Corey Ward
@coreyward.dev
CTO & Co-founder of projectread.ai. Previously at Figma.
The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker. And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows. No more.
My Message to Muslim New Yorkers — and Everyone Who Calls This City Home.
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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I called a lot of what's happening now 11 months ago. Not because I have a crystal ball, I just don't believe in magical thinking.
Corey Ward@coreyward.dev · 2y agoI don't mean to be alarmist, but I am seeing a lot of people thinking way too small about the incoming President’s plans and intentions. He plans to use the military to round up dissidents on day one. It's plausible that things we've said online will be used to justify incarceration without trial.
The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was…
The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas
Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was engaging in good faith. Perhaps the perfect example of this is Ezra Klein’s silly eulogy claiming that Kirk was “
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Gallup has new polling on immigration. Topline findings: -Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove) -Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%) news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...
I've said it before, I'll say it again: pitch it as increasing SCOTUS to at least 100 Justices, with randomly selected pools of 9 to hear each case, such that no single Justice matters so much.
Will W@wweldon.bsky.social · last yr.There should be an earnest call to pack the courts by Dem leadership. It should be a thought out campaign to explain to the American people why it’s necessary.
These examples were first try, and the only selection I did on the photos was choosing a couple that I took and didn't mind sharing (no personal stuff). Eerily accurate, especially the downtown skyline shot—100% accurate. And this is with GPT 4.1 Mini!
Corey Ward@coreyward.dev · last yr.Spun up a quick tool to generate captions for photos using OpenAI GPT 4.1 Mini. The captions are automatically added into the image metadata (exif). Makes them more searchable on iOS and macOS. Cost: $1/2k images.
Spun up a quick tool to generate captions for photos using OpenAI GPT 4.1 Mini. The captions are automatically added into the image metadata (exif). Makes them more searchable on iOS and macOS. Cost: $1/2k images.
GitHub - coreyward/candid-captions: A small Node.js (TS) utility that automatically adds captions to JPEG images in bulk using AI (OpenAI GPT 4.1 Mini).
A small Node.js (TS) utility that automatically adds captions to JPEG images in bulk using AI (OpenAI GPT 4.1 Mini). - coreyward/candid-captions
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I got tired of putting route tests in awkward folders in Next.js and came up with an easy fix: coreyward.svbtle.com/next-js-igno...
Next.js: ignore test files in route folders (pages) • Corey Ward
When working with Next.js, I prefer to keep my test files right next to the code they’re testing. For example: search.ts search.test.ts This makes it easy to find tests, spot missing coverage, and avo...
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I just fixed a wifi connection issue by going to geocities .com. 😂 I'm out at a brewery. My laptop connects to the wifi fine, but nothing loads. I curl -vv stackoverflow and it complains about a self-signed certificate. Shoe in for a captive portal, and HSTS prevents the redirect from working.
What a shame it'd be if people started using the website that lists the locations of these license plate reader cameras to find them and vandalize them.
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · last yr.SCOOP: ICE, HSI, and DHS are getting side-door access to the nationwide system of Flock license plate cameras by asking local police to perform lookups for them, new public records show. ICE does *not* have a contract to use this surveillance tool itself. www.404media.co/ice-taps-int...
Buried deep in the text of the more than 1,000-page bill is a measure to restrict the federal courts’ authority to hold officials in contempt if they violate court orders.
Hidden Threat to Democracy Slipped Into Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful’ Bill
The bill passed in the House included a provision restricting the courts’ ability to enforce orders.
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Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.
“AI” is just another commodity technology in most regards. Hype-hounds will lose their minds over it, stalwarts will pen witty pieces in McSweeny’s lambasting it as something their parents never needed, and the rest of us are just along for the ride.
I've used each of Cursor and Windsurf as my daily driver IDE for at least 6 weeks each. I've used Claude Code at least several times a week since launch. And the conclusion I keep coming back to, is that Microsoft/Github is going to win the AI-integrated IDE war.
Jesus fucking Christ. I’m pretty pro-capitalism, generally speaking, but it’s gotta come with checks. 19 fucking families earning $1 trillion in 12 months is LUDICROUS.
Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · last yr.Once again, marginal tax rates are too low & pose an existential threat to democracy
“Scholars and observers of republican societies have made this point from ancient times to the present. A republic is only as good as its citizens.”
ChatGPT o3 has genuinely saved me a bunch of time in the last week or so doing rather tedious stuff. It's practical benefits like this that I think are going to be far more common uses for LLMs. They're useful without the hype-laden futurist nonsense.
The Autism "study" will be led by a guy who pretended to be a doctor even though he only has a BA in bio and who attempted a small-scale genocide of autistic people through chemical castration, so you know it'll be legit.
Vaccine Critic Who Used Chemical Castration Drug to Treat Autism Tapped to Lead Federal Immunization Study | National Review
Mark Geier had his medical license suspended after the Maryland State Board of Physicians found that his research ‘endangers autistic children.’
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Prior to the election some friends and acquaintances were frustrated with our two party system. Some voted third party, even. I can’t help but feel like they all took for granted that we’d have at least two parties. Not sure that’s panning out well as we speed toward a one-party system.
Never forget: Sen. Elizabeth Warren kicked off her career as a college professor.
I’m seeing a lot of people making fun of their incompetence for this, but that’s not what this is. This whole regime is a gang of bullies, headed by a bully, and like all bullies, they’re cowards. Stand up to them, and they whimper away.
Jamie Gangel@jamiegangel.bsky.social · last yr.New: Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...
If you've been switching IDEs a lot lately, you might have been annoyed when a `git rebase` launched the wrong editor. I know I was. So I wrote this short script to use the current IDE instead. Works with VSCode, Cursor, and Windsurf. Easy to add others if needed too!
Dynamically configure your git editor based on the IDE you invoke it from
Dynamically configure your git editor based on the IDE you invoke it from - git-editor.sh
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In an amicus brief for Perkins Coie filed today, 27 former USG officials write that EO’s targeting law firms amount to a constitutionally prohibited bill of attainder. Read Harold Hongju Koh, Fred Halbhuber, and Inbar Pe’er’s historical context and analysis: www.justsecurity.org/110109/presi...
No, the President Cannot Issue Bills of Attainder
Trump orders functioning as bills of attainder are prohibited by the Constitution and repugnant to its separation of powers.
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At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.
If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.
