Michael E. Gruen @gruen.us · 28/09/2026I'm not sure when this happened—probably slowly rather than all at once—but I can no longer tolerate waiting even a nanosecond for the computer to do its thing. So I work on multiple things at once. LLMs have only made this worse. My poor, single-threaded neuroprocessor is so very, very tired. 100
Michael E. Gruen @gruen.us · 25/09/2026New rule: every pitcher retired must be added to the lineup as an Extra Hitter and is not allowed to bunt. 000
Michael E. Gruen @gruen.us · 25/09/2026I’m at a big chain hardware store asking the paint associate behind the paint desk which of their 10 paint variants might best suit purpose, and why there’s a 3x price differential on each end. And I quote: “You should have done your research before coming here.” Am I just that out of touch? 030
Michael E. Gruen @gruen.us · 22/09/2026Played, yes. 2389.ai/research/wri...2389.aiJev Plays PokemonI dropped Jev, a fast 1-of-N 'System One' model, into an agent playing Pokemon Red. Picking each step it just echoed BFS. Promoted to choosing the movement policy, it earns its place at ~160 ms and … 011
Michael E. Gruen @gruen.us · 17/09/2026…once people are *held accountable* for NOT having their shit together (cries in regulatory capture) 000
Michael E. Gruen @gruen.us · 16/09/2026This is what business success looks like. And don't blame the government, blame the people who empowered these politicians to install regulators whose job it is not to do their their jobs. Please vote. 000
Michael E. Gruen @gruen.us · 14/09/202620+ years ago the US Government wrote a worm/virus, propagated through Windows, to reach air-gapped machines. Its purpose? Disrupt centrifuge operations (and therefore the nuclear capabilities) of nation states, undetected. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet Please be careful what data you hand your AI.en.wikipedia.orgStuxnet - Wikipedia 010
Michael E. Gruen @gruen.us · 14/09/2026Also ignores the fact that it’s orders of magnitude cheaper to fix our planet than to terraform another. If we lack the will to do it here, why does anyone think we’d be successful “there” (waves in the general direction of other nearby spheres). 000
Michael E. Gruen @gruen.us · 11/09/2026I have this foldable on preorder: www.thelightphone.com/lightflipthelightphone.comThe Light PhoneLight is a radically different technology company. We design beautiful tools that respect and empower our users and our first product is The Light Phone. 020
Michael E. Gruen @gruen.us · 05/09/2026Once again, Michael: stop buying new domain names until you’ve launched the projects for the other domain names that you bought last month. (Surely I’m not the only one here.) 020
Michael E. Gruen @gruen.us · 30/08/2026I don’t love “remote”, either. I think of it as a distributed team. I’m remote from most of the legal entities I’m involved with, and have spent more time on BlueSky than in the state of Delaware. 100
Michael E. Gruen @gruen.us · 30/08/2026One of the under-appreciated aspects of the domain-as-handle approach is that you’re never in a rush to try and claim some janky alias for brand consistency. On other platforms, yes. But not here. It’s a small thing, but a very nice thing you don’t have to worry about. 010
Michael E. Gruen @gruen.us · 25/08/2026I'd love to see all freight trucks removed from city streets, except for special cases, driven by specially-licensed drivers. Instead, create delivery centers outside of the city and transfer loads to smaller, electric last-mile trucks that deliver geographically like Fedex/UPS/USPS does. 160
Michael E. Gruen @gruen.us · 20/08/2026Two strangers enter a quiet elevator. As the doors close, one says out loud, "You don't use talk to text? Grow up!" "No," thought the other, "and this is why." 000
Michael E. Gruen @gruen.us · 15/08/2026Who is making the successor to Sonos? Sonos’ entire software ecosystem is now hot garbage and I want nothing to do with it. 000
Reposted by Michael E. Gruen📷 @photo.gruen.us · 13/08/2026Totality is totally cool. (Even when you miss your focus point.) 021
