Mclu-points for AI: AI as extensions for humans + hot/cold media
Tired: tokenmaxxing Inspired: Mcluhanmaxxing
Jake Simonds's Blog
prevously latenthomer.leaflet.pub (old blog jakesimonds.github.io)
Latest posts
Log-level thoughts (HTML , how to share slop , AI is like a really big number)
And introducing...the Slog!
"More motorcars are selling, but we're not seeing the jump in hay sales or manure shoveling jobs"
The story of this chart is the people who made the apps
Streetlight Notes: The OODA Hourglass + HTML Thoughts
quick thoughts from streetlight.jakesimonds.com iterating
Midi Harness: An Experimental Stack
1 hook + 1 skill + 1 html template + 1 Go Listener + 1 (brief) system prompt + claude code + wisprflow + MIDI
Viewpoints for AI
non-scientific but slightly more specific
B.Y.O.C.: Baby Bird Failure Case
build your own claw notes
The Instrument Analogy
riffing on Geoffrey Huntley's LLM-as-guitar analogy
Harness Experiments: Danger Zone
see link
Favorite claude skill: /phone-mirror
I am a Senior Markdown Engineer
Why you should still learn to code: lunch with Stephen Hawking thought experiment
Briefly: Imagine you've won some sweepstakes, and you're going to have lunch with Stephen Hawking (imagine he's still alive...while we're imagining things). You're a normal person, you don't know that much about physics. But if you brush up the night before the lunch, your conversation with Stephen Hawking is going to go much better. The guy who knows all the physics will have a lot more he can…
How to jklb.social
best practices/use cases I'm building for
jklb.social Dev Notes: the Like Chorus Explained
what's it like???
jklb.social's anti-manifesto
"Antimanifesto: contradictions that have your active attention, that you steer by"
AT friends #7: @zzstoatzz.io (aka nate!)
informal chats with people building cool stuff in the open social world
AT friends #6: @chaosgreml.in (aka Bryan Guffey!)
informal chats with people building cool stuff in the open social world
Context Windows and (quadratically scaling) one-to-one human relationships
what do wafrn.net , Rangeley, ME and Anthropic have in common?
jklb.social posts
link collection
Software 2027
speculation and horse-car analogies
Baby's First claude skill: tools.jakesimonds.com deploy
(I'm the baby. Waah.)
Homer's car is the perfect LLM-coding metaphor
stop the search. We've found the perfect metaphor
jklb.social: Dev notes #1
new features!
New Bottlenecks
when code is free, other people's eyeballs become a bottleneck
My job...is just...context window
Ralph Method -- documenting my experience
jklb.social manifesto
the only bluesky client with U2's "Songs of Innocence" included in every build
test post 456
testing (previous post ... link works but isn't showing up on my blog)
Ralphing -- first thoughts
"It's beck pressah, folks!"
2 LLM traps I have sprung on myself
in using LLMs to code + learn
How Bizarre
small social media experiences I have had recorded for posterity
2025 Delights and Not-So-Delighfuls
(This is an annual thing ) Delights Top & tail of the year in Latin America Began the year in Guadalajara Mexico, and (almost) finished it in Buenos Aires (back to Maine for the holidays, but was in BA close enough that I saw xmas decorations in the summertime). My personal ambitions for Spanish have decreased a bit recently. I have enough to get by as a traveler. I can ask people what their…
I Think You Should LEARN software engineering
three sketches that illustrate/capture something about software
what I learned at an Ethereum convention:2
tier accounts, what hard parts can get 1,000,000 times easier?
ATProto Resource List for the curious
totally unofficial/incomplete/arbitrary list of ATProto resources for the curious
We're firing 600 people because there were too many meetings
maybe technical writing should be more than dumbing hard things down
Baking Soda
Visual Essay on social media in 2025
testing 123
Okay ATProto fam. If you notice any bugs let me know. Because I just...changed: the 'publication/...' field for ALL my blog entries on latenthomer.leaflet.pub and it moved them over here, to jakesimonds.leaflet.pub. I think it worked? And the old links seem to work too? But wouldn't be surprised if I screwed something up.
What I learned at an Ethereum Convention
Devconnect 25 quick thoughts
Elevator Selfies
NFC card + static webpage + lambda + bsky burner + elevator
Great and not great things about San Francisco (till I run out of things to say)
with the use (& potential abuse) of leaflet subpages
Improving my relationship to technology...with more technology!
A few personal digital practices getting me away from my phone
Update, Offer, Ask
Life Update post! Woo!
Resolution: Do one thing a day
I want to try to do one thing a day. If the thing I am doing turns out to be frustrating I can always quit, and take the day off for rest. I would rather do this than pivot to something easier. I want to try to sit more in the discomfort of "stuck"ness and see what happens. Motto: "Don't just do something! Stand there"
Vibe Coders are Nepo-babies
A specific analog for how specifically I think LLM-use is "like cheating" (and why I think it's okay to cheat sometimes)
San Francisco '25ers
first impressions
Services
Four things I can do
AT friends #4 & #5: @gabboman.at.app.wafrn.net and @djara.dev of Wafrn
informal chats with people building cool stuff in the open social world
AT friends #3: Tim Straub of Down the Rabbit Hole
Special Edition of AT friends where I pitch my High School English teacher (who has a great Substack) on the merits of Open Social
LLM Analogies I've heard
Trying to jot down as many as I can think of
AT friends
Links to all interviews & FAQ
AT friends #2: @snarfed.org of Bridgy Fed (@ap.brid.gy)
informal chats with people building excellent stuff on (or in this case around) ATProto