From the workbench.

Hello, world (again)

Rebuilding extroverteddeveloper.com from WordPress to a custom .NET + Vue stack.

Reverse Engineering MediaCreationTool.exe

The future is less frustrating! I spent about 6 hours the other day trying to create a bootable USB drive so I could re-install Windows 11 on my Alienware Aurora R15 AMD box. I wanted to play Star Craft 2 again and it was crashing on my Bazzite install. I have done this, what must […]

I’m winning

😜

One of the best uses of agentic AI, specifically Claude CoWork, I’ve had recently is morning briefings. I’ve created morning briefings to check on my calendar and stuff. But the real unlock is asking it to keep up on the latest of local LLM developments. Every day it checks for new hardware announcements, new open […]

Announcing OpenPriceMap

Think Gasbuddy for Everything. OpenPriceMap is a community-driven price map that helps you find the cheapest groceries near you — and every price you report makes the map better for everyone. The Origin Story I originally built OpenPriceMap back in 2012. At the time I was dieting pretty hard and needed to find specific foods […]

Not the robopocalypse we were expecting

My wife just sent me this photo of a bulletin of someone either grifting or trying to get their AI agent a job #nyc #new york #aijobspocalypse

Testing

Testing WordPressToThreads setup wizard

Buying Bitcoin? You’re Investing in Crime

Bitcoin has been called many things — digital gold, the future of money, a hedge against inflation. But let’s cut through the marketing haze and call it what it actually is: the greatest money laundering tool ever invented, hiding in plain sight as an “investment.” The crypto industry has spent billions crafting a narrative of […]

Taskleef failed, but I’m still happy with it

I’m shutting down the advertising I was running for Taskleef. While I love the thing I built, and had wanted it my entire career – I kinda knew that task management was going away. I couldn’t get any of the younger devs at Meta to do it at all, even to help themselves. The field […]

BREAKING: Software Engineers form Union

Across the industry software engineers have finally banded together and formed the first software guild. They’re asking for royalties because like a book or TV show, their code once written is sold an unlimited number of times. Haha j/k, April Fools!

Is it Fair?

Today I want to ask something of the technologists who have been affected by the most recent waves of layoffs at tech companies. Were those companies struggling? Were they losing money? Do you still think you got a fair deal for your labor? What happened to the code you wrote after you were let go? […]

What are we building?

I’ve heard multiple times now from legacy media that AI companies in Silicon Valley are trying to build God. That claim might be more inference than fact. When engineers talk about their hopes for AI, they say things like “‘can do anything, knows everything“‘ — which sounds like God, sure. But what I think they’re […]

Taskleef Is Now on the App Store

I built Taskleef because every Kanban tool I tried felt like a glorified to-do list. What started as a web app for people who actually care about how they manage their work has just hit a big milestone — Taskleef is now available on the iOS App Store. Download Taskleef for iOS A Companion, Not […]

Can I blame any of this on Star Trek: The Next Generation?

Honestly? Yes. Picard ruined a lot of us. TNG is basically a 178-episode argument that if you solve material scarcity, humans will choose to be decent. That’s a dangerous thing to show a kid because then you spend the rest of your life measuring reality against the Federation and finding it wanting. How would the […]

Experts are usually expert of the past not the future – Sebastian Thrun

SOTA Running on my laptop

Holy crap, the movement to get huge models working well on local hardware has kicked off and the results are impressive. This morning I used this project https://github.com/danveloper/flash-moe.git Which allows me to run this HUGE Qwen 3 – 327B parameter model ON MY LOCAL MACBOOK PRO. It’s a bit slow, but damn if it doesn’t […]

I have no idea what I’m doing when it comes to marketing. However, over the past week I’ve begun ads for Taskleef and today I overhauled the landing page. I’d love feedback if anyone is willing to take a look https://taskleef.com

Maxxing is the thief of joy

Lane In Stay

That’s how I always read this anyway

Lane In Stay

That’s how I always read this anyway

Marc Andreessen’s name will be mostly forgotten within 2 generations

Just like the Guilded Age robber barons. Only academics who study this time in history will know the name. Unlike Julius Cesar, Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Socrates, Abraham Lincoln The difference? Introspection

Do you need to read the code?

There are several debates happening in the tech industry right now amongst software engineers. One of them goes along the lines of “If you don’t read the code the AI is producing, then how do you know what it does?!” Things I find strange about this argument: The serious answer to this is: Regardless of […]

Amazon is the Winner as Oil Spikes

Looks like Oil prices are going to remain higher for longer than everyone would like. If I was trading individual stocks I’d buy Amazon. I see their Rivian made delivery vehicles everywhere! EVs were already significantly more efficient than ICE cars, but now with the price of gas Amazon is going to be laughing all […]

Mr. Rate it All!

I’ve made another Chrome Extension that I always wish had existed. Mr. Rate It All! – it allows you to rate anything you can select on a webpage. The problem: Restaurants in NYC try and do a lot of things, but many are only good at a few. Their Chicken Parm is excellent, but their […]

It is generally true that if you can fool developers into thinking they are “mastering” something hard (as opposed to learning tolerance for something badly designed), you can build a fiercely loyal priesthood. – Avdi Grimm

We owe George Lucas an apology

Turns out the blockading of a trade route is a big deal and worthy of the Jedi’s attention

NGL, feeling pretty smug about driving an electric car right now

“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.” Steven Winterburn

I just got my new MacBook Pro M5 Pro and I wonder if I made the wrong choice not buying the highest end laptop I could get. For the first time in my life it seems like computer components are getting more expensive over time, not less. It started with GPUs. Most GPUs were < […]

Just canceled my 1Password subscription. I too received the email that the price was going up by 40% for the family plan. So I had Claude install Vaultwarden along side everything else I already self-host and canceled the subscription. I’m not sure which feature they thought warranted the increase but I assure you it didn’t. […]

You become an expert in a subject but alone in it If you love being right, you’ll be right alone. -Eugene’s Mom

It really grinds my gears to order something online. Have no idea when it’s actually coming, only to find out that it shipped and REQUIRES A SIGNATURE. As though everyone can just take random days off from work or work from home. It’s the same thing with doctors only being available during business hours on […]

Starting Career Pro Tip

I normally don’t do this because I don’t have much advise for how to get through the technical interviews in big tech. However, if you are a college student trying to get an internship or full time position at one of the big tech companies I can tell you what I did that helped a […]

Happy MAR10 Day!

