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Banjo, guitar, drums, trees, n' mountains.

Chris and I met halfway between our homes to jam.

We met at a tiny campsite, where we hoped the lack of amenities would mean no neighbors.

It worked.

I am very excited about Jev. Typesafe.ai has something fresh, powerful, unique here. I'm mentally infactuated.

Attributes of Jev that stood out to me:

• common-sense judgments over unstructured data
• machine interfaces matter more than…

Ep #253
Experts Agree: Yelling at Computers Is the Future

Robbie and Chuck reunite over Jim Beam White Label to catch up on Chuck's move to Italy, AI as tech leads, CodeRabbit versus GPT for…

Did a deep dive to see if StyleX would work at Shopify.

Turned out to be a wash, similar to my other explorations into OOCSS.

Claire Keegan’s novella Small things like these is very sweet and the ending is so triumphant and satisfying and punk rock that it’s going to stay with me for a very long time. I leave this rare book recommendation without a quote or much of a description simply because I…

In November 1967 Italo Calvino gave a lecture called Cybernetics and Ghosts where he talked about writing machines and the future of literature:

...will we have a machine capable of replacing the poet and the author? Just as we already have machines that can read [...] will we also have…

Ep #251
Guppy Pimpin In Trip Pants While Debugging IE5

Robbie and I do a mostly whatnot episode about our path getting into tech, playing in bands, and getting into trouble. We sip Glen Morangie…

New member of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society

I spotted this quote by Shirley Hibberd on the side of an enormous glass case, just outside the departures gate at SFO:

Let us not despise the day of small things. A windowsill garden is better than no garden, and the dark area where cats quarrel and damp makes patches…

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