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jpt @jpt.sh · 28/09/2026

If you'd like to be a part of a small community of people interested in sharing knowledge & resources around public interest tech projects we now have a short form you can fill out to request access: tally.so/r/5BgOLZ

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jpt @jpt.sh · 27/05/2026

CIF has been a great opportunity for students! I’d love to connect to TPG if they’re interested in early career folks. The ones that have approached have reported they felt like it wasn’t for them, not sure if that’s accurate or just a comms issue.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/05/2026

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

"That link is not there yet, right?" he said. think maybe implicitly there is more that is getting shipped, but it's very hard to draw a line between one of those stats and, 'Okay, now we're actually producing 25% more useful consumer features."
He said that the trade-off costs from Al are harder to justify because he can't draw a direct link. Earlier this month, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in an earnings call that Uber was slowing hiring to counter its investments in AI.

The comment led to what he described as a
"head-exploding moment," sparking discussions about AI token consumption within the company and the trade-offs it creates, such as on head count.
He said that, based on talks with Uber's senior engineering leaders, he realized higher token usage did not translate into a proportional increase in useful consumer features.

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jpt @jpt.sh · 26/05/2026

appreciate the gentle pushback though, it's something that needs to be thought through more but I'm convinced by how frequently I hear it that something is missing that could help

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jpt @jpt.sh · 26/05/2026

part of the issue is they often wind up on small teams, 2-3 devs, perhaps none much more senior than them (this is the nature of these smaller teams), and more and more often are working remotely so need community outside the orgs themselves

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jpt @jpt.sh · 26/05/2026

It's the early career folks, not ones seeking their first jobs that say this the most-- the connective tissue is useful in being able to move between subfields (a lot of 24yos *think* they want to only do climate or whatever, then it expands for them)

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jpt @jpt.sh · 26/05/2026

I think the value they are looking for is in the community & continued skill building among peers. "networking" is secondary to that need, perhaps a nice side-effect in theory

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jpt @jpt.sh · 26/05/2026

they get that for 2 years in school and then as 1-3 year early career devs they struggle to advance or break into new fields

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jpt @jpt.sh · 26/05/2026

100 percent agree that engaging with the groups going the actual work is part of the answer, the need i’m trying to help them fill is the need for technical peers to learn from/collab with

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jpt @jpt.sh · 26/05/2026

are you involved? i’d love to know more but never got an email back when i reached out twice. students have reported very negative interactions but hard to go off 2-3 anecdotes— the membership fee out the gate seems like a major barrier (even if there’s an opaque process to have it waved)

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jpt @jpt.sh · 26/05/2026

not exclusive for, just welcoming to those that aren’t yet working as professionals. for instance those that recently graduated, but needed to take an unrelated job in the interim but want to engage with or even work on community projects.

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jpt @jpt.sh · 26/05/2026

part of the problem is that there are not many jobs in these fields and if you don’t (yet) have one you don’t know the people— for students that have to take a less “public interest” job this can feel like being pushed out of the ecosystem when they leave the community they have in school

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jpt @jpt.sh · 26/05/2026

there is a strong need for those entering the field to have community that they aren‘t currently finding, i imagine (but can’t confirm) it’s harder in those even smaller more niche subfields of public interest . are you for instance aware of a community for students interested in labor?

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jpt @jpt.sh · 24/05/2026

About one ask away from starting a discourse for this, but curious if anyone out there has a better answer.

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jpt @jpt.sh · 24/05/2026

A question I get from students a lot that I'm not sure I can answer: Is there a place where people are discussing building sustainable/public interest/civic projects? As in talking about the challenges they face/sharing tips/recommendations, promoting their work to others to get extra eyes on WIP?

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jpt @jpt.sh · 25/02/2026

I'm far from the first to acknowledge that we were overly reliant on a Silicon Valley-centric tech scene that has always been proto-fascist and that continuing the work will mean decoupling from them, for good.

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jpt @jpt.sh · 25/02/2026

The vision shared by many of those of us that have worked in {public interest tech/civic tech/whatever you want to call it}--technology as something that can be liberatory & democratizing--is not wrong.

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jpt @jpt.sh · 25/02/2026

The latter is particularly jarring: an embrace of technosolutionism 100% at odds with the lessons learned by actual practitioners about the real nature of this kind of work and the value of human expertise.

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jpt @jpt.sh · 25/02/2026

People once lauded for their desire to use technology to improve people's lives are now openly & persistently advocating for decimating public sector unions as well as replacing workers with generative AI trained on stolen works.

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bees @bees.free · 31/01/2026

an evollution of 27, organoids now have DNA & absorb some mutations when eating h9.bees.free/genuary26/29... #genuary #genuary2026 #genuary29

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bees @bees.free · 31/01/2026

Genuary 30: oops all bugs, a collection of interesting glitches that accumulated throughout the month while working on other sketches #genuary #genuary2026 #genuary30

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bees @bees.free · 01/02/2026

At the beginning of the month I thought the library was close to ready, but spending all month with it made me realize there are 2-3 big things I want to do before stabilizing the API. I also added a lot of features as I went, but most are poorly documented.

