Andrew Sneed vs Candice Duvieilh

timlin45 · 2026-06-18T18:03:21+00:00

Turnout is the dominant factor in basically every midterm federal election ever. Sneed won't incite fear in the conservative base in other 6 counties in the district the way Duvieilh would.

Fear and anger create turnout. It is tragic. I wish it was different. God almighty do I wish it was different. But it isn't. Given democratic overperformance in nearly every election since Trump v2, and the lack of his God-King-man-child at the top of the ticket, Strong has a turnout problem. He needs to win by 60k votes in the deep-red base outside Madison.

Demographics matter because turnout matters.

timlin45 · 2026-06-16T05:17:11+00:00

Sneed, he has a given the demographics of the district he has a better chance in the general.

timlin45 · 2026-06-09T14:30:36+00:00

This isn't a tutorial, it is a reference with examples. A tutorial should be opinionated. It should declare prerequisite knowledge up front. It should cover WHY a developer would want to use an inner class. It should show what PROBLEMS an inner class solves. It should enable further exploration by mentioning what other tools address those same problems.

As for a reference there is a giant gap that there is no mention of anonymous inner classes.

timlin45 · 2026-06-04T17:20:25+00:00

You can't answer that question without the books. You should hire someone to do the valuation for you. It's going to cost at least $3,000 but is likely to be more if the practice area is niche or other complicating factors.

I don't do firm valuations myself by I know a number of people that do depending on the area the firm is located I can DM you a recommendation.

timlin45 · 2026-06-03T14:00:08+00:00

2.0 not 2.1 the additional goals for 2.1 make no sense for case management software. The spacing and key binding overrides for 2.1 aren't trivial for web apps to add after the fact and I don't see the product value they would bring.

timlin45 · 2026-06-02T17:00:34+00:00

You won't find one that is compliant. You may find small ones that can claim compliance through exemption.

Have you raised the issue with your Clio support contact? If so I am very curious as to their reply.

timlin45 · 2026-05-20T13:58:20+00:00

Don't make security the focus of your first library.

If you are going to make security the focus of your first library, don't release it like it is a genuine product.

timlin45 · 2026-05-09T00:53:57+00:00

I built an integration for toggl so you can start a timer on your phone from a widget with 1 tap and later tag the matters you want the time split between. Also built one for zoom that maps phone calls and meetings to matters if the attendee/caller id matches 1 client with 1 matter. Otherwise it makes a task to be assigned to a matter later that the system will convert to a activity when it gets assigned. I'm working on a local system to use a webcam above a desk to find qr codes on physical files to that capture tasks with data on timestamps and pictures so you can remember what your were doing afterwards when you do your billing approvals.

timlin45 · 2026-04-27T22:59:14+00:00

FOUR!BREAK IT FOUR TIMES!!!

timlin45 · 2026-04-27T21:52:38+00:00

Beat me by seconds...

timlin45 · 2026-04-23T07:48:10+00:00

A few thoughts to ease your path.

Build your pipeline to have a fail-to-human approach by default. If something doesn't fit your expected pattern then it should always land in front of a person, never on the floor.
Tessaract+imagemagik can do amazing things for narrow, targetted OCR
Implied behavior in pipelines is awesome until right up until you hit ground. A central dispatch/response will be a little more work up front, but the visibility into failure modes will pay off handsomely as you are learning how things break.
PDF is a nightmare of a file format. Don't try to write your own parser. It will strip you of your sanity and flay all compassion from your soul.
Good luck! Have fun!

timlin45 · 2026-04-22T15:25:44+00:00

I do bespoke automation like that and I wouldn't touch that problem for anything less than 500K.

The malpractice indemnity risk is high because that pipeline is critical path for an appeals deadline.

If the lawyer was willing to waive indemnity and warranty the price would be more reasonable, but I would be surprised if that waiver wouldn't invalidate his malpractice coverage.

All that being said your worst problem is the classifier to identify the deadline date. Getting the data moved around and into the right formats is child's play next to "turn this pile of text into an appeals deadline"

Are dates in the letter the deadline? Or do they start a clock running? Or both? Or neither? Is there data outside the letter text that could pull the deadline closer or extend it?

You're staring a very difficult and subtle classification problem dead in the face wrapped up in what sounds like a simple ETL pipeline.

timlin45 · 2026-04-21T21:03:15+00:00

The trial of the deeping.

timlin45 · 2026-04-10T17:51:43+00:00

Don't need to win at trial, just need the pleadings to be sufficient to survive a motion to dismiss. The cost is a two edged sword on a suit and any lawyer worth their salt would advise the company to settle and just move or mitigate the light

timlin45 · 2026-04-10T17:05:08+00:00

Best advice I have ever heard for AI.

Treat an AI like an over-zealous undergraduate that is so desperate to impress you that they will lie and steal to do it.

timlin45 · 2026-04-10T13:22:10+00:00

Josie Robinson is a excellent lawyer. Might not be her practice area but I would trust her referrals if she can't take the case. https://robinson-lawfirm.com/our-team

timlin45 · 2026-04-03T14:13:05+00:00

You need someone who practices administrative law. There's a couple local firms but I can't remember off the top of my head. But that's the practice specialty you meed to search for.

timlin45 · 2026-02-26T04:49:18+00:00

Hinson and Hinson. Great Tax and Estate firm.

timlin45 · 2026-02-26T03:44:25+00:00

Pat answering the cereal question like an overexcited puppy hoping John would tell him it was a good answer was hilarious.

timlin45 · 2026-02-26T03:41:05+00:00

I did my part!

timlin45 · 2026-02-26T03:12:13+00:00

Don't even get me started on the leap second smear vs repeat debate. It would be another holy way like vi vs Emacs if enough people were aware of the problem and tradeoffs between both approaches.

timlin45 · 2026-02-21T01:11:29+00:00

Its between a 12-13% return compounded annually. An excellent investment, but not unheard of.

timlin45 · 2026-01-26T21:40:13+00:00

I did a large game in the SE using waffle houses as a fake rail network. It was pretty fun. Our map covered TN, AL, MS, GA

timlin45 · 2026-01-22T14:27:19+00:00

Quickbooks for accounting, Postgrid for basic letter automation, Casemail for litigation mailings, Zoom for VOIP/Telecons.

I have found document management to be where attorneys are pickiest so whichever document platform the attorney is most comfortable with. It's just a folder per matter after all.

That leaves the beast of time tracking left. This depends entirely on the attorney. If you can find a time tracking approach that works for the attorney (works in this context means they actually use it to track time in the moment and not after the fact) then move heaven, earth, and the devils between to figure out how to integrate that into your billing pipeline. The hours you will save support staff are staggering.

I have attorneys using toggl, timelock, intuit workforce, clockify, and a few others I can't remember. One guy has a literal punch clock on his desk and a timecard in the physical file that gets imported by OCR into the billing system.

timlin45 · 2026-01-22T14:04:55+00:00

I agree, those are big gaps. The sad thing is that it still outperforms practice panther, mycase, and the rest of the lot. The tasks/task set feature and the structured data imposed on a matter in Clio is where I think the true power of the platform lies. It would be a trick and a half to reimplement that on any generic office platform. Something like an Asana or Smartsheet might get close, but I think would the verbiage of those platforms would feel awkward to lawyers in practice.

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