Michael E. Gruen @gruen.us · 10/08/2026I've been fortunate in that, in all my years living in the US, I didn't know anyone directly who met their end due to gun violence. That streak ended yesterday. (That I consider this "fortunate" is also an indictment of how much we need to grow up as a nation.) 000
Michael E. Gruen @gruen.us · 10/08/2026“Whether you enjoy watching the copulations of birds or words, decoupling it from status games is what gives an activity the breathing room to become meaningful.” — www.octopusyarn.com/p/you-are-a-... 000
Michael E. Gruen @gruen.us · 09/08/2026Nice, @yegg13.bsky.social knockaround.com/products/duc...knockaround.comDuckDuckGo Paso RoblesUpdate! Normal F***ing Sunglasses sold out in under a week! Apparently privacy looks good on everyone. Don’t fret, more are coming! Pre-order yours now before they disappear without a trace again. *Pr... 010
Michael E. Gruen @gruen.us · 07/08/2026Pinned for later www.submarinecablemap.comsubmarinecablemap.comSubmarine Cable MapTeleGeography's comprehensive and regularly updated interactive map of the world's major submarine cable systems and landing stations. 000
Michael E. Gruen @gruen.us · 06/08/2026Was just raving about pocketbase.io this morning. I've used it for a few projects. If you're willing to do it all in golang, you can embed the entire damn thing directly in app. It's super neat. 010
Michael E. Gruen @gruen.us · 05/08/2026Everyone is an AI expert after a storied career in blockchain/crypto. 000
Michael E. Gruen @gruen.us · 03/08/2026K-pop demon hunters Rumi bobble head night at Yankees Stadium. … 000
Michael E. Gruen @gruen.us · 24/07/2026Just wait: chatjimmy.aichatjimmy.aichat jimmychat jimmy LLM web interface 010
Michael E. Gruen @gruen.us · 24/07/2026Fresh naan would fly (says this ultimate player), but stale and brittle the rotational force likely to self destruct on launch. Stale baguette will javelin. 100
Michael E. Gruen @gruen.us · 23/07/2026Last time I was this excited for a phone release was the iPhone 3G. www.thelightphone.com/lightflip (Disclosure: I have a small investment in this company.)thelightphone.comThe Light PhoneLight is a radically different technology company. We design beautiful tools that respect and empower our users and our first product is The Light Phone. 020
Michael E. Gruen @gruen.us · 16/07/2026For a moment I thought this was a Nintendo Switch conference and got excited for you. 020
Michael E. Gruen @gruen.us · 13/07/2026You've got to keep space clear because when inspiration strikes, it's not going to always wait for you to finish your work day. 010
Reposted by Michael E. GruenSteve Francia @spf13.com · 07/07/2026Go was uniquely designed for readers over writers That turns out to matter even more when the reader is an LLM running build-test-fix loops all day. Go's big advantages in 2026 look a lot like its old advantages: short compile times, boring tooling, readable simple code. spf13.com/p/go-the-age...spf13.comWhy TypeScript 7.0 Was Rewritten in Go — And What It Means for Your Dev Stack | spf13Go was designed for systems at scale, not AI. But in 2026, it's the optimal language for agentic development. Here's why, and what it means for your team. 0133
Michael E. Gruen @gruen.us · 25/06/2026How long until the uʍop-ǝpısdn text thing on a hat gets played out? 000
Michael E. Gruen @gruen.us · 22/06/2026Honestly, with the limited training companies give the front-line employees/contractors within financial customer support departments, give me the freakin' chatbot. Better yet, give me all the markdown. 000
Michael E. Gruen @gruen.us · 07/06/2026Posting this feels counter-purpose, but the sentiment is worth sharing. 020
Michael E. Gruen @gruen.us · 03/06/2026Hilarious until you realize this also worked (I’m hoping past tense here) on accounts where people thought they were privately sharing. This should be considered criminally negligent. 010
Michael E. Gruen @gruen.us · 22/05/2026I'm gonna be real mad if this was written by a clanker.octopusyarn.comCyborgs Will Kill the CorporationOn Excorporations and the Death of the Firm 000
