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Photography - H1 '25 Variety Pack I had a bunch of odds and ends from old rolls of film waiting. The H1 title is kind of a lie, because the first few are from 2024. This set has some expired film experiments, and lots of fun travel ph...

New photo blog post with '25 odds and ends from Costa Rica, Chicago, SF, Seattle and NYC.

New blog post on tools and constraints.

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It’s amazing that as a society we have decided that a single serving of ice cream is two scoops, and a double is three scoops. Makes sense. 🍨

Posted here a bunch two years ago, and got 0 engagement. Let’s try it again.

Is this thing on now?

Time To Build Starting a company had been a pretty clear goal in my mind for years.

I'm starting a company. We're funded, have our first paying clients lined up, and are hiring founding engineers. Come help me build it.

Adrian Daub’s What Tech Calls Thinking is short and well written. It goes hard on the stereotypes and treats tech as a monoculture to a fault, though.

Photography - H1 '23 Variety Pack It’s been a while since my last post. Here are photos from lots of travel, with a mix of film and digital from the first half of the year (plus a bonus last week of ‘22).

New on the blog: H1 photos

Lessons learned at Vouch Two years ago, excited to begin a new journey, I called into an onboarding Zoom from the makeshift desk I set up in my kitchen at the start of the pandemic.

My time at Vouch taught me a lot. Here's a quick recap.

Time to build new things!

I just opened bsky on my browser instead of on my phone for the first time. I already know this will be a problematic time sink.

Very cool! I still really want to check out the code behind your Twitterverse viz, in case you’d still thinking of open sourcing it! 😉

That was super clear! Thank you. The only question I was left with is… assuming it’s available, is there any reason why you wouldn’t want to use BLAKE3? What’s the downside?

I expected James Beard to have a beard, alas…

It’s one of those real windy days when the Golden Gate Bridge howls its ominous OOooOooOooooOooo

Please try writing it as friendly for cryptography newbs like me way as possible 🤗 I want to learn, and probably not alone!

How would you define kill? How do you know what’s a bot?

You could maybe do some kind of tag interaction for users to flag bots and index that so the bot can broadcast a signal for others to block some accounts, maybe?

I want side projects. What kind of bots do you want on bsky?

So when is the SF meet up? 👀

Meta question: How do you motivate yourself to journal?

Is anyone around here doing the startup thing? Who’s building in public and sharing on Blue Sky as they go?

I might get on that train pretty soon

My cousin, who is in college and interning in SF this summer, just walked up to me and unironically said he’s going to live in Cerebral Valley when he’s there. 🫠

How do you keep yourself motivated?

Hence my question. Lots of people got a smile out of it, which was the point. I understand if it’s considered spam, and won’t build it if so, but there’s a thin line and IMO this bit is on it.

I love the ❗️icon usage here. Can’t miss it

Yeah, it was set up to send a photo of Link from Zelda whenever someone asked for “a link please” which 99.999% of the time is not what they are actually asking for.

Years ago I built my Zelda Twitterbot, https://twitter.com/alinkplease, and Twitter shut it down because it was flagged as spam. It’s built with the intention of being silly and fun, so I’m considering rebuilding it for Bluesky.

@why.bsky.team would this be considered spam?

Marijuana dispensary names all sound the same, and that’s a business problem As recreational and medical marijuana legalization becomes more widespread in the US, dispensaries may need to move away from 420 and other weed puns to appeal to wider audiences.

Entity resolution is a hard problem, example #75381

I hate cats. Guess I need to look for a new job.

Sedona is wild

This is super cool! Can you share the code you’re using to pull it, too? I’d be curious to poke around, will DM

I’d love to poke around this db, or even better the code you used to pull the data!