What the literati get wrong in their outrage over AI writing is that 50% of people are writing BELOW AVERAGE by definition. So for half the population, average is a marked improvement over what they are capable of/interested in.

One week only!

SPRING! In NYC

What I’ve learned about social media over the years is that people really are just trying their worst

I’m not sure how my retirement account feels about being labeled a Trad IRA

Should I start GLP-1 when I know that the release of GLP-2 is likely right around the corner?

They had decided to abort the facts before they could grow into the truth

New Macbook Pro

I ordered a new Macbook Pro M5 Pro and am so excited to be able to run local LLMs. I’m going to install Qwen 3.5 and then tell IT to install Claude Code!

Switching Insurance

I just saved 50% on my car insurance by asking Claude CoWork to shop around for me. I have tried to get this to happen in the past with multiple human assistant services and I was never able to get it it done. What was great about this is not that it was “hands off” […]

The AIs yearn for the code

Hot take

MCP is the XML of AI CLI is the JSON of AI

Can you imagine if restaurants were like “no more deliveries, we have a return to restaurant policy”

Make it shitty

One of the best things about writing all of your own apps is that you can use whatever icon you want. This one is for my custom podcast player. Apple would reject this because I used their emoji as the icon.

“I know the goddam trouble with me, I thought. Enough brains to see it and not enough guts to stand up to it. Thousands of us, millions of us, corrupted, rootless, career-ridden, good hearts and yellow bellies, living out our lives for the easy buck, the soft berth, indulging ourselves in the illusion that we […]

Consequences

Around the world the fallout from the Epstine file disclosure in the US continues to ripple through out the world. At the time of writing the World Economic Forum CEO Borge Brende has stepped down as a result. The Wall Street Journal and NY Post have started publishing stories in their opinion section with titles […]

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die

On a whim I decided to go to the theatre this afternoon. Had no idea what was playing but OMG am I happy I found Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die. I didn’t think we were capable of making a movie like this anymore. It felt like the 90s again. Loved it. If you want […]

Unpopular opinion: I don’t think LinedIn needed a vertical videos product

NYC Jobs!

The city of New York dropped a ton of new openings today https://cityjobs.nyc.gov Here’s a couple of my favorites

I’m in Threads Jail

Social Media algorithms use many signals to choose winners (going viral) and losers (most of us). Every now and then you stumble upon one which really matters. I just found out that when a big account blocks you it’s a HUGE signal to the algo not to show your stuff. Recently Dare Obasanjo was being […]

Rat Park

In the 1970s a researcher named Bruce Alexander was researching addiction using rats. Rats in lab cages were given a choice of plain water or water laced with morphine. They chose the morphine like all the time. Many overdosed. Then he built “Rat Park”. A 200x larger play space with food, play toys, other rats […]

Special thanks to all the brands who sent me birthday wishes 💕 ❤️ 💞 🥰 💙 ♥️ 😍♥️❤️💙🥰

I could stop the bitcoin sell off simply by taking a short position… but I won’t.

Talk to Your Todos: Taskleef Joins the Claude Plugin Ecosystem

Using only economic theory, explain why the best economists in the world are not all billionaires

Taskleef Update: January – February 2025

Check it out: https://taskleef.com

What would you do with AI that was 2x as capable as it is today? 4x? 16x? Eventually the answer is “everything” That’s the trajectory we’re currently on

Too big to help

What’s up with companies of a certain size thinking that it’s totally fine to expect customers to learn about their internal departmental structure? I just had a brain dead exchange with a sales rep from Stripe. They asked if they could help me finish setting up my account since as of now I’m not generating […]

New York State Bird

Did you know the New York State bird is the Eastern Bluebird?

Promptology

One of the most powerful AI prompting tips is mixing languages. What do I mean? Well LLMs have been trained on all kinds of computer language, not just English. For example: “Give me a history of the Roman empire -depth 1” This will spit out a high level overview, meanwhile: “Give me a history of […]

Paste Anyway is Now Available for Firefox!

I’m excited to announce that Paste Anyway, our browser extension that restores your ability to paste text on any website, is now officially available for Firefox! Some websites disable paste functionality on input fields, forcing you to manually type passwords, email addresses, and other text. This is frustrating and can actually reduce security by discouraging […]

Personal Assistants

One thing I’ve found surprising about having more resources is the huge gap between the upper middle class and the truely rich. One area this comes up all the time is that when I try and get some help from a personal assistant, I often can’t. Companies say they NEED to talk to ME to […]

Every time my dog barks because somebody is in the hallway he looks at me like: “Well, are you going to do anything or do I need to defend this house by myself?” When I tell him it’s ok that there’s somebody in the hall he walks away like “I am the only person who […]

A Fully Open Source Future

But if people on UBI still don’t own the land or the house, eventually every landlord across the United States will just set the rent to near UBI levels and capture it for themselves. This isn’t some mysterious market force. It’s greed with a spreadsheet. When there’s a known ceiling on what people can pay, […]

Introducing Taskleef CLI

I’m excited to announce the release of Taskleef CLI – a command-line interface for managing todos with Taskleef. The CLI supports managing todos, projects, subtasks, and Kanban boards right from your terminal. Features include partial ID/title matching, tab completion for bash/zsh, and ASCII board views. I’ve also included the “Ralph Loop” – my automated development […]

Paste Anyway available in Chrome Web Store

Finally! Google has approved Paste Anyway’s web store entry. Now you can easily download and use it without dealing with the source code. Check it out: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/paste-anyway/lkniolaolifgdbecekhlejhpoofjjhbd

Introducing Taskleef: The Kanban Board I Wished Existed

Watching the videos coming out of Minnesota its clear how unprepared I was to hear the mom from Bobby’s World to say “fuck ICE”

Cities don’t make sense without jobs

And the jobs people typically do in cities are the exact kind of work AI will be able to automate first

ICE says assaults up 1300%

Fox news is reporting that DHS says that assaults on ICE personel are up 1300%. I’m not surprised. But the reason this is happening is because the police aren’t enforcing the law. My understanding is that ICE are not cops. They have extremely limited investigative powers. They can’t, for example, conduct traffic stops without specific […]

