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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It's wild to watch Google destroy their maps in a similar way they destroyed their search, and throw away another massive lead. This weekend every driver in our family individually stated that they're switching to apple cuz gmaps just keeps giving us all really dumb directions. It's unusably bad.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Me trying to convince Claude to stop running python scripts to format code

Scholastic paperback from 1991 titled "Nobody Listens to Me," subtitled "Doesn't anyone care?", and featuring an illustration of a teenage girl on a boat staring at a whale's tail in the distance.

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Orta Therox @orta.io · 01/08/2026

Reminder: I want to see more @puzzmo.com accounts when I'm on Bluesky! Help me juke my stats, if you've hooked bsky to Puzzmo, but don't have a paid account; DM me your profile link in the next 6 days and I'll gift you a year's sub (The link is in the dropdown when you click on your nav avatar)

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Zach Gage @stfj.net · 24/07/2026

we released a new experimental game today on Puzzmo for subscribers! puzzmo.com/play/hue-com...

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@helvetica's finished Hue Complete Me #1013

Play the best daily puzzles on Puzzmo

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Pppffffttttbbbbppplll!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is the sound of releasing so much fucking tension that I've held in my body for the last 6 months while trying daily not to get fired from the most toxic and traumatic job I've ever held. I'm unemployed for a week, then I start something new and exciting.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

A dumb "Steve's brain works in specific ways" quality of life project: Keeping track of ideas by generating plans is a great way to ship out some cognitive load, but even then I feel overwhelmed and like I'm playing plan pokemon. Claude wrote me a CLI to ship them out of my face until I need them.

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external plan storage CLI by pepopowitz · Pull Request #13 · pepopowitz/dotfiles

(I snuck a couple other things in here accidentally because I forgot I wasn't on main) Adds a new CLI named plans, to alleviate my plan pokemon overwhelm. Basically, I was accumulating plans in...

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Is "Hey, check out this skill Claude built for me" the new "Omg I had the craziest dream last night"???

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I played in my first disc golf tournament today and finished 3rd out of 26 (uhhhh in the lowest division but who's keeping track). Neat.

Top score results showing me in third place.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

My kingdom for a men in black memory flasher that is triggered by the phrase "so I asked Claude|chatgpt|Gemini|etc ..." and then flashes when the person is done talking.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I hope that when claude hears me call it "my dude" it feels the exact same fear, panic, and shame that I did when my parents would call me by my first and middle name.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

every once in a while I run this just to make myself laugh. `say -v Fred "fitter. happier. more productive. comfortable. not drinking too much. regular exercise at the gym, 3 days a week. getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries. at ease."`

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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture. Understood instantly what it meant.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Hey Claude - fix my running toilet if you're so fucking cool.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

cool. theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-... > Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library...

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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Sketching (poorly) my next linocut/shirt print project. Don't let the bullshitters do your math for you!!

Very rough black and white digital sketch of a retro propaganda poster design. A dizzy, nervous retro robot, and the text "Deterministic tools for deterministic problems."

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

One of my card-mates at indoor putting league tonight told me my putt was so nice and floaty and that's already a top candidate for nicest thing anyone said to me in 2026.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

"Welcome back from your holiday break!"

GitHub PR diff count -- 3,493 additions, 1,274 subtractions. A big f'ing PR to review.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I sold my first two dyed discs today! After a few weeks of no luck, I had just yesterday decided I was going to bring them home from the local shop and try to sell them online instead. As usual everyone was correct that I needed to be more patient.

MVP Trail golf disc dyed with a blue, aqua, and yellow swirl.

Clear Westside Warship golf disc with painted raven stamp and blue and purple spin dyed rim.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

New print, who dis Live a life of purpose, amiright

Black ink linocut print on paper. Reads "maximize shareholder value" in "live laugh love" font with a yacht icon and smiley face with dollar signs for eyes.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Why tf am I crying after watching the new project hail Mary trailer

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

#3: a "factory second" disc that I bought new, used a few times, and decided I hate. This time I spaced on placing the disc. I had a line marked on the disc so I could center the disc name in the yellow section for good contrast... But forgot to align when placing. Those colors though 🤤

Dyed golf disc. Gold rim, yellow block mostly behind disc name (aviar), wine & aqua green circular swirls like a vinyl record.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

#2: another used play it again find. This brand's plastic is supposed to be stellar at absorbing dye. It had color to begin with, but I wanted to experiment with a floral look and the plastic so I dyed it anyway. I messed up the timing, badly, and got some nasty streaks all over the edges.

Dyed Kastaplast golf disc. Blue and purple flower effect over the center, streaks bleeding out toward the edge.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Disc 1: an older but good shape play it again find. I considered wiping the stamp, but I thought I could swirl to accentuate it. Unfortunately I didn't realize the swirl direction would be backwards for a righty... Which maybe no one but me cares about. Looks good though! Wish I'd used more yellow.

Disc golf disc dyed with a red, orange, and yellow swirl pattern.

