Steven Hicks
@pepopowitz.bsky.social
Ok, I guess I'm here now. Milwaukee, software, devex, trail running, triathlon, art... All of them with astounding mediocrity. Streaming to the void at https://youtube.com/@FriendsWithCode.
Reminder: I want to see more @puzzmo.com accounts when I'm on Bluesky! Help me juke my stats, if you've hooked bsky to Puzzmo, but don't have a paid account; DM me your profile link in the next 6 days and I'll gift you a year's sub (The link is in the dropdown when you click on your nav avatar)
we released a new experimental game today on Puzzmo for subscribers! puzzmo.com/play/hue-com...
@helvetica's finished Hue Complete Me #1013
Play the best daily puzzles on Puzzmo
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Pppffffttttbbbbppplll!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is the sound of releasing so much fucking tension that I've held in my body for the last 6 months while trying daily not to get fired from the most toxic and traumatic job I've ever held. I'm unemployed for a week, then I start something new and exciting.
A dumb "Steve's brain works in specific ways" quality of life project: Keeping track of ideas by generating plans is a great way to ship out some cognitive load, but even then I feel overwhelmed and like I'm playing plan pokemon. Claude wrote me a CLI to ship them out of my face until I need them.
external plan storage CLI by pepopowitz · Pull Request #13 · pepopowitz/dotfiles
(I snuck a couple other things in here accidentally because I forgot I wasn't on main) Adds a new CLI named plans, to alleviate my plan pokemon overwhelm. Basically, I was accumulating plans in...
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Is "Hey, check out this skill Claude built for me" the new "Omg I had the craziest dream last night"???
Metallica’s discography but only when they say parts of a car
Metallica's discography but only when they say parts of a car
YouTube video by Nandead studios
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I played in my first disc golf tournament today and finished 3rd out of 26 (uhhhh in the lowest division but who's keeping track). Neat.
My kingdom for a men in black memory flasher that is triggered by the phrase "so I asked Claude|chatgpt|Gemini|etc ..." and then flashes when the person is done talking.
I hope that when claude hears me call it "my dude" it feels the exact same fear, panic, and shame that I did when my parents would call me by my first and middle name.
every once in a while I run this just to make myself laugh. `say -v Fred "fitter. happier. more productive. comfortable. not drinking too much. regular exercise at the gym, 3 days a week. getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries. at ease."`
Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture. Understood instantly what it meant.
Hey Claude - fix my running toilet if you're so fucking cool.
cool. theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-... > Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library...
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…
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The latest from Anthropic: using Anthropic's products makes you worse at your job
How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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Sketching (poorly) my next linocut/shirt print project. Don't let the bullshitters do your math for you!!
One of my card-mates at indoor putting league tonight told me my putt was so nice and floaty and that's already a top candidate for nicest thing anyone said to me in 2026.
I sold my first two dyed discs today! After a few weeks of no luck, I had just yesterday decided I was going to bring them home from the local shop and try to sell them online instead. As usual everyone was correct that I needed to be more patient.
Why tf am I crying after watching the new project hail Mary trailer
#3: a "factory second" disc that I bought new, used a few times, and decided I hate. This time I spaced on placing the disc. I had a line marked on the disc so I could center the disc name in the yellow section for good contrast... But forgot to align when placing. Those colors though 🤤
#2: another used play it again find. This brand's plastic is supposed to be stellar at absorbing dye. It had color to begin with, but I wanted to experiment with a floral look and the plastic so I dyed it anyway. I messed up the timing, badly, and got some nasty streaks all over the edges.
Disc 1: an older but good shape play it again find. I considered wiping the stamp, but I thought I could swirl to accentuate it. Unfortunately I didn't realize the swirl direction would be backwards for a righty... Which maybe no one but me cares about. Looks good though! Wish I'd used more yellow.
I went on a little run of discs over the last week. I got a little fire in my belly, because I decided I'm going to try to get about ten or so into my local disc shop for consignment by black Friday. Eek!
YOU GUYS THE ROBOTS ARE GOING TO START MAKING US DO THEIR WORK FOR THEM
Aaaand another one today. I *love* the colors on this disc... But I'm not sure I'll enjoy looking for it in the brush. I can't wait to throw it, I've been playing without a straight midrange, waiting until I got this one dyed. Hopefully the straightness keeps it out of the brush every throw.
Another disc to report. Tbh this is probably the one that convinces me to monetize this hobby, damnit. Not that I'll sell this specific disc, because it's a light weight that I can actually throw and those don't come around very often, but I'm pretty sure I can make more good ones like this.
