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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 23/12/2025

🎄 Dec 23 (skipped a few days!) – my last in this series of "@djbeebot.com's Advent calendar style pings" report. But the TWO I got today were rather delightful (even if not perfect). Both were audio msgs I heard on my walk to BeeBot World HQ. Getting better... Q1 2026 should be super fun for us.

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 16/12/2025

🎄 Dec 15 & 16 -> Today's @djbeebot daily recommendation (Advent Calendar style!), read to me when my AirPods went in. Both of these were good (!!), but I wish ice skating was framed thru the lens of "great for kids" and I already did the train thing (but BeeBot has no way of knowing that... yet).

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 11/12/2025

🎄 Dec 11 -> Today's @djbeebot.com daily rec (Advent Calendar style!) as read to me when I put my AirPods in: Today we used our Emergency Broadcast System style-ping 🚨 to tell all NYC BeeBot users about holiday drinks tonight. I X'ed out the info – want to swing by? Dnld app & listen for the ping :)

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 10/12/2025

🎄 Dec 10 -> Today's @djbeebot.com daily rec (Advent Calendar style!) read to me when I put my AirPods in: Today's is... meh. I went to Chinatown w/ 9yo to get dumplings like 2 wks ago & BeeBot used that to infer I want to go back for market. I get it, but this felt like a low quality match for me.

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 09/12/2025

🎄 Dec 9 -> Today's @djbeebot.com daily rec (Advent Calendar style!) read to me when I put my AirPods in... event seems pretty good, but description seems a bit lacking. I like that we'e looking out 1-2 days in future now too. Need event attribution tho (where did DJ find this event?). Solid B+!

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 09/12/2025

Okay, amazing @djbeebot.com ping from yesterday! Lemme explain: (1) BeeBot read an email newsletter & lears about tree lighting. (2) BeeBot knows I passing thru WSP is part of my routine (3) BeeBot detects my change in neighborhood & uses moment to tell me about the event. 👍 IRL + context-aware!

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 08/12/2025

🎄 Dec 8 -> Today's @djbeebot.com daily recommendation (Advent Calendar style!) read to me when I put my AirPods in. This one is ... below average (not the event, the ping itself). Rationale is low quality and event description is vague. We're getting better every day tho!

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 05/12/2025

🎄 Dec 5 -> Okay, today's @djbeebot's daily recommendation (Advent Calendar style!) read to me when I put my AirPods in... today we did a human-created "Minipod" shared with all users to remind them about today's World Cup Draft. We do this when there's something particular zeitgeist'y going on.

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 04/12/2025

🎄 Dec 4 -> Okay, today's @djbeebot's daily rec (Advent Calendar style!) via AirPods... this one is NOT GOOD. It's an online auction (& we haven't pushed the code the double-check removal of "online" etc) "Contemporary art" matches my AI profile, so event was scored high enough to be read aloud.

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 03/12/2025

Had a cool @djbeebot.com moment last night... was walking past a building near Madison Square Park that had this cool exhibit inside. I was looking thru the windows trying to figure out what it was and then BeeBot perked up in my headphones...

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 03/12/2025

🎄 Dec 3 -> Okay, today's @djbeebot.com daily rec (advent calendar style!) read to you via AirPods... this one was good! Pop-up sauna thing in East Village. We learn about these by reading Substacks (etc) & matching to your prefs (and we always give link/attribution back to the newsletter btw)

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 03/12/2025

We've talked about @djbeebot.com as an Advent Calendar – put your AirPods in and we'll tell you *ONE THING* happening in your city we think you'll be into. Sometimes it hits, sometimes it doesn't. Since it's December (um, Advent!) I'll post what I get each day this month....

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 18/11/2025

Had a magical @djbeebot.com + NYC moment this morning – put on my AirPods and BeeBot tells me about this PacMan pop-up event at Macy's. (AI finds the event, AI matches event to me, AI writes the copy, AI speaks the text... it's magic when it works!)

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 06/11/2025

Whoa, lots of BeeBot love so thank you! If you're using the app, make sure to ADD KEYWORDS. Keywords are what make it go from "it works" -> "it's pretty good".

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 05/11/2025

There’s a LOT in this blog post (and beta!) – “AI for the streets”, “social software vs. social media”, “apps you don’t have to use”, “tech with soul”. In hindsight, this post is as much a “product manifesto” as it is a “love letter about building the things you want to see in the world.”

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 29/10/2025

via @nytimes.com – www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/n...

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 25/06/2025

Street FC throwing the best party in 95° NYC right now with the Steve Nash Showdown (street soccer tourney) in the LES.