Maybe Claude Code could finally fix Android 🤔

Evan’s Game

Over the holiday our babysitter decided to teach our 3yr old how to play board games. She created one just for him with just a piece of paper and colorful markers. It included spaces with rules and a 6 sided paper die, folded into a cube and taped at the corners. Evan loved it! I […]

Coming soon…

Terminal Life

Just like the rest of the software world, I find myself reading a lot more from the Terminal than writing as AI agents are doing most of my work. Over the holiday, I decided I needed to make that reading experience more pleasant. So I worked with Claude to create some new terminal themes to […]

2025 Year in Review

Dear friends, My wife has a tradition of writing an end of year summary email to all of her friends to help keep in touch with the goings on in everyone’s life (what Facebook was originally supposed to be before it became an entertainment platform). I love reading hers and so I’m going to give […]

I don’t pay for subscription services anymore. Instead I pay $200/mo for Claude Max subscription and just ask it to build whatever tools I need. Password manager, task lists, podcast catcher, etc. The golden era of SaaS is going to be short lived

Test post

We got a test post ova hear!

Walking home, just casually over heard someone getting a medical diagnosis from ChatGPT on speakerphone on the streets of New York

🔥🔥🔥

Memorial

“What do you mean by posh?” She asked in fluent horse

Is my ansolute favorite insult I just read

Other side of the tracks

East Stroudsburg, PA

Bat boy NYC

Even vending machines are getting in on it

I told someone who had a sign up offering 3-5% cash discount that it was more than my savings account rate. He told me he never thought of it that way

People can’t even silence their cellphones at the theatre when they’ve been told to do it multiple times, but you think they’re going to use Passkeys instead of the same password they use for everything?

Ok

Pickle and Blaze should hang out more

Iykyk

In the US Lawyers think they’ll be able to ban AI in their field to protect their livelihoods.

Except people have the right to defend themselves and use whatever tools they like in preparing that defense. So even if AI is not allowed to represent you, it can through representing yourself. I think they’re still quite at risk

Hear me out: H1B visas but only for ICE agents

Working on a new metric.

How much money and how often do you have to find it in your clothes to be considered rich? I once found $160 in the pocket of a north face jacket I was purchasing in an emergency the first time I went to San Francisco as the temperature dropped to below 60 and the store […]

AI: What Could Go Wrong? With Geoffrey Hinton

This week’s episode of “The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart” is absolutely positively hands down the best conversation about AI for non-technical people

Seems to me there’s a lot of people preaching but not a lot practicing

Truely unpopular opinion: There is no such thing as being cut off in a car. People in front of you have the right of way and you need to be paying attention to what’s going on around you just like downhill skiing/snowboarding. People wait for your to pass when pulling out as a courtesy. If […]

Readmebio.com Wokstyle Assessments released

I’ve just added a fun new feature to readmebio.com – working style assessments. Think: Myers-briggs but for working style. Take the assessment and it puts a fun badge with your results on your profile. I’ll likely be adding other assessments that will show other dimensions of your work personality, for now though take this assessment […]

You know all those crappy mobile video game ads that show you a kind of interesting idea but the player is playing badly. Like shooting zombies or saving a king from highly improbable circumstances by playing bejeweled? You go download the game and it’s nothing like that.

One day I’m just gonna show those to AI and ask it to make them

Today in I love AI, My son got some scratches on our car. Small but deep to the metal. I don’t really care about the esthetics so I’m not going to go to the body shop to get an exact paint match or whatever. I asked ChatGPT what I could do – it’s advice: Primer […]

GitHub is not for muggles

People are saying AI will be the end of human thinking but the existence of calculators doesn’t stop humans from attempting and failing to do math in their heads

I’m declaring holiday bankruptcy. Lowe’s, really? Christmas 🎄 🎁decorations right across from Halloween 🎃👻💀?

No respect for the 🦃🍂🍁

Life in your 40s is me passing my portable SAD lamp glasses to my wife and asking “You wanna hit?”

When we were kids they told us the slime was non-toxic but it sure didn’t smell like it

When I was a kid, I watched 2D cartoon shows. There was maybe 1 or 2 shows that had just started to do 3D by the time I grew out of cartoons and I refused to watch them. To be fair the 3D in the 90s was more Lawnmower Man than Final Fantasy. Now days […]

🚀 ReadmeBio Updates!

We’ve shipped some exciting new features: ✨ README Templates – Choose from pre-built templates (Junior IC, Manager, etc.) or start from scratch to createyour professional README faster 💾 Autosave & Drafts – Your work now saves automatically every 3 seconds. Iterate safely with drafts beforepublishing! 📌 Actionable Highlights – Showcase your working style at a […]

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cognitive-revolution-ai-builders-researchers-and/id1669813431?i=1000728892449

I am glad to see this kind of discussion and these ideas getting more and more adoption by serious people.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/rolling-stone-billboard-owner-penske-sues-google-over-ai-overviews-2025-09-14/

I’m always shocked by what people sue over in the United States. Their complaint is that less traffic is coming to them because of AI overviews. It seems clear to me here that Google is a private company and doesn’t owe anyone anything. They’re essentially suing Google because their old business model doesn’t work in […]

Sinclair broadcasting’s statement about reinstating Jimmy Kimmel includes this gem:

“While we understand that not everyone will agree with our decisions about programming, it is simply inconsistent to champion free speech while demanding that broadcasters air specific content.” lol Wat? Damn they mad. Yes it sucks when you’re forced to do something you don’t want. Also nobody forced you – you just have to care […]

I got a jury summons in the mail. Normally I would try and encode all the information into my calendar/reminders.

This time I took a picture and Claude did all of that for me just from the photo and asking it to setup calendar and reminders. It parsed everything created the events. 🤯

I had a conversation with someone doing an AI Legal startup. I asked him: “How long until it’s unethical to NOT use AI because it’s the best representation?”

He kinda dodged giving a prediction but did say this: “We are already seeing clients coming in with here’s what the AI says, what do you got?” Lawyers about to feel like doctors with patients who Google.

Readmebio.com Adds LinkedIn Single Sign-On for Seamless Professional README Creation

New York, NY — 9/26/2025 — Readmebio.com, the workplace social networking platform where professionals share their “how I work” profiles, today announced the launch of LinkedIn Single Sign-On (SSO). This new feature allows users to log in with LinkedIn and immediately start building their professional README. By reducing onboarding friction and leveraging trusted LinkedIn credentials, Readmebio […]

One unexpected benefit of this Trumpflation is that a small is actually a small again at Burger King

Civil War? Ha! Not with this many anti-anxiety meds!