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bees @bees.free · 01/02/2026

It's been fun sharing these & seeing everyone else's all month! my HTML-only #genuary28 will be the polished/updated version of the site & docs for honeycombs/h9.js, the library I've been using for all of these, but that'll probably be in a few weeks.

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bees @bees.free · 01/02/2026

most of the work on this one was an experimental WebGL renderer backend, honeycombs/h9.js now has SVG, canvas, and WebGL renderers. h9.bees.free/genuary26/31... felt fitting to demonstrate w/ a return to one shape one color.

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jpt @jpt.sh · 24/01/2026

There is no separating the two, not anymore.

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jpt @jpt.sh · 24/01/2026

Unlike the near-impossibility that is giving up factory-farmed food or decoupling your life from our suicidal dependence on oil, giving up big tech is mostly a matter of inconvenience, not survival, and we need to get real with ourselves & one another.

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jpt @jpt.sh · 24/01/2026

When there are real people being terrorized hurt and killed it can seem like a distraction, but the fight against fascism is the fight against the oligarchs that prefer it, fund it, and support it with their technology.

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jpt @jpt.sh · 24/01/2026

Nobody can blame you if you aren't out in the streets facing down armed thugs, but it is time to convince our friends & families that they need to stop pouring money into the hate machine.

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jpt @jpt.sh · 24/01/2026

While we're at it, we need to have a serious conversation about the relationship of big tech to all of this. Not just Musk. Google. Meta. Amazon. All complicit allies of this criminal regime, with vast amounts of data on every person on this planet.

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jpt @jpt.sh · 24/01/2026

There is no path forward for democracy in this country where ICE is intact and those that led, funded, and supported it walk free. Dismantling this before it gets worse needs to be the highest priority.

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bees @bees.free · 10/01/2026

#genuary #genuary2026 #genuary9 hexagonal cellular automata with a circular food chain definitely more fun to watch the interactive than the gif: h9.bees.free/genuary26/09...

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bees @bees.free · 10/01/2026

#genuary #genuary2026 #genuary10 infinite cycles of death & rebirth This one was really short since h9 already had a polar coordinate reference system built in. 7 variables and a 2-line draw loop! Code here: h9.bees.free/genuary26/10...

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bees @bees.free · 12/01/2026

so many ways of being, but none of them seem to fit Prompt: Only Cubes #genuary12 #genuary2026 #genuary Interactive Code: h9.bees.free/genuary26/12...

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bees @bees.free · 19/01/2026

h9.bees.free/genuary26/19... #genuary19 #genuary #genuary2026

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bees @bees.free · 04/01/2026

#genuary2026 #genuary #genuary4 I'm using these prompts to iterate on h9, which is a mostly-SVG-based geometric drawing tool, so this one posed an interesting challenge. I decided I'd take the opportunity to try out my hardly-used Canvas backend and adapted a vector sketch to this pixelated look

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bees @bees.free · 04/01/2026

Third prompt, fibonacci -- tried to use it for every decision in this quick animation: color, rotation, length, arcDegrees & speed interactive source here: h9.bees.free/genuary26/03... #genuary #genuary2026 #genuary3

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bees @bees.free · 04/01/2026

Today's prompt was the 12 principles of animation. Focusing on slow-in/slow-out and bounce/stretch, I added some basic keyframe code to the variable system to get a nice bounce. The ellipse code was fortunately already done #genuary2 #genuary #genuary2026 h9.bees.free/genuary26/02...

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bees @bees.free · 04/01/2026

I'm using Genuary to kick the tires/build features on an experimental drawing library I've been working on. Today's prompt: One color, one shape. (hexagons of course!) #genuary1 #genuary #genuary2026 h9.bees.free/genuary26/01...

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jpt @jpt.sh · 22/11/2025

I wanted something I could recommend to people that just want a reliable way to host static websites with minimal fuss & cost. I wound up writing a script to sync your static site with a low-cost CDN jpt.sh/posts/host-s... I'm now using it to host ~15 static websites for $1/mo without Google/MS/CF

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trifold: painless static website hosting via CDN

I just want to host some HTML… For years I hosted my static sites on AWS CloudFront, but about six years ago, in an effort to move away from Amazon, I wound up on Netlify. Netlify has mostly been grea...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Both of the co-founders of Turning Point USA died from things that were preventable, but which they mocked and urged this nation to ignore. Bill Montgomery was killed in 2020 by COVID and Charlie Kirk was killed in 2025 by gun violence.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

The protest march in Chicago - the second in only four days staged in opposition to the Trump admin's targeteting of Chicagoland for an immigration blitz - has stepped off from Congress Plaza and is heading north down Michigan Avenue. Hundreds of people have joined the march so far.

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jpt @jpt.sh · 08/09/2025

If you're someone that uses the default terminal setup that came with your OS & wonder why anyone *prefers* the terminal, here's the first post in a series on learning to like your terminal (through installing better software for it) www.jpt.sh/posts/like-y...

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learn to like your terminal, part 1

learn to like your terminal I’ve met a lot of people that have learned to use the terminal just enough for it to remain a perpetually frustrating experience for them. There’s a lot to love about termi...

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/08/2025

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

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DumpTruck 🍑 Decider Alice @sailormoondamus.gobirds.online · 26/08/2025

Disable ChatGPT this fucking instant. Destroy it. JFC.

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