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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 5h

daily #playbleton sketch. some kinda 'wave. 🌊

Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 25/09/2026

Finally a good non-AI Notion update today. You can now control individual property access. Set access to "No access" by default to hide from everyone, then add Group overrides to extend access to specific people. Also nice: preview as!

Screenshot of a Notion "Property access" dialog for the "Readiness" property.

Left panel: Under "Default access" ("Applies to all people, agents, and connections"), the setting is "No access." Under "Exceptions" ("Give specific individuals different access than the default"), "Everyone with full access" has "Full access," and "ADMIN" has "Can view property & values." Below is an option to "Add a person, group, or person property." The footer shows a "Learn more" link and "Clear" and "Save" buttons.

Right panel: "Preview as" is set to "Benjamin Error," showing the result "Can't see property: Doesn't have access to this database."

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 25/09/2026

I wasn't a big pc games guy as we had a mac ppc, but I found a few.

burn cycle
day of the tentacle
journeyman project: buried in time
super metroid
landstalker
dune ii
xenogears
deus ex
final fantasy vii

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 24/09/2026

nailed the drums on last night's sketch—might be one i take to arrangement #playbleton

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 23/09/2026

couple days and two loads of piss-stained laundry was enough to cure me of this need. 😂 i've realized i am not a dog or a cat person. i was a Mochi person. man, i miss her still.

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 22/09/2026

babysitting a friendo for the week. we need a dog again.

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 22/09/2026

Other topics: - Generating Notion workspaces w/TypeScript - Building mini apps using bound data with Custom Blocks - Connecting custom tools with Custom Agents - Securing workspaces for multi-player Notion AI use (though I'm not shy about saying I don't use Notion AI: my goal is harm reduction).

Notion AI can be quite powerful for organizations and individuals. It can give similar “skills” to everyone that traditionally only the programmer/nerd-types like myself used to have. Which also means that now everyone can have very powerful editing and creating tools at their fingertips. Lots of folks are finding their available “skill-sets” increasing daily as they discover more about how these tools work.
That being said, “Agentic AI” also makes it quite easy to:
Accidentally make changes to your data you didn’t intend to.
Get flawed information from the systems that impact decision- and sense-making.
Create extremely noisy data streams that create an abundance of busy work.
Quietly expose your confidential data to third parties.
If you decide to leverage Notion AI, we want to minimize these outcomes, and a lot of what we’ve

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 22/09/2026

Building a series of Workers as examples. We've been showing students how to connect custom built tools to agents, and using oauth, sync, and webhooks to manage things from and outside of Notion. Example: my system for managing my SoundCloud -> syncing track metadata, metrics, managing playlists.

A notion interface showing a bar graph with a series of "plays" for tracks

A gallery view in Notion showing a series of album covers with titles, icons, and a link to soundcloud

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 22/09/2026

Working on October's "Coding with Notion" workshop. Many of the community are on board with coding agents, but I've seen (over numerous private workshops) a lot of folks are—even with these "skills"—struggling to finding their way though the developer platform, so I'm doing a "non-AI dev" series.

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 21/09/2026

ISP was down most of the weekend so I ended up finishing the flooring and baseboards in the closet, which I was planning on putting off for ~5–10 years. Better than calling Telus this morning, anyway. Let's update my "Guide to the 10th, 11th, and 12th circles of Hell, or Telus Corporation" guide.

# Account details

The product we are paying for is called “Business Wireline.” You will not find this product name on the website, your account, nor your invoices.

**Business Wireline:** 1-800-361-3311

When you call Telus you will be fed into their AI assistant. Ask to “talk to a human” to be forwarded to the *general* support queue. Immediately declare “please direct me to the support line for Business Wireline”.

<aside>
⚠️

Note that the phone number below will feed you into this AI loop and there apparently is no longer a direct support number for business customers.

