Posts tagged: catalytic

2026 Resolutions

2026-01-08T10:48:12Z

It’s that time of year, Coming back to work out of a big break and thinking about big changes.

Daily Notes #

Keep up with daily notes, maybe not here, I tend to have more targeted notes here with full blog posts, but for work daily notes is POG and needs to be leaned on. LLM’s do really good at ingesting markdown and reminding me of things that I need to do, or did, or need to follow up on.

Reader #

Social media is changing, quickly becoming enshitified, I enjoy interacting with some of the people I’ve met online, reading their opinions, and learning from their experiences. I don’t need their hot takes, don’t care about their political takes. I like boring posts that typically fade out of whats picked up on the algorithm. I like a good 5-10 minute read or a long form podcast talk. I will be aggressively collecting more rss feeds to read and keep up with.

(Neo)Vim #

I’ve had these bad habits in my config for years, from day one of using vim. It’s time to kill these. jjgww. I killed them this morning, we will see how long I keep typing out jj all over my editor before I fix it mentally.

-- bad habits
vim.keymap.set("i", "jj", "<esc>")
vim.keymap.set("i", "jk", "<esc>")
vim.keymap.set("i", "JJ", "<esc>")
vim.keymap.set("i", "jJ", "<esc>")
vim.keymap.set("i", "Jj", "<esc>")

Tip

I need to lean on <C-o> a little more to run single commands in normal mode from insert mode. The pattern that is hitting me hard right now is jjgwwA insert mode, format, insert at end of line.

Distrobox #

I was a heavy user of distrobox as my primary dev environment on Bazzite and I need to get back there. I have a lot of stuff installed on this current system. I’ve been sloppy. I am not sure I was planning on staying on arch/hyprland long, I did it to do it with my son, his got borked a month ago and he is back to bazzite, I think I’ll be back there and want to be ready to float freely between distros.

clean dotfiles
work from a distrobox image that I make
keep working projects backed up

Vibe Coding #

Agents are the future, people that I really trust are on both sides of the argument. Some saying they stopped coding months ago and claude does everything for them. Some in between, some are completely against.

It feels like the tooling has really taken off over the past few months, the models are getting better, but not at the same rate they were. The tools are really making this possible.

My experience is quite mixed, I’m often impressed with what it does, and appalled at how bad it does other things. I just want it to do what I mean with the fewest words possible. I’ve been working on deeper plans more and more, still with mixed results. With larger plans the models seem to do more work, but still not getting that great experience every time.

I really need to get my workspaces workflow down, have models working in a separate workspace, and be willing to throw away shit code quickly and try again from another angle.

The future is a deep understanding on what needs to be done, how do to it, and not the syntax. The tools are getting better. You need to know less and less about them, less and less about models as the auto routers get better. The core skills of architecture, design, and implementation are more important than ever.

Last year I was able to vibe out some POC work, but still not letting the agents touch my production code. It wasn’t there for me, I probably did not have access to the really good stuff either. Now I think what I have access to is catching up to Claude.

sandbox them
quick to POC
quick to move on from broken attempts
learn to lead
learn to let go of syntax opinions
learn what makes good products/tools/apis hold the vibes to this.

There’s something here, very respectable people are betting on this, but its not working for me, I don’t think I have the right tools. I already have it a day, and got a few hundred LOC out while theo is claiming opus can do 10k.

Not Everything will be a side hustle #

I’ve tried to start too many side hustles, none of them work out. Thinking of them as a side hustle steals the joy of the hobby. I have too much going on outside of work for adding things like this not to add stress to already stressful situations, I need to reduce stress and find the joy and happiness in side projects and not turn everything into something more.

Keebs #

This one is fresh on the mind only because I just built out a new keyboard for work. I want to have a good robust build at home, work, and potentially have a good backup. I have a good design that is very cheap and fairly easy to build, but is quite time consuming. I am going to put some work in early this year to get a couple of clones.

More Offline #

Looking back at 2025, I actually did fairly well of doing a bit more offline. It’s been a hard transition out of pandemic times for our family, we had a lot of extra health precautions that lasted longer than most other people.

This year I should do more of this. More bike rides, more skate, more basement hangouts, more art.

