domain, hub-style home page. More to come.
Reverse Engineering MediaCreationTool.exe
The future is less frustrating! I spent about 6 hours the other day trying to create a bootable USB drive so I could re-install Windows 11 on my Alienware Aurora R15 AMD box. I wanted to play Star Craft 2 again and it was crashing on my Bazzite install.
I’m winning
😜
One of the best uses of agentic AI, specifically Claude C…
One of the best uses of agentic AI, specifically Claude CoWork, I’ve had recently is morning briefings. I’ve created morning briefings to check on my calendar and stuff. But the real unlock is asking it to keep up on the latest of local LLM developments. Every day it checks for new hardware…
Announcing OpenPriceMap
Think Gasbuddy for Everything. OpenPriceMap is a community-driven price map that helps you find the cheapest groceries near you — and every price you report makes the map better for everyone.
Not the robopocalypse we were expecting
My wife just sent me this photo of a bulletin of someone either grifting or trying to get their AI agent a job #nyc #new york #aijobspocalypse
Buying Bitcoin? You’re Investing in Crime
Bitcoin has been called many things — digital gold, the future of money, a hedge against inflation. But let’s cut through the marketing haze and call it what it actually is: the greatest money laundering tool ever invented, hiding in plain sight as an “investment.” The crypto industry has spent…
Taskleef failed, but I’m still happy with it
I’m shutting down the advertising I was running for Taskleef. While I love the thing I built, and had wanted it my entire career – I kinda knew that task management was going away. I couldn’t get any of the younger devs at Meta to do it at all, even to help themselves.
BREAKING: Software Engineers form Union
Across the industry software engineers have finally banded together and formed the first software guild. They’re asking for royalties because like a book or TV show, their code once written is sold an unlimited number of times.
Is it Fair?
Today I want to ask something of the technologists who have been affected by the most recent waves of layoffs at tech companies. Were those companies struggling? Were they losing money?
What are we building?
I’ve heard multiple times now from legacy media that AI companies in Silicon Valley are trying to build God.
Taskleef Is Now on the App Store
I built Taskleef because every Kanban tool I tried felt like a glorified to-do list. What started as a web app for people who actually care about how they manage their work has just hit a big milestone — Taskleef is now available on the iOS App Store. Download Taskleef for iOS A Companion, Not a Clone Most apps try to cram their entire desktop experience onto a phone screen. We went a different…
Can I blame any of this on Star Trek: The Next Generation?
Honestly? Yes. Picard ruined a lot of us.
Experts are usually expert of the past not the future …
Experts are usually expert of the past not the future Sebastian Thrun
SOTA Running on my laptop
Holy crap, the movement to get huge models working well on local hardware has kicked off and the results are impressive.
I have no idea what I’m doing when it comes to marketing.…
I have no idea what I’m doing when it comes to marketing. However, over the past week I’ve begun ads for Taskleef and today I overhauled the landing page.
Maxxing is the thief of joy
Maxxing is the thief of joy
Lane In Stay
That’s how I always read this anyway
Lane In Stay
That’s how I always read this anyway
Marc Andreessen’s name will be mostly forgotten within 2 generations
Just like the Guilded Age robber barons. Only academics who study this time in history will know the name.
Do you need to read the code?
There are several debates happening in the tech industry right now amongst software engineers. One of them goes along the lines of “If you don’t read the code the AI is producing, then how do you know what it does?!”
Amazon is the Winner as Oil Spikes
Looks like Oil prices are going to remain higher for longer than everyone would like.
Mr. Rate it All!
I’ve made another Chrome Extension that I always wish had existed. Mr. Rate It All! – it allows you to rate anything you can select on a webpage. The problem: Restaurants in NYC try and do a lot of things, but many are only good at a few. Their Chicken Parm is excellent, but their spaghetti and meatballs, maybe not so much. Delivery apps only let you rate the entire restaurant, not the items…
It is generally true that if you can fool developers into…
It is generally true that if you can fool developers into thinking they are “mastering” something hard (as opposed to learning tolerance for something badly designed), you can build a fiercely loyal priesthood. Avdi Grimm
We owe George Lucas an apology
Turns out the blockading of a trade route is a big deal and worthy of the Jedi’s attention
NGL, feeling pretty smug about driving an electric car ri…
NGL, feeling pretty smug about driving an electric car right now
“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self…
“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.” Steven Winterburn
I just got my new MacBook Pro M5 Pro and I wonder if I ma…
I just got my new MacBook Pro M5 Pro and I wonder if I made the wrong choice not buying the highest end laptop I could get.
Just canceled my 1Password subscription. I too received t…
Just canceled my 1Password subscription. I too received the email that the price was going up by 40% for the family plan.
You become an expert in a subject but alone in it If you…
You become an expert in a subject but alone in it If you love being right, you’ll be right alone. -Eugene s Mom
It really grinds my gears to order something online. Have…
It really grinds my gears to order something online. Have no idea when it’s actually coming, only to find out that it shipped and REQUIRES A SIGNATURE.
Starting Career Pro Tip
I normally don’t do this because I don’t have much advise for how to get through the technical interviews in big tech.
Happy MAR10 Day!
What the literati get wrong in their outrage over AI writ…
What the literati get wrong in their outrage over AI writing is that 50% of people are writing BELOW AVERAGE by definition. So for half the population, average is a marked improvement over what they are capable of/interested in.
One week only!
SPRING! In NYC
What I’ve learned about social media over the years is th…
What I’ve learned about social media over the years is that people really are just trying their worst
I’m not sure how my retirement account feels about being…
I’m not sure how my retirement account feels about being labeled a Trad IRA
Should I start GLP-1 when I know that the release of GLP-…
Should I start GLP-1 when I know that the release of GLP-2 is likely right around the corner?
They had decided to abort the facts before they could gro…
They had decided to abort the facts before they could grow into the truth