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Jeremy Mikola

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Jeremy Mikola @jmikola.net · 29/08/2026

battle bots but instead of saws and flames it's carefully prompted tight-fives in a free-for-all (some heckling welcome?). anyway, this place is a blast from the past. but the White Castle really does have the best coffee in town.

Prompt: How can I use "low cap" in a sentence with a humorous nod to urban dictionary?

Claude Opus 5 High responds: "Low cap" isn't really established slang, which is exactly what makes it funny — you're describing a calibrated amount of lying. "No cap" is zero lies, so "low cap" is the honesty dial set to like a 3: technically embellishing, but responsibly.
Some options:
"I ran a 5K this morning — low cap, it was a 5K walk and I stopped for coffee."
"That was the best sandwich of my life. Low cap. Maybe top five. Look, I'm rounding"
"Low cap, I've read the whole thing" - the honest man's no cap.
For the Urban Dictionary nod specifically, the format is the joke. Their entries always have that one anonymous example sentence with a random guy's name, and half of them are invented by a single person at 2am hoping it catches on:
low cap (adj.) - a lie so small it doesn't count. Distinct from no cap (truth) and high cap (Dave's entire LinkedIn).
"Bro said he was five minutes away." "Low cap?" "Low cap. He's putting on shoes."
- submitted by xXtruthteller99Xx, 47 de / 892 °F
There's also a pun sitting right there if your audience is crypto-adjacent - "low cap" already means a small market cap, so "I invested in a low cap, no cap" is a sentence that means two entirely different things depending on who's listening.

Jeremy Mikola @jmikola.net · 27/02/2026

Twitter actually made me resort to a taking a screenshot to copy the text back out. Is this what passes for vendor lock-in these days?

Jeremy Mikola @jmikola.net · 27/02/2026

I think it's high time for companies to start wearing “supply-chain risk" like a badge of honor. Speaks louder than a bunch of company values cooked up by consultants.

Screenshot of a tweet from Pete Hegseth posted shortly after 5pm (DC time) on February, 27, 2026, reading:

Anthropic's stance is fundamentally incompatible with American principles. Their relationship with the United States Armed Forces and the Federal Government has therefore been permanently altered.

In conjunction with the President's directive for the Federal Government to cease all use of Anthropic's technology, I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk to National Security. Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic. Anthropic will continue to provide the Department of War its services for a period of no more than six months to allow for a seamless transition to a better and more patriotic service.

America's warfighters will never be held hostage by the ideological whims of Big Tech. This decision is final.

Jeremy Mikola @jmikola.net · 13/02/2026

That only took eleven years. #opentowork

A smiling man sitting at a bar and holding sticker that reads: “MongoDB: Snapchat for databases.” He is wearing a plaid shirt that is likely one size too small, and his scrappy beard is working overtime to hide his double chin.

Jeremy Mikola @jmikola.net · 24/01/2026

You can just do your own thing: indieweb.org/different

Illustration of one resilient yellow umbrella among a sea of tumbling gray umbrellas with the caption “Do your own thing.” and reference to indieweb.org.

Jeremy Mikola @jmikola.net · 07/09/2025

Jmikola Reporting Live from Michigan 🧦

Screenshot of a group chat between Jeremy Mikola, Chris Tankersley, and Ben Ramsey. A link to the r/PHP thread on Ryan Weaver’s passing. Followed by Jeremy informing Ben that Davey Shafik left a comment in the thread. Followed by an overheard quote: “He worked harder at living than I’ve ever worked in my life.”

Jeremy Mikola @jmikola.net · 06/08/2025

Is this the butterfly effect of wearing a hotdog hat to #Laracon? 📷 www.instagram.com/p/DM8aoHOuau...

Three fans posing for a photo while wearing hotdog hats at a Jersey Shore Blue Claws minor league baseball game.

Jeremy Mikola @jmikola.net · 28/07/2025

Breaking out the vintage swag for #Laracon Denver. Come find me at the 10gen booth 😉

Jeremy Mikola @jmikola.net · 22/12/2024

I appreciated the candor in your academic history, having withdrawn from Suffel’s CS630 (Automata and Formal Languages) on two separate occasions

Jeremy Mikola @jmikola.net · 16/12/2024

That alt text tho.

A screenshot including the alt text on the original roux photo. This certainly is getting very meta.

Jeremy Mikola @jmikola.net · 25/11/2024

Thank you for the query criteria!