Kyle Mathews

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"Marooned in Realtime" by Vernor Vinge (RIP) is really excellent. I really like quirky sci-fi detective stories like this, The Caves of Steel, Vimes books from Discworld, Dirk Gently, etc. Do you have any other favorites in this particular sub-genre?

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What does this rainbow wallet error mean? I did buy some ethereum via coinbase... https://github.com/electric-sql/electric/assets/71047/d19122ff-68fe-4e22-85ac-fa5115b11e36

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https://simplifaster.com/articles/how-trainable-is-vo2-max/

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all gen ai images in blog posts look alike

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Long drive to Vancouver BC (lots of traffic) and just arrived. Lying down in hotel room thinking I'll relax with a bit of streaming TV. Canada: Nope

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New blog post: "The Rise of Protocols" — my reflections from what I've learned from Summer of Protocols. Why protocols are so important and why they're a practical skill for many of us to learn. https://bricolage.io/the-rise-of-protocols/

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Ancient cultures all had big rituals around planting crops. Part of it was of course was to plead to the Gods for a good harvest but... I wonder if part of the calculation was a lot of people just wouldn't plant otherwise? Like a lot of lazy people needed a big party to get out in the sun for 2 weeks and plant?

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Working on a blog post this morning on protocols — liking my summary of protocols as the CAD Software & Machine tooling for mass manufacturing good outcomes. People/orgs often create bespoke protocols for good outcomes but Capital P Protocols is how we industrialize them.

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The Top Gear boys were YouTubers before YouTube. Their slogan "ambitious but rubbish" would be perfect for a YouTube trio today.

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Starting to think the only two fitness metrics worth tracking are: 1. Calories burned per day 2. Weight moved per week

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https://twitter.com/davidad/status/1773097130959274378

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It's funny that "predicting traffic jams" from cars is held up as the test of a futurist/sci fi writer. Traffic jams of various sorts have long been common e.g. carts and animals getting to a central market square or the same queuing to get through a city gate.

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Twitter hitting some sort of inflection on its downward spiral? Reply to a friend and it immediately got 8 of the hot girl bots liking it. Before this it's just been one every now and then

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AI has the densest concentration of startups all chasing the exact same markets that I've ever seen. I'm sure the hyper-competitive founders are excited by that but it's gotta make a lot of the startups feel pretty weird.

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Announcing a new Vite Plugin for integrating Capsizecss & Radix-ui https://bricolage.io/announcing-new-vite-plugin-capsize-radix-ui/

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Code is done & demo site is up https://vite-plugin-capsize-radix.bricolage.io Tomorrow I'll get the package published (correctly) and a blog post out. Very pleased with this — capsizecss & radix_ui are a killer combo

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Working on a capsizecss / radix-ui mashup

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My increasing conviction is that LLMs are just another tool in the product/engineering/startup toolkit — they're just too easy to use to be a moat. There's lots of tricks you can learn but they're easy to learn and immediately & widely copied. So the alpha remains in product sense and solving hard problems.

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Friday night family Costco run, let's do this

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