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@sundarpichai Regretfully, "colbyjacksongmailcom65" isn't a big improvement over what I landed 20 years ago.

2004 was a good year, but your Gmail address doesn't need to be stuck in it. To say goodbye to v0t3f0rp3dr02004@gmail.com or mrbrightside416@gmail.com (or whatever you were into at the time), go to your Google Account settings and choose any name available. You'll keep your old username and you can sign in with both.

@nateliason @claudeai Cowork and Code handoff is smooth because they both work off local file memory system. How are you doing passoff with chat? The app explicitly states there's no shared memory between them

Played around with @claudeai CoWork this week, and I gotta say, it is pretty incredible now with how it integrates with Chat & Code and the easy handoff between them. It also does surprisingly delightful things reminiscent of OpenClaw. I had it working on a coding project, and it didn't have Supabase CLI access, so it opened a browser tab to check if I was logged in. When it found out I was, it navigated to the correct project and manually ran the database migration it wanted to do in the SQL editor. Pretty impressive.

@eoghan Incredible work here. It's been a pleasure to work with and implement @Fin_ai as a customer. A+ Team

Texas is deploying battery storage so fast that it's almost keeping up with the other 49 states... by itself!

@edels0n No... No... Just XYZ

What’s the clearest tell that someone used AI to write something? I’ll start: “That’s not X. That’s Y.”

@nickgraynews Just just I went through this tonight. Claude Code sent me to pages. The "Workers and Pages" UI clearly makes pages a second-tier selection.

Cloudflare friends: there are a lot of people in my feed switching their static websites to Cloudflare Pages Is that still OK? Or should we be writing skills and prompts to publish static sites to Cloudflare Workers instead? I feel like I ask this every 6 months and the answer is “Cloudflare Pages still exist and are not deprecated, but all future development is going to Workers- and eventually Pages will get migrated to Workers as well.” I’d love to have a Cloudflare DevRel person who is just super active on X replying to people talking about deploying static sites with pro tips etc Someone who writes skills and prompts to help people migrate more effectively and even jumps in to support for VIPs Anyhows Is there a go-to set of prompts for deploying static websites on Cloudflare that I can share around? Best practices for static Astro sites deploying on Workers etc? Or do we just tell Claude to let ‘er rip and everyone ends up on Pages?

@SimonMahan Can watch it live at ercot ercot.com/gridmktinfo/da…

The world is changing right in front of us and no one knows it. Texas is running its world-class economy on 70% renewables, right now. Gas is there if we need it, but for today, we can save the fuel for another day.

@chintanturakhia Unfortunate for Cowork: "I can't access raw Cowork session transcripts (each session runs in an isolated VM that gets cleaned up" Fortunate for me:"but I have a gold mine: 5 weeks of daily kickoff/wrap logs and weekly reviews that capture everything you've done across sessions."

Run this prompt frequently. You're welcome.

I’ve spent a significant amount of time in the Big Bend region. The most striking thing about the border wall debate is the bi-partisan uproar against it. Locals are befuddled by the lack of warning and law enforcement are adamant that it’s an unnecessary expense. As Terrell County Sheriff @SheriffThad put it, the terrain itself is a God-given barrier. Spend any time there at all and you’ll understand why. It’s an unforgiving, desolate, yet remarkably beautiful region. The numbers don’t pencil out for a need and the wall is a solution in search of a problem. Let’s not destroy one of the most beautiful parks unnecessarily. Let’s not destroy a local tourism economy. Let’s treat Big Bend like the sacred land it is. My colleague @Forrest4Trees covered the backlash to the plan here: texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…

