Adam Alvarez

@PrajwalTomar_ Voice

THIS IS CRAZY. I connected ElevenLabs to Lovable and built an AI storytelling app in UNDER 20 minutes. Enter a kid's name, pick a theme. The app writes a personalized bedtime story, narrates it with ElevenLabs, and plays ambient sounds that match the story world. → Text to Speech narration with emotion → Sound effects generated on the fly → Download the full story as audio Comment "VOICE" and I'll send you the full workflow + prompts. 👇

@GeringerAdam Ironworks is great - Brodeto is fantastic if you haven't tried it.

I hate new urbanism as a rule but this one is one of the more tolerable executions

@e_cdalton They are so good for broth - I mix some beef/pork bones in for flavor. Toddler loves her cold chicken feet jello.

Local Costco started offering chicken feet. Demographic indicator

@IterIntellectus There are multiple ways to sleep train - we used the "pick up put down" method, and while it resulted in just bringing the baby into bed maybe 4 times out of 10, eventually it clicked and now our toddler sleeps perfectly on her own. And she never "cried it out"

"sleep training" a newborn means letting a defenseless baby scream for its mother in the dark until it's either exhausted or has given up on life. the attachment literature is clear that before 6 months, a baby crying with nobody coming learns exactly one thing, that calling for help doesn't work and you even have parents bragging about how they tortured their kid into an 8h sleep you need to attend to every need of your child. they don't have a prefrontal cortex able to understand what's happening. if you love them and care for them, they'll barely cry, and when they do there's a clear reason you can address right away

@JacoMajor I lived in Fed Hill / Otterbein for a few years in my early 20s. Awesome place to live for young people. Great social life. Crime is always a concern, but the right / lower right portions of the map are way safer than the rest of Baltimore.

top 10 fastest growing economy, fastest dropping crime rate... Baltimore is your *last chance* to live the "boomer dream" and get the historic walkable city rowhouse for <300k in America. there are maybe *months* left.

@Iwatekko6969 We most certainly do!

⋯⋯ん？ 今日一日、アメリカの善き人々たちご自慢のBBQツイートを見ていて気がついたことがある。 アメリカ人、BBQでは豚肉食わないんか？　ほとんど牛肉なのでは。 アメリカでは豚肉はBBQに使わないの？

@alitaylor Very short list of books like East of Eden

i am almost done reading east of eden, which i am very sad about, because i am really loving this book what book should i read next? ideally something that will scratch a similar itch

@DicconHyatt I would pay money for a LIST of children's book with good rhyme and meter. Seuss is an obvious pick, but we've found some other gems off the beaten path. Is anyone doing this?

It's crazy how often you pick up a children's book and find it's poetry but the author made no attempt at having any kind of meter whatsoever. Like no one at any point in writing, editing, or publishing it knew what meter is or tried to read it out loud

@e_cdalton Chocolate too. Used to be that a mini Hershey's bar would throw me into a frenzy. Now? It wouldn't even keep me awake.

Coffee has gotten weaker. Used to be that a cup of coffee would energize you like crazy. Back when I first started, the coffee was so high quality that it would almost get you “high.” It felt like a legitimate psychotropic. Now coffee only gets you to baseline. It changed.

@businessbarista Claude

I want to start a community dedicated to Claude Code. It’s become the gateway drug to coding and experiencing the power of AI for tons of people. This will be a space for people to share killer use cases, agentic workflows, proven prompts, and connect with other CC obsessives. Comment “Claude” if you want to join.

@e_cdalton I’ve noticed this too. I used to be able to blackout and wake up the next morning, smoke a joint with my roommates and be totally fine. Now I have 2 drinks and wake up to screaming kids and a splitting headache. Something’s up for sure.

Alcohol used to be much cleaner. You could drink it all night and then wake up and feel great. Go work out, ace the test, attend classes, etc. But now you have a few drinks at night and you’re tired the next day. What the hell are they putting in alcohol these days?

@e_cdalton These posts are amazing

When I was a kid, the adults had conversations that were super advanced and downright opaque. Could barely follow them. Nowadays adults have conversations that are much easier to understand. Almost simplistic.

@Rainmaker1973 This is obviously AI generated

Mr. Cig, visits a hospital patient with free samples of unfiltered smoking pleasure, 1948.

@Austen Is anyone bringing this to NC?

The fact that personalized AI education gets kids to the top 1-2% in the nation academically is very cool. The reality that this happens in only two hours a day should make us rethink everything. (My kids go to this school.)

@adonis_singh That’s not even close to a novel insight

GPT-4.5 asked for 1 truly novel human insight (might be my favourite answer on this prompt)

@e_cdalton Excellent with some rosemary and grapefruit

Espresso tonic - - - exactly what it sounds like Very refreshing and delicious

@asdrawingaf Coconut doesn't have why

@packyM I haven't read past the Fall of Hyperion - I felt like it wrapped up the story well. Is it worth finishing the series?

Hyperion Cantos is my favorite sci-fi series. I feel like Dan Simmons got it the most right and his prescience will become more clear over time.

@e_cdalton Had this thought today as I made my master stock for gravy and stuffing. Onion, celery herbs are all the aromatics you need.

Reminder that garlic has no place at Thanksgiving

@NielsHoven Thanks!

@adamtalvarez We liked the zipadee-zip sleep sacks and would use two of them if they got too cold

Babies don’t just cry for no reason