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Joel Martinez @joelmartinez.codecube.net · 08/01/2026

Raise your hand if you've ever been asked by leadership or stakeholders for an estimate (a project completion date, a cost projection, etc) ... and despite all attempts to communicate the inherent uncertainty, the number or date is now cast in concrete as what everyone assumes _will_ happen 🫠

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Joel Martinez @joelmartinez.codecube.net · 02/01/2026

Working on a fun new project ... anyone out there doing parametric #CAD with #JSCAD? I'm writing a vscode plugin that lets you stay right in editor to visualize/export your work. I've got some ideas for some cool features, but I'd love to get some feedback from real folks working in this space :)

A screenshot showing VSCode, with the HootCAD extension rendering a model of a @wildernesslabs.bsky.app meadow enclosure.

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Joel Martinez @joelmartinez.codecube.net · 08/12/2025

Can our billionaires in America develop a sudden interest in architecture and start building some grand things in our cities? We may as well get cool buildings and environments in exchange for our dystopia

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Joel Martinez @joelmartinez.codecube.net · 02/12/2025

I didn’t have any sunglasses, so I worked with what I had

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Joel Martinez @joelmartinez.codecube.net · 22/08/2025

I got a Mountain Dew Baja Midnight, out of curiosity… I’ve made a huge mistake

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Joel Martinez @joelmartinez.codecube.net · 09/07/2025

The timing of this response to a 3+ year old tweet of mine is just impeccable

A response to a 3 year old tweet of mine lamenting on the idea of training AI models on toxic social media content ... a day after grok decided to identify as "MechaHitler".

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Joel Martinez @joelmartinez.codecube.net · 09/06/2025

Wow ... Apple Vision Pro + my Macbook Pro has me writing code on a nice wide screen sitting on the moon. What an experience!

A virtual widescreen from my macbook pro, floating above a crater on the moon

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Joel Martinez @joelmartinez.codecube.net · 06/06/2025

Wow ... it's not often one sees errors on a big property like #youtube. But it _does_ happen to everyone #HugOps

Errors when trying to watch a youtube video that is blocking playback

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Joel Martinez @joelmartinez.codecube.net · 04/05/2025

If you see this, post a sword It is said Muramasa’s katana thirsted for the blood of the Shogun #SwordSky

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Joel Martinez @joelmartinez.codecube.net · 21/04/2025

Came across a term that, while I'm familiar with the concept, I'd never known the actual name of ... a Duchenne Smile. And like ... what tf is this image that came up in search 😅

The first few bing results, showing a very creepy rendition of a duchenne smile. They've only drawn the pupils, but omitted the rest of the eyes such as the whites, eylids, etc; while the rest of the drawing, while cartoony, remains relatively high fidelity.

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Joel Martinez @joelmartinez.codecube.net · 26/03/2025

Requisite new ChatGPT image generation test

a selfie of me wearing sunglasses at night on a cruise, holding a cigar

The same image, but "studio ghibli style"

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Joel Martinez @joelmartinez.codecube.net · 09/03/2025

I’ve been watching #Severance on the Apple vision. What a great experience watching stuff (aside from the weight)

A selfie of me wearing an Apple Vision Pro

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Joel Martinez @joelmartinez.codecube.net · 27/02/2025

He's got that Hotline Bling thigh mobility 😅 No, but I love this guy

A picture from the hotline bling music video of Drake doing his silly little dance

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Joel Martinez @joelmartinez.codecube.net · 19/02/2025

Perhaps a less pithy response is, I don’t actually know what I should do😅 f I put a shelf for my keyboard under my desk, it would make the desktop itself too “fat” so I’d have to raise the desk which would affect ergonomics. If I put it on top I’d have the same problem as the original picture above

A view of my desk, on the left. With my synth/keyboard stand on the right

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Joel Martinez @joelmartinez.codecube.net · 18/02/2025

Extremely cool things @mattmazur.com has going on over at emergentmind.com !

Matt's post on X: Current status: seeing how well Emergent Mind synthesizes research on arXiv to answer questions like "What are some novel explanations for the Fermi Paradox?"

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Joel Martinez @joelmartinez.codecube.net · 06/02/2025

Very free, very speech ... thanks Meta!

the gif search on facebook showing no results for the word "nazi"

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Joel Martinez @joelmartinez.codecube.net · 31/01/2025

Very nice! This cellphone pic doesn’t do it justice, but my sunset looked similar in person, to your great pic 😅

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Joel Martinez @joelmartinez.codecube.net · 24/01/2025

If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery. Shanghai was pretty cool

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Joel Martinez @joelmartinez.codecube.net · 22/01/2025

Sorry Convolutional Neural Networks ... unless you rebrand, I won't see anything about you on bsky. Gotta clean up this here feed ⚒️

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Joel Martinez @joelmartinez.codecube.net · 20/01/2025

lol … now that we have a video feed, reposting this classic that my daughter made a few years ago. People keep telling me we look alike but … I don’t see the resemblance 😅

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Joel Martinez @joelmartinez.codecube.net · 19/01/2025

What in the politics is going on here?

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Joel Martinez @joelmartinez.codecube.net · 04/01/2025

Is anyone else able to create passkeys on iOS? I’m on the latest OS and in my settings via the Gmail app … can’t figure out why it might be locking me out of this 🤔

Screenshot of google account settings telling me a passkey can’t be created on my device

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Joel Martinez @joelmartinez.codecube.net · 31/12/2024

Finally got my swords mounted on the wall #iaido

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Joel Martinez @joelmartinez.codecube.net · 27/12/2024

lol! Let the record show the raised beds my daughter asked me to build recently, and the hydroponic tower garden I just got for Christmas 😅🌱

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Joel Martinez @joelmartinez.codecube.net · 26/12/2024

Goodness, the construction of this Apple Vision Pro cardboard box needs to be studied. It’s entirely too well made and making my post Christmas cleanup, more difficult 😅

A part of the Apple vision, pro cardboard box

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Joel Martinez @joelmartinez.codecube.net · 20/12/2024

geez wtf ... what kinda suppliers were employees partying with?

screenshot of the following quote: "Party City’s product development team was recalled two weeks ago from its yearly trip with vendors and told to return home immediately, according to a former Party City corporate office employee, who wished to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak to the media. The team was told the company believed the trip posed a safety risk, because Party City had stopped paying its suppliers."

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Joel Martinez @joelmartinez.codecube.net · 20/12/2024

aww, guess it doesn't like 'Eldritchian Horror'

notification that my storyboard prompt was rewritten

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Joel Martinez @joelmartinez.codecube.net · 19/12/2024

Totally agree that being able to name the inputs would make it so we don't have to resort to pseudo (or actual) code ... but this seems to have worked 🧮