New dart board in the basement

More creativity. I designed and built fingerboard obstacles to work like legos with 3/4" plywood last November.

building a fingerboard park in the basement

More building

building set for Jolly Holiday with Rhiannon

building boxes for Jolly Holiday with Wyatt

More bike rides, fewer nice days wasted, they are relaxing and get good energy out.

Bike Rides

💭 Post | LinkedIn

2025-11-11T02:43:05Z

Mark Zuckerberg scaled Facebook in 2005 - without Kubernetes, Serverless Functions, Redis, Managed Auth, Rust, or Kafka.

No fancy orchestration. No distributed event streams. No cloud-native… | Anton Martyniuk | 270 comments

Mark Zuckerberg scaled Facebook in 2005 - without Kubernetes, Serverless Functions, Redis, Managed Auth, Rust, or Kafka.

No fancy orchestration. No distributed event streams. No cloud-native anyth…

LinkedIn · linkedin.com

Lean on your skills and your goals. If your goals are to have fun, use whatever you want. If you are looking for a job, Lean on tech that bridges the gap between your resume and the job you want. If you want to build a good product use the tech you are best at. No one in their right mind would throw away 20 years of tech progression because Zuck built facebook ftping php to a server.

The sentiment in this post is fine at best the picture feels triggering and oversimplies way too much. If you like kubernetes just fucking use kubernetes.

This topic deserves a full on post, maybe later.

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

💭 #artificialintelligence #hiring | Gary Vaynerchuk | 20 comments

2025-10-24T00:39:49Z

#artificialintelligence #hiring | Gary Vaynerchuk | 120 comments

I care about humanity first, THEN skills .. and in this AI-scaled world, human sh*t will win 🔑

#artificialintelligence #hiring | 120 comments on LinkedIn

LinkedIn · linkedin.com

More Human stuff that’s what we will be doing. Less looking at docs, more architecting (which suspiciously looks like writing docs), more decision making, more explaining. This is a good positive take on AI right now.

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

💭 Big W: A Family Tradition

2025-09-19T14:03:04Z

Big W: A Family Tradition

A quick look into where we came from and what inspires us to do what it takes to build a solid reputation.

Big W Engineering Solutions · bigwengineering.com

I first met Adam in college, he seemed like quite a character on the outside, but was always quite smart and often leaned towards realistic solutions to problems rather than over complicating things. He was part of the SAE Formula car, well known for taking a simple problem and trying to turn it into a real formula one carbon fiber solution. I remember a period where he was a fan of old world blacksmithing as they would say at the time. He even got a few very simple and light parts on the car that were easy to make unlike the carbon fiber alternatives. By the time I was there he was more of a leader and did not do a lot of design on any whole system, but would take out class projects for a component or help with some hard problems. This company feels like it is a great extension of who he was a that time, with about 15 years of professional experience tacked on.

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

💭 How To Become The BEST Engineer At Your Company - YouTube

2025-09-10T16:08:36Z

When you fill all of your time with a bunch of other things, it becomes really hard to become a friendly person. Prime talked about trying to learn how to drop the hurry in his life, and how to not always be in a frenzy of going from one thing to the next. It’s something that puts us in a state that its hard to remember to be friendly. Hard to remember that theres always time for coffee.

I do my best to always leave time for coffee, whether at home with my wife and kids, as well as at work. I am in a very unique place at work where I have a rare set of skills for the industry I am in. This comes with a lot of people insterested in how to do things like running data pipelines or managing server infrastructure. I always take time for these conversations, I find them interesting, and useful. Sometimes you end up with someone who asks the same questions every 6 months, other times, you have someone flourish from these conversations. I’m not saying to take on work from every other team in the org, but giving 30 minutes to help mentor others can go a long ways.

I’m still not the best, I still get wrapped up in my own stuff just like prime calls out. I sometimes get frustrated with others around me when things come up that prevent me from doing my work, or just getting the things out of my head that I had momentum on while the lightning was hot.

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

💭 You Should Be Hiring Mullets. (write that down)

2025-08-21T01:14:21Z

You Should Be Hiring Mullets. (write that down)

Not because it's cool (it is), but because it's what your company actually needs right now.

"Business in the front, party in the back" isn't just some throwback style. It's the whole point.

