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Steve Adams @steve-adams.me · 10h

Protesting to become the 51st state so I can get my $5000

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Steve Adams @steve-adams.me · 02/10/2026

This stuff literally keeps me up at night

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Steve Adams @steve-adams.me · 02/10/2026

I’ve been mainlining the betas for quite a while and I have to say, in an age of slop, this is Really Good Software and so refreshing to use

effect.website

Effect 4.0 | Effect Blog

Rebuilt from the ground up, with a dependency-free core and long-term support

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Steve Adams @steve-adams.me · 29/09/2026

www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-... Interesting stuff! It surprised me to see that the average child care done by dads is still only at ~70 minutes per day for millennials. That's what, taking kids to school and making breakfast? That leaves a ton on mom's plate.

derekthompson.org

You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner

We’re witnessing the death of hosting in America. The share of adults who say they regularly have friends over has declined 70 percent since 1975

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Steve Adams @steve-adams.me · 24/09/2026

The constituents of my DNA my9games.net

Secret of Mana
Final Fantasy III
EarthBound
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Chrono Trigger
StarCraft
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest
Final Fantasy VII
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars

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Steve Adams @steve-adams.me · 19/09/2026

Beavers are as cute as you imagined

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Steve Adams @steve-adams.me · 19/09/2026

I went outside and did hard things for a week at work and now I have so much energy. What a contrast. I want to do stuff. I need to go outside more often

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Steve Adams @steve-adams.me · 15/09/2026

Here’s a stream on Hecate island. I’m not sure if people have been here before. It’s remote, difficult to access, and very beautiful. We saw wolf tracks, grouse, very old and pristine bogs, and some of the gnarliest, toughest, wiry trees I’ve ever had to hike through 51.66409° N, 128.04106° W

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Steve Adams @steve-adams.me · 15/09/2026

Here’s a nice little spot in the watershed closest to our facility on Calvert Island. We have a stream-flow monitoring system right behind this frame, which is triggered by a weather station higher in the watershed.

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Steve Adams @steve-adams.me · 15/09/2026

Approaching our Ethel Island weather and radio station. This is the very south tip of the island. It’s currently surrounded by kelp, but a very steep drop off makes going ashore easier than it looks. Today we calibrated the rain gauge, fixed a camera, and added a voltage splitter

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Steve Adams @steve-adams.me · 15/09/2026

Ever wondered how a rain gauge is calibrated? Here we’re draining a known volume of pure rain water through a gauge and recording the results of how the water passes through. The results can be used to make future rain measurements more accurate. We do it twice in a row, at least 10 minutes apart

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Steve Adams @steve-adams.me · 15/09/2026

A school of anchovies (I think), probably feeding near Hakai’s dock in Pruth Bay, Calvert Island. There were several schools, and one was visible shining and flashing under the pier from the dock to shore in a very wide shoal. You could see the water rippling and the fish shimmering

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Steve Adams @steve-adams.me · 15/09/2026

Not my best camera work. A humpback whale diving in Fitz Hugh Sound. We spotted 6 in total in around 4 hours.

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Steve Adams @steve-adams.me · 15/09/2026

A flock of what I guess are black turnstones, circling Ethel Island in Rivers Inlet

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Steve Adams @steve-adams.me · 14/09/2026

Working on BASIC code from 11 years ago that runs on real mechanical equipment in a remote coastal watershed will make you realize LLMs are still pretty useless in many contexts, and programming/debugging are still alive and well outside of the beaten paths

BASIC code with a git blame from 11 years ago

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Steve Adams @steve-adams.me · 02/08/2026

One undeniable thing about LLMs that I can’t wrap my head around is that for the first time, we have digital systems with truly complex emergent behaviours. Not like system dynamics in the computing context, but action-oriented behaviours or constructs like j space. Absolutely bizarre

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Steve Adams @steve-adams.me · 26/07/2026

Beautiful colour and patterns. This one is from a blue dream lineage but something went askew. Lots of activity in the substrate, too

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Steve Adams @steve-adams.me · 10/07/2026

Well, incredibly enough, some awesome guy named Jules spotted my bike and tipped me off by text, so I ran over to where he saw it (only ~6 blocks from my office!) and I recovered it! Uncomfortable confrontation with the thief for sure, but I'll take it. What a relief. Here's to another 12000km!

