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Patrick McEwen

@pmcewen.com
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Lacrosse guy, but no one seems to talk about sports here, so I guess I'm here for the political news? Maybe some finance and economics stuff too? I made @8sites.top

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 27/09/2026
What a win for the Badgers. I had complete faith and never said anything negative during that game about Luke Fickell and Colton Joseph
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 25/09/2026
The bringing iced coffee to a job interview discourse is just coaches not recruiting players who wear tights under their shorts at cold weather recruiting events for the masses
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 24/09/2026
Wouldn’t it just save everyone a bunch of money, time and effort to at least try to set up business agent to agent text communications rather than having them use actual telephones? Like what are we doing here?
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 23/09/2026
Were we supposed to wait until middle age to do this?
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 16/09/2026
Fortunately, my brain is irreversibly hardwired to think about this guy anytime anyone mentions Sankey diagrams
Joey Sankey UNC Attack
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 15/09/2026
What do you think is the largest policy concession Congressional Democrats could get from Trump in exchange for agreeing to rename the Kennedy Center after him?
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 03/09/2026
@shupp.dev before I forget, this is the link I told you I would send you aicoding.leaflet.pub
aicoding.leaflet.pub
The Phoenix Architecture
Generative AI coding demands what we've always known: modularity, clear boundaries, disposable components. Principles that scaled human teams are now table stakes. Here, we make the implicit explicit
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 25/08/2026
One way to be able to discuss AI without catching the attention of all the anti-AI people is to avoid doing any good posts that get any attention from anyone
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 25/08/2026
If even Nashville has an atproto group now, I really need to find someone else and get a DC one going
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 21/08/2026
Sometimes if I get sent a spreadsheet and need to actually do anything more advanced than sort the data, I have to load in into a pandas dataframe because I forgot how to do any useful spreadsheet things
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 18/08/2026
I really don’t like how “no evidence” has started to be used to mean “no proof” rather than no evidence. The Kawhi situation is pretty clearly one with plenty of evidence even if the NBA can’t find rock solid proof
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 09/08/2026
Such a cool feeling to check the For You feed and see right at the top the first use in the wild of the shareable graphic feature I added to @8sites.top Thanks for making my day @vicwalker.dev.br
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 06/08/2026
I would be amused about how perfectly targeted this @chrisrosie22.bsky.social article at me if it didn't use the word "old" so many times
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 05/08/2026
This isn't a particularly profound observation, but the @leaflet.pub feature to make highlighted text the share image in posts is fantastic. I have been wanting something like this for so long and to have an implementation that doesn't depend on the social media app to support it is awesome
pmcewen.leaflet.pub
Sports in the Atmosphere
Lessons from attempting to build an AT proto sports app and how to actually make it happen
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 05/08/2026
Keep seeing such a strong parallels between AI use and multi-sport athletes. Play multiple sports for long term development and then specialize to peak. Gain knowledge and skill by learning to do something without relying on AI then use AI to do it faster or better
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 04/08/2026
Sharp post — please do make an NCAA bracket app, please do NOT make gambling apps.
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 04/08/2026
I wrote up a bunch of thoughts on what I learned from trying different ways to build an atproto sports app
pmcewen.leaflet.pub
Sports in the Atmosphere
Lessons from attempting to build an AT proto sports app and how to actually make it happen
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 02/08/2026
Trying to finish up writing something about atproto and so close to nerd sniping myself
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Chris Rosenthall @chrisrosie22.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I'd like to imagine there's some bigwig over at Yahoo who's like, "When we agreed to this we assumed none of you would be using Bankroll Fresh lyrics in your articles." Here's the Week 10 Wrap-up: sports.yahoo.com/articles/pll...
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PLL Wrap-Up, Week 10: Not So Home, Sweet Home and Currier the Unicorn
(Photo Courtesy of PLL) The PLL season is not a sprint, but a marathon. Furthermore, it’s not your regular, run-of-the-mill street marathon either, it’s one littered with traps and obstacles impossibl...
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 25/07/2026
There are plenty of real LLM coding skills, but there are so many tips and tricks that by the time word gets out, the next generation of models and harnesses are already correcting and soon enough everything has overcorrected and everyone has the opposite problem
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 20/07/2026
Everyone keep posting about atproto e-commerce until we collectively nerd snipe someone into building something
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 17/07/2026
Explaining the smokey air to little kids is a lot like pretending to have a girlfriend. "No, you can't go see the fire. It's in Canada."
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 12/07/2026
On one hand that was obviously a dive when watched in slow motion from a bunch of different angles, but on the other hand it was good enough acting that it fooled a World Cup quality ref into giving the other guy a yellow
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I did it I wrote the article wish me luck Lionel Messi is the GOAT, Ronaldo is not, why just about every statistical analyst agress www.expectinggoals.com/p/messi-rona...
expectinggoals.com
Why Messi keeps thriving as Ronaldo fades: The GOAT's always been the best
I'm not proud, or tired
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brendan @schlage.town · 30/06/2026
Cool, added mine! 8sites.top/schlage.town Time to declare @leaflet.pub the official longform publishing app of @8sites.top 😂😇🍃 (Any feedback welcome too; currently thinking about growth, monetization, and how we as an ecosystem can collectively get ppl off substack + onto the atmosphere!)
