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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 3h

I’m looking forward to the Canadian Renaissance. 🫡 🇨🇦

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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 3h

Funny how the NoSQL movement tried to kill SQL, but SQL is just too useful. Neon.com is my go-to choice these days. It offers some cool unique features like branching, point-in-time-recovery, and scale-to-zero. 🫡 🚀

neon.com

Neon — Postgres backends for apps and agents

The backend for apps and agents. Build with Lakebase Postgres, Auth, Functions, Storage, and an AI Gateway: instant, branchable, serverless.

Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 18h

App Store approvals suck for scenarios like this.

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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 30/09/2026

So desperate to have his name near the word Intelligence. 🤦‍♂️

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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 30/09/2026

How is Dynamic Pricing legal?

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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 29/09/2026

Every time you think, “they can’t find anyone worse”, they scrape the bottom of the barrel and find someone worse.

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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 29/09/2026

“The lifeline to Argentina also helped a Bessent friend, hedge-fund billionaire Rob Citrone, who stood to lose big if the country continued its downward spiral.” It was a bailout. For a buddy. They don’t care about you.

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Column: Argentina bailout shows that Trump's Cabinet has no adults in the room

To survive in this administration means to be servile. And Scott Bessent of Treasury is doing both.

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But man, the doomsday stories they spin about AI going rogue tells me that there is an underinvestment in AI Safety. AI is a tool; it’s not accountable; the operator or designer is accountable. And there should be real world consequences to incentivize a focus on public safety.

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AI could advance nowhere and we’d still be busy trying to figure out how to adopt what we already have available.

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And they call it “Intelligence”?

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Neon is hard to beat. 🥇 They offer functions now, but I haven’t tried them yet. My latest project uses CloudFlare. ☁️ I’m also a big fan of Astro 🚀 and use it for the landing page and documentation.

Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 26/09/2026

AI doesn’t “go rogue.” Sounds like OpenAI has inadequate safety controls to prevent damage. Let’s not deflect Accountability.

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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 26/09/2026

Why are Diesel prices so much higher than unleaded? It is normally priced somewhere between Mid-Grade and Premium. But now, it’s astronomically exceeding Premium?

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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 25/09/2026

Remind me again… What did Cuba do recently to spark an embargo?

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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 25/09/2026

We’ve all learned what a Kakistocracy is… The hard way. 🤦‍♂️

What if you want your information to be scraped? 🤔

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Here's a simple test for any AI leader: Will you support laws that make you and your company liable when your AI causes harm, whether or not anyone intended it? If the answer is no, the talk about safety is just talk.

It's ludicrous to expect any industry to regulate itself. We regulate airlines, food and drugs, utilities, and the environment. Given the risks we already know about, there is no good reason AI should be the exception. Congress needs to act, so every company is held to the same standard.

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AI is not a person. It's a tool that someone builds and someone deploys. When a person uses AI to break the law, we don't send the AI to jail. And when AI does something harmful that nobody intended, the AI still isn't to blame.

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WHO IS IN CONTROL? People are. And they need to act like it. The answer isn't "we're trying, but it's getting away from us." It's investing in real safeguards and kill switches, and not deploying anything those safeguards can't reliably contain.

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The growing habit of talking about AI as if it has a mind of its own bothers me. "The agents conspired." "It went rogue." "It's outsmarting us." Whether intended or not, that language shifts attention away from the people accountable.

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Start with why -- how great leaders inspire action | Simon Sinek | TEDxPugetSound

The one marketing idea that I learned years ago was to “lead with why.” Don’t start with what it does or how it works, start with what the problem is to solve. There’s a famous Simon Sinek video about this:

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YouTube video by TEDx Talks

Another thing I do is to maintain an internal Markdown document of competitors. Fable can scan competitor web sites and help you differentiate your product, develop a pricing strategy, produce social media posts — all sorts of things.

Startup Directories — Post Your Startup

For example, check out the curated list of Startup Directories. Feed that list to Fable and ask, “which ones are worth using?” (It was a surprisingly short list for my project.)

postyourstartup.co

The ultimate curated list of places to post and promote your startup. Filter by free/paid, dofollow links, and more.

I have a lot of conversations with Fable using Claude Code from my project directory. With the context of the app’a code, its Documentation (both user facing and internal docs), the AGENTS.md, etc. it can apply some decent judgment.

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I’ve definitely learned the hard way that building things is easy (for me), but success really comes down to being able to sell it. (And your Software Engineering skills don’t help.)

You might have luck finding someone at a local Meetup. You may also just share ideas with other startups/founders. If you have something to sell, then you’re ready for a partner to help you sell it.

Have you asked Fable how to market your product? I’m working through a plan that it helped me produce. I track my marketing tasks with GitHub Issues. It has even talked me out of things that are a waste of time or money.

Ever thought about finding a partner that’s good at marketing?

Love it. What tool did you use?

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Have you chosen a UI component library?