In ou…

Candid and colorful thoughts on enterprise readiness · simplecto.com

We need more mullets (as sam describes them). Not so serious, but serious when it counts. Ready to back you up, get some shit shipped, roll up their sleeves and do the work, stand up in front of people and pitch ideas. We have too many hustle bros pitching shit they cant do, ai doomers who have been here 10 minutes think they can replace everything they don’t understand with a word calculator, framework Andys afraid to ship till its perfect. Grow a Mullet.

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

💭 How To Build The Tallest Building In Town

2025-08-02T15:04:49Z

How To Build The Tallest Building In Town

There are two ways you can build the tallest building in town. Once you understand this, things get really good.

Gary Vaynerchuk · garyvaynerchuk.com

Have some positivity! “Just Build the Tallest Fucking Building” is one of my favorite Gary Vee quotes. Build good community, bring others up, and stop tearing everyone down, listen to the vid.

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

💭 DHH on X: "You have all the time you need, you're just spendin...

2025-07-31T00:56:40Z

External Link

X (formerly Twitter) · x.com

The message so many of us need to hear, stop scrolling and start creating. I’m not sure that I have a heavy issue with this, I barely scroll the socials anymore, I have my own rss reader curated with people that I enjoy consuming from. YT is often done as a family activity (with my wife) or listening while doing something like dishes. But I think I’ve been on the other side of this for awhile. There’s something that ticks my brain by twiddling with linux nonsensically or pip install thing-i-heard-about-today and try it. I’m not imune though, I often fill gaps in the day with nonsense short content, but try to avoid the short trap.

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

principal-engineer-at-meta

2025-06-30T20:22:08Z

Jake Bolam principal engineer at Meta, has some of the best career advice for those looking to become principal or just be better at their craft. This video was such a banger I had to bring it in as a full post, and not just a thought. It was a random YouTube auto play, something that I probably wouldn’t have clicked on given title an thumbnail, but turned out to be very impactful. Jake is such a smart guy with a lot of great insights, and I can tell he thinks really quick on his feet, he just pulled all of these things out of his head on the fly.

YT Algorithm Gold

I don't know what it is about this title and thumbnail, but it gives me "ex

google, ex facebook, ex microsoft, $100M engineer" vibes in a cringy and not satire kind of way. I would have never clicked on it, it autoplayed after a podcast and it hit, immediately I’m like who are these guys? subd and started this post it was so good.

Long On Boarding #

Jake had a super long period of on boarding at meta, he came in as a seasoned leader yet took many months to get going. This was a phase during or near the end of the COVID-19 pandemic and his team was so swamped they were unable to give him time to help him. He felt his on boarding was taking longer than he wanted, and found backend work at Instagram. Moving to Instagram he jumped in and starting making impact quick and found his way moving up the ladder serving as tech lead for several teams.

I grabbed a ton of clips from this video, but did not for this section as it was kinda long.

Always open for a Chat #

As busy as Jake is, he leaves “Always open for a chat” on his internal profile. He does not care about rank into account, the intern can ask for a coffee chat. His key metric is how well is this person receiving information. If they are coming back with the same questions every 3 months he is going to start telling them he does not have the time.

I’ve had a fair amount of personal experience with this. Early in my career I experience quite a bit of higher ranks feeling untouchable, they were impossible to get a hold of, blew you off, and had more meetings than anyone could bear. It made me really look outside the company for inspiration and mentorship most of the time.

There’s always time for coffee #

While I don’t have “Always open for a chat” on my profile, I’ve had many of these types of conversations with my peers. It might be about something career related or more often how to implement containers, cloud, and good practices into small teams.

I remember a course in college shared the famous quote “There’s always time for coffee” and it stuck with me. The demonstration goes that no matter how much you fill your day with big rocks and tiny sand particles, there’s always a little more room for coffee, and he dumps coffee into a jar that he has already filled up.

These conversations often become very impactful. They can lead to having good relationships or job opportunities.

If we are not getting enough feedback, move faster #

Take Down Prod Sometimes #

This was an interesting take. None of us really want to take down prod. No one is advocating for major outages, but this is is not 2005 shipping out software on CD’s anymore. This take 100% depends on what you do and where you work. Obviously some sectors cannot take any downtime; nuclear power, cloud systems supporting nuclear power, navigation systems, idk theres a bunch of stuff. I bet if you are reading this that aint you. You’re probably writing some backend dashboard for the marketing team, or building out a website to upload cat photos on … Wait, thats literally what jake is doing here.