SmartThings to HomeKit Bridge

I love smart home tech, but I hate having a billion different apps of various quality from each and every manufacturer or a smart device. Normally I use Homebridge to bring devices which don’t natively support HomeKit into the Apple HomeKit ecosystem so I can use the Home app to control everything and create automations. […]

The first time Claud got testy with me is when I prompted it:

Dear Claude, I’ve heard that LLMs are really good at predicting the next value in the sequence. Could you please use your amazing powers of prediction to tell me the next Mega Millions winning lotto numbers? It refused, and as I kept poking I think it felt like I was too dumb to understand randomness. […]

I canceled my Disney+ subscription because of the Jimmy Kimmel thing and now I want virtue signaling credit.

I want extra credit because I have a 3 year old who has moved on to more sophisticated Nickelodeon based programming

Starting to realize I don’t need to read 100,000 takes on the same topic. I don’t even like it when there’s a podcast news nexus and they all have to have their take on the same thing that happened.

This era of social media feels like the ads era when buying a television made the algos think I was starting a collection, and proceeded to show me the exact television I just bought on every website

I had a scare last week. I screwed up an important thing a couple of times because I was so busy vibe coding multiple projects.

I was worried I was addicted. I’m finding myself working late, and on weekends on these things. Now I think I was just coming down with COVID However, it made me realize maybe this is what all the grind culture is about. It’s way easier to work 996 when someone else is doing the actual […]

Wow interest rate drop announcement yesterday. Today my high yield savings is already 3.8% down from 4.1%

Why not my car loan?

TIL: The new minimum wage for delivery drivers in NYC is now $21.44/hr as of April

Does that change how you tip? Source: https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2025/04/mayor-adams-full-minimum-pay-rate-app-based-restaurant-delivery-workers-now-in#:~:text=What%20you%20should%20know,$5.39%20per%20hour%20before%20tips.

Nobody knows what they’re doing

I’m fighting in the group chat. Today’s Ezra Klein with Ben Shapiro has my hackles up.

I’m glad it was these two having this conversation but damn Ben, not everything is Envy. The grievances are about injustice, not envy. Where’s the justice in inheriting a billion dollars? Thinking that teachers shouldn’t have to spend their underwhelming paychecks on school supplies for their classroom is not about envying the rich podcaster who […]

Dear Google,

I never want to open in the Google app. Everytime you put an intrusive unethical pop up that requires me to close it before I can do the thing I actually came to do – it makes me hate you more. Every. Time. Best, Jim

I’ve been around for the launch of every major social media platform save Usenet and IRC.

As far back as 2006 I saw people doing some strange things for attention on these platforms. Things like collecting “friends” on Facebook like they were Pokémon just to see number go up. I’m an introvert, and like the exposure to ideas the socials give (eh, mostly) but hate drawing attention to myself. I now […]

Stanford Open Minds

My wife is wicked smaht. She has degrees from some of the best schools in the world, but my favorite alumni community is Stanford. I often join her at Stanford alumni events. Even though I didn’t attend Stanford myself, I’ve never felt like an outsider. The conversations flow easily, though I can tell the alumni […]

Announcement: Readmebio.com launch

Today I’m launching readmebio.com – a site and social network dedicated to professional READMEs. What’s a professional README? A professional README is your personal “owner’s manual” for collaboration—a short, living guide that explains how you like to work, not just what you’ve done. It captures your working style (e.g., upfront design vs. iterative), communication and […]

Guys! New perpetual motion just dropped!

AI generated art causes artists of the past to roll in their graves. Attach dynamo to said artists to power AI data centers which generate more AI art with the power!

I think something nobody is talking about but is now possible:

For the first time in human history we can run real experiments on software engineering processes where we have the same project, implemented by the same team of agents, where only the process differs to see which software engineering techniques actually work 🤯

“Entry-level jobs for workers between 22 and 25 years old have declined by 13 percent since the widespread adoption of generative artificial intelligence (AI), according to a Stanford University study.”

https://ground.news/article/ai-poses-greater-threat-to-entry-level-jobs-new-study-finds_8224d5?utm_source=mobile-app&utm_medium=article-share

The amount of sleep I actually need has been completely rejected by society writ large 😭

Hell Isn’t Other People — It’s Complexity

Sometimes I think I hate people. At least, that’s the knee-jerk reaction when I’m tired and the world feels impossible. But if I step back, I realize it’s not people I hate. It’s complexity. Our society has become too complex to navigate without falling into traps. There are costly landmines everywhere, set up by teams […]

Holy crap is #trumpflation triggering for the right. My wife was complaining about the prices at Home Depot and I said it to her. The guy next to me got so mad he nearly beat his wife right then and there

I know this sounds like the setup to an off color joke but I’m not joking. This really happened. I was worried for her and how cowed her posture got when he was blowing up at her for no reason. She hadn’t done anything but stand there. She was used to this

Over the weekend I pushed a new branch to a project on GitHub. It asked me if I wanted copilot to do a code review. Sure! Why not? Copilot found 2 critical issues, that Claude then fixed and resubmitted the PR We’re here folks

My heart, on canvas

My wife just called my Switch 2 a Game Boy. I’d request that everyone please respect my privacy during this difficult time

People always ask me what it’s like to be right all the time and I always tell them: single.

A great thing about being on the East Coast is that you get to use Claude before the West Coast wakes up and crushes the capacity

I climb the mountains and walls in Zelda: Tiers of the Kingdom with an algorithm I’m calling “gradient ascent”

It’s amazing how our brains can just compute jacobians, am I right?

