Food

I remove all the vegetables in my burger.. is that weird?

You call this a burger? This is a burger.

PS. I also typically remove veg from my burgers.

People are shocked to discover they need to fact-check ChatGPT and I'm having the uncomfortable realization that they never fact-checked their uncle's Facebook posts, their friend's medical advice, or literally anything Google's top result told them, and suddenly the last decade makes sense...

One of my smartass neighbors on our local WhatsApp group started pasting generalized crap from GPT about broadband infra in the UK, trying to prove sth, which was refuted the next minute by another neighbor who’s an actual telecom infra engineer.

Sometimes all you need is to grab some popcorn and enjoy the show.

Dogs

I didn’t think small dogs could’ve been any more cute, yet here we are

Product

are we finally at the end of the age of subscriptions?

I woke up this morning to the smell of bacon this morning, which makes sense because as I was brushing my teeth last night the mirror told me I had a slight vitamin D deficiency. Bacon, eggs and the perfect cup of coffee. I remember when coffee had variance based on the beans, and the technique that was used to make it but now it’s just perfect all the time. 

My agent reminded me that I had a haircut appointment with my favorite barber and that my robo taxi was waiting. I stepped in and listened to the 90s style boombap it made just for me. In between songs it tells me about the latest FC Barcelona drama. 

I arrive and I prefer the human barber over the robots because I know he also loves futbol and we chat while his tools do most of the work. We pick up our monthly argument on who the GOAT is and he pulls up Messi’s stats on the mirror while I laugh and pull up Lamine Yamal’s stats which 10x Messi in every meaningful way. We spend the next 20m sharing our favorite clips. 

We fist bump and I walk out while my agent pays in USDC which instantly splits the payment with the barber and the shop. I tip him in his Creator Coin since he’s tax free and I know hos favorite haunts accept it. 

I head to the studio and make some art. I’m old enough to remember work and rent and all the stresses that come with it and am happy that those times are over and that my children never had to experience that. Still there is a premium on human made luxuries and I’m hoping someone uses their UBI discretionary budget to buy one of my paintings. Money isn’t used for much anymore but making a little in top of the UBI affords me the luxuries of human goods, like the haircut I just got.

My kids think I’m crazy that I prefer inferior human goods but I’m a little old school and have been resistant to the brain implants that they use for human connection. 

When I’m done I meet my wife for a bottle of wine. We reminisce about the times when wine had vintages and climates and terroir were not perfectly controlled. Even the best wines are inferior to what we are drinking right now and we laugh at ourselves remembering when people yearned for buying music on vinyl in the era of streaming music. 

Life is good and we can’t wait for what tomorrow brings.

This is the rose-tinted glasses version.

The most likely version looks closer to the vision from the movie WALL-E, where everyone is glued to their screens most of the time, instead of making art or handmade goods, while the machines do all the work.

We’re already here, just look around you.

Farcaster

Farcaster app not honoring the “tap top edge of screen to scroll up” on ios is the biggest letdown

fix it please!

guitar

looks like my Revv G20 needs to be sent back for tubes replacement under warranty.

i love it when manufacturers build their products in a way that is serviceable without voiding warranty

Revv actually gives 90-day warranty for tubes alone, in addition to the cover for amps. nice touch

i didn’t know i needed an article about  troubleshooting vaccum tubes in a guitar amplifier until i read it

i didn’t know i needed an article about  troubleshooting vaccum tubes in a guitar amplifier until i read it

https://blog.thetubestore.com/how-to-tell-if-your-tube-is-bad/

my five-year love/hate relationship with Apple Watch is coming to an end

AMA

so you keep rollin’ rollin’ rollin’ rollin’, yeah!

Apple

For the past ~2 years I've had 500 tabs open on my Safari app because I can't figure out how to clear them.

It triggers me every time.

right click any tab → close all other tabs → sanity restored

“brb, killing entropy” should my permanent status as a design engineer

💭 I just won 32.04 USDC on this Ponder

typical small english town hump day breakfast

Been reading The Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut, and this passage really hits wrt AI:

Once upon a time on Tralfamadore there were creatures who weren’t anything like machines. They weren’t dependable. They weren’t efficient. They weren’t predictable. They weren’t durable. And these poor creatures were obsessed by the idea that everything that existed had to have a purpose, and that some purposes were higher than others. These creatures spent most of their time trying to find out what their purpose was. And every time they found out what seemed to be a purpose of themselves, the purpose seemed so low that the creatures were filled with disgust and shame. And, rather than serve such a low purpose, the creatures would make a machine to serve it. This left the creatures free to serve higher purposes. But whenever they found a higher purpose, the purpose still wasn’t high enough. So machines were made to serve higher purposes, too. And the machines did everything so expertly that they were finally given the job of finding out what the highest purpose of the creatures could be. The machines reported in all honesty that the creatures couldn’t really be said to have any purpose at all. The creatures thereupon began slaying each other, because they hated purposeless things above all else. And they discovered that they weren’t even very good at slaying. So they turned that job over to the machines, too. And the machines finished up the job in less time than it takes to say, “Tralfamadore."

this is the one thing I needed to read today

Creators

CapCut updated their terms of service

unlimited, irrevocable usage rights to the content you *upload* to the platform

yes, anything that you simply upload is theirs to use even if you never export it or post it

womp womp

the sad part: most “creators” won’t give a damn and will agree to anything just so they can continue using the tool

Payload CMS joining Figma is not good for the developer tools ecosystem. We waited so long for a good open source CMS.

Seeing Figma’s track record and approach to customers, don’t expect them to be gracious or generous to the developer community after the deal is done.

What you can surely expect is Figma building a competitor to Webflow and Framer in a short time.

the farcaster’s reverse equivalent of millenial “new number, who’s this?”

photodump

throwback to FarCon 2025 in NYC. good trip!

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