i think someone over there passed go without collecting their $200

good morning! we have a latte do!

"hello! wanna see the space station?!"

looks like the iss will be highly visible and flying directly overhead tonight. time to break out the ham radios...

i'm jason huggins, it's september 12, 2025, and linkedin has frozen my account for 24 hours for suspected bot activity. this is my story. youtu.be/Mzh6DIa989A

walkie talkie

Morning at the Marina. Today's sunrise at Navy Pier Marina in Chicago.

cool story, bro. where's my choco taco?

i like big lattes and i cannot lie... there's a fine line between bad latte art and good nsfw latte art.

front row seats for the chicago air and water show today. 🛩️

so close!!! #latteart #backupcareers

found the cheesiest place in america

Take care of yourself. Eat a high protein meal, drink a big glass of water, get enough sleep, charge your phone away from your bed, and take a walk outside if you can. One thing at a time. I know how hard you're trying. I am so proud of you.

making and testing a functional 3d chess simulator is the ultimate nerd snipe testtrack.org/3d-chess

here's the thing about playing 3d chess: you don't actually have to be very good at it to impress people. all you have to do is try... *once*. and then boom -> "omg! they're playing three-dimensional chess!" youtube.com/shorts/p5AZ9...

vibium - yc f25 - founder video my reply to yc's spring 2025 request for startups for browser automation y... not, amirite? youtu.be/d-YNQqRnVao

i made a test site to test testing tools called test track. it now also has a test track. testtrack.org/vehicle-simu... (i'm planning to use the site to compare and benchmark playwright vs puppeteer vs selenium webdriver vs lots of ai-powered options that are available now.)

do *not* share this information with count rugen.

While I was in Ireland last month, several people suggested watching The Wind that Shakes the Barley. Finally got around to watching it tonight. But I could only get about 30 minutes in before I had to turn it off. It's so intense.

Tired: "Playwright vs Selenium" Wired: Vibe coding your own WebDriver BiDi library from scratch.

All-Ireland Hurling Championship on now! www.rte.ie/sport/hurlin...

on my someday/maybe list for years was recreating one of my favorite video games from when i was a kid: apache strike. but it always seemed like it'd be too much work. then claude code comes along and boom: a proof-of-concept written on my phone while i'm in bed with a cold. behold: "drone delivery"

In 20 years, we've gone from no one caring about browser automation to every YC company being a browser automation company. Wild times.

🎶 "Won't you take me to..." 🎶

🛠️ this should be the default WORDCHARS=${WORDCHARS//\/}

now serving: burrito 🌯 -- a quickjs wrapper for nim* 👑 code, tests, api docs, fancy landing page, and more. demo & details: tapsterbot.github.io/burrito/

life is...

i'm about to go send a fax in the year of our lord, two thousand twenty five.

big triscuit does not want you to have access to the means of production

"you're just cherry picking the low-hanging fruit."

the live "firehose" view of all jobs (aka "checks") on the valet network is my favorite feature - a dashboard view i've wished i had for *years*... like a wall of screens at a high-end bar/restaurant showing 20 different live games simultaneously. preview--valet-network.lovable.app/checks?live=...

What "vibe coding" tools do you use? (to create prototypes / proof of concepts as a dev)

new valet network preview just landed. primary touch point should be like google or chatgpt with only a field & a button. "lazy mode" optimized. you don't even have to enter any text. just hit the button! preview--valet-network.lovable.app

whoops, i guess i'm an nft creator now...

"Bitcoin is faster than credit cards" "boring" mainstream businesses like steak 'n shake starting to accept bitcoin and the lightning network for payments kinda seems like a big deal. "crypto winter" might be starting to thaw...

he's going to have the irs audit him, isn't he?

It's for real people. Note that this is a company that actually manufactures in the US but has to source materials and parts from where they are made. #tariffshurtbusiness

someday i'm going to open a combination coffee shop, community center, and electronics workshop space. it'll be called "common ground".

fun fact: if you've ever waited for a flight connection at o'hare or midway, you also get to claim authentic chicagoan status. excluding flights to/from new york, however. (sorry, i don't make the rules. maybe it was the parking space dibs rules committee...)

that's one heck of an update.

for the kids too young to remember, this is like 5-10% of what it was like in chicago when obama won.

begrudgingly, i have to admit trump could legit take credit for this.

fun fact: the pope does not eat deep dish pizza, except for when guests visit from out of town.

see it's a regular pope but then you top it with yellow mustard, onions, relish, a dill spear, tomato slices, sport peppers, celery salt

New Chicago pope over dere by Rome's. You wan ennyding?

I bet no one had "the Chicago Pope" on their 2025 predictions list.

it's not a light read, but kevin kelly's "new rules for the new economy" has been my inspiration for many years. it was published near the peak of the dot com bubble in 1998, but still feels relevant today. pdf -> kk.org/mt-files/boo...

Buried the lede *and* failed to show it. I demand a further investigation into the most important details of this story.

happy birthday, tapster! 10 years! 🥳🎂🤖🎉