Paul Jensen
@paulbjensen.bsky.social
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“There is no big lie. There is no system. The universe is indifferent” - Donald Draper
Tried to get a monthly mobile broadband plan in Sweden now that I have: - personnummer - Swedish bank account - ID card from Skatteverket - Mobile BankID Salesperson says… “Have you got a work contract?” So tomorrow I have to bring in my work contract in order to get a monthly plan for 299 SEK.
2 days ago
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Duolingo’s psychopath vibes game is strong!
8 days ago
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I built a golf game using Claude Code,
@svelte.dev
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@threlte.xyz
. Quite fun for a few hours of work. Try it out:
www.the-golf-is-golfing.com
HN thread:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4701...
#svelte
#vite
#gamedev
#buildinpublic
12 days ago
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Great piece in the FT about Jeff Buckley
www.ft.com/content/33fe...
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Jeff Buckley’s musical legacy is louder than ever
The singer’s influence lives on in everyone from Sam Fender to James Blake — now he’s the subject of a documentary and in the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time
https://www.ft.com/content/33feb3e4-1fad-4390-881a-69b575c38773
17 days ago
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The FT comments this morning.
18 days ago
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You can now drag and drop a MIDI file into the track timeline and have it be playable by the keyboard or guitar instruments.
lets-make-sweet-music.com
#buildinpublic
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19 days ago
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I built a little FPS with Svelte, Threlte and Vite, using Claude Opus 4.5. Added game controller support. And went from idea to production within 30 minutes, and spent one hour on it so far.
www.mr-spankys-meatballs.com
#buildinpublic
#gamedev
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22 days ago
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Vibe debt - when you’ve been vibe coding so hard that your app has ended up with silly bugs.
23 days ago
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Starting to find some bugs in Let’s Make Sweet Music. I calm this the AI hangover phase.
27 days ago
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TIL in Gothenburg the buses have free WIFI. An absolute godsend when you’ve got a non-EU mobile phone.
29 days ago
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When Claude Opus 4.5 one-shots it.
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about 1 month ago
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What if… the beat sequence could play the sounds of other instruments? five minutes later… lets-make-sweet-music.com
#svelte
#buildinpublic
#claude
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about 1 month ago
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This beat slaps!
lets-make-sweet-music.com
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about 1 month ago
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When you ask Claude Code to do a big change with few details in the prompt:
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about 1 month ago
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I introduced Claude Code to
lets-make-sweet-music.com
- fixed some bugs - made some UI enhancements - added track clip dragging support - added a drum machine Have fun!
#buildinpublic
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Let's make...Sweet Music
A little web app built in Svelte that plays a keyboard making silly noises
https://lets-make-sweet-music.com
about 1 month ago
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Babspixel.com
now supports the Apple pen (and should support other stylus and tablets).
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about 1 month ago
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Oh, and still a rough WIP, but Babsland has traffic
#buildinpublic
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about 1 month ago
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As for Babsland, I introduced Claude Code to it today, and now have support for map elevation, as well as better feedback for selecting and deleting entities in the map. Nice.
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about 1 month ago
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No editing of the asset image editor today (I’ve sort of run out of pressing features to implement). But it’s now available at…
babspixel.com
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asset-editor
http://babspixel.com
about 1 month ago
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Thank you Mark Carney - that is one heck of a speech.
www.ft.com/content/7d96...
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Mark Carney warns of ‘rupture’ to global order as Donald Trump rattles allies
Canadian leader calls on ‘middle powers’ to unite as Davos braces for US president’s arrival
https://www.ft.com/content/7d9609d4-14cd-4b0c-b48c-0b3f2e4f6611
about 1 month ago
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Added 2 new features to that asset image editor built with Claude Opus 4.5: - layers - file load/save in the browser (no backend needed) This is just mind-blowingly productive.
about 1 month ago
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I wondered “Should I make an image asset editor in Svelte for Babsland?” I decided to give Claude Code Opus 4.5 a try. 45 minutes later, I have this:
asset-editor-omega.vercel.app
Code:
github.com/paulbjensen/...
My mind is completely blown.
about 1 month ago
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Managed to resurrect a 5-years-old codebase for a dashboard application using a combo of ChatGPT 5.2, Claude Opus 4.5, and a massive amount of hurdle-jumping. But finally got this up and running again.
about 1 month ago
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Stunning photos of China’s vast Solar as Wind energy installations. This is the way.
e360.yale.edu/digest/china...
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Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and Solar Buildout
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/china-renewable-photo-essay
about 1 month ago
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This chart is the total number of questions asked on Stack Overflow per month. Quite jaw-dropping.
data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflo...
about 2 months ago
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RIP Isiah Whitlock Jr. What a great character actor he was.
youtu.be/4UXJZgOiVAI?...
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The Wire: Shit Clay Davis Says | HBO
YouTube video by HBO
https://youtu.be/4UXJZgOiVAI?si=xwzdcyowZTJWs3iC
about 2 months ago
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Giving this terminal-based markdown editor a try:
terminaltrove.com/dawn?utm_sou...
