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Former big tech sr exec, now solo builder, living in the mountains, running/cycling, coaching. https://teapawt.org/t.co/lGAnuG7qOF https://teapawt.org/t.co/U1lxlchyAN https://teapawt.org/t.co/PgIDjSwaEb https://teapawt.org/t.co/Yu3K7VCu3i

Boulder, CO
Joined February 2008
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Getting my emissions test done on the kid's car. I love this definition of "newer" vehicle.
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I feel like I'm arguing with, and swearing at, opus 5.5 a whole lot more in the last 7 days. It seems the decision making has become less intelligent, and the design of the code is getting less elegant. It might just be me. But it is annoying. – at Louisville, CO
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How men can make friends in second half of life: lift heavy things. That's it. That's the advice. – at Lafayette, CO
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The single greatest AI short cut, hands down, was telling @AnthropicAI Claude (and Codex) that "SLSS" means "see last screenshot" and that means "look for the most recent screenshot in the fixed screenshot directory." So good.
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This hits hard – at Lafayette, CO
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"Lift heavy things" Monday was a success. Another lifetime bench PR. 300lbs (136.078kg). It's funny how a single significant digit can create such emotional response. A 3 handle instead of a 2 handle somehow making all the difference. I am oddly emotional about this. Something something bullied inner child something something. 35 years later and I can still very clearly imagine the 125 lb senior in high school struggling in the weight room with dreams of being good at football. Funny what stays with us. – at Louisville, CO
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Hey, @beffjezos does this count as accelerating? At 52? 😀
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Even more impressive when you consider it was first game back in 5 weeks, and only one half of play. 👀👀👀 – at Southglenn, CO
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As a team, we are lucky to have someone chronicling the season for our kids. – at Paragon Estates, CO
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I'm not suggesting this, but I'm suggesting this. Video series of @Tesla employees who couldn't talk about rocket car taking their parents for a ride and executing the flying roll maneuver. @elonmusk make this happen. – at Paragon Estates, CO
Turns out the future does have flying cars
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I am not sure I can even comprehend what they showed in this demo. I cannot remember a time where I was without words at a product launch. When he landed two falcons simultaneously. When he caught a building falling out of the sky. Now he shows an upside down flying rocket car with sub 1s 0-60. Wow. – at Louisville, CO
live demo of 0-60mph in 0.81s... what. the. f.
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Soooo @AnthropicAI gave me $200 in API credits because I have max plan, but they expire in 3 days? What a bizarre decision. – at Louisville, CO
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One of my best performing posts ever was when @levelsio reposted me. The post was targeting other tech sector folks like myself. The post was the importance of remaining a lifelong athlete. Start somewhere, put events (anything, doesn't matter) on the calendar that can help inspire training, and just keep at it. Be consistent and do the things. Whatever active thing, just do it. He loves his deadlifts, but for me it was always bench. As a high school kid I think maxxed at 145 lbs (~66kg). I turned 52 two weeks ago and today I hit a lifetime bench PR. 290 lbs (131.54kg). At 52! I'm a teenager again with how happy this makes me. – at Lafayette, CO
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Shout out to the random dude in France scraping my site daily with its 62 users. 😀
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The sentence: "I just pushed to PROD over @starlink on a @united plane after working for 1.5 hours and my MBP M5 battery only went from 95% to 86%" has so much "I live in the future" win in it I don't even know where to start. 😀
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If you had told me even a year ago that 'D1 Cheerleading' would lead to an out of control spiraling process on one of my production servers, I would not have known how to take you seriously ever again, but here we are...
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If you had told me 3 years ago I would be using an artificial employee to write bot/scraper detection logic for my error log watcher, I would not have believed you.
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If you had told me 5 years ago my afternoon would become unwound because of degradation of service on @github Actions, I would not have had a clue what you were talking about. 😀
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I do not know anyone on the @Avalanche pr or ops teams, but consider hanging a "Beware of Dog" sign on the visit locker room door for the rest of the season. What do you think @RycroftMark or @RadioMoser? – at Louisville, CO
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