</aside>

**Service number:** 604-740-0137

<aside>
⚠️

*Note: our account has a phone number associated with it that is not our actual phone number! I have not had success with getting them to change it. Isn’t this fun?*

</aside>

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 17/09/2026

I'm a bit confused by the tutorial. Even changing the refund threshold to greater than the refund, it still shows quite low certainty that the issue was resolved when it was resolved, the customer was stoked, and a new machine was on the way? Am I misreading? 🤔

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 14/09/2026

One of my fav games is Mysterium. On the surface, it's collaborative Clue, but really it's a game about interpretation and meaning-making. It's very fun, because you can play almost without rules and people genuinely enjoy the process of playing in the "chinese room". Story-building at its best.

Cover of the box of Mysterium game. A spooky town looking up at a ghostly manor.

Bluish cards:

left: scarecrow in a field
right: a women in white climbing up stairs in a huge fish's mouth

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 07/09/2026

Been quite a productive micro-farming year. Tons of tomatoes and peppers this year. And our backyard always has infinite lavender, rosemary, blackberries, etc. I smell great today. Today I'm making bundles for the neighbourhood post-harvest. Will make some lavender syrup for lattes later.

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 02/09/2026

jokerless! 🚫🃏 another one down on #balatro c++

you win balatro screen
best hand 985,320
most played hand straight

balatro stats with collection, challenges, deck stake wins at 💯 and joker stickers at 70%

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 24/08/2026

oohhh fun list to think about. this made me realize that alchemy is having one of the greatest comebacks of all time rn. maybe I'll retire from computing and become a computer.

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 23/08/2026

Played Vicious Gardens game this weekend. Very fun gardening game for 1-6 players. The design is lovely and I really like how every turn totally transforms the game. Feels delightfully chaotic... just like gardening 😂

vicious gardens game box showing the board and cards

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 20/08/2026

perhaps it's bad ux. I click "apply & restart" and nothing happens for minutes. it feels as if something is broken, but apparently it is downloading. after a couple minutes the *other* download button turned to "installing update". it was like this for hours last time. might just have to reinstall 🤷‍♂️

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 20/08/2026

student asked me how I work with music in @notion.com so I shared my "music hq" dashboard/track mgmt and how I'm using workers to sync my soundcloud data and manage playlists and distribution. AI often feels like a drain on the core platform, but workers are a nice more deterministic distraction.

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 20/08/2026

my fav point about llm-driven learning is risk/accountability becomes a primary lever of expertise, not so much INT. ex: "operate this fire pump to ensure your team's survival". easy to "learn" with an llm—intense in practice! wonder if agentic futures lead to higher-risk working envs for humans.

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 12/08/2026

I'm now a co-owner of @subvert.fm. Uploaded an album, set up profiles, and submitted my initial application to run for the Board of Directors. I'd be an awesome candidate! 🎹 You can buy my music there and get discounts if you are a member. Excited to explore more ways to help the coop grow.

Hacynth is a co-owner of Subvert. Join us.

subvert.fm/hacynth

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 09/08/2026

Been running "saturday sessions" where I teach an ad-hoc training on any topic recruits might be curious about. Today we got out the soon-to-be-retired "Engine 2" which has been retro'd for wildfire ops when needed. One of our only engines that can pump and roll. I will miss E2 when she's OOS. 🥺

A firefighter in a yellow wildland uniform exiting a small red fire engine.

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 08/08/2026

some favs from this year's rod run. an ab env nightmare, but always entertaining.

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 08/08/2026

my conspiracy-minded ass notices these patterns show up downstream in ux design as well. like this new "use agentic ai to filter and sort your database" in notion instead of, you know, using the filter and sort buttons. $0.39 in tokens. is it by design: the subtle nudges into additional token use?

what's our quest today? filter and sort data

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 07/08/2026

holy smokes, I always forget how much a hotter a home-grown pepper can be then a store or canned. that was a foolish bite! 🥵

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 07/08/2026

Going to bust my butt to get my music/profile set up on @subvert.fm this wknd so I can nominate myself for their board of directors. I think as a musician and systems thinker who does a ton of volunteer work (firefighting, teaching, organizing), I think I'd be a great fit, though I'm not well known.

Do you want to run for Subvert's Board of Directors? This is your chance.

On Sept 19th, we are holding an election as part of our Annual General Meeting. We want to invite you to participate.

Our Board of Directors is made up entirely of elected members. Just artists, labels, supporters, and workers, elected by their peers.

If you're a member of Subvert, you can run.

