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An annoying one-by-error: Rushing into the hospital. Car park system wouldn't let me in until a car left because it was full, but it was off by one, so I had to wait inside until another left. At the same time, the next car is coming and you're hoping they don't try to take it

Video from inside car, waiting inside car park. You can see another car waiting at the entrance to be let in

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Adam Lynch @adamlynch.com · 11/06/2025

It just occurred to me that Cameo is like AI video generation via prompts, but instead of selecting a model, you select a celebrity / real-life model

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Adam Lynch @adamlynch.com · 15/05/2025

142HP?! What a rocket. I might have to get one to spray out my window when overtaking. No wonder it's so expensive

120ML spray duster product page. Says "142HP". €16.45

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Adam Lynch @adamlynch.com · 09/05/2025

If you only knew how long I am willing to spend writing one email

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Adam Lynch @adamlynch.com · 14/04/2025

✅ Challenge completed: Survive* a week in Italy as someone who can't have dairy. Wow, that was tough! * One meal made me sick but it failed to kill me

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Adam Lynch @adamlynch.com · 04/04/2025

damn, the economy is brutal

A webpack bundle analyzer treemap chart (red)

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Adam Lynch @adamlynch.com · 26/03/2025

ChatGPT can generate way better images now

Tayto.

Assault & vinegar.

In partnership with Andrew Tayto.

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Adam Lynch @adamlynch.com · 19/03/2025

Desktop app I'm too busy to build: AppSnitcher. It tells you whenever an app adds itself to your dock or sets itself to launch on login. It would then offer actions like "block/revert" and "block all future attempts".

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Adam Lynch @adamlynch.com · 14/03/2025

I got two bits of grrrreat news in the last week! 😁 Hard to believe

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Adam Lynch @adamlynch.com · 03/03/2025

I was flying it at the start, I felt amazing, and then it happened near 1k. I was too embarrassed to quit so I mostly walked the rest. The obstacles felt easy. It's annoying because I think I would've done really well

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Adam Lynch @adamlynch.com · 03/03/2025

I am so unlucky haha. Back in August, I tore both sides of my groin very badly (it came off the bone on one side). I was due to go back soccer training this week. During a 7k mud run / obstacle course at the weekend, I fractured my ankle and tore ligaments.

Me climbing over the wall at the finish line of "Hell & Back" (the run)

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Adam Lynch @adamlynch.com · 14/02/2025

I think about getting a dog every 2/3 days and then talk myself out of it

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Adam Lynch @adamlynch.com · 04/02/2025

My latest project at Readwise is an interesting one. I built it from end-to-end and I loved learning about AI, vector databases, etc. So many users have called it a 'game-changer' that we've joked about renaming it that 😅

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Adam Lynch @adamlynch.com · 17/01/2025

Just saw someone refer to Robbie Williams as "Robbie Williams (the monkey from Better Man)"

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Adam Lynch @adamlynch.com · 23/12/2024

"There has to be another. It'll come to me... 😴"

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Adam Lynch @adamlynch.com · 23/12/2024

I've always found it hard to fall asleep. Mental games / concentrating on something usually doesn't work. I've found one that has worked for me (at least twice anyway); go through the alphabet and name 3 countries that start with each letter. I think the key is in being patient and not skipping

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Adam Lynch @adamlynch.com · 11/12/2024

I am rational, not impulsive. I see randomness in coincidences, not fate. I'm sceptical. But I find myself waiting for this year to end, hoping the he next will better, even though new year's day is just an arbitrary point in time. The bar is very low.

