Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 11/09/2026Can AI create a rock so heavy that it won't be able to lift it? 000
Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 05/06/2026Separate font size controls depending on whether I'm wearing my glasses. 010
Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 09/05/2026www.bricetebbs.com/2026/05/08/t...bricetebbs.comThe Sacred and the ProfaneI've been building small tools — a chart-maker, a deploy system, a travel planner — and putting Claude inside each one. Which raises the obvious question: why bother with the code when Claude could ju... 010
Reposted by Brice TebbsGordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 14/04/2026The three most common doubts I hear about whether biking can scale in Seattle are: 1) Is it too hilly? 2) Is it too rainy? 3) Are things too far away? Let's assume those are good faith questions and look at each one in turn. 🧵 2239457
Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 03/04/2026Claude code has changed the way i work on personal projects. I used to have an idea and spend a few weeks coding it before getting bored and giving up. Now the whole process only takes a couple days. 261
Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 13/02/2026I hate when I have a title for an essay that I really love, but I don't actually have enough coherent thoughts to write the essay that will live up to it. 000
Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 02/02/2026For the best job security, if you are project managing an effort to build a perpetual motion machine, make sure you always schedule the work on friction for some time in the future. 020
Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 27/01/2026The future hinges on the race between the development of class consciousness by the masses and the deployment of coercive AI technology in service of elites. 020
Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 26/01/2026We really don't talk enough about how a lot AI uses are a shiny leaky abstraction over crappy systems that we should fix instead of just papering over them. 020
Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 27/12/2025Predicting something you saw on Star Trek when you were 12 is not "having a bold vision for the future". 000
Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 24/12/2025No LLM would ever have been able to win the Kobayashi Maru and only the best would even "realize" it lost. 000
Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 18/09/2025Meta Ray-Ban Display seems like the perfect product for people who don't think smartphones are invasive enough. Definitely not interested in carry a Zuck spy device around with me all day. 000
Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 13/09/2025The value of homes in my neighborhood have basically doubled since we bought ours, but I would have preferred a world where the prices didn’t increase and my kids could afford a home here. 030
Reposted by Brice TebbsQagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Do you live in Ravenna or Roosevelt? Sign on to this letter opposing comprehensive plan amendment #40, which shrinks the Ravenna neighborhood center. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 16024
Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 24/07/2025A couple of days in Copenhagen is all you need to experience the horrors that the YIMBY, pro density, pro transit people want to bring to your city. 010
Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 01/07/2025If the problem is that people don’t care enough, it’s really unlikely you will fix that by adding another process step. 010
Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 30/06/2025It is very hard to get to a situation where healthcare is free without first having a plan to make it less expensive. 000
Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 29/06/2025How many $100M geniuses does it take to invent a perpetual motion machine? 021
Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 24/06/2025It's pretty common to run into a swarm of bugs when riding on the Burke, today It was a swarm of Bees! No stings though. 030
Reposted by Brice TebbsRandMEyes @realrandem.bsky.social · 08/06/2025We stood on his shoulders. ❤️ appleinsider.com/articles/25/...appleinsider.comBill Atkinson, pioneering early Apple engineer, dies at 74The engineer behind much of the Mac's early graphical user interfaces, QuickDraw, MacPaint, Hypercard and much more, William D. "Bill" Atkinson, died on June 5 of complications from pancreatic cancer. 19015
Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 01/06/2025The biggest challenge with working on tech for Healthcare in the US is not dealing with HIPAA, it is having to learn even more depressing things about the way the system works. 000
Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 28/05/2025Just at the "attention economy" has decimated our attention. The "ai agent economy" is going to decimate our agency. 020
Reposted by Brice TebbsData Bear 🏳️🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 30/04/2025I just published the most personal thing I’ve ever written. The High Cost of Saying No: Why I Can’t Stop Talking About Housing. It’s about Atlanta and San Francisco, growth, and grief. And the decisions that shaped my marriage, my loss, and everything after www.dataandpolitics.net/the-high-cos...dataandpolitics.netThe High Cost of Saying No: Why I Can't Stop Talking About HousingAtlanta isn't just building structures. It is filling them with life. Meanwhile, in San Francisco, we keep fighting over everything except how to make room for each other. Cities, like lives, are made... 54788173
Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 23/04/2025Why does “preserving the character of a neighborhood” never mean preserving the ability for young families to live there? 030
Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 06/04/2025If you are unhappy with the current situation don’t be content with a return to the status quo ante which led to the current situation. 010
Reposted by Brice TebbsHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 31/03/2025The number of good points per minute in this video is extremely high, which is wild because it is 2 hours and 40 minutes long. youtu.be/teqkK0RLNkI?...youtu.beCONSPIRACY | contrapointsYouTube video by ContraPoints 1835119542
Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 31/03/2025The mind virus which is destroying society isn't woke, its wetiko 020
Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 01/03/2025It's a shame that it's Buy Nothing day. I am thinking I should probably stock up on Iodine tablets. 050
Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 28/02/2025First ride of the year without full finger gloves. Such a nice day. 020
Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 26/02/2025Playing around with aider to see how well it works. First it feels like magic 😮❗. Then it starts to feel a little annoying 😠. Then I looked closer at the code 😱. Maybe its more useful than that, and I just need more practice. Maybe more bad code is what the world needs. Maybe I am old. 020
Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 09/01/2025I wonder if the "Actually, Hitler was not so bad and had some good ideas" people and the "Actually, Hitler was a communist" people every hang out with each other and talk. 010
Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 09/01/2025History is often a better place to search for ideas than Heros 020
Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 04/01/2025A friend of mine sent me a message and used the TLA BAU for "business as usual". I misread what he said, but now I want to popularize the phrase Barely Active Users. 010
Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 30/12/2024Some interesting reading. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo... 020
Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 28/12/2024If you miss the old internet, It is still out there if you know where to look. www.zipcon.netzipcon.net Welcome to Zipcon 010
Reposted by Brice Tebbskasey klimes @kasey.bsky.social · 23/12/2024what if everything you touched was made to last? I wrote about Universal Heirloom: -why the post-scarcity economy requires ending planned obsolescence -how to align corporate incentives for value creation over value extraction -a policy idea for getting us there www.kaseyklimes.com/notes/2024/1...kaseyklimes.comUniversal Heirloom: What if everything you touched was made to last? — Kasey KlimesEvery gift you give this holiday season will (most likely) be disposable garbage. Most likely, so will every gift you receive. That’s not your fault or the fault of your loved ones—there simply aren’t... 2224
Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 13/12/2024One way to know that conventional LLMs aren’t really thinking is realizing that the amount of compute they use is mostly a function of how many words they produce. 011
Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 02/12/2024I love local youtube channels like www.youtube.com/@SeattleTraf... and www.youtube.com/@BestSideCyc....youtube.comSeattleTrafficCams !This channel is *not* affiliated with the City of Seattle or the Seattle Department Of Transportation. This channel features traffic camera footage and scanner audio that I record, showing fire respo... 000
Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 24/11/2024Once a week I start reading a news item and it takes way longer than it should before I figure out which Georgia it is about. 010
Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 22/11/2024Biking in the rain isn't really bad at all. For me, the worst part is just putting on all the gear. I hate messing with the shoe covers etc. Once I'm rolling it is fine. 000
Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 14/11/2024Remember when twitter was new and growing fast and how it never had any outages #failwhale 021