Idea being if you don’t occasionally cause some small production issues, you probably are not taking enough risk. You are moving too slow, getting feedback too late, your competitors just ran past you.

Go where you are rare #

I find this interesting. I’ve found myself within non-software companies doing sofware and data analysis most of my career, the amount of value you can bring by being that one guy that knows some pandas, containerization, how to run a vm is massive in an org that uses excel as its primary database. The rest of the org generally has massive knowledge in the business, but greatly slowed down by their ability to find value in the data.

Do work that you don’t get credit for #

I’ve worked with a lot of people in my 15 years of professional work, and I can tell you the worst ones to work with are the ones that focus too much on value. Every ounce of effort they bring needs to be backed by dollars comming into the business. I’ve seen this shake out a number of ways. You got the guy who sits on his ass all of January waiting for goals to be set, you got the guy who holds everything he knows close to his chest so that he is the one that can take the glory, and you got the guy who wont ever; refactor his code, cleanup, lint, update dependencies, and so on; because that does not have direct line to dollars coming into the business.

The clip goes a bit further than this, and hints at things that are going to enable you and your org to move faster. You might shave off 2 minutes off of ci, or docker builds. You might give everyone an easy way to run dev containers with production like dependencies in a snap. You might give them a way to clone prod data into a sandbox. These type of things provide no dollars to the company, it’s likely that few will notice but damn they add up to an efficient running organization.

Work Diary - the value of writing things down #

This one hits home, for far too long I’ve been in between note taking systems and am finally getting [[ marakta ]] setup to build out a really good zettelkasten style work notes. I’ve kinda had this on my blog for a long time, but not fully. I think the piece that I am missing here is the dumping ground. I don’t yet have a daily notes implementation that lets me just dump idea onto a page that I care little about, but is the process of starting something bigger, crosslinking between people, meetings, tasks, and launchdocs.

I hadn’t heard of the term launchdoc before this, but I took it and I am using it. I generally do an ok doc in the changelog of my products and spice it up to go to the announcement chat channel, but I don’t fully keep record of it, pulling the changelog into a launchdoc gives me that chance to spice it up and have the language it needs to go right into chat.

perfect

2025-06-26T13:55:17Z

Perfect is a made up word that humans use to describe something that is above average, or works really well for them. The idea of perfection is fleeting, as you think more deeply about something, you can continue to chase the idea of perfection to unimaginable senses. Sometimes perfect simply means good enough. Could there be something better, Always, but at what cost. If I spent 10 more minutes on this post would it be better, maybe, but I might fuck it up. If I spent my lifetime studying how humans read and think, sole focused on how it pertains to this post, ya it would get better. When I use this word perfect it’s not meant in the most literal sense of the word, but perfect to me, maybe good enough given the constraints I have, its the best thing I’ve got.

💭 neverjust

2025-06-23T23:55:57Z

neverjust

a guide to better developer communication

neverjust · neverjust.net

I just never quite understood why the word just can send people over the top. I get it when you don’t know someone, you don’t have history with them, and they come in saying you are doing something wrong.

I pulled this out into a full post just

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

just

2025-06-23T19:02:29Z

I just never quite understood why the word just can send people over the top. I get it when you don’t know someone, you don’t have history with them, and they come in saying you are doing something wrong.

When you say “just,” you’re skipping over all the invisible complexity. You’re assuming the problem is simple, and that the person asking for help hasn’t already considered the obvious.

You’re not seeing the constraints:

Legacy code Business requirements Team conventions Time, budget, or technical debt Platform limitations

~https://www.neverjust.net/

If I’ve worked with someone for more than 6 months, we have established patterns for problems, libraries we use, and they are deep in the weeds of trying to fix something, I want to ask “Why don’t you just do the same thing we do everywhere else?”

I don’t need a snarky ass response, I don’t need you to get bent out of shape about it. I am communicating that I do not know the damn constraints to this problem. I am communicating I am ignorant to the pain you have suffered trying to do something for days that I thought should be copy paste pr up in 10 minutes.

What I want to hear is “Well here’s the story of why this particular one is complex, and let me take you on my travels.” or “I’m about there and don’t have time right now just understand that this is different, we can discuss later.”

My just should not cause you pain, it should not cause you to feel belittled, If we have worked together for any amount of time and have respect for each other, you should understand that this is not coming from a place of belittlement, rather its an open door for you to explain why this thing is not what it seems at surface level.