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Adam Lynch @adamlynch.com · 11/12/2024

Ah you must've ordered SOAP

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Adam Lynch @adamlynch.com · 15/11/2024

I'm sick of travelling for the first time ever. That was disappointing until I realised I had 9 flights in 13 days, two of which were 10hrs+, plus I had two ~10hr delays in airports. It's only fair that I'm tired then

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Adam Lynch @adamlynch.com · 07/11/2024

I'd love to watch this talk

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Adam Lynch @adamlynch.com · 04/11/2024

It's 4am. I just got back from a stag party 12 hours ago and I'm back in the airport again. I've already accidentally left my passport at the water fountain. Off to a good start

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Adam Lynch @adamlynch.com · 03/11/2024

Here's a funny little quirk in the Premier League app. The fixture difficulty table doesn't scroll horizontally as a whole, each row is independently scrollable and it's then synced to the other rows. It makes for some funny behaviour if you scroll back and forth.

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Adam Lynch @adamlynch.com · 03/11/2024

👋. Coincidence: I'm flying to Curaçao tomorrow

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Adam Lynch @adamlynch.com · 02/11/2024

Off the top of my head, I think there was an O'Reilly book and a Smashing Magazine article (years ago) that were particularly helpful for me

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Adam Lynch @adamlynch.com · 02/11/2024

SSE unless you need to send anything from client to server in my opinion. There are a good few upsides like if your server restarts it won't kill all (WS) connections. If you code your clients to catch up via API calls after a disconnect, a server restart is like DDOSing yourself 😛

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Adam Lynch @adamlynch.com · 28/10/2024

The stuff of nightmares: "Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said" apnews.com/article/ai-a...

"But Whisper has a major flaw: It is prone to making up chunks of text or even entire sentences, according to interviews with more than a dozen software engineers, developers and academic researchers.

Those experts said some of the invented text — known in the industry as hallucinations — can include racial commentary, violent rhetoric and even imagined medical treatments."

"Company officials said they are aware that Whisper can hallucinate and are addressing the problem.

It’s impossible to compare Nabla’s AI-generated transcript to the original recording because Nabla’s tool erases the original audio for “data safety reasons,” Raison said.

Nabla said the tool has been used to transcribe an estimated 7 million medical visits."

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Adam Lynch @adamlynch.com · 22/10/2024

At least I've never had a release that broke someone's identity

From the r/AncestryDNA subreddit:

"Per the update, my sister's Irish dipped from 18% to 0%. Anyone else suddenly lose an ethnicity?"

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Adam Lynch @adamlynch.com · 21/10/2024

Will try to make a reduced example. I assume I'm doing something silly. And I am using a polyfill which may have been a factor

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Adam Lynch @adamlynch.com · 21/10/2024

Will read thanks. #2 doesn't sound right to me but I assume I'm misunderstanding it. E.g. today I had some CSS in a style tag in a custom element (shadow root mode = open) and it affected elements outside of the custom element. It was CSS from Tippy.js. I had to prefix the selectors with `:host `

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Adam Lynch @adamlynch.com · 21/10/2024

I've been fighting them today 😅 bsky.app/profile/adam...

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Adam Lynch @adamlynch.com · 21/10/2024

Also annoying: `rem` units are *always* relative to the `html` element's `font-size`, not the custom element `:host` like you might expect

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Adam Lynch @adamlynch.com · 21/10/2024

This is particularly annoying for browser extensions which insert custom elements into the DOM, which import styles from `node_modules`. Luckily, I found a way to prefix all selectors in the final CSS with `host: `

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Adam Lynch @adamlynch.com · 21/10/2024

Shadow DOM protects my custom element from styles defined outside, nice! Oh... some rules can pierce the shadow DOM. Oh... and my custom element's CSS can affect elements outside of it.

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Adam Lynch @adamlynch.com · 20/10/2024

I don't think I will ever get used to firefighters and emergency responders thanking me for a silly little game I made for my dad for Christmas ♥️

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Adam Lynch @adamlynch.com · 20/10/2024

This was so random and unexpected to see on my timeline, as a man from Cork

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Adam Lynch @adamlynch.com · 19/10/2024

Every now and again I think of “The Door Problem”: lizengland.com/blog/2014/04... This time it's because I'm creating a comprehensive button component / system. Buttons and links tell you a lot about an app and the team behind it

lizengland.com

“The Door Problem” – Liz England

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