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I made this Tron inspired mini arcade game puck. Code (which was obviously written by an AI agent) is up on my GitHub. Fun to mess around with some hardware. The @Muse Gadgets announcement sort of kicked off the inspiration here.
github.com/joshholat/gridley…
If you aren't using agents to shop you're really missing out. I'm never filling out a stupid order form again. So much faster / easier to have the agent find the best deals, fill out the forms, etc.
The hardest part about installing Omarchy was finding a large enough thumb drive lying around to flash it to. @dhh, use some of that foundation money to mail out some flash drives with the ISO pre-flashed!
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They said I know what I'm doing behind the bar. Wait till you see what I can do with Chicago's finances.
I paid off the state’s $17 billion backlog of unpaid bills, helped to deliver eleven credit upgrades in Illinois, and more.
Let's get a Mayor who knows what they're doing with Chicago's finances.
#chicago #mayor #susanaforchicago
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If you read nothing else about the Chicago Mayoral race…
Read this.
As Chicago City Clerk, Mendoza cut overtime over 70%, reduced payroll over 10%, zeroed overtime, and returned funds to the city every year. As Illinois Comptroller, she cut her office budget 10% from her predecessor, held it at the reduced level for years (lowest GRF requests in decades), and returned unused appropriations annually, saving millions while managing heavier workloads during crises.
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Chicago must get back to what we do best - building big things.
Excited today by the announcement revealing O’Hare Flyer, a proposed express train to get from downtown to O’Hare in 15 minutes.
This would be the first airport express in the U.S. And it's led by a group of Chicago business and civic leaders. Chicagoans who know how to get things done.
An innovative high-speed rail solution by a private venture and a real plan to make it happen. These are the kind of people and projects City Hall must actively support. As this Chicago Tribune editorial says: “give us a world-class train for our world-class city.”
I'm on board this express train, and as Mayor, I'll ensure Chicago leads the nation in making it happen. – at Harwood Heights, IL
Editorial: An express train from the Loop to O'Hare International Airport in 15 minutes? We're on board chicagotribune.com/2026/08/2…
What has a larger context window? The new seats from @united or LLMs after the @GoogleResearch TurboQuant algorithm is applied?
Would be amazing if @cursor_ai had some sort of analytics on which skills are being used / triggered by my team. Maybe it does, and I just haven't seen where yet? Would use it to cull rules that aren't helpful or useful then double down on the frequently used ones.
It's weird that token spend / usage is becoming some like signal of a "good" engineer or something? I could easily spend thousands on tokens and generate nothing of value. What you are building is still just as important as before. Just because you could make a new feature to do X, Y, or Z doesn't mean you should.
Launched our MCP server today at Cube! It was a fun one to build. Check it out: cubesoftware.com/MCP
People have been trying to kill email for years now just for these people to be like “agents probably wanna email right”
AgentMail raises $6M to build an email service for AI agents techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/ag…
With all this building and side project stuff going on due to AI, X is starting to feel like Twitter back in the day when it was newer and mostly early adopters who were looking for interesting stuff on the internet. It's great to see!
I think starting a codebase in a field you don’t know much about can often be an advantage. You don’t come in with any preconceived notions about what it needs to look like.
This is assuming you’re working with someone who understands the field well is working alongside you tho.
It's actually insane how fast you can build things with AI / Cursor / whatever these days. Type a few things in to Plan mode, confirm the plan makes sense, build it, push PR, done.
This festival and lineup looks so good
Good times coming up in September: @BourbonNBeyond!!!
Passes are on sale now: bourbonandbeyond.com/passes/
As of this moment in time I think the $20/mo ChatGPT plan is widely more valuable than the Claude one. This could literally change at any point tho.