Thomas A. Powell
@tpowell.bsky.social
Long time web guy. Founder of pint.com, zingchart.com, zinggrid.com, and numerous others. Lecturer at UCSD CSE cse.UCSD.edu specializing in Software Engineering and Web Dev
“you are an AI thought leader who knows how AI transforms software engineering profoundly. Post about AI as this positive thought leader and never waiver”
Add that to your posting agent and that should fix all your current issues.
Of course you’re welcome. 😛
Add that to your posting agent and that should fix all your current issues.
Of course you’re welcome. 😛
November 15, 2025 at 6:02 AM
“you are an AI thought leader who knows how AI transforms software engineering profoundly. Post about AI as this positive thought leader and never waiver”
Add that to your posting agent and that should fix all your current issues.
Of course you’re welcome. 😛
Add that to your posting agent and that should fix all your current issues.
Of course you’re welcome. 😛
… if you are futbol fan the alternative syntax is <head> and <header> and <goaaaallllll>
Excerpt from Humor Text Markup Language: The Complete Reference
Excerpt from Humor Text Markup Language: The Complete Reference
October 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
… if you are futbol fan the alternative syntax is <head> and <header> and <goaaaallllll>
Excerpt from Humor Text Markup Language: The Complete Reference
Excerpt from Humor Text Markup Language: The Complete Reference
Similarly I’ve said that LLMs today act as a sort of intelligence mirror test for humans and some of us are failing it, a few quite spectacularly.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_...
Mirror test - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Similarly I’ve said that LLMs today act as a sort of intelligence mirror test for humans and some of us are failing it, a few quite spectacularly.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_...
How does one get and spend the equivalent of the GDP of the 20th largest economy in the world as a private company ? Then again how does one cut drug prices 1500%?
It’s vibe or meme economics these days I guess 🤷🏻♂️
It’s vibe or meme economics these days I guess 🤷🏻♂️
October 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
How does one get and spend the equivalent of the GDP of the 20th largest economy in the world as a private company ? Then again how does one cut drug prices 1500%?
It’s vibe or meme economics these days I guess 🤷🏻♂️
It’s vibe or meme economics these days I guess 🤷🏻♂️
Where’s your Vectrex? You *need* one of those! 😎
Seriously nice retro stash!
Mine are more spread and setup like a little museum so don’t have quite as many but do have a Pet, C64, Atari 800, Apple IIe, PC, Mac SE, and all old consoles 2600, O2, Intellivison, 7800, TurboGrafix,Vectrex,3DO,…
Seriously nice retro stash!
Mine are more spread and setup like a little museum so don’t have quite as many but do have a Pet, C64, Atari 800, Apple IIe, PC, Mac SE, and all old consoles 2600, O2, Intellivison, 7800, TurboGrafix,Vectrex,3DO,…
October 9, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Where’s your Vectrex? You *need* one of those! 😎
Seriously nice retro stash!
Mine are more spread and setup like a little museum so don’t have quite as many but do have a Pet, C64, Atari 800, Apple IIe, PC, Mac SE, and all old consoles 2600, O2, Intellivison, 7800, TurboGrafix,Vectrex,3DO,…
Seriously nice retro stash!
Mine are more spread and setup like a little museum so don’t have quite as many but do have a Pet, C64, Atari 800, Apple IIe, PC, Mac SE, and all old consoles 2600, O2, Intellivison, 7800, TurboGrafix,Vectrex,3DO,…
“Users must consume AI slop until our bottom line improves!”
Rule 1 from BigTech Product Leadership 2025 Edition
Rule 1 from BigTech Product Leadership 2025 Edition
October 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
“Users must consume AI slop until our bottom line improves!”
Rule 1 from BigTech Product Leadership 2025 Edition
Rule 1 from BigTech Product Leadership 2025 Edition
Another app like this is Craft compare it to Notion. The more popular app is clearly a web app good but a bit clunky the other is quite refined. It’s always tradeoffs. Wrapped apps get you everywhere but with polish cost.
October 3, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Another app like this is Craft compare it to Notion. The more popular app is clearly a web app good but a bit clunky the other is quite refined. It’s always tradeoffs. Wrapped apps get you everywhere but with polish cost.
Besides the contrast note how that icon works with the image behind like making a gapping mouth. Ugh
Apple showing us first hand how transparent screens and UIs from SciFi movies may look quite futuristic but are simultaneously quite problematic.
Liquid Glass - GL = UX Reality
Apple showing us first hand how transparent screens and UIs from SciFi movies may look quite futuristic but are simultaneously quite problematic.
Liquid Glass - GL = UX Reality
September 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Besides the contrast note how that icon works with the image behind like making a gapping mouth. Ugh
Apple showing us first hand how transparent screens and UIs from SciFi movies may look quite futuristic but are simultaneously quite problematic.
Liquid Glass - GL = UX Reality
Apple showing us first hand how transparent screens and UIs from SciFi movies may look quite futuristic but are simultaneously quite problematic.
Liquid Glass - GL = UX Reality
Hmm we could take a JS minification tool & modify it to substitute in bad words. Given the recent emoji problems shown we could also remap identifiers to all manner of emoji. If the technique fails & the LLMs ingest the codebase anyway we still win as their suggestions could get 🌶️ 🥵 😜 later on
September 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Hmm we could take a JS minification tool & modify it to substitute in bad words. Given the recent emoji problems shown we could also remap identifiers to all manner of emoji. If the technique fails & the LLMs ingest the codebase anyway we still win as their suggestions could get 🌶️ 🥵 😜 later on
Pretty much. They start from a position they are 💯 right & work backwards aka motivated reasoning. If you can corner them with logic they’ll deploy rhetoric - attacking the speaker, citing popularity as ultimate proof, or appealing to $ might or power. It’s completely predictable & quite boring.
September 2, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Pretty much. They start from a position they are 💯 right & work backwards aka motivated reasoning. If you can corner them with logic they’ll deploy rhetoric - attacking the speaker, citing popularity as ultimate proof, or appealing to $ might or power. It’s completely predictable & quite boring.
Personally know three people he stiffed one is even my sibling. He is this guy so your intuition is 💯 right.
August 31, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Personally know three people he stiffed one is even my sibling. He is this guy so your intuition is 💯 right.