Jeff Sheets

The power of code compels you 🤖

it's pretty amazing that we've gone from OCR being a finicky somewhat hacky thing a year or two ago, to today being able to paste an image into Claude Code and get instant huge analysis on any text and image

5 Sept

Improved the signal “sounds best” algorithm to account for FM vs AM quality, height of towers from FCC, and assume car radio instead of FCC default of house antenna strength: huskerfinder.sheetsj.com

added a Husker radio coverage map to huskerfinder.sheetsj.com and surprised to see it stretching into 8 states! #GBR

On this peak fall late Husker 🏈 away game wedding/pumpkin/family drive home day -- added a new feature to find out the Husker station near your destination huskerfinder.sheetsj.com?sport=football #Huskers #GBR

Trying to stay up until 1:30 to prep for the Husker game tomorrow 😴 #GBR

Friday ClaudeCode Tabs Zero > Browser Tabs Zero + Inbox/Slack Zero combined

just because something doesn't work the way it was thought to work doesn't make it a software bug

Excited for Apple HomeView to replace a janky 10-year old wall mounted Android music controller - the "precision magnets" design seems weird though, like do they expect people to want to move it often after mounted? Will it "lock" on a hallway wall? www.se.com/ww/en/about-...

E-sports but make the middle schoolers play Dragon’s Lair

martinelli.chBack to the 90s: The Software Engineer Has All the Roles Again - MartinelliWhen I started as a software engineer in the 1990s, I programmed COBOL on the IBM mainframe. Later, client/server applications came along. Many things were simpler back then. Not the technology, but…

gardening personal websites is the best

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Simon Martinelli

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In the 90s I wrote COBOL on the IBM mainframe and had all the roles: customer talks, architecture, code, production. With AI, we are back. But now the spec is the input for the AI. martinelli.ch/back-to-the-...

18 Sept

Me conducting the agents on a Friday afternoon before running out the door

16 Sept

Schools: “your student will do best with routine bedtime and wake up and class schedules, especially for those with adhd” Also schools: “every Wednesday is late start day with totally different start & class times” 🙃

youtu.be9 /20/2001 Nebraska Tunnel WalkYouTube video by HuskerOnline

11 Sept

Most emotional Tunnel Walk ever 🇺🇸 youtu.be/OIGATT7g06Y

10 Sept

Chicago rooftop bar skyline view was a great cap to a wonderful Labor Day weekend in the windy (and humid) city

open.spotify.comLiar - LiveRollins Band · Weighting · Song · 2013

3 Sept

If you just say AI in place of Liar, Rollins Band could really have a 2026 banger open.spotify.com/track/2z0T2i...

31 Aug

woah woah woah agents, slow down, its Monday morning! I might need a throttle on speed based on day of the week or something. suggesting I rearchitect a legacy db schema to make a query faster is like a Wednesday mid-day suggestion not a Monday before 2nd coffee suggestion

amazon.comWatch RAD | Prime VideoA bicycle-motocrosser (Bill Allen) tries to enter a corrupt promoter's nationally televised cash-prize race.

30 Aug

My favorite movie as a kid is finally streaming — RAD www.amazon.com/Rad-Hal-Need...

28 Aug

"sorry, wrong Claude session" is the new "sorry, wrong chat"

28 Aug

New excuse unlocked: whoever mowed last didn’t charge the batteries so I can’t mow tonight 🍻

26 Aug

Updated Husker radio stations list for 2026-27 huskerfinder.sheetsj.com and sadly Omaha (especially Sarpy) still has very weak to no FM coverage

24 Aug

Those Amazon delivery drones look like flying spiders

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19 Aug

If (numGoldChains > 0) then “I’m out” 😆 😂 💯

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728: BIMI, Good Favicon Practice, and CSS @Layer Exploration Having type two fun, email branding with BIMI, accessibility details in icons and favicons, using AI as a coding and maintenance partner, CSS @layer property, design systems, and the economics of fast AI hardware.

help.getflex.comHow much does Flex Rent cost?Flex charges three fees: a monthly membership fee, a processing fee, and a split fee. Your exact rates depend on your pricing plan and are shown in the app. Here's what each one covers and when it ...