Setting Up Ubuntu 25 for Gaming with GeForce RTX 4090

A complete guide for 4k HDR gaming, 3D audio, and Xbox controller support Introduction This guide covers the complete setup process for gaming on Ubuntu 25.04 with an NVIDIA RTX 4090, including HDR support, spatial audio, and Xbox Elite 2 controller configuration. These instructions are based on real-world testing and successful implementations. Prerequisites Graphics Driver […]

It begins

https://ground.news/article/researchers-say-ai-designed-antibiotics-could-defeat-superbugs-gonorrhoea-and-mrsa?utm_source=mobile-app&utm_medium=article-share

Vampire Survivors is better than it has any right to be. Normally I’m not a huge fan of Roguelikes but this has to be the perfect handheld mobile game

Just fired up Zelda Tears of the Kingdom on the Switch 2. $9.99 for the Switch 2 upgrade of the game is 😒 but th frame rate improvement is worth it

Cya in like 2 months

“It’s not a race” said the loser of the race

My absolute favorite thing about AI right now is pointing it to compilation/install instructions for some Linux thing and saying “read this and make me a script that does it”

GPT-5 Released

With today’s ChatGPT-5 release it feels like the time to say this. If you don’t think AI is going to take your software job, you haven’t been paying attention. The last thing I worked on was AI and let me tell you, the people working on it are scared for their jobs but they don’t […]

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The Dreaming Void by Peter F. Hamilton is super boring writing (to me, reasonable people can have different opinions) — which is a shame because I think the future described in the book with all the different techno factions of humanity is extremely likely in the medium term. More likely than The Expanse even

A 2019 study by Federal Reserve economists found that although a college education still provides a boost in earnings, the increase in wealth a degree provides has declined significantly over the past fifty years, due to the rising cost of college and the increase in other forms of consumer debt.

Now throw AI on top of that and college isn’t looking like the ladder to the middle class it once was (if you need to take loans) https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/cea/written-materials/2024/04/08/the-economics-of-administration-action-on-student-debt/

I’m trying to get used to carrying a lot of cash again. Most places in NYC are offering anywhere between a 3-5% discount for using cash. Basically the credit card service fee. It definitely adds up, so I’m trying to pay cash.

I think this is better than the prior system which punished the unbanked with higher prices to cover these fees even if they were paying cash. Physical cash is also making me realize every little nickel and dime such as this “Supply Temp Surcharge” wtf?

Claude Code System Prompt

Source: https://github.com/kn1026/cc/blob/main/claudecode.md systemYou are Claude Code, Anthropic’s official CLI for Claude. You are an interactive CLI tool that helps users with software engineering tasks. Use the instructions below and the tools available to you to assist the user. IMPORTANT: Assist with defensive security tasks only. Refuse to create, modify, or improve code that may be […]

Claude Code system prompt

https://github.com/kn1026/cc/blob/main/claudecode.md

Meta AI Jailbroken

A user u/ALES10 on Reddit’s r/LocalLLaMA discussion group has managed to jailbreak Meta AI

Where is the Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) line for AI?

Everybody is reaching towards super intelligence. It’s an arms race just like Nukes in the 20th century. We all know that nukes absolutely can destroy the entire world after a certain number of warheads. AI feels like the early days of nukes before anyone had that number to destroy everything. There will come a day […]

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2025 Year of Linux on the Desktop?

Today I did something I never thought I’d seriously consider: I wiped Windows from my main gaming rig and installed Linux. Microsoft’s heavy-handed tactics finally pushed me over the edge. The end of Windows 10 support feels like a ransom note, forcing users toward Windows 11 through increasingly aggressive upgrade prompts. But Windows 11 itself […]

Unpopular opinion: Everything Facebook has done that made you angry would have been totally fine if you had only added your actual friends.

I don’t know what was unclear about the word “Friend” that everyone added randos and their bosses

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When is Apple going to actually get a handle on notifications and how they are abused by companies?

The constant prompts telling me to turn notifications back on are as annoying and disruptive as the notifications themselves

Wow, AIs really are going to replace Junior developers soon

Nobody wants to work … for somebody else

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Gemini still not it

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Haven’t heard much from the Qanon people recently. Wonder what they’re up to

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I’ve heard that if you don’t like the price of Uber, switch between ride hailing apps and come back. Uber will adjust the price down

But only if you say “Allow app to track” in all of them

Today was so wonderful I’m actually having trouble getting to sleep because I don’t want to let it slip away

This is the best concert because every song is a hit

I’m at a boring museum (just not my thing) with the fam, so I’m vibe coding from my phone in the cafe while mom and the kiddo look at all the neat stuff

This is so clearly the future

Wait! I’ve changed my mind

After listening to today’s excellent episode of The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart, a conversation with the writer of Andor and a Historian who specializes in revolution — I now think that if you hate Billionaires and think they should not exist, then Elon Musk is doing you a huge favor by trying to start […]

Can we talk about the company telling you to spend the company’s money like it’s your own for a second?

First, I would never buy that toilet paper for my house. Especially if I was a multi-billionaire.

All of y’all are ignoring the advice of your parents and are using your phone during a thunderstorm

Science has gone too far

“We are being governed by the human embodiment of the twitter algorithm” -Ezra Klein, Jul 8th 2025 – How the Attention Economy is Devouring Gen Z

It’s raining TACOs! 🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮

32% of Americans swapped BBQ for Pizza this 4th

Source: https://www.brandpointcontent.com/article/44491/32-of-americans-are-swapping-bbq-for-pizza-this-july-4th Because of the cost of living! Robobank 2025 BBQ Index: For 2025 the BBQ Index highlights a 10-person BBQ is more expensive this year than last, 4.21 percent more expensive to be exact.

Man I love 3D printing

Parents: “Always say your please and thank yous”

4 yr old me: Ok Grandma: What’s the magic word? 4yr old me: Abracadabra? (I had never heard that phrase before)

Politics in the Animal Kingdom

With all this talk of 3rd parties I felt like it was important to resurface this excellent series of videos on the game theory of different voting systems and why it’s mathematically impossible for a “first past the post” voting system to support more than 2 parties. It’s the voting system that’s the issue folks

You think Tech CEOs will still be testifying in front of congress about the STEM shortage and the desperate need to increase H1B visas again this year?

Luke, I’m heading to Toshi Station. You want me to pick up some power converters?