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Steve Adams @steve-adams.me · 03/07/2026

I can't believe it, but my cargo bike was stolen from the bike locker at work. This thing was closing in on 12,000km traveled; it was a workhorse and like a second car to us project529.com/saddle-pump-...

project529.com

Missing Bike Alert: 2018 White Yuba Spicy curry

Help find this missing bike!

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Steve Adams @steve-adams.me · 26/06/2026

If I win the lottery there will be signs

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Steve Adams @steve-adams.me · 24/06/2026

I can't believe Soylent was a thing Drink the goo and 10x your startup bro

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Steve Adams @steve-adams.me · 18/06/2026

Rill is awesome. I've started storing parquet from all over in S3 so I can look at it with Rill and stop jumping around the web, CLIs, using different DSLs to query things, etc. It's great at making AWS CE's data palatable. Just set up a routine CUR export and bob's your chopped unc

rilldata.com

Rill | The fastest business intelligence tool for humans and agents

Rill's Agentic Analytics goes beyond dashboards with a natural language interface that powers instant, visual, and verifiable insights.

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Steve Adams @steve-adams.me · 16/06/2026

Baby CPDs joining the family. This tank is a jungle of grasses and although it seems crowded and they can’t school, they breed better than any other setup I have. They love hunting in here

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Steve Adams @steve-adams.me · 07/06/2026

How many lakes did I drain for this?

A Claude conversation title: "Is Grogu Yoda?"

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Steve Adams @steve-adams.me · 04/06/2026

Learning to use the AWS cli has decreased my suffering at least tenfold Yet I still suffer

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Steve Adams @steve-adams.me · 02/06/2026

I just realized I’m like the human version of a quantized model. I might seem kind of smart or capable sometimes but when you really get down to it, there’s a lot missing. I’m a passable solution for simple tasks, though. I’m also less expensive than real smart people

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Steve Adams @steve-adams.me · 01/06/2026

This is incredible. Tides are amazing. So much water, so much energy, moving this dock up and down every single day, moving immense amounts of water in and out of this bay. So cool to see it visualized like this

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Steve Adams @steve-adams.me · 01/06/2026

Relatively clear water and lots of activity under Pruth today

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Steve Adams @steve-adams.me · 30/05/2026

This is such a good example of the kinds of insidious but hard to notice issues LLMs implant into code bases. Everything is present, but is it arranged appropriately? At a glance it seems fine

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Steve Adams @steve-adams.me · 27/05/2026

Proof that Claude is alive. It has instincts

✻ Worked for 1m 18s

❯ What does table_breakdown give us?
⎿ Async hook UserPromptSubmit completed
⎿ Async hook Stop completed

⏺ Honest answer: not much for your primary use case. I added it out of completeness instinct.

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Steve Adams @steve-adams.me · 26/05/2026

Cool stuff happening at work

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Steve Adams @steve-adams.me · 22/05/2026

Every week I find more reasons to be glad I didn't build with Bun instead

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Steve Adams @steve-adams.me · 21/05/2026

I think I've used AWS for all of one thing where it actually made sense in like 15 years. What a masochistic way to deploy and host something that 1–1000 people will use and could be served on a tamagotchi instead

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Steve Adams @steve-adams.me · 19/05/2026

This is Ramen. He lived by my old place in Fernwood. Ramen was stupid but very cute and good at jumping. He'd come into my house uninvited all the time. Somehow this is my most recent picture of a cat, but it's from November 10 2016 at 6:00pm

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Steve Adams @steve-adams.me · 15/05/2026

npx devrage I'm a peace-loving, equanimous, patient, AI-respecting ass man (it was actually a typo)

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