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dawn - A distraction-free writing environment. draft anything, write now. - Terminal Trove
A distraction-free writing environment. draft anything, write now.
https://terminaltrove.com/dawn?utm_source=nl&utm_medium=email&ref=nl&utm_term=2025-12-30&utm_campaign=Terminal+Trove+Weekly+Issue+103
about 2 months ago
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Should really turn this into SimCity.
about 2 months ago
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Howling with laughter at this
www.theocharis.dev/blog/kidnapp...
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I Was Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn and All I Got Was 1.50 EUR
A Christmas Eve journey. Deutsche Bahn. 35 kilometers.
https://www.theocharis.dev/blog/kidnapped-by-deutsche-bahn/
about 2 months ago
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RIP Chris Rea and thanks for the music.
youtu.be/-yXVufG5oV0?...
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Chris Rea - On the Beach (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Chris Rea
https://youtu.be/-yXVufG5oV0?si=jP9_N34NiEpqASBg
2 months ago
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Watching Pluribus, and wondering “is that Howard’s voice?” on the recorded phone message? Well, surprise.
2 months ago
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Finished the new documentation for Sarus (a Javascript library for WebSockets):
sarus.anephenix.com
Really happy with Starlight as a documentation library. Will now look to setup documentation for the other open source libraries that Anephenix has.
#javascript
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A JavaScript library for WebSockets
Handle reconnections, event listener bindings, and message queuing with ease.
https://sarus.anephenix.com
2 months ago
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Great talk on CSS features at CascadiaJS 2025:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW6G...
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25 new & rad feature of CSS
YouTube video by CascadiaJS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW6GECIzvsw
2 months ago
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ChatGPT, are you feeling ok?
2 months ago
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Pluribus Episode 6 is just full of surprises - who could envisage a Turkish cover of the Doors' "When you're strange" for the end credits?
2 months ago
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Starlight looks fantastic for building documentation sites:
starlight.astro.build
Currently porting Sarus' documentation to use it instead of the custom Next.js app version.
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Starlight 🌟 Build documentation sites with Astro
Starlight helps you build beautiful, high-performance documentation websites with Astro.
https://starlight.astro.build
2 months ago
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Flight delayed, ground staff inspecting the right engine.
3 months ago
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Dear Netflix, Now you own HBO, I ask only for one thing… The final season of WestWorld 🙏
3 months ago
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This article with Chris Sawyer (the creator of Transport Tycoon and Rollercoaster Tycoon) is a great read.
medium.com/atari-club/i...
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Interview with RollerCoaster Tycoon’s Creator, Chris Sawyer
When and how did you first start thinking about creating a game about rollercoasters?
https://medium.com/atari-club/interview-with-rollercoaster-tycoons-creator-chris-sawyer-684a0efb0f13
3 months ago
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“We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.” - Confucius
3 months ago
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Mac OS’ case insensitive file system resolution strikes again. GitHub workflow (running Ubuntu) fails, and after a quick google I find myself looking at a blog post written 6 years ago… by me.
medium.com/@paulbjensen...
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What Mac OS’s case-insensitive filenames teaches us
I was writing some code for a Node.js project on my MacBook. I wrote the code, the tests passed, so I commited it to GitHub and the build…
https://medium.com/@paulbjensen/what-mac-oss-case-insensitive-filenames-teaches-us-cd8feee7b0b3
3 months ago
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Today I learned about Small Language Models:
www.datacamp.com/blog/small-l...
Quite appealing in terms of the ease of deployment, and more significantly the energy costs.
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Small Language Models: A Guide With Examples
Learn about small language models (SLMs), their benefits and applications, and how they compare to large language models (LLMs).
https://www.datacamp.com/blog/small-language-models
3 months ago
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I have a contract that I want to sign in Sweden, but I have none of the 16 different authentication systems available to digitally sign the document with. 16 different authentication systems? How is this possible? Makes me appreciate the Estonian e-residency system even more.
3 months ago
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This was so good.
youtu.be/MtF4Tc5qDLA
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This Question Pissed Him Off
YouTube video by Big A
https://youtu.be/MtF4Tc5qDLA
4 months ago
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Duolingo giving off psychopath vibes in their email copy.
4 months ago
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Written by Vince Gilligan, starring the brilliant Rhea Seehorn, and funded by Apple’s giant money cannon. It’s happening.
4 months ago
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What a hero. I hope he gets an award for his bravery.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Train hero who saved passengers during attack named
The rail worker credited with saving multiple lives is named as Samir Zitouni.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxr4qn6d66o
4 months ago
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Apparently X now preloads links in tweets in the background in a webview.
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4580...
What a great way to juke the stats on traffic referral.
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Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45807775#45808121
4 months ago
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Pun of the week.
www.reddit.com/r/london/com...
4 months ago
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Over 1/3 of the market cap of the entire S&P 500 is in just 6 companies. Their combined market cap of $19.163tn is 34.6% of the $55.379tn market cap of the S&P 500: - NVidia ($4.461tn) - Microsoft ($3.818tn) - Apple ($3.744tn) - Alphabet ($3.067tn) - Amazon ($2.272tn) - Meta ($1.801tn) Bonkers.
4 months ago
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