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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 24/09/2026

I’d love to give you feedback…what’s the thing you’re working on?

Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 24/09/2026

I believe that you’re right and I would watch a documentary on why. It’s the craziest thing ever that cars can be so fully automated and homes…can’t…

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 19/09/2026

Woah I saw one of his videos pop up on YouTube yesterday. Looks like a really fun adventure.

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 22/08/2026

They’d like to let you know that they’re both alpha’s.

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 06/08/2026

ooooh that's good. I'm going to use that.

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 06/08/2026

if you have a perspective on the question to offer, I'd love to hear it.

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 06/08/2026

This is a fascinating question. Norton has a book called Fighting Traffic that I want to check out. Claude thinks one big reason was that US private rail was happy to drop passenger service in favor of commercial, while Europe chose to run unprofitably by nationalizing.

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 04/08/2026

I’m 290 days into the exact same dream. Feel your pain 😞

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 04/08/2026

No better way to hold 1.44mb.

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 23/07/2026

Is the experience of that damage mostly connected to the US Government or the people too?

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 23/07/2026

I’ll never forget the look on his face.

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 20/07/2026

Don’t forget to cancel those Fox One subscriptions from the World Cup

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 02/07/2026

In real time it looked incidental, and they didn’t even call it a foul until after VAR. It’s wild to think they saw enough to give red. Even in the replay, you can see him pulling up to try to reduce contact. Really frustrating officiating

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 28/06/2026

Totally agree. there’s about to be a cottage industry of consultants helping companies figure this out.

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 17/06/2026

I shall use this daily. Very cool thx

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 25/05/2026

They’re asking to get that battery stolen yikes

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 04/05/2026

Halo sleep sack. The nurse tried to teach me to swaddle with a blanket when Velcro exists. Also congrats!

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 05/04/2026

Yea I got to USC in ‘08 and downtown was a ghost town with one coffee shop and 100 bad BBQ restaurants. It’s wild how much has changed.

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 05/04/2026

Oh dang. When were you here? It’s changed a lotttt in the past few years

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 31/03/2026

You can tell Claude Code to copy something to your clipboard. If there's some really complicated script that it's having trouble with line breaks, just say "copy it" and it'll work.

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 08/03/2026

amateur users of AI do not understand how difficult it is to babysit an AI agent while it tries to do something where precision matters.

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 07/03/2026

No freaking way. TIL…thanks. I’ve probably opened cyberduck 1000 times more than I needed to.

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 27/02/2026

my word for 2026 was "chocolate". All things chocolate. dark chocolate with raspberry dark chocolate with almond butter dubai chocolate 🍫 chocolate milkshakes It's been a good year.

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 24/02/2026

I think that’s true. Lots of new problems to deal with.

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 24/02/2026

Do you ever hotfix? We have a dev environment but it gets used for big feature testing. And then we hotfix into prod for little things. Deployment is a weak spot for me…curious for what you’ve learned.

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 24/02/2026

Maybe I’m a cowboy but I’ve been running Claude dangerously, with 2-3 instances simultaneously, on the same project for months and it’s been fine.

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 07/02/2026

Agreed. It felt slow. But Paris was unusually good, too.

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 06/02/2026

I regularly have Claude Code hang, and then I copy/paste the last 500 lines and say “keep going.” I wonder if that will break too.

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 02/02/2026

Do you say “turn this into a skill”? What’s the workflow to set up

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 02/02/2026

You think? I kinda like the feature. Except I missed a day a few months ago that broke a like 3 year streak 🤣

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 02/02/2026

I think this is a big unanswered question. I have a lot of experience with Laravel so directing an agent stays in control. But I couldn’t direct an agent well in an arbitrary coding setup.

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 14/01/2026

I read this post at 1x reading speed. ;)

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 10/01/2026

I’m working on a desktop money management app right now and it’s so nice that security is basically not an issue.

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 10/01/2026

I think we’re about to get a lot of this, actually. Desktop software is about to have its moment again.

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 05/01/2026

Yep. We have 3 rivers, so that was the inspiration. But it definitely has coastal vibes.

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 04/01/2026

Our city flag was adopted out of thin air about 7 years ago and it’s immensely popular. The key question for city flags should be “do residents choose to fly it?”

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 02/01/2026

it was a good post...thanks for sharing!

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 31/12/2025

What plan are you on? I’m on $100 and struggle to hit the personal limit.

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 01/12/2025

Yeaaaaa. Pretty sure Andy Reid trades a 4th for Pitts and turns him into a HOF Kelce-replacement this spring.

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 01/12/2025

Bijan and Drake are at the top of their game and it just doesn’t matter -_-

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 26/11/2025

I’m not sure if you’re baiting or not but… between Dodd Frank, the equal rights act, fair lending practices and the consumer protection bureau… it’s hard to argue that the regulatory environment is worse for home ownership now than it was 100 years ago.

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 26/11/2025

But housing-as-investment doesn’t work in an era of approximately-zero population growth. And it’s not like usury was invented in 1995.

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 26/11/2025

One time I read someone say “housing can’t be both affordable and a good investment.” So I think we’re on the same team…I want affordable, stable housing for my community and I think we should use every tool we have to make sure it’s reality.

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 26/11/2025

I’m not trying to shill for capital but it’s wrong to say that “build houses” ignores the investment-consumption problem. If there were 900% more houses, no PE firm would be buying them up. At some point even they would become unprofitable. What am I missing here?

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Stephen Bateman @iambateman.com · 26/11/2025

it could make sense to make stricter rules around who can buy a home—preferring primary occupants. But wouldn’t encouraging more housing supply discourage the investment behavior? Investors buy *because* they think the shortage is durable.

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