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 05/08/2026

Nine years (fourteen, really) with @mariepoulin.com. I love that the only way we remember it's our anniversary is family saying "happy anniversary." How does that work? We never actually went to get the license (good thing it's Canada) 🤦‍♂️.

a woman in a white dress and a man in a tan suit "cheersing" ice cream cones

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 03/08/2026

Really the star is the sweetness/umami pairing of the sauces and lao gan ma. The first time I had lao gan ma i had to go back and look at the person on the bottle because, "I need some eye contact if you're going to eff my mouth like that". abs the best chili sauce.

a bottle of lao gan ma spicy chili paste

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 03/08/2026

here's my non-trad banger of an okonmiyaki sauce recipe. you can make it vegetarian pretty easily with a few changes. It's ketchupy so really this is magic on many dishes.

1 cup ketchup
• ½ cup oyster sauce
• ½ cup Worcestershire
• ¼ cup soy sauce
• ½ tsp Lao Gan Ma
• 4 tbsp sugar
• splash of citrus

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 02/08/2026

the zucchini is kinda ridiculous this year 🤯

a zucchini fruit larger than a tattooed forearm

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 01/08/2026

i love checking the frame and noting how bad this card actually is. kerning is atrocious. acquisitions is spelled wrong. almost like that was the point. 😏

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 30/07/2026

Almost positive no one at the fire department will understand these two emojis, but I'm only here to entertain myself.

Chief posts "New ladders are here" with a photo of two ladders. Ben responds with 🪜 and 🐐 emojis

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 30/07/2026

I hiked 20k over a few days this past weekend. 5 minutes from home, exhausted, I realized i had dropped my jacket. nooo! I decided, "I'll retrace my steps for 30 minutes and if i don't find it I'm done." It appears at literally 30 minutes.

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 16/07/2026

You’ve been murdered. Who do you want on the case?

Alexej Manvelov as Akram Salim in Dept Q

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 12/07/2026

important life update: finally completed gold stakes on all decks. #balatro 🃏

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 08/07/2026

伊本淳 Atsushi Imoto (Japanese) 1915-1984 断絶 Rupture 1969 "This tetrahedral work symbolizes the chaos of contemporary society, but its tip slopes upwards towards the light, expressing continuity and offering a premonition of life beyond death." at Hakone Outdoor Art Museum

伊本淳
Atsushi Imoto (Japanese)
1915-1984
断絶
Rupture
1969
アルミニウム
aluminum
混沌とした現代社会を表わしていますが、三角錐の先端は光の中に傾斜し、死の彼方に生を予感させる連続性を持っています。
This tetrahedral work symbolizes the chaos of contemporary society, but its tip slopes upwards towards the light, expressing continuity and offering a premonition of life beyond death.

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 04/07/2026

decided to give up on non-fiction again and just read earthsea in its entirety. i thought i was buying "books" though, not this monster. good workout too i guess.

earthsea book on a scale reading 5.002 lbs

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 02/07/2026

Definitely a throwback to one of the funniest evil characters—bit of a self-own in use. I do think of AI-guys as meatbags tbh. The rest of us apes inhabit a more refined "substrate" (as said meatbags like to use).

HK-47: Recitation: Once upon a time, organic meatbags bred out of control and filled the galaxy. There are different meatbags across different planets, all bumping into each other.

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 24/06/2026

Not exaggerating here. 6 this morning. I'm convinced at this point that there must be a company or nine that are spinning up fake domains, fake websites, fake employees and just polling platform feeds and auto-generating outreach. @justinjackson.ca The future of podcasting tech is this one! 😅

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 24/06/2026

"He scaled a company from $0 to $42M before acquisition..." "I’m building around ethical AI and inclusive finance, not hype." "Closing a €15 million round led by BlackRock" Have you seen anything I've ever written, spoken, or created? What about me says these phrases will motivate me? Be specific.

Can you please just talk like a normal person?

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 06/06/2026

view from top of shelḵem. i love living in a place with access to the trifecta 🗻🌊🌲

back of man in green with a backpack standing on top of a mountain overlooking a coastline

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 06/06/2026

i cannot describe how excited i am to have tickets to this show

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