Good morning Mt. Rainier.

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I do fractional CTO work. I specialize in platform strategy, eng. program design (people and process), AI-enablement, and engineering crisis management. When I'm not in a meeting or handling a client request, I use AI-native methods to build my own commercial portfolio. puzzsaw.com craftroom.com

Just gorgeous images to look at on the NASA Johnson Flickr this morning www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

Evie being a princess.

Ampersadness (noun) - The state of feeling profound sadness when one must replace one or more instances of the word “and” with ampersands in order to meet some character limit for text input.

I'm young enough to love progress and old enough to hate change.

Why are bots obsessed with poetic sentence fragments as a writing device? Genuine question. Real pattern. Worth unpacking.

I liked emdash—before it was cool.

Something amazing just happened in a work call. "What language are the Playwright tests you just wrote written in?" "I'm not sure. Let me look."

"AI is simultaneously collapsing the median ("slop") and raising the ceiling (real zero-days in critical infrastructure)." [^1] True for almost everything these days. More stuff is produced. + More of it is crap. + The best stuff is better than ever. [1]: www.lesswrong.com/posts/7aJwgb...

Google Workspace has come sooooo far in the last 2 years. At this point, I see no use for Slack in a Google organization. There a very few small features that I miss. I still struggle to replace Notion in my standard stack. Confluence is 1000x better than I remember, but it's not quite the same.

Surely I'm not the first to use the word "LLMerence" to describe that phase where one believes Claude Code can solve any problem better than the best engineering team in history. I see a lot of people going through it right now. AI tools are great—sustainable systems still need humans for now.

Wordplay (toki pi musi pona?) is fun **because it pushes the boundaries of the "rules"**. Sometimes wordplay is suli enough to move the lon pi selo. Put another way, prescriptivists make descriptivism fun! #tokikamalawala

ma Sijato la tenpo suno pi sona toki pi ma ale o pona #tokipona

@maddymontaquila.net Copy that. Filebased hyphen-apps. (Just now catching up on all the great #dotnetconf goodies!)

🙋‍♂️Who here has accidentally mis-addressed an email before? Okay, keep your hand up if your mistake was grievous enough to own the news cycle for a week.

I love the distinction that open source _software_ is free, but the _project_ requires material effort and even money! This makes tons of sense, and Rob's video described it very well.

Time to start measuring size of code base in kTok instead of kLoc.

If an FAQ is doing its job, the questions shouldn't be frequently asked. This brings me to an idea. Maybe an FAQ should be called an ASQ: **Answers to Standard Questions**

I'm intensely suspicious that each SaaS vendor charging an additional $10-$20 per user per month for access to their LLM assistant is not a scalable pricing model. I have to make too many tough choices on behalf of my users. I'd bet that including a helpful AI assistant becomes table stakes soon.

As folks roll in over here on the butterfly app, hello!👋 It's kinda quiet so far, but there's already some interesting discourse. More every day, in fact.