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ok- wait everybody and let me finish upgrading 😂

btw if you are struggling you can do this sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade --fix-missing \ php8.4-bcmath php8.4-cli php8.4-common php8.4-curl that fix missing will install what its able to get to and you can run it over and over to get the ones you missed the first time

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Anybody I know that works with AI agents in a saas type product: What patterns do you use to keep your instructions from ballooning? We've been running for a while and every time someone complains about something its turned into a "Never do this" type instruction which seems unsustainable

As my boys (7 and 4) were discussing poop for the 9000th time I figured it was time… I’ll preface this by saying I’m not a Kanye fan in general but there is one song of his that applies directly-

“Lift yourself” I started the song and they kept looking at me confused. “Trust me” I kept saying. And when “that next verse though” hit you should have heard the cackles. No regrets

having to use manual mode today like someone from 6 months ago...

This is some grade A phishing/trolling. Got this message from "Sendgrid"

1 Sept

Claude accidentally pushed to main today and I'm like "See! its not just me"

Dinner is served

uhhh- nevermind

I’ve got a new prompt I’m testing out

27 June

Claude lately: "Starting up 20 background agents to work in parallel. Oops you have hit your api limit"

18 June

I'm going to have to make a "no Claude Friday" or something so I can still keep a mental picture of these applications and keep from going crazy

11 June

My most recent dadism- “Do you know when tomorrow will be today? Tomorrow”

4 June

Anyone know how to disallow `supabase db deploy` from rogue agents or have some alcohol they can send me?

28 May

I just caught a typo that Claude added. Maybe it can take my job… 🤔

19 May

It’s a little hard to see but it looks like we are going to have a good crop of utensils this year

14 May

Coding in 2026 (kind of joking)

1 May

what's going on with launchpad today?

28 Apr

This made me chuckle on downdetector

27 Apr

Man hand picking through a large document written by a human and hand writing notes sounds more and more cathartic lately.

27 Apr

Bonus if I can put as many randomly colored highlights on it as I want

22 Apr

Anyone else ping claude when they wake up so they get a better throttle reset time or am I just weird?

14 Apr

I’ve heard of a raven, but what does it mean when I have a finch that’s gently rapping at my patio door?

12 Apr

My boys 6 and 3 have invented a creature called a “holesound” which has 2 arms and 4 legs, needles “like a hedgehog” that can poke you and it blows air out of its mouth to “make the instrument work but if it gets to your nose it catches on fire.” Sounds terrifying honestly

30 Mar

My son 6: “Well I don’t want to keep living in a crack house” my wife: “what?” My son: “Well there are cracks in the wall over there”

28 Mar

Weird thing I found out this AM- AI agents are not very good at TDD. They tend to flop around trying to fix errors. They are far better at writing tests that match what they've already created which doesn't give me a huge amount of confidence honestly

21 Mar

Just saw Project Hail Mary and it was marvelous

16 Mar

The biggest lesson I’ve learned as a father is sometimes you just need to go on a tickle spree

13 Mar

Hey Git worktree is actually pretty nice for running multiple agents at once- now I can pretend to successfully run 2 in parallel

27 Feb

I think I might be going insane

24 Feb

I made the mistake of asking Claude to help me plan a project and it proceeded to try to download the entire internet

I've used Claude code now for about a week so clearly I'm an expert /s I wanted to give my first impressions 🧵

One thing I noticed though is that on large existing projects it tends to make incorrect assumptions that could lead to some very subtle and very catastrophic bugs. I think the issue is that it can't pull the whole codebase into its context. If I wasn't vigilant it would have made some nasty bugs

Basically, while I felt a little unsure last week about whether AI will take all dev jobs I'm now certain it won't. I think this context problem is AI's achilles heel. It will be very fast at bootstrapping new things but as projects get bigger it will struggle more and more with context

I've used Claude code now for about a week so clearly I'm an expert /s I wanted to give my first impressions 🧵

It writes some pretty good code. It follows my style guide pretty well. I'm impressed.

11 Feb

I just manually installed the LEMP stack on a server like someone out of the early to mid 2010s. It felt amazing

youtu.beThe Moltbook Experiment FailedYouTube video by The PrimeTime

4 Feb

This is too funny youtu.be/6OXE65fjjsU?...

It snowed

This right here sums up my frustrations with AI coding perfectly

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15 Jan

Just found out about github.com/Flowframe/la... Man I could have used this before now... 😅

1 Jan

Hot take- the London New Years celebration is cooler than New York’s

22 Dec 2025

Does anyone else aggressively brush their teeth in the days leading up to a dentist appointment or am I just weird?