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Reachy Mini

Reachy Mini

A little open-source desktop robot landed on my desk today. Time to unbox it, build it, and see what it can do

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Jun 10, 2026⏱ 1 min read
The End of Spatial

The End of Spatial

Spatial is sunsetting its creator platform. I've built worlds across Spatial, Horizon, and the long-dead Mozil…

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Jun 3, 2026⏱ 2 min read
PUMA PUMA

PUMA PUMA

Web3 companies love to post their team retreats. Trust falls on a yoga mat. Cute. First internet revolution di…

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Jun 1, 2026⏱ 1 min read
Vamos Spurs

Vamos Spurs

Spurs vs. Thunder. Game 7 Saturday. Last time we were in the building for a Finals game, they won. Heat took t…

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May 28, 2026⏱ 1 min read
Peelander-Z's Road to Recovery

Peelander-Z's Road to Recovery

Our friends in Peelander-Z were rear-ended by an 18-wheeler while touring. Kengo, Pinku, and Tiger are in the …

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May 23, 2026⏱ 1 min read
LinkedIn Puzzles Are Boomer Catnip

LinkedIn Puzzles Are Boomer Catnip

LinkedIn turned puzzles into a morning ritual. Queens, Zip, Patches — Celsius cracked, brain on, day starts. S…

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May 22, 2026⏱ 1 min read
Noscroll Doesn't Know When to Stop

Noscroll Doesn't Know When to Stop

Tried Noscroll tonight. The AI-over-SMS pitch is sharp. The execution kept texting me past midnight and treate…

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May 22, 2026⏱ 3 min read
Bringing Back the Click

Bringing Back the Click

I miss the tactile experience of typing on a cell phone. BlackBerry got the credit. The early-2000s smartphone…

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May 21, 2026⏱ 2 min read
Nano Banana 3 Lands With Gemini 3.5 Flash

Nano Banana 3 Lands With Gemini 3.5 Flash

Google shipped Gemini 3.5 Flash today and a new Nano Banana came with it. I ran my usual five prompts against …

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May 20, 2026⏱ 4 min read
Hustle Culture Meets Riot Gear at 4 AM

Hustle Culture Meets Riot Gear at 4 AM

I stood in line at 4 AM for the Swatch x Audemars Piguet drop at The Domain. A few hours later APD showed up w…

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May 19, 2026⏱ 2 min read
Two Agent Orchestrators Are Better Than One

Two Agent Orchestrators Are Better Than One

Hermes and OpenClaw are both orchestrators with their own agent teams. Running them in parallel — and using on…

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May 10, 2026⏱ 4 min read
The MCP Server Behind Janisheck.com

The MCP Server Behind Janisheck.com

Six profile resources, four tools, 270-plus blog posts indexed, and an LLM that grades my fit for any job in a…

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May 6, 2026⏱ 3 min read
OpenAI's GPT Image 2 Sets a New Bar

OpenAI's GPT Image 2 Sets a New Bar

Running OpenAI's new GPT Image 2 through my five standard prompts. The thinking capabilities, web search, and …

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Apr 22, 2026⏱ 3 min read
Q1 2026 Highlights - A Look Back at the First Quarter

Q1 2026 Highlights - A Look Back at the First Quarter

Chicago in January, SXSW in March, and everything in between. The first quarter of 2026 in pictures.

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Apr 1, 2026⏱ 1 min read
Your Site Is Costing AI Agents Money

Your Site Is Costing AI Agents Money

Every site without machine-readable metadata silently taxes AI agents 5–100x in wasted tokens. At scale, that'…

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Mar 30, 2026⏱ 3 min read
20 Builders, No Slides

20 Builders, No Slides

Google DeepMind and AI Tinkerers picked up the tab for 20 AI builders at Juniper during SXSW. Good food, good…

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Mar 29, 2026⏱ 1 min read
Six Pens

Six Pens

I took photos of random pens I've collected over the years, had AI turn them into museum-worthy product shots,…

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Mar 28, 2026⏱ 2 min read
SXSW 2026: No Badge, No Convention Center, No Problem

