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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 2w ago

This actually clarifies what rubs me wrong about most Abundance thinking, which I'm otherwise temperamentally inclined to like: it feels "trickle down" & focused on investment, not empowering normal people. A progressive economic platform must prioritize autonomy and dignity, not just "growthiness."

This, to me, is abundance thinking

ya boy's out here lifting heavy things up and putting them down again

Am I hallucinating or is the beat on Outkast’s The Way You Move just the beat from Don Henley’s The End Of The Innocence but sped up a little

Odysseus and his men on Thrinacia:

not to kick a man when he’s down but this guy really should have put two and two together on his own

the next time you’re afraid to speak up in a meeting just remember that someone somewhere worked up the courage to suggest to a room full of creative executives that Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart should do a song together

Was cropping some artwork for my Frame TV with Docent (danmunz.github.io/docent/) and it turned into a little experiment about how Claude vs. python vs. Apple vs. Google choose to crop. I wrote it up as a visual mini-blog post: danmunz.github.io/docent/crop-...

Can we talk about how toxic the Greek-chorus background singers in How Will I Know are? Job had more supportive friends than this.

same, claude, same

think I'm onto something here

Dan Munz@danmunz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Happy for Docent to be part of the growing “goddammit this is my hardware I’ll do what I want with it” branch of vibecoding

Own a Samsung Frame TV? Tired of battling buggy apps and paid subscriptions to get art on your wall? I made something for you: danmunz.github.io/docent/ Free, runs locally, works with one click. Comments/issues/PRs welcome!

Docent — A One-Click Personal Art Gallery for Samsung Frame TVs

Drop any image into Docent and press one button to display it on your Samsung Frame TV. No Samsung app, no USB drive.

danmunz.github.io

I don’t know why this song popped into my head this morning but I have to say I think Amy Grant is operating with a flawed understanding of how the Titanic sank

@davidpierce.xyz I made something that sits at the intersection of your two passions: vibe coding and the Samsung Frame. danmunz.github.io/docent/

Docent — Send art to your Samsung Frame TV with one click

Drop any image into Docent and press one button to display it on your Samsung Frame TV. No Samsung app, no USB drive. A museum-quality gallery manager for your local network.

danmunz.github.io

Lying Odysseus’ "I will tell you the truth completely" T-shirt had people asking a lot of questions already answered by his shirt

Okay, I’m calling it, I think we are about done here

me: I can get some work done today in the time between meetings my calendar:

traumatize a dad in one image

If you, like me: 1. constantly need to turn things into markdown for use with LLMs/agents and 2. love markitdown, but 3. hate futzing around in the CLI I made you a thing: github.com/danmunz/mark...

GitHub - danmunz/markitdown-quick-action: macOS Finder Quick Action to convert files to Markdown using Microsoft's markitdown

macOS Finder Quick Action to convert files to Markdown using Microsoft's markitdown - danmunz/markitdown-quick-action

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🎶 They come runnin' just as fast as they can, cause

“ugh mom why do I have to take French in high school, when am I ever going to even use this?” *30 years later*

can you imagine how dumb the original screw guy felt when he saw what Phillips came up with

we’re looking at moving and I was frustrated there were no good free interactive floorplan services so I made one! floorish.vercel.app Floorish lets you import a floorplan, calibrate the scale, and lay out furniture PRs welcome: github.com/danmunz/floo...

Floorish

floorish.vercel.app

Marc Andreessen reading his twitter feed

definitely the people I want building and defining AGI for the rest of society are the ones who think that self-knowledge is bad and impossible in principle

What do you call someone who sings “all I want for Christmas is you” too much and gets shunned by their family and community … Pariah Carey

boy, this explains a lot