Robert Howe

My mom, age 96, has voted in every election since 1952. Be like her! Get your ballot in now! @thirdactorg.bsky.social

Last ice cream before it closes for the season.

One of the coolest things I've read recently! Dude gave Claude a cable and asked it to troubleshoot his Kia, which wouldn't start Claude wrote the code, told him to plug it into the car and turn it on, diagnosed the problem and the guy found the root cause for his car not starting up OMG

Claude is talking to this capacitance meter. I am just doing some vibe EE.

There has to be a browser extension that tells you which credit card to use already, right?

The most Massachusetts thing that has ever happened. I took a client call in the car: Me: I am really sorry, but I am about to go through Dunkin. When I roll the window down, we’re in public, so there is no privilege, so we need to pause this. Client: thank god, me too.

The New Jersey turnpike ripped out their Tesla superchargers and installed CCS/NACS chargers. They are a decent amount more expensive than off-turnpike chargers (okay) and the one I tried did not manage to successfully charge my car. I guess I’ll charge at Wawa.

How does Claude Code know so much about atproto? Is there a built-in tool or is it trained on some atproto knowledge? I just had it do a ton of web searches for AWS Lambda SnapStart, but I have never had it web search on atproto stuff.

The day that American Express stops sending me scratch-and-sniff invitations to get a credit card is the day the recession starts. No recession this month, folks.

If you love something, let it go That's why none of my side projects are finished

don't talk to me or my son ever again

Oh by the way, next week’s #AtmosphereSessions I’ll be talking to the amazing backend team from @cocore.dev - @devingaffney.com, @rchowe.com, and @ngerakines.me about their absolutely incredible AI cooperative project! Atmo will be up shortly!

I just dropped my phone. It's fine, but I got a push notification a minute later from the Apple Store app saying I could buy a new iPhone.

Mischief.

No Scotland, no party.

The cool thing that makes co/core and darkbloom.dev (who wrote the paper on this topic) possible is that Apple ships secure enclave with every Mac.

Just a wildly ambitious thing to build - so grateful to @hipstersmoothie.com, @rchowe.com, and @ngerakines.me in helping bring this thing out into the world finally. We wanted to get this out in December but the stars did not align - excited to hear what folks think here!

And paired with it, a @leaflet.pub!

Announcing co/core: a social computing experiment from the Graze team

Spirit airlines trading cards are about to become the hottest commodity for a certain subset of nerds.

Once you start seeing missing spaces in public web content due to how React formats line breaks, you can't stop seeing it.

A client (who doesn't use Bluesky) sent me a "new" AI generated logo for their company today and asked me to put it on their creative. I had to rage-write a blog post about logo design to calm down.

"I just hooked up OpenClaw to a Bloomberg terminal and told it to make money."

There are few things more New Englandy than the first day at an ice cream stand in the spring.

This looks like a complicated chart, but in fact it's some of the simplest and best news imaginable: batteries are quickly turning night into noon. Worth a read if I say so myself open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

OK, I've been a failure as a father. I was satisfied with Brio wooden train layouts. When I could have been building this. The Xing's World Cat Metro. I bow to you, sir.

Custom feeds are the singular theory of action for growing the open social web and reorienting distribution and monetization in the attention economy. I don't have all the answers, but the future of social is becoming clearer everyday. jshaked.leaflet.pub/3mhqtyaufyc26

I just got a capacity limitation starting a GPU instance on AWS at *midnight* in us-east-1. Crazy.

There is a trope in VC fueled startup companies that are "wildly successful decacorns" or whatever that basically just reduce to "what if federal crime, but with a computer 🤔"

the software industry rn

One of the craziest things about Musk-era twitter is that because linking to anything is penalized by the algo, no one uses links and you have NO IDEA where any of the info you see is coming from. It's madness!

As seen today in MA… #patriots

I got invited to an event for JetBlue #25for25 completionists in Boston. The crazy thing to me is that I can bring a +1 but that person must _also have completed #25for25._

JetBlue releases some details on the #25for25 promotion: "2,370 participants from 43 states took on the challenge to fly to 25 JetBlue destinations, with 90 percent completing all 25. JetBlue awarded 811.5 million TrueBlue points..." More than 2,000 folks now have 25years of Mosaic status. #PaxEx

We're delighted to be hosting @richferro.com's NFL Playoffs custom feed in collaboration with @bsky.app today! This is a shining example of something only the open social web can do, and why open social will win 🧵

Europe has a different feel for skiing that the Colorado doesn’t.

Legitimately happened to me trying to download Office today.

Merry Christmas and I hope Jólaköttur the Yule cat didn’t visit last night 😆🎄🐈‍⬛ (The Yule cat of Icelandic folklore is supposed to eat people who do not receive new clothing before Christmas Eve)

We're cooking up a Freaky Holiday Project at Graze right now and I'm so thrilled lol

Having been caught in the Chicago snowstorm today and dealing with a cancelled flight, Twitter remains the gold standard for airline customer service.

Medicaid Work Requirements Myth Vs. Fact https://theonion.com/medicaid-work-requirements-myth-vs-fact/

A note for sports: Bluesky’s engagement rate was x10 higher than X’s across a sampling of identical posts made on both platforms by @rapsheet.bsky.social (sharing with permission) Fwiw we see a similar trend across all communities, not just sports. Real people, real conversations.