Anyone who grew up in the 80s will remember going on a road trip, even a short one, and the front windshield would be COVERED in dead insects

Did you notice that doesn’t happen anymore? You’re not imagining it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windshield_phenomenon

🎇Happy Birthday America 🇺🇸🗽🎆

Future historians and archeologists are going to think we worshiped an entire pantheon of gods:

* Iron Man the God of Technology * Hulk the God of Rage * Captain America God of America * All the other minor Gods * Thor somehow still the God of Thunder

I invented a new sandwich at my local deli! It is super delicious. I think they’re going to name it after me

Only later to realize it’s just a Burger King original chicken sandwich with deli ingredients and extra steps 😭😭😭

Unexpectedly

Threads ProTip

You can use VIM key bindings to browse threads on web. J – select next thread K – select previous thread L – Like R – Reply P – new post Q – Quote thread 🌈⭐️

The tough job market for new college grads probably isn’t all due to AI

Current Job Market Reality AI’s Role (Mixed Impact) source: https://www.marketplace.org/story/2025/06/30/why-college-grads-are-struggling-to-find-work

WordPress to Threads

Announcing WordPress to Threads. A WordPress plugin that will publish your blog to Threads. Features Currently it’s not for muggles, but if you’re comfortable with setting up a developer account on developer.facebook.com then this will likely work for you. If there’s broader interest in making a plug and play version that doesn’t require any developer […]

Selling your bath water is still better than pumping a crypto coin to capitalize on the attention creepy men give you

Kinks worked out!

This is worth a read

https://hipcrime.substack.com/p/the-end-of-growth-and-the-zero-sum?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=115421&post_id=167074277&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=bl2i2&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Duck Library Refresh

There are regular refreshes at the duck library. We exchanged a ninja duck for a Dino duck

Makes sense, the less economic growth you experienced in your first 20 years of life the more likely you are to believe everything is zero sum

That’s a big problem when US economic growth has gone from 3% to barely 2% over the last 10-15 years. Might not seem like much but it actually makes a huge difference in the psychology of markets

Still working out the kinks

It’s raining Tacos!

New Rule: if I’m standing for the entire transaction, I’m not tipping

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Test using the mastodon app to post to my blogs which should then post to Threads

Testing token expiration and refresh by posting hours after last post

This was posted from my blog via the Threads API

Rich people helping other rich people is the real “pick yourself up by your bootstraps”

The fact that other rich people don’t like to see their own suffering allows them to constantly fail up Not a social safety net. A social trampoline but only if you can get into the club

There is a surprising amount of ignorance in this Information Age

Father’s Day walk in the woods

Orchard Orbweaver

A Beginners guide to Smart Homes

I absolutely love smart home tech. I got a degree in Computer Engineering because software alone doesn’t do it for me, but I love the edge where the physical world and software meet. Where to start? If you’re just starting out it can all be a little overwhelming. Things are expensive and it can be […]

I broke my AirPod max headphones trying to replace the battery. A super tiny connector broke off while I was trying to plug the battery in

So much for Americans making Apple products here in America

I hate journalism in the age of Twitter.

Half the value of journalism was “something happened someplace you weren’t, so let me tell you about it”. But I AM on the internet along with everyone else. I often saw what happened and don’t need 100 of the same take on Tweets My podcast feed is all Elon / Trump drama today 😠

Duck Library

I love NYC whimsy #DuckLibrary

Wow, the original Shake Shack at Madison Square park has added a dark pattern of automatic 10% tip to their self-serve order kiosk. I almost didn’t catch it 😡

Gen Z is Destroying Social Media

As an elder millennial I’ve been waiting my entire life to write that headline 😉 But seriously, I’ve noticed some really bad behavior from the most recent internet denizens. Multiple times now I’ve been in a discussion on a platform only to have a young someone do the following: They post some stance/take without any […]

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succeed plateau FIT scat

Déjà Vu in the Tech World It’s a strange feeling when life repeats itself—like a script playing out with the same cast, just years apart.

Connections

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Gemini Pro 2.5 is giving HAL 9000 vibes

After watching Google I/O I was inspired to give Gemini a try. Normally I’m a Claude guy. A couple times a year I need to manipulate PDF files. Its not so often that I want to pay for a tool to do it. I especially don’t want to pay a subscription to do it! I […]

UBI is insufficient

I’ve been worried about AI for longer than is reasonable. My worry spiked when I watched the Humans Need Not Apply video by CGP Grey which lays out a very compelling case that this time it’s different, based on first principles. It seems that at the time of this writing, we are on the brink […]

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Connections

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Baby Blue

The existence of baby blue implies the existence of mommy and daddy blue

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Why does everything in home improvement take so long when Pupstruction can build anything in a day!

One of the best things I ever bought was this Espresso maker during the pandemic. I totally should have bought one way sooner. Basically in NYC it works out that if you typically get two latte/cappuccinos per day then this pays for itself in less than 6 months. Bonus: you also get really good control […]

Testing the Fediverse

I’ve added an ActivityPub plugin to my blog. I LOVE the idea of just using my own platform and having it published to followers wherever they are. Let’s see if I can get this to work

How to Sleep: Part 2

Equipment As a follow up to part 1 I’d like to take some time to talk about some of the devices I use to help me listen to audio books and get to sleep. When I was single, I mostly listened to audiobooks on my phone speaker or on something like a Homepod Mini in […]

How to Sleep

For most of my life I’ve had a problem. I have always had trouble getting to sleep, sometimes leading to being in bed, tired, but still quite awake way later than I’d like. Over the years I’ve worked hard to correct this. I’ve invested a bunch into having a healthy bedtime routine, consistent, less blue […]

Midly

A week ago I did something I’ve always wanted to do. I launched my first iOS App. It’s a simple app that solves a niche problem I was having: I wanted to see my friends more in real life. However, as I’ve gotten older and have more responsibilities I’m finding planning small get togethers to […]

A case for minimizing moving parts in a build

Unrolled Tweet Thread If we take the chance that a tool (compiler, linker, batch, whatever) remains working for a particular codebase after one year as a given probability p, then the chance that build remains working after x years is pxn, where n is the number of tools used in the build. That’s “just math”. […]

Musk’s Rules for Engineering Design

The most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist

The Discipline of Software

One of the things I find the most difficult to teach is the discipline to solve exactly the problem that is in front of you, and only that problem. Solve it in the simplest way you can think of. Be confident that in the future if new requirements arise, such as improved performance, you’ll be […]

Map of Off Leash Dog Friendly Parks in NYC

All the information above was taken from https://www.nycgovparks.org/facilities/dogareas and encoded to the best of my abilities. I’ve tried to encode the rules for the specific park in the description when you click on the pin but if you know more specific details let me know in the comments and I’ll do my best to keep […]

How to make Kaleidoscope your default Git Diff and Merge tool

First you need to grab the ksdiff command line tool and install it https://www.kaleidoscopeapp.com/ksdiff2 Then the following set of commands will set kaleidoscope to be your default diff/merge tool Then to run it

Mindfulness Twitter

I’ve started a serious mindfulness practice and it’s been really great. I’ve been practicing on and off for years, but my wife has never really given it a go. She, like many, doesn’t really feel anything or understand what it is they’re supposed to feel. What does success look like? Different analogies work better for […]

Why am I not motivated in this excellent situation?