8sites.top
Top 8 Sites
Atmosphere-powered social siteroll
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 30/06/2026
Okay, today I am shamelessly promoting @8sites.top by agreeing to do something for anyone who adds their top 8 sites Such as: - Add your site to my top 8 - Promote something of yours - Declare your atmospheric app the official ________ of @8sites.top - Provide meaningful feedback on something
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 24/06/2026
The Popehat suspension reminds me that my 2 strongest running a social media site opinions are: 1) Verified accounts are dumb unless you specify what information was verified 2) You shouldn't permanently ban people
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 09/06/2026
My first (completed) atproto project is ready to share. Still needs work, but let me know what you think! Hopefully a fun thing that can improve open web discoverability 8sites.top
8sites.top
Top 8 Sites
Atmosphere-powered social siteroll
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 09/06/2026
The distinction between paying Pat McAfee and paying Pat McAfee's production company is somehow simultaneously both not much of a difference and also a hugely important one
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 04/06/2026
In 2022, the Dallas Mavericks had Luka Dončić and Jalen Brunson
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 03/06/2026
Had a project idea and about to buy the domain before I even start working on it because that way I will definitely force myself to follow through, right? Right?
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 29/05/2026
I have been waiting for my brain to fully process everything and I still can't believe that Shawn Lyght won the Tewaaraton
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 25/05/2026
Congratulations to the 2026 NCAA DI men’s lacrosse national champion Princeton Tigers
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 25/05/2026
What do we have to do to get all these people posting about women’s college lacrosse on here all spring long? Going to have to start posting women’s lacrosse recruiting takes this summer
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 15/05/2026
Abbot: Did you hear about that WaPo video podcast? Costello: That doesn’t get any views? What’s the name of it again? A: Make It Make Sense C: I wish I could, but I’m asking about the name of the podcast. You know, the one that everyone on Bluesky keeps giving hate views to
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 09/05/2026
Almost go time on one of the best days of the year
Scoreboard showing NCAA men’s lacrosse tournament first round games starting at 12 pm
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 05/05/2026
Wrote on why Duke's weak non-conference schedule isn't a path to the NCAA tournament anyone should try to copy www.insidelacrosse.com/article/mcew...
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McEwen: Don’t Follow Duke’s Lead in Scheduling | Inside LacrosseInside Lacrosse
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 04/04/2026
Bluesky user data is a start of the comparison cherry picking choose your own adventure. Simultaneously exploding, dying and plateauing depending on which narrative you would like to support bsky.jazco.dev/stats
Graph of Bluesky daily likes since the beginning of the site. Source: https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 02/04/2026
One underrated aspect of why LLMs are so useful for coding is that at this point you have to go install and run so many lines of someone else's code just to get set up to start writing your own. When you consider OS, language, frameworks, etc the original code probably rarely reaches 1% of 1%
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 01/04/2026
Trying to get back into doing some more regular writing
pmcewen.leaflet.pub
Moats in the Atmosphere
Thoughts on moats for businesses in the atmosphere and what that means for investing in them
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Trezy @trezy.codes · 31/03/2026
Finally done. I was able to talk with @pfrazee.com, as well as a handful of other folks with insight on the situation. #atmosphereconf trezy.com/blog/the-mar...
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The Marshmallow Test - Bluesky signals it's willing to eat its young
At AtmosphereConf, Bluesky celebrated its community, then signaled it's willing to eat them alive. No context. No acknowledgment. I was in the room.
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 31/03/2026
Feels like an extremely similar thing happens with any type of discussion of the usefulness of AI in software
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 27/03/2026
3 point of Illinois-Houston game scored after 4 minutes of play. Truly a Big 10 night tonight
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Chris Rosenthall @chrisrosie22.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
PLL and WLL Semis are set, here's your Friday night recaps: www.insidelacrosse.com/article/cham...
insidelacrosse.com
Champ Series Semis Are Set: Guard vs. Charging in WLL, Outlaws vs. Chaos in PLL | Inside LacrosseInside Lacrosse
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 04/03/2026
Election results on #atproto when?
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 03/03/2026
Given that it's looking like all software is close to being written with AI and AI outputs aren't copyrightable, feels like only a matter of time until people start assuming that all software is not copyrighted
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 28/02/2026
Probably late on this, but the Anthropic stuff today makes me realize some variation this is why Elon Musk is in such a hurry to take SpaceX public. If everyone holds it in index funds, it's much easier to argue shareholders need fair compensation
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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 24/02/2026
I just want to go on record in case I need to reference this in the future: the State of the Union has always looked like a miserable experience and you couldn't pay me to go
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