Jeffrey Guenther

Rest Day —

“Peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have.” 1 Samuel 25:6 ESV

Rest Day —

“O LORD, you will ordain peace for us, for you have indeed done for us all our works.” Isaiah 26:12 ESV

The ol' @github PR commit view could really benefit from some realtime updates. Can't tell you how many times I hit refresh each day after pushing a rebase.

Quick shift to Amp Free → task complete

Oh no! The Claude slow lane seems to be back.

I'm grateful storybook.polaris-admin.shopify.dev exists.

Without it Shopify Polaris' Web Components are tricky to understand. Most of the styling options are attributes and one does not write CSS.

Pattern matching → compiler if-statements.

Takes a second to get used to, but the code you write is so much easier to grok.

Rest Day —

“Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!”

GitHub - johannschopplich/toon: 🎒 Token-Oriented Object Notation – JSON for LLMs at half the token cost 🎒 Token-Oriented Object Notation – JSON for LLMs at half the token cost - johannschopplich/toon

Well that's interesting! A compressed JSON format called toon

github.com/johannschop...

It seems to me a key aspect of building an extensible platform in the future is curating the knowledge necessary for an agent to create and modify the extensions.

Rest Day —

“The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.” Psalm 23:1-2 ESV

To do the extraordinary, you must to the ordinary, the mundane, the monotonous with ruthless consistency.

One of my main tasks each day is to adopt a mindset of being guaranteed an A so I can cut out of the noise, be my most creative and productive self.

I'm fairly certain I am one of these people. I have an extremely high internal drive and struggle at times when the outside noise of life starts affecting my ability to do my best work.

These kind of people are so hard on themselves and demand so much from themselves that external pressures like a grade are counterproductive. I think this group of people often need someone to release them from their stress so they can relax enough to perform.

By removing the external stress, the student has done the work to earn an A. I think there is a group of people for whom this kind of circumstance is the greatest gift.

At the end of the course, the teacher asked the student if they wanted to know how they would have done if they hadn't been guaranteed an A. The student, curious, said yes. The teacher informed the student they had earned the A.

The student was deeply relieved and returned to their course work. Over the course of the semester, the teacher continued to grade the student's work in secret, but never told the student the result.

The story goes like this. There once was a student who was feeling stressed about their grade in a class. The student's stress was hurting their ability to perform. The wise teacher seeing this said, "Don't worry about your grade. I'll give you an A."

When I was an undergrad student, one of my profs told me a story while helping me process some stress I was feeling about my grades.

I'm not sure if this story is true or not, but it's resonated with me since.

When I think about my business ambitions, one significant part of them is about building my own form of tenure, economic insulation, so I can focus deeply on the problems I care about most.

Rest Day —

“For you have been my refuge, a strong tower against the enemy.” Psalm 61:3 ESV

The Blue Castle: a novel by L. M. Montgomery Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.

www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67979

I'm super surprised that this hasn't been made into a film yet.

The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery is the most underrated novel imo. It's a delight to read.

If the name seems familiar, LM Montgomery is known best for writing Anne of Green Gables.

If you like heartfelt books with a playful twist, you'll enjoy this one.

I'm sure I'm late to the party, but simonwillison.net is a great source of info on AI.

Balanced, optimistic, and helpful!

Happy Thanksgiving Canada!! 🇨🇦 🦃 🥧

My Walking Pad arrived! Pictures and experience to come.

Rest Day —

“He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.” Psalm 23:3 ESV

Shopify founder and CEO Tobi Lütke joins John Collison to discuss the philosophies driving one of the internet’s most foundational companies. Tobi shares his... Tobi Lütke is still captivated by internet commerce, 20 years later

youtu.be/eMSqlQMk480