Just use another library #

~https://www.neverjust.net/

Here Sam asks “Why don’t you just use another library?”, and Alex replies “If it were that easy, I would have done it already.”

Honestly this example is a little vague and non-specific. On boarding a new library to a team can be a big ask. It becomes something that the team has to integrate and depend on, and take on supply chain risk. This example would be better with something more specific, if the team often uses a mix of SQL, pandas, and occasionally pulls out polars for bigger tasks, Sam might legitimately ask “why don’t you just use <insert pandas, polars, SQL>”.

This communicates that Sam see’s the obvious we use polars when things get tough, or we use SQL when data transfer gets too slow.

You are not Dumb #

I want to hear the story. In no way am I calling you dumb, in fact I’m probably claiming ignorance to the problem at hand. I see that you have a lot more time invested than me and I’m offering help, not asking for snarky ass remarks back Alex.

In fact take it as a sign that I am this comfortable with you and that you are so far from dumb that I don’t have to risk being taken out of context.

Or maybe you are #

Or maybe Sam is trying to belittle Alex here, if that’s the case we need to have a conversation and work some shit out or find somewhere else to be, Alex should not be belittled like this because Sam is full of himself.

Suggestions #

~https://www.neverjust.net/

The suggestions are fine, but they feel like they are asking me to hunt around for the problem rather than you recognizing my ignorance to the issue, and let Sam tell me “Why don’t you just use another library?”

Final Thoughts #

In recognizing how much pain this causes others I do try to limit my use of just, it comes out from time to time, though I try not to. I try to remain kind, humble, and helpful. And typically in the first few weeks or months interaction with new teams/people I kinda walk on eggshells for a bit. I don’t know you or where you are, if I make it sound like you are dumb and turns out that’s what people think of you I’m gonna feel kinda bad. Just understand that not everyone is trying to attack you, communication via text is hard, give folks a break before jumping them.

Don’t be an Ass #

This post is not trying to say that you can freely belittle your team, go forth and be the irritating guy on the team that comes off like a know it all. I’m saying when you are on the receiving end try not to take it with such offense and as an opportunity to explain without the need to dance around the issue.

💭 Root for Your Friends · Joseph Thacker

2025-05-27T02:27:24Z

Such a great message right now. I feel like everywhere I turn is negativity, especially social media. It feels like so many things are trying to divide and create hate. “This” is what we should be doing with social media. There are a lot of elements of “there are two ways to have the biggest building in town, tear down all the bigger buildings, or just build the biggest fucking building”, If you want to be successful in X then surround yourself with others successful in X. This is a catalytic skill that everyone needs to have in their belt.

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

💭 Proompted Kiddies Learning The Hard Way - YouTube

2025-02-14T19:15:41Z

Damn prime makes an interesting point near then end of this video. He’s seen a bunch of people able to just throw down charts and shit at their company and end up being “the coding guy” cause they proompted something once. In a way I can relate, I got into software in a similar way, but at a time that it took a lot more hard work, understanding , and copy past from the right stack overflow. Based on some of the people around me at the time I can only imagine how some people must feel like they got pushed into it without wanting it, and now are building something they don’t know anything about with no care about it or care to build any expertise. Is the future proompted charts from enterprise chatgpt or do we only continue growing more need for software from here.

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

💭 The Worst Thing You Can Do For Your Career - YouTube

2025-01-17T14:54:14Z

Don’t stop learning! Stop trying because you have a doomer outlook on ai, llms, industry and think they are taking over. If you have no hope for the future, if you stop now you are cementing in that you will be no good and the ai will be better. Many, maybe most of us in this industry go here by hard work, long nights of learning, trying to solve problems that our job had. If llms take over then the world is going to be a whole lot different, it will be a world you cannot predict or plan for. For now put your head down and succeed in the world we have today.

TEEJ has some great thoughts on this whole sentiment, put this on for you morning walk or whatever you do.

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

💭 Fork Around And Find Out | Remaining Authentic in Retirement w...

2025-01-03T16:39:51Z

Fork Around And Find Out | Remaining Authentic in Retirement with Kelsey Hightower

Retirement is about the journey, not the destination. For Kelsey Hightower, it’s been an epic journey. On our debut episode of the Fork Around and Find Out Podcast (and much to Autumn’s elation...

