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Scott Blomquist @scott.blomqui.st · 24/04/2026

Early bird signup ends in a week.

Scott Blomquist @scott.blomqui.st · 13/04/2026

I do fractional CTO work. I specialize in platform strategy, eng. program design (people and process), AI-enablement, and engineering crisis management. When I'm not in a meeting or handling a client request, I use AI-native methods to build my own commercial portfolio. puzzsaw.com craftroom.com

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Wes Miller @getwired.com · 19/03/2026

Ampersadness (noun) - The state of feeling profound sadness when one must replace one or more instances of the word “and” with ampersands in order to meet some character limit for text input.

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Scott Blomquist @scott.blomqui.st · 17/03/2026

At least it's less code now.

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Scott Blomquist @scott.blomqui.st · 17/03/2026

I'm young enough to love progress and old enough to hate change.

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Scott Blomquist @scott.blomqui.st · 13/03/2026

Why are bots obsessed with poetic sentence fragments as a writing device? Genuine question. Real pattern. Worth unpacking.

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Scott Blomquist @scott.blomqui.st · 24/02/2026

I liked emdash—before it was cool.

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Scott Blomquist @scott.blomqui.st · 20/02/2026

Something amazing just happened in a work call. "What language are the Playwright tests you just wrote written in?" "I'm not sure. Let me look."

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Scott Blomquist @scott.blomqui.st · 19/02/2026

Curation and discovery are more important than ever.

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Scott Blomquist @scott.blomqui.st · 19/02/2026

"AI is simultaneously collapsing the median ("slop") and raising the ceiling (real zero-days in critical infrastructure)." [^1] True for almost everything these days. More stuff is produced. + More of it is crap. + The best stuff is better than ever. [1]: www.lesswrong.com/posts/7aJwgb...

lesswrong.com

AI found 12 of 12 OpenSSL zero-days (while curl cancelled its bug bounty) — LessWrong

This is a partial follow-up to AISLE discovered three new OpenSSL vulnerabilities from October 2025. …

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Scott Blomquist @scott.blomqui.st · 18/02/2026

Google Workspace has come sooooo far in the last 2 years. At this point, I see no use for Slack in a Google organization. There a very few small features that I miss. I still struggle to replace Notion in my standard stack. Confluence is 1000x better than I remember, but it's not quite the same.

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Scott Blomquist @scott.blomqui.st · 17/02/2026

Came here to say the same thing. "Hello, I'm new here, but can I please have read/write access to everything?" "No." "Okay, gtfo."

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Scott Blomquist @scott.blomqui.st · 23/01/2026

Surely I'm not the first to use the word "LLMerence" to describe that phase where one believes Claude Code can solve any problem better than the best engineering team in history. I see a lot of people going through it right now. AI tools are great—sustainable systems still need humans for now.

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Scott Blomquist @scott.blomqui.st · 31/12/2025

I might even call them "soweli Waso", "soweli Akesi", and "soweli Pipi".

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Scott Blomquist @scott.blomqui.st · 31/12/2025

tan ni la ona ale li lili li suwi lukin

jan li jo waso suwi en akesi suwi en pipi suwi. tawa mi la ona mute li nimi "soweli".

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Scott Blomquist @scott.blomqui.st · 30/12/2025

waso suwi anu akesi suwi anu pipi suwi li ken jo e nimi "soweli" tawa mi

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Scott Blomquist @scott.blomqui.st · 05/12/2025

I think most linguists are right—I don't agree with that either.

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Scott Blomquist @scott.blomqui.st · 28/11/2025

Wordplay (toki pi musi pona?) is fun **because it pushes the boundaries of the "rules"**. Sometimes wordplay is suli enough to move the lon pi selo. Put another way, prescriptivists make descriptivism fun! #tokikamalawala

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Scott Blomquist @scott.blomqui.st · 26/11/2025

ma Sijato la tenpo suno pi sona toki pi ma ale o pona #tokipona

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Scott Blomquist @scott.blomqui.st · 26/11/2025

ni li nasa wawa. mi olin e ni.

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Scott Blomquist @scott.blomqui.st · 26/11/2025

To be fair, I think of any "pet-like" animal as soweli, even if it's also waso (or even akesi anu pipi).

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Scott Blomquist @scott.blomqui.st · 25/11/2025

sama. I caught the wave this time. About 2 weeks in, I'm a mostly functional reader, a partly functional writer, and can get my meaning across in conversation if I can gesture a lot. What's magical is that anyone could do the same thing. If it was common, we'd have a universal pidgin! You should!

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Scott Blomquist @scott.blomqui.st · 25/11/2025

a a a! I can read English. mi ken sona lukin e toki pona. sitelen ike li anpa mi.

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Scott Blomquist @scott.blomqui.st · 25/11/2025

kama pona! tenpo poka la mi open kama sona e toki pona kin! I had heard of it before, but Robwords pushed me over the edge, and I think it'll stick this time.

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Scott Blomquist @scott.blomqui.st · 11/11/2025

@maddymontaquila.net Copy that. Filebased hyphen-apps. (Just now catching up on all the great #dotnetconf goodies!)

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Scott Blomquist @scott.blomqui.st · 29/09/2025

I don't want the crocs, but when I thought those were swim shorts I was excited.

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Scott Blomquist @scott.blomqui.st · 27/03/2025

🙋‍♂️Who here has accidentally mis-addressed an email before? Okay, keep your hand up if your mistake was grievous enough to own the news cycle for a week.

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Scott Blomquist @scott.blomqui.st · 08/03/2025

I love the distinction that open source _software_ is free, but the _project_ requires material effort and even money! This makes tons of sense, and Rob's video described it very well.

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Scott Blomquist @scott.blomqui.st · 06/03/2025

Time to start measuring size of code base in kTok instead of kLoc.

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Scott Blomquist @scott.blomqui.st · 27/01/2025

If an FAQ is doing its job, the questions shouldn't be frequently asked. This brings me to an idea. Maybe an FAQ should be called an ASQ: **Answers to Standard Questions**

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Scott Blomquist @scott.blomqui.st · 03/01/2025

What color palette is TICKER + ROCK?

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Scott Blomquist @scott.blomqui.st · 10/12/2024

I'm intensely suspicious that each SaaS vendor charging an additional $10-$20 per user per month for access to their LLM assistant is not a scalable pricing model. I have to make too many tough choices on behalf of my users. I'd bet that including a helpful AI assistant becomes table stakes soon.

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Scott Blomquist @scott.blomqui.st · 19/11/2024

As folks roll in over here on the butterfly app, hello!👋 It's kinda quiet so far, but there's already some interesting discourse. More every day, in fact.

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