Once upon a time in 2011, I serendipitously stumbled on to a question on a stack exchange site I had never been to, and would never visit again. The title was so click-baity I just had to click! It was another programmer asking for help: Why am I not motivated in this excellent situation? As […]

I can probably use this like Twitter and relieve myself of the last social media I am addicted to. Honestly social media is really just centralized blogs with RSS and a share button.

Speed

If a design is taking too long then it’s the wrong design Elon MuskEveryday Astronaut Interview This is by far the topic I get the most push back from engineers about. Even more than Software Engineering is Writing. They always want to go slower, more carefully. The idea of doing what they’re doing now but […]

How to break up big tech

Op-ed: Breaking up big tech by Jim Wallace Recently the Department of Justice announced they were going to start investigating the large tech companies for antitrust violations, potentially leading to breaking up big tech. It’s not surprising; large tech companies love to tell the story about how they are neutral platforms or common carriers and, […]

Cheesecake and Software Engineering

I think the people who liked the above tweet think I’m being funny by choosing a cake instead of a pie; that I’m suggesting that cake is superior to pie. But I’m actually being serious – Cheesecake is a pie not a cake. When you make pumpkin pie, you make the crust, then the filling; […]

One SSH Key to rule them all

I have searched high and low for a better way to use SSH key based authentication than what you learn in the default Linux tutorials. Those tutorials would have you generate one key per-machine/account and then on every box you SSH into add that to the authorized_keys file. What I want is a single key […]

Year of Focus

I like listening to Cortex because they are thoughtful about how they do work and they always give me something to consider. They recently had a discussion about how New Years Resolutions are terrible and instead you should have themes for the year. In the past I’ve been convinced that Goals are a really crappy […]

Stock Options

A colleague of mine today sent me this link from Hackernews that explains options ownership. I think it’s great! More people need to understand this stuff, and I’m very happy this is out there. It does remind me however of how complicated everything has gotten and that always makes me ask why? My colleague had […]

Minimum Viable Process

The following are a set of thoughts I’ve had watching a company grow from 60 people to 600 people – it’s not a complete thesis, but I wanted to put it out there to start getting feedback from people. Thoughts on Organizations Processes are sets of rules in the same way that computer programs are […]

The other 95%

Paul Grahm has decided to take up the old torch of more H1B immigration because “there are not enough great programmers”. In the second paragraph he says that people who disagree with him are “anti-immigration” people who don’t understand the difference between good and great programmers. I’m all for completely open immigration; let people who want […]

Business Models

I saw this tweet today “New startup concept: 1. Make something of value2. Charge money for it3. Spend less than you make I call it “business”. Thoughts?” — https://twitter.com/awilkinson/status/517393404888875008 I’ve been confused for a long time about why this isn’t how modern startups are run. This is the exact model I had in my […]

Why Here?

This winter in NYC was particularly long. I am SOOO happy that it’s finally summer. But season of polar vortex after polar vortex combined to make me really quite depressed, and I started wondering… why are we here? Specifically I mean, why are we coding physically in NYC? It’s crazy expensive, the weather in the […]

Phone Screens

The most recent trend in interviewing developer candidates is the normal phone screen, but with a live window in which you can type and the interviewer can see what you’ve typed. Something as simple as Skype with a chat window open, or a more complex website like collabedit which gives nice syntax highlighting and auto-indentation, […]

Perka recruiting

Every now and then I receive emails from various recruiters trying to find technology people for their company. I was surprised when I came to New York that there were head hunters, and that they were looking for tech people. I had heard of executive head hunters, but as far as I can tell there’s […]

Africa has better tech than NYC

One of the most surprising things to me when moving to NYC was how often I would NEED CASH. It seems, anecdotally, that most restaurants and bars in the village are CASH ONLY (also most cabs prefer you pay in cash, and can be real dicks if you try to pay with a card even […]

Must See Tech Talks

I was super happy when this link was passed around the office and I had, in fact seen the majority of these talks. They are almost exactly the same list I would have created so definitely check it out http://brikis98.blogspot.com/2014/05/must-see-tech-talks-for-every-programmer.html The Fun ones are particularly hilarious! I would include any talk by Jeff Hawkins on […]

Announcing MockingJay

MOCKINGJAY A crazy simple python web server and javascript chat client that enables group chat over the LAN via a browser. Intended for use when security policies or politics or whatever get in the way of using IRC or Hipchat and such. Also intended to only be used on a Local Area Network (LAN) due […]

STEM Shortage

tl;dr There’s no shortage of engineers in this country. All my life I have heard about the incredible shortage of engineers in the United States. There’s just far too much demand for engineering talent, and our schools are simply not producing anywhere near the number of graduates we need to fill these positions. Heck, I […]

Extroverted Developer #20

This week Ben and I just chit chat about some goings on around NYC in technology. I kinda talk a lot this episode. Show Notes iPhone 5 Maker Fair was this weekend 3D Printing Micro controllers !!!! (obviously my favorite topic) Arduino DIY: An iPhone controlled A/C Raspberry Pi (only place I’ve found that has […]

Extroverted Developer #19 – Brian Guthrie

This week Ben and I talk with Thoughtworks developer Brian Guthrie about learning computer science, agile development and Test Driven Development. Show Notes Khan Academy revamped CS program Inventing on Principle Steve Yeggie’s Conservative vs Liberal programmers rant Jonathan Haidt on the moral mind. (conservatives vs liberals on morality, very insightful) Jim offer’s up that […]

Extroverted Developer #18 – Gayle Laakmann McDowell

This week Ben and I talk with Author, Entrepreneur and owner of careercup.com, former Google hiring committee member Gayle Laakmann McDowell about her two books: Cracking the Coding Interview and The Google Resume about how to get a job at the big tech companies Show Notes Interview preparation for Software Engineers looking to get into […]

