
Founder & Creative Director, Poley Creative. We make tech videos for developers. Prev @treehouse.
Portland, OR
Joined November 2008
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The very cool Zach Soto has a comic book podcast where we ask people what one comic is their biggest influence or impacted them in someway. Literally just learned about this one today and it’s great if you’re into Indy stuff. youtu.be/RazEGkeFAxo?is=-OB6…
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CASTING CALL: I had a team drop out, so I need 2 devs on short notice to join an episode of Web Dev Challenge in Portland on Oct 21–23
TimescaleDB and sensor data challenge. if that sounds like fun, grab a friend and slide into my DMs ASAP! 💜
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3 votes • Final resultsWelcome to Arc 101.
Episode 1 breaks down the fundamentals of Arc, from stablecoin-native infrastructure and core network primitives to the developer building blocks available through Circle.
If you’re getting ready to build on Arc, this is where to start.
Deep Empathy for Builders is everything - I love running into this clip starring @crtr0 tiktok.com/t/ZTAmgvyxf//
Love this conversation about where AI writing is "helping" people sound more professional. It's a dangerous trap trying to show up the way you think people want.
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been thinking about what makes ai writing so glaring that it’s hard to unsee even when edited down
some of it is the emdashes, the lack of typos and imperfections and the repetitive longwinded nature. and the little formatting idiosyncrasies we’ve picked up “it’s not foo, it’s bar.” but i don’t think that’s all of it
i review a lot of writing at work: a lot of public and internal blog posts, problem statement docs, PRDs, presentations even
there’s this thing that happens, especially with junior folks. they assume that they need to sound “professional”. this is what we teach at school: start with a hook, 5 paragraph essay, use big words to sound smart, length requirements over brevity
even before AI this fascinating thing would happen where i would get something to review that would sound like joey’s letter from friends. every word has been replaced with a thesaurus definition to the point of being incomprehensible
the result was always jarring and unreadable at first.
then i’d ask them to put down what they wrote and say it in their own words. now it would sound normal, and importantly, like them!
it reminds me that we trained ai to be this way. AI is merely a reflection of what we’ve taught it
and of course it’s not just junior people. if you’re not used to writing, it’s intimidating! it requires staring at a blank sheet of paper and scrutinizing words and ideas as they come to you. it’s easy to reach for the cheat code
this is all to say what’s been said before: in an era of AI slop, lean into your voice and your authenticity. let it be choppy and imperfect and expressive and quirky (and personal!). i’m actually not saying “don’t use AI” to help you write. i myself reach for it quite often — it’s a helpful rubber duck (btw i typed that em dash myself ty). but don’t forget that your voice is unique to you and what makes the writing good. don’t let ai rip out the best part
Started watching Criterion films at 2x speed. I know it's not what the director intended. But I'm never bored.
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hot of the press, the 3rd episode of the next token
in this one i show of my agentic engineering workflow and tooling
...and receive a package i didn't order
I've Never Seen a Model Say 'This File Is Getting Too Big' - Ep 3 TNT
We settle the model-access bet, invite AI labs to share their best-case futures, cover Thinking Machines' American open-weight model, and watch Dillon show his workflow as a mystery package arrives
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95% of AI prototypes never make it to production.
But what if the secret to shipping AI isn't preventing failure, but welcoming it?
Watch my new video to see how @YouTube built an AI prototyping stack so anyone can fail faster and ship AI safely.
🎥 goo.gle/emergent
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We're optimizing ourselves into burnout.
Episode 1 of The Next Token, “I want your product to enable my agent" with @dillon_mulroy , @RhysSullivan , and @threepointone available now on YouTube and all podcast streaming platforms. Link in bio
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ChatGPT Sites is severely underrated! You get:
🌎 hosting
💽 file storage
📚 database
📊 analytics
🔐 optional "Sign in with ChatGPT" auth
All agent native by just asking ChatGPT on desktop or web.
ICYMI, you can now build and ship full web apps with ChatGPT.
@coreyching shows you how.
Build and deploy web apps with ChatGPT
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you might be able to build an app, but can you build a *product*? 8 teams start this competition hosted by @kelseyhightower, but only 7 will advance to the second episode
presented by @awsdevelopers, this is @codetv_dev's largest production yet — join the premiere! (link below)
The Full Stack premieres Thursday, July 16 at 12pm PT
A new series from CodeTV, hosted by Kelsey Hightower and presented by AWS. Building a product is about more than the frontend and the backend. This is The Full Stack.
Excited to try this out @chefbrent - will follow up with success/failure notes
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AI psychosis has gone mainstream
Episode 1 of The Next Token, “I want your product to enable my agent" with @dillon_mulroy , @RhysSullivan , and @threepointone available now on YouTube and all podcast streaming platforms.
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AI is everywhere, but has your software actually gotten better?
Episode 1 of The Next Token: "None of My Software Has Gotten Better" with @dillon_mulroy , @RhysSullivan , and @threepointone available now on YouTube and all podcast streaming platforms.