19 Aug

these services to “split” rent payments (that are being pushed on college kids getting their first off campus housing) feel like the next payday loan scheme - rebranded loans help.getflex.com/hc/en-us/art...

overcast.fmNebraska’s Unicameral Experiment — Once AgainNebraska’s Legislature is unlike any other in America. In 1937 Senator George Norris’ envisioned a Unicameral that eliminated partisanship and made government more accountable. Nearly a century later,...

26 July

Unicameral FTW! overcast.fm/+ABO9WjaOz9M #TheGoodLife

25 July

Should be a required preference to toggle off the dark patterns of LLMs finishing prompt answers with a question to keep you engaged in the chat

22 July

I like the control of shift-tab to put Claude Code into Auto Mode now -- feels like starting cruise control when on the interstate -- and then I shift-tab back down to Accept Edits for more manual driving

en.wikipedia.orgPole Position - Wikipedia

19 July

the long play marketing of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_Po... to get everyone into F1 racing 40 years later was brilliant

Claude Code to create and edit 3dprint STL files and LaserCutting SVG files is a pretty fun expansion to that hobby

youtu.beThe Java Story | The Official DocumentaryYouTube video by CultRepo

yolo updating to Tahoe while watching the Java Documentary— and wow some great interviews in this doc! youtu.be/ZqGSg4b_cZA

only critique: not enough emphasis on the Blogging ecosystem around Java and how much it contributed to the growth, and empowered individual developers -- also where is Hani's Bile Blog these days?

Oh cool and some shoutouts to JUG's from around the world! such a cool documentary

youtu.beThe Java Story | The Official DocumentaryYouTube video by CultRepo

yolo updating to Tahoe while watching the Java Documentary— and wow some great interviews in this doc! youtu.be/ZqGSg4b_cZA

take a 🥃 every time an Omaha Java Users Group speaker makes an appearance and you'll definitely enjoy your weekend evening!

ojug.orgSeptember 21, 2023 Wargames Vulnerabilities & SpringBoot 2 to 3 w/ Gerrit Grunwald & Ivar GrimstadA special treat for September, we have 2 great speakers from Europe on a national JUG tour stopping in Omaha – Gerrit Grunwald from Germany, and Ivar Grimstad from Sweden – giving 2 great talks!

oh hey, an appearance in the Java Doc by @theguywiththeduketattoo.com who once spoke for OJUG at the DevObsessed old office space! ojug.org/2023/09/21/w...

youtu.beThe Java Story | The Official DocumentaryYouTube video by CultRepo

yolo updating to Tahoe while watching the Java Documentary— and wow some great interviews in this doc! youtu.be/ZqGSg4b_cZA

take a 🥃 every time an Omaha Java Users Group speaker makes an appearance and you'll definitely enjoy your weekend evening!

only critique: not enough emphasis on the Blogging ecosystem around Java and how much it contributed to the growth, and empowered individual developers -- also where is Hani's Bile Blog these days?

youtu.beThe Java Story | The Official DocumentaryYouTube video by CultRepo

yolo updating to Tahoe while watching the Java Documentary— and wow some great interviews in this doc! youtu.be/ZqGSg4b_cZA

Any documentary that quotes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat... is a documentary for me

en.wikipedia.orgThe Cathedral and the Bazaar - Wikipedia

motherjones.comPeace, Love, and MarketingIBM's sidewalk-graffiti ads mark another step forward for the commercial colonization of public spaces.

Reminds me how in ‘01 I clipped an IBM ad for Linux out of a magazine and hung on my cube wall as it was the first ever ad in the “real world” for linux and it was just amazing at the time www.motherjones.com/politics/200...

youtu.beThe Java Story | The Official DocumentaryYouTube video by CultRepo

yolo updating to Tahoe while watching the Java Documentary— and wow some great interviews in this doc! youtu.be/ZqGSg4b_cZA

and being at UPRR in ‘00 when Java wasn’t yet trusted for “low level” code so we’d have Java pre-JSP html rendering but calling a c++ database layer because Java was “too slow”

Spent a week that summer finding a memory leak in a C compiler that some middleware manager had blamed on code — which really just pushed us to go Java on the whole backend after that

youtu.beThe Java Story | The Official DocumentaryYouTube video by CultRepo

yolo updating to Tahoe while watching the Java Documentary— and wow some great interviews in this doc! youtu.be/ZqGSg4b_cZA

core memories of an Honors CS100 level c++ course where we did Java for the honors final circa ‘97 — and hiding public static void main(){} in a TI-85 because I knew I couldn’t memorize that nonsense at the time!