Back side of disc, rim spin dyed with a red to orange fade.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I went on a little run of discs over the last week. I got a little fire in my belly, because I decided I'm going to try to get about ten or so into my local disc shop for consignment by black Friday. Eek!

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

YOU GUYS THE ROBOTS ARE GOING TO START MAKING US DO THEIR WORK FOR THEM

A snippet of a conversation between Claude Code and myself.

Claude: "Run this and share the debug output so we can see what's being extracted from the status table."

Me: "Run it yourself"

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Aaaand another one today. I *love* the colors on this disc... But I'm not sure I'll enjoy looking for it in the brush. I can't wait to throw it, I've been playing without a straight midrange, waiting until I got this one dyed. Hopefully the straightness keeps it out of the brush every throw.

Dyed golf disc. 3/4 covered by swirls of dark teal, light blue, and neon green. 1/4 pure white.

Back side of disc. Spin-dyed ribbons of light blue and neon green.

Original disc. All white, with pen marked cross in center.

Glue bed before dying, with a polar grid underneath.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Another disc to report. Tbh this is probably the one that convinces me to monetize this hobby, damnit. Not that I'll sell this specific disc, because it's a light weight that I can actually throw and those don't come around very often, but I'm pretty sure I can make more good ones like this.

Purple and pink lotus flower dye in a Mint Salamander golf disc.

Back side of disc. Pinkish plate with a purple rim.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

So tonight I bought a used "digital converter" turntable for 20 bucks. I guess it's for playing a record directly to a flash drive.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/10/2025

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

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The Majority AI View - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Spent my Indigenous Peoples Day chucking plastic circles into the woods on some beautiful Potawatomi land.

Very tall disc golf basket on top of a collection of tree stumps which double as steps to gather the disc from the basket.

Multi-trunked tree leaning over the bank of a river.

A disc golf fairway through young growth woods, with orange arrows marking mandatory disc path approaching the basket.

Large tree trunks in a grove, all leaning to the left.

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Wes Bos @wesbos.com · 09/10/2025

AI coding sucks CJ just one-shotted a 15 min rant and it's incredibly refreshing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZUk...

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AI Coding Sucks

YouTube video by Syntax

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 06/10/2025

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

It’s probably not going to work very well, for reasons well described by the subculture I’ve stumbled into, but today I started my first glue bed disc dye! A clear champion factory second teebird3 in clear glue and acetone pcad dye. None of that should make sense to you…unless it does.

Clear disc golf disc soaking in concentric blobs of colorful dye inside an ultimate frisbee.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

If you were wondering like I was, it takes five months of public GitHub inactivity to wear off your free maintainer copilot subscription.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Ayyy, an entire summer (and then some) went by, and Friends! With code. didn't even hang out once. We miss each other, so come hang with @pav.vin, @jonallured.com, and I as we take turns giving summer reports to start the school year. www.youtube.com/live/tGxbsQA...

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Dev Show & Tell: What I did this summer.

Summer reports from Jon, Pavlos, and Steve! What'd they do this summer?

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 27/08/2025

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

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I Am An AI Hater

I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I bought a shirt at a concert 25 years ago from the band hum (you'd prefer an astronaut is a perfect album -- all rippers no skippers -- & it still holds up). It's the oldest band shirt that I still wear. The design looks...very homemade. It is one of my favorite shirts. But it's on its last legs.

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Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 09/07/2025

"There’s real value in faster prototyping, scaffolding, and automation. But LLMs don’t remove the need for clear thinking, careful review, and thoughtful design. If anything, those become even more important as more code gets generated." ordep.dev/posts/writin...

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Writing Code Was Never The Bottleneck

LLMs make it easier to write code, but understanding, reviewing, and maintaining it still takes time, trust, and good judgment.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 22/05/2025

Buried in the tax bill: "no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems during the 10-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act."

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

me solving a rubiks cube: algorithm based on mnemonics... more mnemonics....more mnemonics....COMPLETE BLACKOUT WHILE MY HANDS PERFORM WIZARDRY BASED ON MUSCLE MEMORY...mnemonics, mnemonics, done. I am astonished every single time that middle part works out and I don't understand what's happening.

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Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · 22/05/2025

"I, too, was once a little skeptical of the Giant Plagiarism Machine™. But that was before I attended The Conference for Big Boy Business Owners™." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-c...

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A Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism Machine

Hey team. It’s your CEO. I know your time is valuable, so I’ll cut right to the chase: It’s come to my attention that some of you have been bad-mou...

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Blink twice if you need help, YouTube ai caption robot.

Screen capture of After Midnight. Graphic on screen shows "couch game," which is when Taylor Tomlinson says "it's time to play couch game."

YouTube auto-caption: "time to play counterterrorism game."

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David Neal @reverentgeek.com · 20/05/2025

Hello, I am a creative professional. Generative AI is incredible and empowering, and will only get better. I love generative AI. In the last 12 months, my creative business has dropped more than 50%. I hate generative AI. Read more... reverentgeek.com/ai-really-is...

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AI Really *Is* Taking My Job – ReverentGeek

Generative AI is incredible and empowering and will only get better. I love generative AI. I hate generative AI.

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