New England Punt-riots 🦶🏈

If they were playing by the river in DC, it would be the Punt-omac 🏈

most defensive game I've ever seen.. perhaps? 🏈

seen in a local slack today (someone being a wannabe AI Coolkid) "why do we even use IDEs?" ... and (big eye roll here.. ) .. sheesh, stop it, just stop. Some are so overhyped that they're getting ridiculous. AI is a tool. IDEs are a tool. Lots of things are tools. Chill, man. Use what works.

I wrote Digress! It is like "git for conversations with Claude" When you dont want to lose your train of thought, digress spawns a new claude terminal, which has all of the context of the parent. Mac only, iTerm2, uses AppleScript. It's a toy project, have fun! github.com/DanielSmith/...

most confusing thing I have seen today (from some YT vid): "Claude is sponsoring this video. Here is my special link to Claude"... and... no discount? Hello? Like, why? I mean, if you're going to have a special link, do what Diggnation did .... 50% off for 1st 3 months, etc.

installing CachyOS... ama 🤖 #linux #cachyos

Will Anthropic do a niche fitness AI, called... Claude Bod? 💪

best Pinnochio-inspired line I have heard about OpenAI offering: "Gepetto 5!"

Well, I had fun.

so I went through this whole rigamarole of having my resume in markdown and spitting it out to plain text with pandoc (still needed cleanup) and it was even worse for docx, and... ... deep breath... I ended up having to tweak a lot in macOS Pages...

was one of the better #wwdc keynotes, ever the version scheme, shared design language (liquid glass), and the flow of features across platforms are all wins.

for the month of July: * please, no new AI releases of anything * we all stop paying attention to "the latest" * we use the month just to catch up and breathe #yeahRight would be nice though :)

Was hoping that Beats Flex would be good headphones for walks 15 minutes with them, and I'm sending them back! So so sound. Bad fit (tried 3 different eartips). Strange access to controls. Eh, the wired earbuds that came with my iPhone from 10 years ago sound better... Ordered an off-brand.

I was not just imagining things... (good thing we have standards 🤖)

splitting my resume into ATS-friendly vs People readable versions. a bigger picture: * we used to (and still do) write with SEO in mind * now we write with AI in mind In a way, I dont like that. I prefer to just write for humans. True AI progress? When we dont have to think of AI parsing.

So I'd been a holdout on upgrading my Hackintosh for quite a while (Big Sur). I thought about Sonoma, but will punt and just go to Monterey (macOS 12). Tired of the endless tweaking it takes to get one going – been doing this since 2012. An entry level mac mini would make me smile. #mac

there are several good YouTube channels for keeping up with AI... ....and... many hucksters and "NFT all over again" personalities. I find that a good indicator to drop a channel is if they rely on using "Insane!" in their titles.

looking for more work (add 10-40 more hours) * lots of AI awareness / usage * react / vue / next / pinia / zustand * node / laravel / redis / mysql / mongodb * tons of APIs: google maps, places, etc resume.dansmithcreates.org

A restaurant called “Don’t fill up on that” where all we serve are the free bread courses from other restaurants. Cheddar Bay biscuits, chips and salsa, brown bread from Outback, breadsticks from the Olive Garden, and the servers are always all “now don’t fill up on this” and we all laugh and laugh

shoehorning an AI to run locally on minimal hardware by quantizing the hell out of it is like.. compressing a JPEG @ 99%.. I mean sure, it can be done, but it seems more like bragging rights than useful. 🤖

#copilot vs #roocode vs #cline what's your fave choice on #vscode ?

Looking for good developer (js / python / ai / design) discords and slacks based in SF Bay Area. I've been away 7 years (way too long), and want to get back in touch. also, pining to move back, and am trying to figure that out. Even short-term ideas welcome.

there's a bunch of tech youtubers that edit out every pause. A 10 minute video feels exhausting. It's an intense talking wall with no letup. Topics that'd otherwise be a joy become unbearable to watch. slow, down. be, human. (I dont wanna single anyone out, but we can all think of examples)

Cheeky...

one more... am glad that we are past the bulk of Web3 hype. NFTs for utility might be interesting, and perhaps blockchain.. but most of it? Eh, pass. AI technologies are much more relatable, applicable, and useful then Web3. Might take longer to get past the worst of the hype.

sure is a wave of videos that overhype what AI can do... .. dont get me wrong, AI can do a lot! but statements like: "can literally do anything, which is ready to ship and fully functional" make me tune out right away. It's a credibility thing. It reminds me of Web3 overhype.