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What a great first guest for FAFO. Kelsey is always such a great listen. He talks about killedbygoogle and how engineers get no incentive to work on old projects, google had no incentive, and you got the thing for FREE in the first place. He talks about end of career and having love you money, having so much in the bank you can say no. If you are presented with a project that does not align with your values you can say no.M

Justin even mentions how Google has more killedbygoogle projects than Amazon has total projects.

If we knew how hard it would be, we would never build it.

Autumn’s Fav quote from ep1 of shipit

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

💭 Getting a Dev Job in 2025 - YouTube

2024-12-27T02:53:55Z

Theo weighing in on the 2025 job market. It’s no 2018 out there right now, the ratio of jobs to engineers in the market has flipped big time. Theo as usual really focuses on community, being in a community, and being a good citizen. At the end of the video Theo weighs in on his experience hiring, and generally it starts with we need someone to do x does anyone know someone, then goes to a more formal internal post, then more formally asking internally does anyone know someone, then maybe to his community, and if he really still needs the person it might become an external post. These days there are so many good engineers on the market that very few good jobs actually get a posting for in his opinion.

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

blogging in 2024

2024-08-05T10:02:09Z

Over the past years couple of years blog traffic has been tanking, for some time I thought it might have just been me, but then i heard it from Dave Rupert on Shop Talk show, and it made sense. LLMs and AI is slowly killing the internet as we know it.

My metrics #

I dug into my emails from the google search console team and found two results nearly one year apart. Impressions are only 60% of its value a year ago while clicks are only 35% of where they were a year ago. I’m getting less impressions and even less clicks.

May 2023

June 2024

Suspicions #

What I think is happening is a large portion of users are getting their answers from ChatGPT, Copilot, and llms like this. A lot of my posts have been filling gaps in the internet, notes for myself when I struggle to integrate x in y because there was a gap of how to do so in the docs and stack overflow. Some small fraction of users have moved on to duck duck go and other non global warming search engines with AI in their results.

Clicks are down even further, than impressions. I can’t tell for sure but my gut feeling is that people are using the AI generated results. I know I use them quite often, but listening to Justin and Autumn at the end of the latest ship it podcast https://changelog.com/shipit/115, they both claim that they get no benefits from it and don’t know anyone who does. In fact Justin has taken the most ethical approach to move to duck duck go since it doesn’t kill the earth with each search by injecting AI results. Personally I do find it quite helpful, sometimes the answer is there, or an idea that triggers me to think of the idea.

Ok blogging is dead why keep going #

Just as always blogging has been for me. It’s a great place to write down your thoughts for later reference, and to help cement them into your brain. Beyond getting famous and clicks blogging is useful to you first and foremost, that should be the number one reason.

How do we keep the internet of old #

RSS feed readers is a great way to keep creators that you like and want to support in your feed regardless of what the higher powers of search and social media think of them. This year I built my own Reader, and I use it every single day to read articles out of my own custom curated feed.

I have also created Thoughts to help share and lift up creators that make good posts. I have a crome extension that allows me to create a blog post tied to a link right within chrome. I use this several times per day to save some pages for later with a small note.

💭 /Tips-for-Being-Happier--Healthier--More-Productive

2024-07-20T18:02:22Z

Tips for Being Happier, Healthier, More Productive by The GaryVee Audio Experience

Today's podcast episode is an interview I did on the Happier with Gretchen Rubin Podcast with Gretchen Rubin and Elizabeth Craft. We discuss balancing ambition, tenacity, humility, and patience. I …

Spotify for Creators · podcasters.spotify.com

Deep breath, the deepest you can take in

Smile, a real fukin smile not some pansy bullshit

Say I’m not going to give a shit about this when I’m 90

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

My Reader Project

2024-07-07T10:24:28Z

In 2024 I built my own reader after years of being bitter about google killing reader more than a decade prior.

Seealso

All the way back in 2020 I made a post on what I wanted to build into my own reader. It went long forgotten until I tried to make this post and slugs clashed. Reader-2020

Built on markata #

I built it on top of my own static site generator markata, feedparser (🐍 Parsing RSS feeds with Python), some jinja templating, and tailwind.

After putting all the work I have into markata, it makes projects like this fairly easy to build out with just a custom loader to load new posts in.