Alright, I'm giving up on trying to find an agent to point my users at to try since they all enough friction that the layman will have a hard time setting it up, so I'm going to just make a dedicated chatbot in ScheduleLord.com to call my MCP tools so people can use natural language instead of my UI

Oh yeah, I mentioned I'm writing a novel. If you want to give it a read I'm tossing it up on Royal Road when I finish a chapter. So far it's like a Chapter a week, but I highly doubt I'll be able to keep that up. Ch1: www.royalroad.com/fiction/chap... Ch2: www.royalroad.com/fiction/chap...

I made an MCP server for ScheduleLord. schedulelord.com/mcp So far I've only gotten Claude to connect and use it. Which makes me so mad. It's hard living in the future when even the frontier models are behind me.

I've gotten in to reading graphic novels recently. I've read through Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow. Which is fantastic. DC: New Frontier, which I really enjoy the focus on non-superheroes in this superhero comic book. And now I'm reading through Superman Smashes the Klan, and the art is so cute.

So I'm trying to write a giant real world mecha novel and trying to keep it as hard scifi as I can. And I tried to ask ChatGPT and Grok to give me a critique, and they give me such nitpicky bullshit. Editor's jobs will probably be fine for the forseeable future. Also, anyone want to read it?

I just spent 5 days debugging and finding the root cause of a SQL_AUTH error in a framework. And the whole time the god damn AI agent is gaslighting me, and telling me, nah brah, we got to just do it hacky style because that's just how it works. I fucking hate you AI. Happy, i found the fix, though.

The existence of a hippopotamus implies that there must be a hyperpotamus.

So, on today's episode of bootstrap entrepreneur, I've decided after 2 days of trying door to door sales, I'm just going to mail out the rest of the 1000 flyers I've had built, because door to door makes me what to kill myself. Not that stuffing envelopes is doing much for my will to live.

Last year on my birthday, my employer gave me the gift of severance. Boy, being let go sure is fun. Anyway, after a couple months of interviewing, I decided to start my own company instead. So on my birthday, I introduce to you ScheduleLord! An employee shift scheduling app. www.schedulelord.com

If you're a #smallbusiness that is looking for a employee scheduling solution, I'm working on an app and I need some feedback to make it better. www.schedulelord.com

As a software engineer, I'm very good at making ice cream. That's why we call it soft serve.

Hot take: There should be way more bug Pokemon. Bugs have some of the most diverse species on Earth, so it should make sense that the Pokemon world should mirror that.

A few years ago I thought of a fiction documentary about Ted Turner, called "Returner: The Story of Ted Turner" In it his catch phrase would be, "You've been Ted Turnminated." He'll say it as he gets in a wrestling match with Vince McMahon or something.

Elevator facts: elevators neither elevate, nor tour.

Elevator facts: what’s the difference between an elevator and my children? An elevator never let me down, because I take the stairs.

Elevator facts: if you’re ever trapped on a crowded elevator and fart, it should be safe to blame it on someone else.

Elevator facts: an elevator’s door has enough pressure to not just sever a grown man’s arm but to rip a hole in the very fabric of space/time. Which is actually how elevators work. They just open holes between different realities until you’re on the correct floor.

Elevator facts: elevators are responsible for more deaths every year then sharks, but in order to not make elevator look bad, Big Elevator has reclassified all elevators as sharks to boost shark death numbers.

Elevator fact: the reason in England why they call elevators, “lifts” is because the English have a hard time pronouncing hard L sounds.

Elevator fact: the creator of the elevator, one John Elevatorington, of THE Elevatoringtons, fought John D Rockefeller to the death. John did not survive.

Elevator facts: Elevators were banned in America in 1940. The ban was only lifted in 1942 because people didn’t want to take the stairs.

Claude's all like, "You shouldn't use GIFs they're lossy" And this is why I have trust issues! (If you don't know GIF is lossless)

Turns out building a calendar is very difficult. We didn't go out to build it because it was easy. We did it because we thought it would be easy.

I swear ChatGPT can offer a master class in gaslighting.

I'm reading Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, and it's so good so far. You know, I shit talk comic books stories a lot, but man DC it just elevating the medium and making me eat my words.

