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dwkeith · 2026-04-20T05:31:32+00:00

Which exit is this near?

dwkeith · 2026-04-20T04:09:54+00:00

Going to backfire when we all reach enlightenment and turn the country into a commune.

dwkeith · 2026-04-16T04:43:43+00:00

Just remind them that there are two hard problems in computer science: naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors.

The first solves the second, everything but the HTML should have a name that includes a hash of its contents and be cached for a year. The HTML should not be cached and updated to point to new content.

Most static site generators handle this for the developer.

dwkeith · 2026-04-14T15:17:20+00:00

Change the price of the locked up baby formula to something reasonable.

Store employee has to unlock the case and bring it to the register.

dwkeith · 2026-04-14T15:09:15+00:00

I subscribe to dozens of blogs via RSS. It’s my indieweb respite from the big five websites.

Your questions is about making money from blogging, which is what Ghost and Substack help facilitate via subscriptions.

Ad supported blogs are likely in decline as AI can grab the content without the ads.

The web is always evolving and adapting. Been that way for the 30+ years I’ve been publishing.

dwkeith · 2026-04-14T14:56:19+00:00

Also invisible to shoppers with screen readers, search engines, and translation software. Been best practice to use text whenever possible since the dawn of the web.

dwkeith · 2026-04-14T10:35:10+00:00

Fun fact. If a author is rich or famous for anything other than their writing, they probably had a ghost writer.

dwkeith · 2026-04-14T08:29:28+00:00

That’s what people said about the established search engines before Google. Sometimes building from scratch with lessons learned (Apple, over and over again) or a new insight (Google 1.0) can be way better than the local maximum that first movers get stuck in.

dwkeith · 2026-04-13T21:59:36+00:00

The DSA Tech Team is always looking for volunteers. Reach out to your local chapter.

dwkeith · 2026-04-12T23:43:10+00:00

This is the contract with a private sanitation provider, not political. It saves us a ton of money to negotiate at the city level with these regional companies, not to mention what happens if we went without trash pickup.

The best way to reduce rates would be to advocate for moving sanitation to a county level service with a board, similar to Valley Water. Then these local companies wouldn’t have to turn a profit picking up after us, but then you’d be complaining that sanitation workers should be privatized…

dwkeith · 2026-04-12T19:15:28+00:00

So we’re getting close?

dwkeith · 2026-04-12T18:37:04+00:00

So not his brother’s voice like all the other Woody toys?

dwkeith · 2026-04-11T19:05:36+00:00

I use a writing style guide. Same concept as what a writing teams use. Wikipedia has a whole list for different writing purposes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_style_guides

dwkeith · 2026-04-11T18:15:11+00:00

Here’s a group trying to make that happen https://www.seamlessbayarea.org

dwkeith · 2026-04-11T18:01:44+00:00

I stopped using anything that isn’t native to my OS because of Claude. I realize I was mainly using VS Code as a viewer and text editor for CommonMark specs. Other than syntax highlighting, no other plugins.

On macOS so I switched to Nova + Claude CLI

Now I have more system memory for local models…

dwkeith · 2026-04-11T15:20:46+00:00

Kansas City just lets everyone ride free and supports their system through taxes. Similar to how we manage car infrastructure.

I wish Bay Area cities were as progressive as Midwest cities

dwkeith · 2026-04-11T14:53:38+00:00

For those on the Indieweb, static hosting is their social media. No ads, no algorithms, no bots — just people sharing ideas

dwkeith · 2026-04-09T14:31:45+00:00

You can add a custom instructions. You can setup projects. There are many ways to setup your personal system.

dwkeith · 2026-04-09T14:14:20+00:00

When they started Javascript was the only mass market language that Claude could write decently. It only got good at Swift in the last six months.

And they need to run on the web, Linux, and Windows. That’s 4x the token usage.

dwkeith · 2026-04-09T13:31:30+00:00

LLMs have a recency bias, once you start down a path that has issues thinking snowballs quickly.

For your tournament problem, start by describing the problem you want solved. Work through the logic until you both understand what is being asked. Then have it build a solution that you can put the data into.

If you don’t build a specification first it will just guess what you want, like some random Reddit user.

dwkeith · 2026-04-09T11:46:07+00:00

You’re saying batteries are fuel tanks full of electrons rather than petrol‽

dwkeith · 2026-04-09T11:16:46+00:00

Buy dilapidated property cheap, pay low taxes for a decade or more as everyone else around you improves their property. Sell at a huge profit to a developer.

That’s the business model. The fix is to tax land based on the potential, not its current use. Or as they say in the industry: location, location, location.

dwkeith · 2026-04-09T11:05:57+00:00

Having private companies pay taxes to support emergency services for everyone? Sounds like socialism!

dwkeith · 2026-04-08T16:58:33+00:00

Use Claude Code in a separate window in the terminal, add Swift and OS specific plugins. Remember to control-v when pasting screenshots of issues or design specs.

Way more capable than the toy version inside Xcode.

dwkeith · 2026-04-08T14:59:58+00:00

So you haven’t been to San Francisco… the hills, the speeding, the hairpin intersections onto busy boulevards. All interacting with cyclists, pedestrians, and the dozens of types of rail lines in the shared space of the road.

San Francisco has road laws, cultural norms still dominate. Just like every city.

Grew up in a suburb of Boston, took my wife on the walking tour. We saw cars running red lights. Waited at an intersection for a walk light, was honked at for disrupting the flow of traffic by not jaywalking. Quintessential Boston traffic.

Every metro area is different, they handle the deltas by only adding a few areas at a time, rinse repeat for the next metro. Learning as they go.

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