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hi frens, nakamas, and homies 👋🏼 i'm jakk my locals call me aj; wizard in training, known for my perma-beard. 🚧minor rebrand moment as i start rolling out my solo builder blog + developer resources. gotta serve the algo gods that hate when you take up more than one lane. i'll still be giving snarky hot takes and sharing my creative work at my legacy @jakkvega ~ my more focused soloprenuer+developer takes will land here with you can we catch up late game and build something great? let's find out 🏴‍☠️ ~J7K

@yacineMTB you make a good point on this and my paranoia runs deeper than what if daddy takes my ai away -- more like what if they take my compute away? ill drop any of them in a heartbeat.

controlling your stack is non negotiable. the fact that I rely on openai for all kinds of personal stuff like managing my linux systems puts me in a deep uncomfortable panic. And I actually *like* openai. Imagine how much I'd be losing my mind if it were anthropic only

@JamesonCamp working on this as we speak. you gotta share the sauce boss

You can brainwash yourself into success. I'm dead serious. Your brain takes in 11 million bits of data per second and filters it down to roughly 50. Your Reticular Activating System decides what makes the cut based on what you tell it matters. Tell it you're going to win and it starts finding proof you will. I've moved across the world twice to reprogram my brain. Both times I surrounded myself with people who had zero idea who I used to be. Everyone I met only knew the version of me I decided to be that day. It worked both times. If you're just stuck, if things aren't changing, they're not going to change on their own. How can you expect anything in you to change if you don't change the inputs you're getting? Go. Right now. If you want to be different a year from now, start today. Brainwash yourself.

@angellilix thats so sweet. literally

“She walked in, wearing a pretty blue sundress with white pinstripes. She was aglow… What’s this? … Cupcakes. Red, white and blue cupcakes, to be exact. In honor of Independence Day.” - Prince Harry (SPARE, 2023) #4thJuly 🇺🇸 #HarryandMeghan ❤️+ ❤️= ❤️

Happy Birthday America. Terrible twos; here's to 250 more. #4thJuly

@craigweiss also plants

most people are going to be completely thrown off guard in the next 1-2 years when we are suddenly capable of talking to animals

@steipete cosmic humor laid bare.

I fed Fable 80.000 of my tweets so it could roast me even more. 💀

@LinoLeighton that happy little conure 🦜

Currently running only 5 Meta creatives, and they’re absolutely printing… We found our winning hook + content that converts, then doubled down on it. If you’re just starting distribution for your app, your only job is to find the hook + CTA + Creative that consistently goes viral and the comments are all “ App”, “ App Name” , “ What’s this app”. Once you found that, you’ve already done the hardest part. From there, pay creators to recreate those exact winners and then just run all those creatives on meta. It’s literally that simple. (Still only 10 PM, could potentially be 900$ day)

@KorayChelikhan gorgeous shot. where is this view?

GM Happy Saturday Legends! The weekend is here so let’s have some fun and spend time with the people we care about most in life.

@PabloDevelops to get in the habit of sharing and creating community around it

The reason what I'm building a startup is to have enough money in the bank at the end of the month. What's your reason?