I finished Final Space Season 2...and... It's better then Season 1, but I still find it hard to invest in the story when they are so many deus ex machina that it makes it hard to care when anything can happen to bring people back to life or turn them evil...or whatever...

I am so happy with my e2e test suite. I have 51 tests currently (will have more soon), but it's very consistent and reliable. Much to my surprise as my experience with e2e testing before used to be frustrating. Also, it gives me so much confidence in refactoring my code.

Finished FinalSpace season 1 and the production values are amazing but the writing is very cliche and the ending feels like a student art film. I thought that I was getting tired of things subverting tropes and deconstructing genres but after seeing it played straight, i think i want deconstruction.

I keep thinking to myself. Man, I sure wish I was rich. And then the next thought it, I sure hate money. And by hating money, i mean what money does to people. Root of evil and all that.

I mentioned TDD in an earlier post, and it became clear from the responses that there's some confusion about what TDD is. TDD stands for test-driven _development_ (or design). The "test-driven" is an adjective modifying the word "development" (or "design"). 1/10

The duality of man; "Huh, that AI agent figure that out. It's pretty smart." A moment later, "This moron! Stop adding in this trash code, you're introducing bugs and unnecessary complexity for no reason!"

Alright, I made a skill and gave my agent a complicated refactor to implement. They implemented permissioning, it was so huge that it took me days to review the changes. And having to go through line by line and optimize its slop code creates a lot of semantic satiation, where words lose all meaning

if you had to learn how to program you’re a scrub compared to me. i was born a coder. i just had to wait for my eyes and muscles to develop so i could work the keyboard. claude aint shit to me

The worst part about recovering from an accident is I’m going to lose my sweet sweet gains. Will I ever be able to dead lift two plates again?

A tail as old as time. Man versus car car wins. You can tell that I use dictation for this because it’s spelled tail wrong

Ok, after a week of having agents write the majority of my code, I do have to admit, I am technically working faster, however there are a lot of UX, accessibility, and coding patterns that I need to constantly watch for. Which I could have caught the first time if I'd written the code myself.

So they say, as you use AI more you become more comfortable with letting the AI do more. So far my experience is that I'll let it do more, because I'm tired of doing code review and my mind starts to turn off. I don't think this is as effective as the model owners say.

Me: Oh I forgot to add `resolves #[issue]` to my commit that is now second from the head. I'm sure AI can add that for me. AI: Proceeds to get stuck in git rebase hell. Me: Yep...just like a normal developer...

i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript) you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS lyra.horse/x86css/

Alright, next week, I'm going to try and go all in on agentic coding. I'm still highly skeptical and I'm not going to be going all in on the vibes as I'll be expecting to give instructions to the LLM to refactor and not create pure slop. But let's see how much more *productive* I can be.

I'm working on a employee scheduling app called ScheduleLord. Having to deal with time and timezones is a special kind of hell. Why isn't Temporal done yet?

What I hate about AI is that it is always behind. I'm working on zod v4 and they keep recommending v3 methods. It's so god damn frustrating that they can't just go and look at the docs and find the information rather than rely on their outdated training.

When I say I don't know how to do something. I'm not saying, all hope is lost, let's give up (though, I might say that later). What I'm saying is that I don't have a frame of reference to make an educated guess about the problem, but I'm sure I can figure it out. And oftentimes I am able to.

I'm trying to think of a better way to write tests. A kind of next evolution of BDD. www.test2doc.com/blog/2026/02...

"...may the hashes be unique and the tests always green." Sometimes LLMs toss funny weird shit in to my conversations when we're done talking. This is probably the funniest. I think it does this because I'm always making jokes in my prompts.

I just vibe coded up a feature for test2doc. I didn't just blindly accept it. I forced the agent to TDD and then we refactored the implementation to make the code better. It was quick, but I'm not sure if I enjoy coding like this...

I'm experimenting with vibe coding a bit on OMA3 and the LLM has gotten stuck in vim. Classic rookie mistake AI.

Last part of the RWSDK tutorial. www.test2doc.com/docs/tutoria... All done!

Amazing blog post on ASCII art rendering. alexharri.com/blog/ascii-r...

Here’s part 1 of this week’s 4-part Better Offline Enshittifinancial Crisis Special. I walk you through stage 4 of enshittification, when companies decide to enshittify shareholders, and the concept of stock itself. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline