Y’all not beating the solipsism allegations.

It should go without saying that you're all robots and I'm the only one who is real.

Go ahead. Lead me into temptation. I think I can take it.

I'm shutting down Yetto, the app and the company. It was a fucking blast and I have a lot of thoughts, but now's not the time. So here's a little send off. Let me know if you want to talk or hang out or work on something together. balevine.com/2026/01/29/g...

Let's see Paul Allen's claude.md file.

Listen to this guy.

If you're a developer surrounded by people debating the utility of LLMs, you are being misled. The advent of agents decisively settles the conversation. The real question is: how do you ship software that leverages their power? I spent 2025 answering this question networkgames.fyi/the-year-eve...

I read about Gas Town and the Ralph Wiggum loop over the last few weeks, along with a bunch of similar and related ideas. This week I tried a mish-mash of approaches and ended up building a desktop app to manage concurrent Claude sessions. Started using it on Dashbort and damn this is cool stuff.

Normalize day drinking.

Buh. Hambug.

If you’re going out to eat over the holidays and tipping less than 25% regardless of the quality of the service, I think you’re a bad person. (This is specific to the United States. Europeans can stay out of this.)

Billionaires shouldn’t be allowed to use social media. Or computers. They can earn that privilege back by giving away their money.

It’s weird that “ham fisted” is an insult.

I once saw a dude jogging in the airport. Gym shorts, t-shirt, covered in sweat. Running and dodging people in Terminal C at Newark Airport. You don't want that. Nobody wants that. Please let's all just travel in peace and as little sweating and coughing on other people as possible.

Mayonnaise is just finely pureed egg salad. Change my mind.

Thank god we're living in a simulation. Can you imagine if this were real? All of this? It boggles the mind.

Let's everybody settle down.

I don't think there's anything more satisfying than sitting at a coffee shop, at a small table on the sidewalk, drinking a cappuccino and reading a book while a dog lounges at your feet.

Why are we putting pianos in airports? That shit should be illegal. Or at least subject to public shame.

ROY BATTY: …I rode on the back decks of a blinker and watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments... they'll be gone. CHATGPT: That’s a powerful story 🎯 Thank you for sharing with me! It really spoke to your passion for space! 🚀

Sorry about us-east-1. I was trimming some hedges and didn't notice that cable. Should have it all taped up by Friday.

And then it would happen two dozen more times before an article comes out on CNN with the headline “Three Dead After Humanoid Drink Pitcher Tramples Entire Family”, describing how previous incidents had gone without investigation.

You better believe if an anthropomorphic pitcher of sugary kid’s drink burst through your living room wall, the police would show up 30 minutes later to take a statement and file it away without taking a single action.

There are two kinds of people in this world. And they're both terrible.

One of those days where you get up and put your ass on inside out.

Comply in advance? Brother, I don’t even wipe.

Kafka's "Metamorphosis" except it's me and I wake up as a crab and my family and friends are totally okay with it. However, I'm still unable to get to work on time.

Software sucks and we shouldn't have to use it.

If I’m ever asked to name two people who were born at the ideal time and place for who they are, I would name Charles Munger and Ray Romano. Easy.

Whenever two famous people die within a week of each other, I instinctively say, "Kissinger when?" This is a habit I have no interest in breaking.

Thank god for AI slop. I was running out of content to consume.

8 hours for rest 8 hours for work 8 hours for more work

Open mouth coughing at the airport is so back.

I'll bet that doctor hated Pagliacci.

What the fuck does "Ph.D. level intelligence" even mean?

I know a fair number of people with PhDs and I'll bet a non-zero number of them can't accurately count the number of "b"s in the word blueberry. We don't have good working definitions of "intelligence" or "reason" or "thought".

A lot of people are using the phrase "this changes everything" lately. Mostly in relation to AI shit. Is that a phrase that AI is writing? I don't know. But it's annoying. Not everything can change everything. Let's all calm the fuck down.

A friend of mine once told me, after reviewing some of my code, that I write software like my first language was FORTRAN. He did not know at the time that it was true. I think about that a lot. Programming languages have accents.

1 like = 1 ham

Where's all this "meaningful" and "interesting" work that AI was going to free us up to do? Is the meaningful work in the room with us right now?

Not gonna lie. Building shit with Claude Code is a ton of fun in a way that I didn't think it would be until I got better at it. I bristled when a friend told me it was a "skill issue" but... here we are.

Sunday night side project time. Purchased a domain. Set up an app on Clever Cloud. Deploying. Let me know if you want to play a game in Slack. PORKOPOLIS is almost ready for playtesters.

Released a cool feature on Yetto today. Trigger automations from activity in other applications. GitHub issue gets closed? Run an automation that labels the Yetto conversation and auto-responds to the customer. So much of the work of Support is connected to other teams. Your tools should be too.

OH: "Whatever is happening with deli ham is not 'regular.'"

Do you want to play a card game in Slack? Because I'm making a new one. You're an NGO building public services for your community, but you're competing with other NGOs in an unfriendly environment. I'm looking for playtesters soon. Let me know if you're interested.

ChatGPT: "You're absolutely right. There are four lights."

For some reason, my desk collects coasters but not empty glasses or bottles. Like a college student who is obsessed with the neatness of their desk.

I hate when a bug fix is simple but I don't figure it out until I'm in a bad mood.

People are still using the term "prompt engineering" as if it doesn't just mean "make a wish to an electrified box of sand."