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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 8m

I don’t think I’d like to be at ACL for this weather but man it was a gorgeous day for a misty bike ride

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 02/10/2026

New /now page is up! A little snapshot of what's on my mind: founders, Bartleby, vermouth, and a mountain of side projects. 😅 Also, the office clear-out left me with 185 books that need new homes, free if you cover shipping (or local pickup in Austin). alexpriest.com/now

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Now — Alex Priest

What Alex is up to right now

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 02/10/2026

I have a list of post ideas a mile long, and every one of them wants to be perfect before it goes out. Trying a different approach: fuck it, let's go.

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 02/10/2026

Kids have already decided to decorate the new trash can—but actually they picked a pretty rad color scheme

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 30/09/2026

I'm tinkering with an app that makes iMessage better on Mac—power-user tools, real archiving (not just delete), great keyboard shortcuts, etc. What's the one thing about Messages on Mac that drives you nuts?

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 30/09/2026

Where they went, and the one place I still get to be the guy: alexpriest.com/writing/a-guy

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A guy — Alex Priest

Before the internet, you had a guy.

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 30/09/2026

Before the internet, you had a guy. A guy for your health, a guy for your money, a guy for your travel. Now you're the guy for all of it. Turns out those guys did a lot of work.

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 20/03/2026

Used /fast a couple times today in Claude Code and... well that's fun. 🏎️

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 16/03/2026

This was quite good—learned a ton about this messy situation Trump has put us in. Unfortunately, not inspiring. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/...

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 16/03/2026

Remember like two weeks ago when we cared about saving context use

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 14/03/2026

Has anyone else tried this with any success?

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 12/03/2026

60-second quiz — pick your badge, interests, vibe, which days you're there. It reads every session description and builds a conflict-free schedule. You can refine it through chat too ("more music, fewer panels" works). southbyai.com

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South by AI — AI-Powered SXSW Schedule Builder

4,000+ sessions. One quiz. Your SXSW schedule, built by AI in seconds.

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 12/03/2026

SXSW starts today and there are 4,000+ events on the schedule. I'm not even going and I'm overwhelmed. So I pointed Claude at this last week and... it built a quiz that spits out a personalized schedule in about a minute. --dangerously-skip-permissions ftw

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 10/03/2026

Built the whole thing in about a week with Claude Code. Scraped all 4,000 sessions, set up a team of AI agents to handle frontend, design, copy, and QA in parallel. One person, twelve agents. Still not an engineer. Still building things. A little more detail here: www.alexpriest.com/writing/sou...

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South by AI — Alex Priest

4,000 sessions. One quiz. I built an AI-powered SXSW schedule builder because I didn't want to read all those descriptions either.

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 10/03/2026

So I built an AI-powered schedule builder. 60-second quiz, personalized schedule, refine it through chat. Not perfect, but way better than scrolling. southbyai.com

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South by AI — AI-Powered SXSW Schedule Builder

4,000+ sessions. One quiz. Your SXSW schedule, built by AI in seconds.

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 10/03/2026

SXSW starts in two days and there are 4,000+ sessions on the schedule. Every year the same thing happens... you open it, start scrolling, get overwhelmed, open 472 browser tabs, and end up with no plan. You're already exhausted and the fucking thing hasn't even started yet.

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 04/03/2026

Also you can "always copy full response" 😍 I guess I need to revisit /config more often.

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 04/03/2026

Just discovered that you can enable remote control for *all sessions* in Claude code... 👀

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 03/03/2026

But today I'm betting that we need more than just fight to win here... we need someone who can energize the base *and* pull from the middle. I think that's @jamestalarico.bsky.social. Whatever you do... GO VOTE!

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 03/03/2026

To be clear: @jasmineforus.bsky.social is remarkable and I deeply admire her service and her fight. I'll vote for her in November in a heartbeat, if she wins today. She would be an incredible senator for all Texans.

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 03/03/2026

Texas hasn't elected a Democrat statewide since 1994. @jamestalarico.bsky.social flipped a Trump district. He leads with faith, working people, and finding common ground—but not in a watered-down way. He can walk into a room with people who disagree and keep them engaged (or even convinced).