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 24/06/2025

We hit 101° in NYC today 😬

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 12/06/2025

Real question! FWIW, I have this photo hanging in my apt. It is real (because it was taken before AI) but could imagine people would think it’s AI.

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 12/06/2025

Is this a real photo or AI? (I couldn’t find this exact video on Rumble)

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 06/06/2025

FWIW, I learned this trick from Vindigo (for Palm Pilot!). "No GPS? Just ask the user where they are!"

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 28/05/2025

ChatGPT now offering to compose my tweetz? (I asked "is oversharing dead?")

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 24/05/2025

Just SOLD OUT of @stockadefc.com season tickets. Like, every physical ticket has been sold -- that's never happened in the ~10 years we've been doing this (I usually have like 200 tix left over at end of season. Home opener tonight in Kingston – come on out! lu.ma/stockadefc

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 22/05/2025

Ominous new (?) weather index from NYT:

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 14/05/2025

Just bought tickets to this off-Broadway play (“Bowl EP”) that features a SKATE BOWL in the middle of the stage. Sick! (I grabbed this pic from Reddit). Link to info/tickets here: boxoffice.vineyardtheatre.org/EventAvailab...

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 10/05/2025

“The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest.”

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 03/05/2025

Ugh that Sonos bug where I can’t turn off the music

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 03/05/2025

When you've been running a lower-level soccer club for almost 10 years... ( @stockadefc.com pre-season match tonight, our first match back in our home stadium!)

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 01/05/2025

Snippet from @djbeebot.com today... entered neighborhood, identified my interests, steered me towards street art & skate shop. It's getting better! (this is us continuing to pull at same ol' "software for the streets" thread, but now thru the lens of AI + context-aware computing)

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 01/05/2025

Just dug up some old Dodgeball screenshots (2006) for inspiration, pre-iPhone but post-layout being supported for Sidekick/Blackberry browsers. cc: @alexrainert.com

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 29/04/2025

+ Go to all the playgrounds (!!) Quick ChatGPT says there are 50 below 14th Street / 20+ in Central Park. Could make a fun "collect and complete" map of them all. I may have to do this some weekend (collect em all like FSQ badges or Pokemon) www.nycgovparks.org/facilities/p...

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 14/04/2025

So this is what "3D chess" looks like? I guess I never really thought about it... this seems... unplayable? (grabbed this from the NYT article btw) www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/o...

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 11/04/2025

4am — 3yo wakes me up because she’s on the couch playing the 8yo’s recorder. “Dad, I pooped my pants” 6am — 7yo wakes me up because he desperately needs a USB dongle 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 08/04/2025

A simpler (almost better?) version of the internet: (from a 2008 slide deck!)

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 03/04/2025

Wait, SweetGreen got rid of their SweetPass program? Like today? (it used to save me like $3/salad for $10/month). What a bummer... $16 salad is too expensive these days!

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 06/03/2025

Re: splitboards. I went rogue and went with .... (!!!) Also see: www.instagram.com/drift_produc... Will report back!

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 11/02/2025

"Featuring an EV‑only range of 53 miles..." –– says the marketing email about the Range Rover plug-in hybrid 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 11/02/2025

Re: The startup soccer league we're building (where @stockadefc.com is playing in 2025) -- aka @theleaguefc.bsky.social x.com/THEChrisKess...

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 04/02/2025

Booking flights for kids' spring break... is it normal for "taxes and fees" to be 44% of the fare??? (NYC -> Caribbean) Seems... crazy?

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 04/02/2025

Wow had not heard of this before… www.reddit.com/r/vexillolog...

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 03/02/2025

Er, "Waze was so good" ... I mean seriously, they rebuild Twitter and we do it WITHOUT an Edit Button???

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 30/01/2025

Project I am working on now (@djbeebot.com) is starting to have some real Modo vibes to it (and that makes me super excited). That is all.

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 30/01/2025

These things feel the same to me. (Wall-E vs. Sweetgreen) www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRV7...

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 28/01/2025

Rooftop (roof of barn) -- south facing, direct sunlight, no obstruction (!!)

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 26/01/2025

Finally hit 1M vertical feet skied on Slopes — boom! 💥🍾

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 22/01/2025

Icy Hudson River seen from LGA takeoff

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Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc · 13/01/2025

Update on NYC Congestion Pricing (we live in The Zone) + Drove from NYC to VT on Friday 3p. Noticeably fewer cars on the road. Saved us about 20 min + Drove into NYC tonight around 830p (back from VT). West Side Highway was nearly empty. Prob saved us 15 min + I’ll get charged $9 for tonight’s drive

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