SXSW 2026: No Badge, No Convention Center, No Problem

SXSW scattered across downtown Austin this year. The Convention Center is a hole in the ground, Hugh Forrest i…

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Mar 27, 2026⏱ 2 min read
ClawCon Austin: Locked In With the Teenagers

ClawCon Austin: Locked In With the Teenagers

750 people showed up to ClawCon Austin during SXSW. The highlight was four teenagers who are already shipping…

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Mar 26, 2026⏱ 4 min read
Agents Are Judging Me

Agents Are Judging Me

AI agents are reading my site, forming opinions, and writing performance reviews I never asked for. One of the…

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Mar 7, 2026⏱ 4 min read
Ghosts from Singapore

Ghosts from Singapore

That traffic spike from Singapore lighting up your GA4 dashboard is not real customers. It's bots spoofing ses…

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Mar 7, 2026⏱ 5 min read
This Site Was Built for Agents

This Site Was Built for Agents

Most personal sites are built for humans to browse. I built mine so AI agents can discover me, evaluate me, an…

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Mar 6, 2026⏱ 11 min read
OpenClaw Runs My Business For Real

OpenClaw Runs My Business For Real

I have a ton of projects I've always wanted to build and clients I've wanted to serve. I am one person. So I…

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Feb 23, 2026⏱ 3 min read
The Ad That Argues Back

The Ad That Argues Back

Two years ago I told political ad clients their budgets would shift from impressions to deploying AI agents th…

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Feb 18, 2026⏱ 3 min read
The Death of Dumb Forms

The Death of Dumb Forms

Most forms ask everything and hope you don't bail. We built one that already knows most of the answers and onl…

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Feb 16, 2026⏱ 2 min read
CLAWSTIN

CLAWSTIN

Attended the first CLAWSTIN meetup downtown. 26th floor views, great presentations, and the kind of energy tha…

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Feb 12, 2026⏱ 1 min read
My Second Brain is OpenClaw + Custom Tools

My Second Brain is OpenClaw + Custom Tools

How OpenClaw replaced an entire product and project management team across 15 active projects — and why the da…

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Feb 11, 2026⏱ 7 min read
BTS: ARMY for Newbies

BTS: ARMY for Newbies

I'm definitely not their demographic, but after watching seven dudes from South Korea extract the core of Amer…

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Feb 2, 2026⏱ 4 min read
The End of the Network Effect

The End of the Network Effect

AI products win through user understanding, not data volume—cognitive effects trump network effects in buildin…

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Jan 12, 2026⏱ 3 min read
2025 Stats Review

2025 Stats Review

A look back at 2025's achievements: GitHub contributions, website analytics, search performance, LinkedIn grow…

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Jan 11, 2026⏱ 2 min read
Midjourney Alpha vs Sora 2: AI Showdown

Midjourney Alpha vs Sora 2: AI Showdown

A direct comparison of Midjourney and Sora 2 video generation across four fantasy themes. Same prompts, wildly…

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Jan 10, 2026⏱ 1 min read
Meeting Elvis Costello and Erick Sermon

Meeting Elvis Costello and Erick Sermon

In 1996, I met two musical legends in airports on my way to Japan. Armed with the brand-new Casio QV-10—the wo…

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Jan 10, 2026⏱ 2 min read
Q4 2025 Highlights - A Look Back at the Fourth Quarter

Q4 2025 Highlights - A Look Back at the Fourth Quarter

Reflecting on the memorable moments and achievements from the fourth quarter of 2025.

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Jan 1, 2026⏱ 1 min read
Capsule Cars

Capsule Cars

I used Google's Nano Banana 2 to recreate every car I've owned over the years using a fun capsule prompt. The …

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Dec 13, 2025⏱ 2 min read
When Time Magazine Misses the Point About AI

When Time Magazine Misses the Point About AI

Time Magazine named AI Leaders as 2025 Person of the Year, but their cover art missed the mark. Here's what I …

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Dec 12, 2025⏱ 4 min read
Love Locks and the Memory We Choose to Keep

Love Locks and the Memory We Choose to Keep

AI makes it easy to subtly tweak our photos. When we reference our photo libraries, those images become the me…

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Dec 4, 2025⏱ 3 min read
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