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 03/03/2026

Very, very excited and proud to have voted for @jamestalarico.bsky.social today. And while I love @jasmineforus.bsky.social, too, I felt compelled to vote for the person I think has the best chance of turning Texas blue in November.

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 05/09/2025

I’m reaching the point where I’m almost willing to pay apps to hide their useless AI features (and this comes from someone who, generally, is a big user + optimist about AI), smh

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 22/08/2025

For five YEARS I have had two documents folders in my iCloud (“Documents” and “Documents 2”) and my files have been an utter disaster. Today I discovered Forklift and I’M FINALLY SAVED from this mess of my own creation. Incredible software, worth every penny. binarynights.com

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 04/08/2025

I’ve officially reached “volume discount” level for my impulse buying of domain names

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 09/07/2025

“One of sludge’s most insidious effects is our ever-diminishing trust in institutions… Once that skepticism sets in, it’s not hard for someone like Elon Musk to gut the government under the guise of efficiency.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arc…

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 08/07/2025

This episode fucking wrecked me. Completely, utterly devastating. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/0…

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 02/07/2025

One of the best articles I’ve read in a long time— “taste is the new intelligence.” I think I highlighted every paragraph. (h/t @kai_t_b) wildbarestepf.substack.com/p/taste-i…

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 23/06/2025

I smashed my finger collapsing a stroller this afternoon (UGH) but gotta admit I got a kick out of this ChatGPT response when I asked about treating it. “booby-trapped ankle-snapping finger-gnashing hell machines masquerading as family gear.”

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 16/06/2025

Unexpected — curious and excited to see what comes out of this. Congrats to @alexkehr and the Superlocal team! www.threads.com/@alexkehr…

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 15/06/2025

This is such a fun word of the day—I had no idea “acme” had a meaning beyond the cartoons learnwithlookup.com/share/ind…

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 09/06/2025

This vase giving attitude

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 06/06/2025

First post in a while up on my (newly revamped!) website: can new ways of working and thinking bring a fresh era of generalists? + 10 fun things :) alexpriest.com/universal…

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 05/06/2025

This is one of my favorite Ezra Klein episodes yet. “Our Lives Are an Endless Series of ‘And’"

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 04/06/2025

Great read, excellent renders—fun to imagine

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 23/05/2025

First flying lesson today—wish me luck!

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 17/05/2025

But on the flip side, the affordable art fair in Austin this weekend was absolutely lovely. Great show, highly recommend. affordableartfair.com/fairs/austin/

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Affordable Art Fair Austin returns this May showcasing a wealth of spectacular artworks from local, national and international galleries.

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 17/05/2025

I need art galleries / art fairs to make themselves explicitly no-kids. Not because I mind the kids being there, but because I need them to save me from inflicting this upon myself. My kids + art fairs = not fun.

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 16/05/2025

Parenting thought today: my biggest frustrations with my kids tend to be when they struggle with something I excel at, i.e. decision-making, moving fast, focus. Now trying to reframe these moments as reminders that 1/ they are not me and 2/ this is what I am supposed to teach.

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 15/05/2025

I have long wanted a place to track what I read, watch, and play—so I built my own. Just a low-key section on my website for now (and only this year), but fun to put together: alexpriest.com/timeline/

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 13/05/2025

Raddle is a very fun new word game. Might accompany my morning coffee ritual alongside Bracket City… raddle.quest

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 13/05/2025

This is sick. A remake of the Goldeneye pause music done on a Teenage Engineering K.O. II and OP-1 Field (h/t @hiro.report): www.youtube.com/watch

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 13/05/2025

This fluid audio visualizer by @dakd_jung is so cool. Looks like it made waves (lol) in 2021 but I missed it then. Would love to get my hands on one of these. burnslap.me/26

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Alex Priest @alexpriest.com · 12/05/2025

Launch day! I revamped my website, updated my bio, added a /now page, and embedded my microblog. It’s a permanent work in progress, but check it out / sign up here: alexpriest.com

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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 08/05/2025

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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