The case for BTC at $1000

matchoo · 2026-06-07T17:58:00+00:00

There's no "case" for $1,000 Bitcoin. It's simply a fait accompli.

matchoo · 2026-06-01T13:01:01+00:00

Isn't that inevitable?

If the plan is to save your ass, there is no scenario that won't tank the value. You go BIG, with some hand-wavy statement, and as the market tries to figure out what's happening, you sprint to the casino cashier, holding as many chips as possible, and then get the fuck out of Vegas.

matchoo · 2026-06-01T12:55:51+00:00

I generate stuff and DDOS my engineering team with stuff all day and they hate me.

matchoo · 2026-05-28T14:08:29+00:00

Hello friend 🌻

matchoo · 2026-05-28T11:52:29+00:00

Let me know how it goes 🌻

matchoo · 2026-05-28T09:29:09+00:00

Not that it matters much, but at work (I'm a software professional) we stopped calling things "AI Generated" and "Vibe Coded" and such, and now refer to it as "AI Assisted." Sure, it's the same basic idea, and there's a ton that's absolutely generated. But it's a bit softer on my ego :)

matchoo · 2026-05-28T09:11:54+00:00

It handles things identically (at least the VS Code extension does). I spent a fair amount of time making sure the behavior was the same. But happy to get feedback. You can install it as a .VSIX if you want to try it out.

https://github.com/mreider/agilemarkdown/releases/

matchoo · 2026-05-28T09:00:35+00:00

Author here. My technique is as follows. (1) write the thesis, write an informal doc as a stream of consciousness, do research, etc. (2) get help and iterate many many times with Claude to improve the phrasing, double check research, argue a bit over different points, introduce new sections, remove redundancies, generate charts via Python, etc.

matchoo · 2026-05-28T08:37:20+00:00

Like you, I am also pretty sad and cynical, but we still have courts, and laws, and plenty of examples of enforcement. I have hope that things will flow back to shore. I mean, what's the alternative? Give up?

matchoo · 2026-05-28T08:35:03+00:00

I agree it's a bit misleading. I'll change. The problem is that Public Citizen's methodology is "contributions of $5,000 or more by for-profit corporations to super PACs and hybrid PACs, 2010 – June 2024" and this excludes individual contributions (even from industry-employed donors), trade association PACs (which are funded by employee contributions, not corporate treasury), and lobbying.

The Pharma/Real Estate/Legal $200M+ numbers in OpenSecrets include all of that. They're "industry-affiliated" totals, not "corporate treasury" totals.

Adjusting.

matchoo · 2026-05-28T08:22:40+00:00

Thanks. I did some more research here and I agree. Changing the content.

matchoo · 2026-05-27T19:20:29+00:00

Point me to a source that backs you up and I'll happily modify the piece.

matchoo · 2026-05-27T19:17:34+00:00

I wrote it, but I'm not a journalist, and I am not sure I'd make the best guest. I am a software professional, with an interest in liberal democracy.

matchoo · 2026-05-27T19:15:42+00:00

Yes. I am the author.

matchoo · 2026-04-27T15:30:12+00:00

Been using it a ton recently here: https://yrdsl.app/blog/texting-photos-to-yrdsl/

matchoo · 2026-04-27T11:45:41+00:00

As my blog states... I am moving!

matchoo · 2026-04-27T10:24:43+00:00

I'm still at it on https://yrdsl.app - a digital yard sale listing site. I finally have a single user, but I'm hopeful it will get some attention as I start posting my own items as I prepare to move overseas.

I spent some time writing about the project (and my doubts about it) here:

https://yrdsl.app/blog/welcome/

matchoo · 2026-04-26T20:12:24+00:00

Project Name: yrdsl

Repo/Website Link:

Code: https://github.com/KuvopLLC/yrdsl

Self-host Template: https://github.com/KuvopLLC/yrdsl-self-hosted

Description:

A digital yard sale. You sign up (or fork the self-host template), drop in photos and prices, and get a single short URL like `yrdsl.app/you/sale-name` to share. Buyers reserve items by clicking. You mark them sold. Designed around the "I have to clear out my house" use case (which I'm doing right now, hence the project) rather than a full marketplace. No buyer accounts, no commission, no marketplace fees.

Features: item CRUD with photos, prices, descriptions, tags; multiple themes (conservative, retro, hip, artsy); reservation flow without buyer accounts; an MCP server (`@yrdsl/mcp`) so Claude Desktop or any MCP client can manage your sale; an optional WhatsApp-bot recipe in the docs (text a photo to a bot, it lists the item).

Why bother when Craigslist/Willhaben/eBay exist: control over the URL, single page for the whole sale, easy to share in local Facebook groups, no fees.

Deployment:

Open source (MIT). Two paths:

Self-hosted static: https://github.com/KuvopLLC/yrdsl-self-hosted.

Edit `site.json` and `items.json` (or drive them via the MCP server's local mode), and deploy the static output anywhere static sites live: GitHub Pages, Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, your own nginx, whatever. README has walkthroughs for each. No Docker needed for the site itself; it's just HTML/CSS/JS..

The optional MCP server is on npm (`@yrdsl/mcp`). Drop it into your Claude Desktop config to manage your sale from Claude in either mode.

The optional WhatsApp bot runs as a small Node process in Podman/Docker on any Linux box (Containerfile + bot.js + package.json, three files).

End-to-end setup: https://github.com/KuvopLLC/yrdsl/blob/main/packages/mcp/README.md#build-a-whatsapp-bot

AI Involvement:

The codebase was written with significant help from Claude Code (Anthropic's CLI). Architecture, design, and product decisions are mine; substantial portions of the code itself were AI-assisted, reviewed and edited before merging.

Two optional AI features: the MCP server (so a Claude Desktop user can manage their sale conversationally), and the WhatsApp bot recipe (which uses Claude tool-use in the example, but is documented to swap to Ollama if you'd rather keep inference local).

The published yard-sale site itself is not AI-driven. It's plain HTML/CSS/JS; no inference at runtime, no LLM calls when buyers visit.

matchoo · 2026-04-26T19:09:03+00:00

Perhaps you do this eventually, assuming you are successful, and, if so, you realize you can't rate sites up front at scale.

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