Joshua Crowley

@joshuacrowley.com

https://joshuacrowley.com/ – Software Designer. Builds lots of prototypes, mostly web. Sometimes games. Nintendo & Apple tragic. He/him.

"fully operational mobile McDonald’s unit" is a phrase that makes me feel like maybe i've passed away and all the news i read is all just the final neurons in my brain racing around making haphazard connections in the moments before darkness

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · last yr.

As part of the red-carpet treatment, Saudi officials arranged for a fully operational mobile McDonald’s unit to accompany President Trump during his stay. According to local reports, the unit was set up near the Saudi Royal Court.

Multimodal models like Flash 2.0 and GPT4o can use audio tokens to natively reason over audio input. Neither can yet provide text and audio tokens that come from the same inference pass, and presumably wont ever. So that presents a flaw in these models no one seems to be discussing.

I don’t know what agentic ai really means for users. I can see how an immediate barrier for deeper LLM experiences is access to user data. So will agents just be for integrating your service into a user’s auth/cloud/filesystem? a crutch for interoperability?

I’ll be trying Gemini 2 for code gen soon in my app, specifically to test its visual understanding. I’ve been pretty happy Claude Sonnet 3.5, especially because my current workflow is just to one shot via the users prompt. But excited to see where multiple fast iterations on a workflow gets us.

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One nice quality of building an assistant app is you can just ask for mock data to test your features, as you build them. "Can you try and delete a todo with a fake id".

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We beat Super Mario Wonder! My daughter and I have been chipping away, and I'm so impressed w/ how good she got. There's a lot of coordination, pattern recognition, problem solving, and strategy involved, and it's been REALLY cool to really see her achieve mastery. These skills will serve her well.

Brad and his daughter smiling as they beat Super Mario Wonder

Pentametron was one of the great web art projects, retweeting couplets of accidentally iambic tweets. Thanks to Bluesky's open feed, I have resurrected the concept.. Behold @iambic.bot!

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I'm building tinytalkingtodos.com a family voice assistant. My partner and I are constantly planning our week on the go. What's for dinner, who's doing pickup? Talkies captures our convos, photos and urls into todos. Talkies creates custom lists, so we always have an answer for "What's next"?

You can add items to your list with voice using Operators. They can speak back too.Here's your meal plan list and shopping list side by side.Use Offload to be guide through your lists and get your todos off your chest.There's plenty of templates to use and re-write for your families requirements.