When I was 14 years old, I traveled to the Big Bend region of West Texas for the first time. My extended family had lived along the U.S.–Mexico border since the 1970s, but this was my first time visiting them. As a suburban kid from Philadelphia, I’d never seen anything quite like it. Counties more than twice the size of Delaware held no more than a couple thousand permanent residents. Mountains, rivers, desert arroyos, cattle ranches — miles and miles of wild, untouched land stretched out in every direction, mostly unobstructed. The land is populated by ocotillo and agave plants, pig-like mammals called javelinas, coyotes, mountain lions, bears, snakes, deer and (more recently) majestic mountain sheep called aoudads. It was and remains the Western Frontier — alive and well, still unmarred by oil fields or residential buildings or government overreach. After my first summer working for my cousin in Big Bend, I went back every summer until I was 18 years old. I learned to drive manual transmission cars, dirtbikes, forklifts, and backhoes; I learned to shoot guns, ride horses, hike, camp, make fires, run rivers, and tow a trailer. I learned to work — backbreaking, hard work in the 115-degree sun. I was surrounded by people who knew how to live off the land, fix their own cars, and make ends meet with the bare minimum in a place where jobs (along with water, food, and people) were sparse. After I went to college, I kept coming back — usually once or twice a year, often for weeks or months at a time, until a few years ago when I finally bought a 10-acre plot of dirt and started construction on an adobe home for my family, which was completed last year. It is, without exaggeration, my favorite place in the world. My happy place. My getaway spot. My hope, with any luck, is that in a few decades my son will be inheriting the home and the land, shepherding it, and passing it along to his own children. And now, once again, I’m facing the prospect of President Donald Trump building a border wall through our backyard. This is not a drill. DHS is notifying residents and property owners about 30-foot, steel barricades going up throughout this pristine land. 30x30 foot shelters for fiber optic cable, surveillance, and CBP agents all along the border. Miles of 12-24 foot wide roads in land that has never had anything but dirtbike and horseback trails. It's coming and it could be happening as soon as this summer. I want to be clear: Building a wall here will 1) Destroy jobs in the region, cutting off river guides and horseback outfitters from the water and trails they use now, and thus reducing tourism, thus crushing the hotel/Airbnb/food industry that feeds people throughout Big Bend. 2) It will hand control of the river over to Mexico, basically cutting Americans off from the most precious natural resource in all of West Texas. 3) It will irreversibly damage the wild West, the last remaining truly untouched land in the lower 48, and 4) It won't actually reduce border crossings. In Fiscal Year 2024, just 0.32% of all crossings happened in the 517 mile Big Bend sector. Just 3,000 encounters happened in all of 2025. That's less than the number of encounters in NORTH DAKOTA in 2024. And all of this would cost hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars. This is what it looks like on the border in Big Bend. This region is one of the most remote, unnavigable terrains in all of the United States. Border crossers aren’t going to be more dissuaded by a 30-foot wall than the thousand-foot sheer cliffs that already litter the Mexican landscape south of the Rio Grande River. Supposing desperate border crossers also happened to be experienced rock climbers who trudged up from Central America with gear to navigate the mountains, cliffs and arroyos, they’re still likely to die of heat exhaustion or thirst in a place where the temperature routinely exceeds 100 degrees Fahrenheit from April to October. And if they come in the winter, well, they’re liable to get hypothermia in the desert night, when the temperatures routinely drop below 40 degrees. That’s to say nothing of finding water or food in an area where locals with wells, rain catchment systems, and city lines are frequently struggling to collect potable drinking water; and the arid desert provides no easily accessible sources of food on such a journey. And if they make it through all that, they're just turning themselves in or being found half-dead near the border. It's just totally unnecessary. Again: This is one of the last remaining truly untouched, open, wild, and free lands in the U.S. Much of it is public, and a lot of it is privately owned by environmentalist-minded people who are simply preserving it (and now may have their land stolen via eminent domain by the government).

I don’t follow hockey, but this had me tearing up. They brought their teammate’s (who was killed by a drunk driver) kids out onto the ice with their dad’s jersey to celebrate the moment. 🥹

@mholt6 @tracewoodgrains @DanielleFong

Plot twist: it’s ~3 meetings/week. Shoutout to @mymindbloom for prioritizing async work. Also: if this is top 0.09%, Fathom’s typical user barely opens the app.

2025: Fathom says I’m a top 0.09% user. Percentiles are undefeated at making normal things feel extreme.

@Jarsen Claude Code in terminal is more capable that Gemini in browser. CC will build a local MCP that directly edits the GSheet & has full context of cell references and data models

Gemini AI in Google Sheets is _extremely_ bad. wow. incredible to see how bad it is in the year of our lord 2026. - can't do simple things like see a different sheet within the same document - i had it copy context into its context window so it could map and paste addresses into my other sheet, and it created new columns, posted things in the wrong rows, missed entries, and overrode other non-related entries.

@katrosenfield Longterm death march, but past 2 weeks actually show increased engagement.

thrilled/horrified at the realization that the Blueskiers are now fleeing their dying planet in droves and repopulating Twitter