☀️Story time: a couple of hours ago, I got locked out of my vintage car at a Costco parking lot. Before rushing to return my cart like a good son, I mindlessly tossed my millennial murse into the passenger seat and slammed the door. The universe, deciding to be extra spicy today, locked that door behind me. OK, I'm paying attention. Either it wants to make sure my recovery protocols are green or teach me a lesson. > I've been through this one before, I know exactly how to run this fire drill. Gripping through my pockets all I had was an iphone and an ounce of practiced dread > great now I have to actually ask for help. My mental checklist: - uber home and find my backup key - can I even get into my house? - call insurance to send a locksmith - will I be roasting for 45min? - shake all the door handles - bang on the glass in protest Then I noticed the mobile key maker guys and quickly thought: > maybe these guys have locksmith tools? after shooting that idea down I opened uber ~ 10 minutes away > fine lets get something moving time ticking slowly by, watching the driver do senseless loopty loops as I'm roasting in an early morning blaze > this is hella dumb. grandmas glaring at me like I'm trying to break into my own car so I jiggle the handles and bang on the glass even harder. > fuck this. reminded myself that "the more options I explore the more luck I'll have" ~ translation: try the key guys walked over, made my pitch. > so funny story, I literally just got locked out of my car right now. do you guys have like a jimmy or something? homie sitting up on his phone jumps up: > oh hell yeah I have just the thing! > my wife gets locked out all the time. ~ returns from his truck with a long pink wire I cancelled uber. accepted the stupid $5 fee after already waiting for 7 out of 10 minutes. somehow the guy full of energy to just be of damn help was much more valuable to me. ~ back at the car we're realizing the wire is too thick and too short to reach the unlock button. > what if we used the hook end to pull the lock back? < YEAH! we take turns trying to shimmy the too-thick wire through the seam in the door. more people giving us awkward glares. we're both gasping as it's finally getting into place. on edge like it's the final inning in the playoffs. > oooooooh! > almost! ~ take a breather. > okay you try to force it in my hands are greasy By now, we're both roasting and sweating under a sun a little too high for 10am. This random chill AF guy is deeply vested in getting my door opened, and I catch myself increasingly forgetting about the scratches on my paint just to see this resolve. ~ finally the hook is positioned just perfectly to pull it back, and we both take turns fighting sweat to get a little more leverage until finally > CLICK < we both looked at each other and cheered loudly > FUCK YEAH!!! high fives turned into high tens, and 'bro we did it hugs' gushing in my appreciation, I found myself looking for ways to thank him. > you work here at Costco or you with the key dudes? < nah, I'm here with key dudes I pop open my trunk, realizing I have a cold 12 pack of cold press green juice ~ best I got. > you want one of these man? < hell yeah. > take two. Universe made this happen today at the cost of $5 wasted to uber, a suntan I didn't ask for, and a scratched up door, but gave me the kind of life experience you can only get by making different choices. I think there are a handful of lessons the universe wanted to teach me today. If you read this far, tell me... what do you think those are? 🤔

@sojoodi yeah this was on hacker news. since prompt caching is already a thing this doesnt really help generally. may have more narrow use cases

Wow! Rendering text into an image before feeding into Fable as a token cost cutting measure. Completely unintuitive but apparently it works!

@FrancescoCiull4 every small win counts as the big ones. looking forward to more rust videos

These past 2 weeks have been a bit slow on X because I had to take care of many other things. Still managed to have X covering parts of my subscriptions. This is a phase of my life that I would simply describe as “busy and happy.” I just wanted to stop by and say thank you to everyone who shows up, supports me, and cheers me on whenever I post. Twitter, well, now X, changed my life. Working on my social media presence instead of just coding alone in a dark room, which I did for so many years, changed everything. The goal today is to record more videos, then hopefully we’ll go live. Stay tuned.

@leerob writing is so insanely personal that you mostly don't want to play a quantity game here on that note, the best play ive found for quantity is giving it a corpus of work that distills your voice + word choice to generate derivatives from but not for creating primary work

Are current LLMs incompatible with great creative writing? I can't tell if it's cope or not, but it seems like even with the best models, I still can't get them to write like humans would. For coding, there is a verifiable reward like it compiling or tests passing. But for creative work like writing, it's much more subjective. I have struggled to prompt / harness the models to write truly amazing work. They are fantastic for spell checking, grammar suggestions, and taking on different personas to read and critique work. Maybe it's because I'm only doing nonfiction, and to write something top 0.1% means that you need to think over a long horizon and develop an interesting insight about the world. Great writing is clear thinking. I've even asked models to try 10 different versions of a blog post, then have a council of models grade and critique the results and pick the best parts... and still I end up with this lowest common denominator slop. Skill issue? Someone show me the way.

@ThePrimeagen heres to 250 more. 🎇

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@ThePrimeagen i can smell the bbq and gun powder from here 🇺🇸

Ready for the fireworks

@__tinygrad__ @tenstorrent i would really like to see this happen

We are here when you are ready @tenstorrent. We love how you build in public and have buy it now buttons on your website (unlike certain other fake chip companies). Let's get you a software stack to match!

@palassis but my precious fable is running out

Take a day to breathe. You don’t have to feel guilty for resting. 😴

@GohilHardy small progress to the big win. lets keep growing 🤝

Good news: X paid me another $94.73. 💰 Bad news: My retirement calculator barely noticed. 😂 Back to posting 🔥

@aslambeg84 you're on a roll, lets grow

hi, can we hit 200 followers? 🎯 I am looking to connect with people who are into: → coding → full stack development → software engineering → ai/ml → building projects → startups /Saas if you're building, learning, or growing in tech, let's connect. drop a reply and let's grow together.

@DanielSmidstrup @X lets go

hey @X If you’re interested in: 🤖 AI 📱 Mobile apps 📈 Marketing 💻 SaaS 📊 Data 🏙️ Founders Let’s connect below!