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Adam Keys @therealadam.com · 24/08/2026

Watched: Spider-Man: Brand New Day 🎥 Properly rated at ~71% positive. It’s a fun movie. Definitely better than the second Spider-Man, probably better than the third, not as good as the first. Only 2.5 hours, but it felt way l... therealadam.com/2026/08/23/watched-…

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Adam Keys @therealadam.com · 27/06/2026

Silvermoon Brewing and McKay Cottage in Bend, Oregon

A black-and-white mural on a brick wall features Prince and Ozzy Osbourne

A wooden table with a dark mug of coffee, a glass of water, and a single pink flower in a small vase is set near a bright outdoor area with trees and parked cars.

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Adam Keys @therealadam.com · 21/06/2026

📚 Finished: In a Narrow Grave by Larry McMurtry. If you’ve ever lived in Texas, even more so if you’re from Texas, this is a great read. It’s not quite Texas as I remember it, as the author was writing a decade or two before my ti... therealadam.com/2026/06/21/finished…

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Adam Keys @therealadam.com · 20/05/2026

Madrid–Barajas and Heathrow, day 10.

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Adam Keys @therealadam.com · 09/05/2026

Madrid, day 4. Museo Prado not pictured at the request of the Museo Prado.

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Adam Keys @therealadam.com · 09/05/2026

Madrid, day 3. Sometimes, you gotta sleep in and take a short bus tour.

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Adam Keys @therealadam.com · 25/02/2026

Blogging (Classic): therealadam.com/2026/02/24/blogging… Wherein you need feeds, notes, and documents.

A macOS desktop displays multiple overlapping windows, including a NetNewsWire, Bear, and Ulysses.

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Adam Keys @therealadam.com · 07/02/2026

I went to see an elephant about a birthday.

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Adam Keys @therealadam.com · 14/07/2025

At even a passing _mention_ of Arlen, TX, even the smallest of LLMs will jump right into a Hank Hill impersonation.

A diff removing "Arlen, Texas" from an LLM prompt so it doesn't write cover letters in the King of the Hill universe.

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Adam Keys @therealadam.com · 18/06/2025

I came across these two on a walk yesterday morning. It used to be that you'd come across two mysterious creatures like these and end up with 2 or 3 side quests or even a minor character story.

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Adam Keys @therealadam.com · 30/05/2025

GK Chesterton 100% looks like someone who has Big Feelings about people who look at His Fence wrong or for too long.

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Adam Keys @therealadam.com · 20/05/2025

Searching for a job in 2025 do be a vibe shift

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Adam Keys @therealadam.com · 15/05/2025

BTS: original inspiration for LinkedIn's notification settings UX

A sound mixing console with dozens of knobs, switches, and sliders.

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Adam Keys @therealadam.com · 12/04/2025

Portland Cars and Coffee. Even on Mustang day, the European and Japanese cars were good. Not pictured: the most tastefully modified Toyota GR86 I’ve ever seen. 👌🏻

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Adam Keys @therealadam.com · 06/04/2025

"LLMs will replace most kinds of skilled labor" vs. "The LLM has reached the maximum message length. Type continue to keep the chat going..." is some real low/mid/high-brain dissonance.

Homer Simpson allowing a sipping bird to hit the “everything is okay” button for him

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Adam Keys @therealadam.com · 03/04/2025

Our trees are putting on a show lately! I’m not sure if we’re still in Fake Spring here in Portland, OR. The color and temperature beats Austin though! 😉

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Adam Keys @therealadam.com · 13/02/2025

Anthropic's Claude is really good. I wish it had a native macOS app. Doubly so, I wish the logo wasn't a Kurt Vonnegut butthole doodle.

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