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Short-form notes, aggregated by day. I first ran this format in 1999, posting from a BlackBerry 950 to a web page long before blogs and Twitter. No likes or follows, it was just me. I brought it back.

2026-08-24

07:53 interesting! Claude Desktop has a built in product-self-knowledge that I've never seen before. Finally, I can ask Claude questions about itself and get a solid answer.

2026-08-22

11:45 ideagraph is cooler.·11:45 ideagrams are neat.·10:49 sheesh, this started as "wouldn't it be cool to push markdown through a generate to netlify via github", now I'm on "wonder if its worth using embeddings to create a graph to show the ideagrams..."

2026-08-21

21:46 absorb the feedback, not the rejection·21:43 "...trading on amortization, not education. The product wasn't the truth, it was the installment plan - the backbone of telecom consulting."

2026-08-20

06:44 "boot prompt"

2026-08-18

21:03 “…he’s a weird buckeroo.” - Dolly Parton on Bob Dylan·08:14 FDE - forward deployed everything. Most of the value lies at the front, is compelling to think about how to best capture value at that edge.

2026-08-17

18:28 “Diageo has agreed to reformulate its drinks to stop adding whisky flavour in whisky or rum flavour in rum, said the government sources” ·06:18 Life is too short for bad coffee. Also too short for performative coffee.

2026-08-16

07:30 “the Millennial pause”

2026-08-15

18:34 @show_bits is my new hero ·14:25 Also juicy - Chartbrew - open source reporting platform ·12:32 Ooohh… super juicy. Opensource Meshtastic base station. ·12:28 “Different Seasons” blacklisted in Utah schools. King tweets “What’s wrong with these people” and notes that he hears from teenagers all the time saying “I wasn’t a reader until I picked up this book”. Certainly was a big one for me. ·10:25 nifty! that works really well. exposing drafts in frontmatter, and then done mucking about with code for the day. IRL awaits!·09:50 integrating the hardcover API.·09:39 way easier in 2026 than it was in 1999. will write up a post about how this works.·09:27 lots of random thoughts. not a lot of places to offload. until now.·08:27 hello?