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A few challenge coins: Long Now, Google NetOps, and our family LLC.

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Ellis Island stories

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my sentiments exactly

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In my 25+ yr career in (systems) software engineering, I can count on one hand the number of real paradigm shifts I’ve seen:

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…this produces what I will call the AI Developer’s Descent Into Madness:

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  1. Whoa, I produced this prototype so fast! I have super powers!
    2. \n
  2. This prototype is getting buggy. I’ll tell the AI to fix the bugs.
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  3. Hmm, every change now causes as many new bugs as it fixes.
    4. \n
  4. Aha! But if I have an AI agent also review the code, it can find its own bugs!
    5. \n
  5. Wait, why am I personally passing data back and forth between agents
    6. \n
  6. I need an agent framework
    7. \n
  7. I can have my agent write an agent framework!
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  8. Return to step 1
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It’s actually alarming how many friends and respected peers I’ve lost to this cycle already.

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Avery...

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Best paper title I’ve seen in a long time:

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Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog

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I am Springsteen, going on Spreventeen

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– Spinal Tap II: The End Continues

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smoke ’em if you got ’em

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first law of thermodynamics\n    conservation of energy\n                          \"🤝\"\n double entry bookkeeping\n    conservation of money
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","summary":"","url":"https://snarfed.org/2026-03-15_56725","date_published":"2026-03-16T00:17:01+00:00","author":{"name":"Ryan Barrett","url":"https://snarfed.org/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fsnarfed%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"snarfed"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-16 00:17","date_timestamp":1773620221,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"85374110","content_html":"
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It’s VCs’ job to predict the future in all sorts of directions, and be extremely confident about those predictions, and also be wrong 9 out of 10 times. Remember that next time you hear a VC say…anything.

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(Not that VCs are dumb, or delusional, or malicious! Far from it. But still.)

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fresh honeycomb, from friends who keep bees

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\n\"Sunrise\n\n
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I know it’s a bad (good) day when debugging takes me all the way down into the Linux kernel docs

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the best UI is no UI

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\n\"Sunrise\n\n
","summary":"","url":"https://snarfed.org/2026-02-21_56590","date_published":"2026-02-21T18:42:34+00:00","author":{"name":"Ryan Barrett","url":"https://snarfed.org/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fsnarfed%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"snarfed"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-21 18:42","date_timestamp":1771699354,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"84499573","content_html":"Really enjoyed Nat Bullard’s State of decarbonization presentation this year, as always. Reminds me of Mary Meeker’s classic yearly Internet Trends decks, but for climate tech. It’s that valuable, and useful.\n\n\nSome takeaways, in no particular order:\n\n\nLand use emissions are at their lowest in 60y\nAlmost 2... snarfed.org","summary":"","url":"https://snarfed.org/2026-02-17_56579","date_published":"2026-02-18T07:36:10+00:00","author":{"name":"Ryan Barrett","url":"https://snarfed.org/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fsnarfed%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"snarfed"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-18 07:36","date_timestamp":1771400170,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"84179785","content_html":"
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\n\"Diagram\"Davies\"San\"War\n
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“I did my year, I got my stock, my soul is crispy”

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When I’m reading a non-fiction book, I know it’s a good one if I constantly feel the urge to post quotes from it.

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\n\"View\n\n
","summary":"","url":"https://snarfed.org/2026-02-01_56480","date_published":"2026-02-02T02:00:09+00:00","author":{"name":"Ryan Barrett","url":"https://snarfed.org/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fsnarfed%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"snarfed"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-02 02:00","date_timestamp":1769997609,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"83239500","content_html":"
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I miss the Fry’s Electronics days

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current status

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pretty like the devil

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\n@starrwulfe this alternative timeline haunts me 😁\n
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@JohnPhilpin yup, christina asked the same thing. i'm not really a map/graph builder in general, just happened to be useful for this project. i can't claim i'm particularly good at it, or that i plan to any more in the future. did you have a specific project or request in mind?

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got your email, happy to switch there if you prefer.

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@JohnPhilpin i take it you're People First! thanks for the kind words. just a hobby for me, i don't have plans to do others, but I'm glad people like it.

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updating the whole Indie Map crawl is very time intensive, so i haven't done it yet, but i could if there's a compelling use case.

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the crawl and map generation are very programmatic and automated, not Google sheets. details in indiemap.org/docs.html and github.com/snarfed/i... .

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@MrHenko just BBC content. still working out details.

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