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"...upon a level one step higher than any platform." A. Lincoln

@stylewarning one vote for iterm2

For a few quick things it's not a big deal. For long-running work, it's actually unbearable now. I don't know what to switch to. Back to iTerm2?

macOS Terminal is surprisingly unstable. Sometimes using the menu to open a new window freezes the dock, window, etc. requiring a force-kill. Additionally, sometimes the terminal's application state gets buggy if you change your screen resolution (e.g., from a game).

@jasonfried Solid idea. I suspect this would turn into 'founders therapy' session with the interviewer playing role of mediator, therapist. Regardless, I'd listen!!

Where's the podcast for co-founders? There's about a billion 1:1 interview shows with founders. But most business have co-founders, especially in the tech world. Interviewing two people at once may be harder, no question. But doesn't the podcast-founders-sphere keep talking about doing hard things? If you want to get a real look at what it's like to run a business with two+ founders, get them in a room, pepper them with questions, see them disagree, hear their different angles, see which defers to the other on certain topics, watch how they navigate difficult questions, watch decisions being made, watch ideas develop. That's the real view, the real interview. Yeah, maybe one person is way more interesting than the other. Yeah maybe one's the outspoken one and the other sits back. Ok — that's real. Let's see real. So who's going to do it? Huge opening. cc: @R_Mohr

@jimiuorio The Great Gatsby

What do you think is “the great American novel”?

@orrdavid Such a cool service! It's incredible that you get to enjoy such high quality trees this way. Thanks for sharing these pics 🤙

@RightWhig I water and mist it myself daily. They made sure its a suitable/good spot before renting.

I started renting bonsai trees. They will rotate in a new one every week, which I'll update in this thread.

@orrdavid Spectacular! Does the service come by and water daily? Also, how particular are they about placement for light, hvac settings, etc? Having bonsais myself (kept outdoors) I'm amazed at the variety you've enjoyed so far. And indoors!

One of my favorites so far, with the black bark.

@KeyPaganRush Any thoughts on the sheer volume of code produced and then the (necessary) follow-on debugging, pruning? I'm starting to see tooling to support this, but was curious how you are approaching it. Thanks!

When I hit my weekly limits for Claude

@lisperati Fair enough, and it's a reasonable prediction, but: wouldn't specifying requirements look remarkably similar to a programming language?

I know lots of programmers ridiculed elon for his prediction that AI will just go straight to binary code by the end of this year, and I have zero positive feelings left for him at this point but I agree on that prediction

@lisperati 'lisp' in the title guarantees 1000 superfans (at least) will evangelize the project, doesn't it? I for one am happy for it.

In hindsight over the years, the instant success of my first book "Land of Lisp" was definitely a lesson of "you don't learn anything from your successes, only your failures"

@mark_l_watson Very thoughtful approach, Mark. Thanks for this and your other writings.

The linked article is a long post but Min’s caveats on using AI agents seems legit. I have read through the Claudbot docs twice and while the local privacy thing sounds good, actually running with $10K of hardware for local models at home is likely something that perhaps 1% of Claudbot users will do, most defaulting to sharing data with Anthropic and OpenAI. While I am not happy with turning over any aspect of my life to automation that I don‘t understand its inner working and control, as an old man I now accept automation in two areas of my life: a car with tech safety features I want, and partial flying assistance with remote control airplanes (I have been flying RC planes for sixty years and I have a colorful record of crashing them - with modern assist I enjoy ‘no planes were harmed making this movie’ type experiences 😀). Claudbot accesses 3rd party platforms and apps using third party platforms so I think my strategy is to simply wait a year and since Apple and Google are in my ‘trusted venders’ list, I am willing to outsource part of my digital life to one of them when it makes sense to do so. But, I am in no hurry and I want the service as secure as Apple, American Express, Capital One, etc. One last thing: Min Choi’s article is similar or at least adjacent to the new book “The People’s Library” that I amalmost finished reading:

@joevaldezauthor Another thoughtful and engaging review, Joe! Excellent, as usual.

MISERY (1990) feels like a flawless movie. Annie Wilkes appears to have no vulnerabilities either, until Paul Sheldon finds one to delight book lovers. Directed and produced by Rob Reiner, who also worked on the adaptation of Stephen King's 1987 novel. shorturl.at/GsWqv

@jasonfried Tastefully done; by humans for humans

You can like this and this. Like more things.

@GZuckerman Thank you for writing this the way you did. Great!

NEW: The Untold Story of Charlie Munger’s Final Years

@davepl1968 You probably did will it: wiki.endmyopia.org/wiki/Active_Fo…

Yup. 57 and my myopia is perfectly balanced with my old age so that the monitor is at the perfect focal depth. I'd like to think I willed it.

@lisperati oh! nice; trying this in org-mode tonight

Sometimes an idea is so stupidly simple, it couldn't possibly be interesting, but it actually is: A program where you just enter your raw todo ideas into a freetext unstructured log, then have LLMs incrementally organize them using GTD principles en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_T…

@Gingfacekillah Such a key point! Tangential: "...be willing to do stuff that doesn't scale..." Question: what percentage of your effort goes towards this tedious / hands-on work?

@jimiuorio Cravings are legit. Many years ago Dennis Prager said something that stuck with me: "...the brain says I'm hungry; the mind says I want cake..."

Had a major carb backslide and put back a whole a bag of tortilla chips yesterday…carbs are addictive…it’s not easy…

@tunguz Cool characterization; I dig it. 'power law distribution' >= 'this time it's different' ? Time will tell.

Real power law distribution has never been tried. Until now.

@patio11 Experiencing the same pushback. "......but look how google search got worse....." Amazing times.

And even if you explain “Look this is *obviously* a floor” some people in group two will deploy folk reasoning about technology to say “I mean technology decays in effectiveness all the time.” (This is not considered an insane POV in all circles.)

I think a lot of gap between people who “get” LLMs and people who don’t is that some people understand current capabilities to be a floor and some people understand them to be either a ceiling or close enough to a ceiling.

@usgraphics Thanks for pointing to moshix! You'd probably enjoy @davepl1968's work and his youtube channel. Just tonight he's referencing WOPR and VAX...... :)

If you'd like to watch cool mainframe content, I've been following moshix on YT for a long time despite of not knowing anything about mainframes. Just cool to watch: @moshixmainframechannel" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@moshixmainfra…

The more people say don't use COBOL, the more attractive it becomes. The fact that 80% of the people hate this thing seems like a great signal for interesting technology. 100% of the people should encourage learning old stuff, experimenting, exploring and being curious.

@mwebster1971 Awesome place! Walking through Marine One was also a treat.

Air Force One was the coolest part

Webby’s 2025 Summer Bucket List Road Trip continues… Always wanted to go to the Ronald Reagan Library…it’s amazing Would you vote for this dude🤔🤣