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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 08/02/2026

Is using 67 AI agents better than 12 or 4? My LinkedIn feed is full of these humble brags.

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 26/02/2025

338 is at an Idiocracy-level of ads. <slowly backs away>

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 25/02/2025

What do you loathe most? Shameless self promotion or this?

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 21/02/2025

Can’t believe I’m about to watch some hockey tonight. (By “some”, I mean it’ll be the only 4 minutes I’ve spent watching hockey since WordPerfect was a thing.) #4nations

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 18/02/2025

“It looks like you’d like to argue about geography but my guardrails prevent that”

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 13/02/2025

Tried Le Chat to give you additional data points. You’re there.

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 12/02/2025

I’ve lacked time to play with all the new toys but am installing Le Chat now and giving it a whirl. On one hand, I feel like it’s coming in late but, on the other, we saw how quickly DeepSeek built momentum. We’re starting an era where chatbot differentiation is getting harder to market.

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 09/02/2025

Pumped that I’ll be getting between $0.50 and $2.50 in Uber Eats coupons following a class action settlement in Quebec! Gonna blow this windfall on some delicious beavertails!

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 24/01/2025

Been enjoying time learning new languages (python and Spanish) these past few months. Feels like a productive use of my time and a good way to stay away from doomscrolling! Hope the snow melts soon to start running again!

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 19/01/2025

Confetti is a nice touch for 28m users!

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 14/01/2025

Examples I just did right now. I have PTSD from my previous battles to avoid it writing garbage text on an image I had requested.

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 13/01/2025

Splashtop also doesn't notify you of invoices... but they let you configure 4 types of notifications.

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 13/01/2025

Woot! I also got my first #1 today!

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 11/01/2025

While cleaning my kitchen, I found this fortune cookie message…. … I think universe is telling me to eat another After Eight mint from the nearby box….

Stop searching forever, happiness is just next to you.

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 09/01/2025

Ironic funding source for Signal.

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 05/01/2025

You may have to stop when you hit one of these

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 04/01/2025

In my free time I like to make contributions to open source

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 04/01/2025

Here's my prediction of changes to ads & social due to LLMs. Who we trust is about to change. The virtual life-of-the-party will play a pivotal role. There's a business opportunity for tools to identify them, maintain small closed communities around them and help them monetize their efforts.

# My attempt at reading the future:
* Search will move to LLMs, as they’re 10x better.
* Attribution & ads will be woven into LLM outputs.
* SEO will focus on feeding content to LLMs.
* Social media will play a key role in feeding LLMs (ex: reddit selling data to openai).
* Bots will flood social platforms.
* Trust in public social network content will fall.
* Trust in large-scale influencers will evaporate.
* People will distrust one-to-many communication channels.
* Small (<=42), closed chat groups with known peers (ex: whatsapp or discord) will dominate.
* Hunting for active, resonant groups will become essential.
* Groups only thrive when the right ratios of personas are present.
* Good communicators with novel ideas on a wide range of topics will thus be crucial.
* They will drive the future of commercialization.

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 03/01/2025

I need to break out a thesaurus to properly define how I feel about the Blazor component lifecycle. Seems easy at first but when you start having a bunch of embedded components passing down parameters, listening to events from injected services or wondering why OnInitialized is fired twice….

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 31/12/2024

Just completed my last 5k run of 2024! Walking/running was the best habit I picked up in the past 5 years. (Energy/mood/drive/wit) PS: Was a bit slower than usual due to the 10lbs poutine baby I picked up over the past week or so, but am happy we had awesome weather to conclude the year!

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 30/12/2024

This build in public bot is too kind!

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 29/12/2024

Windows Explorer is being a bit dramatic today

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 29/12/2024

Found treasure while cleaning up in my office.

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 27/12/2024

Here’s photographic evidence of that moment:

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 26/12/2024

I too dislike phablets but have considered purchasing jeans with a phocket to make them more pleasant to carry around.

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 24/12/2024

Same, due to the overnight snowstorm. You can see where I finished listening to the economist and switched to industrial music.

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 23/12/2024

My plans to wear this during this year’s family gathering have been thwarted by Canada Post. Or maybe China Post. Not sure where it is. Maybe I’ll have it in time for Easter.

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 22/12/2024

Interesting insights for #buildinpublic folks about SEO for AI crawlers. Fascinating to see overnight they’ve grown to 10% of the google crawler bot volume but they’re playing catchup on some of the features, like tactics to avoid 404s. vercel.com/blog/the-ris...

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 19/12/2024

Post a photo YOU took. Just a photo. No description. #photography #photographer

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 15/12/2024

Here is what I meant for generic ingestion that makes it a useful feature for you. Not sure if the API would do the OCR directly or if you’d need to preprocess it tho

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 15/12/2024

Context: I’m learning Spanish as a native French speaker where most words are very similar. Here’s an example of there’s one word I would want to exercise more on. But it’s going to bury this in dozens of easy words. Use case: uploads some ss, add all words and let me delete some afterwards

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 15/12/2024

Interesting article in The Economist. Survey of 160k people age 16-65. 31 countries. 20% perform at or worse than a 10 year old. Kinda wild.

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 14/12/2024

And that’s why you only have 9.5 fingers today?

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 14/12/2024

After all these deep introspective books, I’m wondering if Sarah’s going to share something like this

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 12/12/2024

ChatGPT is feeling sassy tonight!

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 11/12/2024

Good thing I know how to type the accent in sí

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 11/12/2024

In addition to learning Python, I’ve been working on my Spanish. Just finished the A1-level content on duolingo. The app isn’t sufficient to fully learn a new language but it did cut down on my doomscrolling hours.

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 08/12/2024

Those 45 min I just spent shovelling gave me time to think about how I need to step up my LLM evals. (Okay, maybe it was all the threads I read on this topic yesterday that guilt tripped me) Feel free to send lessons learned my way!

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 02/12/2024

Any time I start using a newish library in some old code…

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 02/12/2024

Was asking chatgpt about more obscure tracks by nine inch nails and it seemed to have a stroke at the end there. #youokaybuddy?

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Jason Kealey @softwareengineering.ca · 29/11/2024

Haven’t been here long but what I appreciate most is seeing real people comment. (Well, not on my posts as I only have 3 followers) I’m kind of expecting the authenticity to drop as the network grows and more tools get created to automate posts but at least it’s a refreshing moment in time.

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