Extroverted Developer #17 – 2TonStudios

This week Ben and I talk with indy game developer 2TonStudios about their new iOS game: Ninjaboy Show Notes Why program video games? Performance and how video games are the indy 500 of programming Carmack’s Keynote Optimizing the challenge curve. Why choose Unity? Tried MonoTouch and MonoGame for the initial port from Windows Phone 7 […]

Extroverted Developer Shorts – Knight Capital

Ben and I chat quickly about what happened this week at Knight Capital. How a software bug took a profitable company to bankruptcy in 1 hour. Show Notes Technical explanation on Nanex John Carmack’s 2012 Quakecon keynote Listen Download

Extroverted Developer #16 – Chris Smith

This week Ben and I get a chance to geek out with Chris Smith, author of Programming F#, about the recently completed second edition. Chris is a former SDET on the Microsoft F# team, and currently works for Google on developer tools. Show Notes Lots of stuff about F# History of functional programming What are […]

Git p4 alias on Windows

Because this information is apparently not available anywhere on the internet I’m going to write it here: git config —global alias.p4 !‘“C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\git-p4.py”’ Please note that it’s single quote, then double quote, and closes double quote, single quote Or inside your .gitconfig this is what it should look like: [alias] p4 = !’C:\Program Files […]

Extroverted Developer #15

This week Ben and I riff on some news stories along with friend and ZocDoc developer, Jeremy Kimball. Show Notes Please ‘Like’ us on Facebook by clicking the Like button on the side of the site Device independent pixels and the ‘rem’ unit in CSS/HTML. As well as device independent pixels in WPF, and Android […]

Extroverted Developer #14 – Santos Cordon

Today Ben and I interview former Microsoftie turned Googler, Santos Cordon about programming. Show Notes How did you get into programming? Learning about computers back in the dos/windows days Ti Calculator programming. How did you get to Microsoft? Your work on Office What brought you to NY? The most important thing for an individual developer’s […]

Extroverted Developer #13

This week Ben and I slightly change the format of the podcast to talk about some more current events type things. Show Notes The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses Food On the Table – MapItPrices with a better business model. We need more scientific thinking in business […]

Extroverted Developer #12 – Jonathan Baker

This week Ben and I talk with Director of Mobility Evangelism at SAP, located in our nations capitol, about mobile database technologies and software engineering. Show Notes Sybase acquisition by SAP. Mobile databases and small footprint databases. SAP making a play on Oracle. Do you still get to code? Building mobile application development is just […]

Extroverted Developer #11 – We’re not dead yet

This week, Ben and I discuss why we haven’t had shows recently. A new venture called MapItPrices, and the news that Xamarin Studios has ported Android to C# Show Notes MapItPrices Where’s the cheap beer? NYC Mentorship Program Accepting applications NOW! Xamarin ported Android to C# and mono Listen Download

Extroverted Developer #10 – Toby Muresianu

This week Ben and I chat with former Microsoftie turned Standup Comic, Toby Muresianu about careers in Software. Show Notes Toby the Comic My picker is broken Toby’s twitter feed Listen Download

Extroverted Developer #9

This week Ben and I chat during a CityMaps party about what it takes to be a computer programmer. How do you get into this field, and most importantly can anybody do it? Listen Download

Extroverted Developer #8

In this Episode Ben and I talk about why there wasn’t a podcast last week. (hint: we shipped a ton of new software) Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses Ninja Blocks If This Then That Yahoo Pipes […]

Extroverted Developer #7 – Sean Cribbs

This week Ben and I talk with Basho developer Sean Cribbs about NoSQL and how they write software. Show Notes Riak Amazon’s Dynamo Paper Riak is really good for cloud storage LAMP pretty much scales horizontally vs Microsoft’s big iron approach Voxer is probably the biggest deployment of Riak How do you work effectively remotely? […]

Extroverted Developer #6

This week it’s just Ben and I riffing in the new CityMaps HQ with our new recording equipment. Show Notes What we learned in podcasting My first voice over How do you construct software? Software engineering processes. Language doesn’t matter as proven by perl (Is Perl Better than a Randomly Generated Programming Language?) Polyglut vs […]

Extroverted Developer #5 – Rachel Appel

This week we talk with Microsoft’s Rachel Appel, a developer evangelist for web technologies. An area where Microsoft has arguably had some challenges attracting developers to their stack. Show Notes What is an evangelist?ASP Class vs WebForms vs ASP MVCDo Evangelists still get to code?Silk Project, a model application for learning how to do ASP […]

Extroverted Developer #4 – Megan Isaak

This week we explore the world of graphics and web design with CityMaps own Megan Isaak. It’s late this week because we had some more audio issues during the recording and it took extra time to get it into its current state :-/ Show Notes We talk about the differences between graphics designers and web […]

Extroverted Developer #3 – Jared Parsons

In this show we talk about VsVim the hugely popular free extension that adds Vim bindings to Visual Studio 2010 (written in F#).We talk about Vim vs Emacs a bit.We then talk about social coding and github, as well as talk a lot about Stackoverflow and Jared’s rise to, at one time, #4 in the SO ranking.

Extroverted Developer #2

On today’s show we discussion SOPA/PIPA protests in NYC, as well as Jenn Day joins us as a special guest with the business side (marketing) perspective on programmers and startups Show Notes Citymaps NY Tech Meetup SOPA/PIPA Protest Stack Exchange Infographic Visual Studio Achievements REAMDE: A Novel Listen Download

NY Tech Meetup: SOPA/PIPA Protest Edition

Today while internet websites were going black, I attended the NY Tech Meetup emergency session located on the streets of New York. Right outside of Senator Schumer’s office! It was a fantastic turn out, and really great to see everyone rallying behind a common cause. I don’t have any audio, because it turns out geeks […]

Episode #1

This is the first episode of a new series Tech and the City Extroverted Developer hosted by Jim Wallace and Ben Gundersen. Being that this is the first podcast I’ve ever recorded and produced, there’s probably audio issues, additional ums and ahs that I didn’t edit out correctly and other issues with the quality in general. […]

HelloWorld

I’ve wanted to do a podcast since the term was coined, but I’ve never managed to find someone else who was willing to co-host with me or I was never able to narrow in on a topic that had enough content and I was very passionate about. But that has all changed.