Rabbit Rabbit 🐇🐇

I want a tech doc w/diagrams I like the Deep Research option on Gemini and others (ChatGPT), but, is there any one offering that can do Both: * give me artifacts: share w/link * embed images! At least flow diagrams. Giving me clunky ASCII diagrams, or bits of unrendered Mermaid, eh... really?

I was a skater back in the 1900's and have observed vert for.. well, several decades. If I say this is one of the most impressive video parts ever, well.. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FCE...

wow, how did I not know about Timeline in VS Code? Go to Explorer view and pick a file... good demo of this in 1st part of Jack's video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOjQ...

Coding with an AI is like pair programming with someone who has had 3 cups of coffee ☕☕☕ but at any moment, it might seem like they have had 5 shots of Whiskey 🥃🥃🥃🥃🥃

hey, @vscode.dev and @github.com ... this gets fixed soon, ya? I pay an extra fee for copilot each month...

Guess what? AI can assist with procrastination! So, you have code to do... but.. you can keep pestering an AI to generate ever more elaborate implementation plans It will feel like you are accomplishing something and then, oh, look at the time! Time for Lunch

You know what copilot edit mode in VS Code needs? it's simple.. come here.. I'll whisper it... "a dry run mode" right? Like, show me what your editing crazyness will be, but.. dont actually do it. Dont make reach for that Undo, or the "omg stop, what the hell?!" button. Just, dry run....

ok, so, two very good insta 360, um, videos... not really reviews, more of creative exercises not surprising, coming from Casey Neistat and Dan Mace The IMPOSSIBLE Camera www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud2B... Quentin Tarantino Directed a Day in My Life www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqXt...

my fun today was nerdy... going in circles with PHP / Laravel 10.x to do SSE (Server Side Events, to push to client). Punting to write a small Node server to handle that.... I am so much more fond of Node – long lived connections rock. #node #laravel

ok so I just watched the Last of Us and now I need to go take a walk and see some friendly faces and whew.. sheesh...

Just now I misread something as: "Uncaffeinated adults are uniquely vulnerable to the measles" and I thought, yes, this tracks, of course. ☕

I just got a certificate! Python Data Structures & Algorithms + LEETCODE Exercises Although I feel very current on many things AI (mcp, agentic editing), I also want to be fresh on some fundamentals (and am chipping away at a harder course). Want to be, well.. rounded 🎡 ude.my/UC-2576bed4-...

thinking of getting a refurbished iPhone? Better hop to it... I got an unlocked iPhone SE (Gen 2) a few days ago for $120, with the hunch that prices would shoot up because of tariffs. Sure enough, the price bounced up to $142 today.

hoping to see a good video soon of the new #vscode copilot features. It looks like they are trying to catch up to Cursor. this bit looks promising: code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot...

Slack question / wondering out loud: is there a way to have a different notification sound, per channel? I may or may not be on ≈12 Slack channels, and, well, different sounds would be handy....

I just reupped my Wired subscription. It's a bargain @ $12 / year.. 💸 but, wait, there's more! If you go to the page to give a Wired sub as a gift, there is a link up top "not a gift?", and, lo and behold, the subscription price drops to $10 / year 🎁. neat! thanks for coming to my TED Talk 📖

#andor season 2 trailer: wait wait hold up, which creature is this? An albino Wookie, or? Dont think I have seen this one in any #StarWars (?)

Oh, Melbourne.. how I wish I were there for #F1 season opener! (I went to this race in 2000). And... rain!

Happy 🥧 Day!

from the creator of my fave movie from the last several years 🐈‍⬛

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