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Brice Tebbs

@bricetebbs.com
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tech and its discontents, cycling, team human. he/him formerly: cyan, amazon, google and a lot of places no one has heard of currently: mostly not working blog: www.bricetebbs.com M: @bricetebbs@mastodon.social

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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 11/09/2026
Can AI create a rock so heavy that it won't be able to lift it?
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 21/08/2026
They have a great free bike valet service too: maps.app.goo.gl/Q3UUoVfgCPCY...
maps.app.goo.gl
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 11/06/2026
I don’t think they would either.
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 11/06/2026
I probably think too much about this quote: www.goodreads.com/quotes/10161...
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 10/06/2026
My new driving license has an old person’s photo on it.
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 05/06/2026
Separate font size controls depending on whether I'm wearing my glasses.
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 09/05/2026
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The Sacred and the Profane
I'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...
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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The 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. 🧵
photo of people biking into downtown Seattle
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 03/04/2026
Claude 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.
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 13/02/2026
I 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.
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 02/02/2026
For 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.
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 27/01/2026
The 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.
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 26/01/2026
We 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.
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 27/12/2025
Predicting something you saw on Star Trek when you were 12 is not "having a bold vision for the future".
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 24/12/2025
No LLM would ever have been able to win the Kobayashi Maru and only the best would even "realize" it lost.
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 04/11/2025
Ding Dong!!
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 18/09/2025
Meta 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.
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 13/09/2025
The 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.
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Do 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...
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 22/08/2025
So many flex posts gave their all to make this happen
new concrete protected bike lanes
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 24/07/2025
A 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.
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 01/07/2025
If the problem is that people don’t care enough, it’s really unlikely you will fix that by adding another process step.
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 30/06/2025
It is very hard to get to a situation where healthcare is free without first having a plan to make it less expensive.
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 29/06/2025
How many $100M geniuses does it take to invent a perpetual motion machine?
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 24/06/2025
It'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.
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RandMEyes @realrandem.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
We stood on his shoulders. ❤️ appleinsider.com/articles/25/...
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Bill Atkinson, pioneering early Apple engineer, dies at 74
The 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.
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 01/06/2025
The 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.
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 28/05/2025
Just at the "attention economy" has decimated our attention. The "ai agent economy" is going to decimate our agency.
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Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 30/04/2025
I 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...
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The High Cost of Saying No: Why I Can't Stop Talking About Housing
Atlanta 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...
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 23/04/2025
Why does “preserving the character of a neighborhood” never mean preserving the ability for young families to live there?
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 18/04/2025
Confidence is poorly correlated with Competence
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 06/04/2025
If 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.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The 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?...
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CONSPIRACY | contrapoints
YouTube video by ContraPoints
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 31/03/2025
The mind virus which is destroying society isn't woke, its wetiko
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 30/03/2025
A future post apocalypse where people rode bikes wouldn’t be dystopian enough. It would be amazing.
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 13/03/2025
Paying attention should be less painful
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 01/03/2025
It's a shame that it's Buy Nothing day. I am thinking I should probably stock up on Iodine tablets.
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 28/02/2025
First ride of the year without full finger gloves. Such a nice day.
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 26/02/2025
Playing 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.
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 22/02/2025
I feel like somewhere in there should be "Get it to authenticate"
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 20/02/2025
Every dependency is a potential tragedy.
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 07/02/2025
Excited to ride on the studded bike tires today.
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 01/02/2025
counting is hard
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 09/01/2025
I 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.
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 09/01/2025
History is often a better place to search for ideas than Heros
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 04/01/2025
A 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.
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 30/12/2024
Some interesting reading. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
Carter calling kissinger a liar
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 30/12/2024
Maybe my favorite bike photo of all time.
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter on a tandem bike
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Brice Tebbs @bricetebbs.com · 28/12/2024
If you miss the old internet, It is still out there if you know where to look. www.zipcon.net
zipcon.net
Welcome to Zipcon
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kasey klimes @kasey.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
what 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...
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Universal Heirloom: What if everything you touched was made to last? — Kasey Klimes
Every 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...
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