ex-shopify sr eng → building Album and other things for fun

Joined December 2008
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This is exactly what I did when I started Flowriter 9 years ago. Took a detour into software engineering since, now crawling back out of that hole into being a founder again
It seems a mistake to call oneself a "non-technical founder." You're treating not knowing how to do something as a part of your identity. Surely it's better just to fix that.
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I'm confused - am I supposed to be happy to know that a "significantly more expensive" agent has arrived? 😅
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thread of working today on a Serious Project 🧵
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The context window consumption indicator is super, super helpful but doesn't exist in Codex I want to know when the model has effectively switched off its brain (50% ctx window used)
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Pi is awesome because you can get it to extend itself. Here, after talking to it about whether Exa search would be worthwhile for my use case, I asked it to add the Exa search skill One-shotted the implementation and worked out of the gate 🤭
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I think by extension, this means Hermes and OpenClaw/NanoClaw won't work well for me, because I like to be able to see what's going on Verbose mode is too noisy in WA/TG for me to use. AFAIK we haven't reached that balance yet
Replying to @nickang
Codex app vs running the same model using Pi - verdict: Pi for me. I dislike the amount of hoop jumping and opaqueness when using the Codex app GUI I really hate the shimmer effect on text that obscures what's going on. I still wanna know what's going on
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I really, really want this to be approved in Germany this year
FSD approved in Denmark
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my parents used to say 头脑很简单 to me which translates to "simple minded" or literally "your brain is so simple" they would say this whenever I suggested another way of thinking about something that doesn't align with theirs to them, experience trumps rationality
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I'm an asian parent, very aware one since i'm living as a foreigner in Germany, and if there's one thing I got out of living here, it's that i don't parent like an asian parent. And I'm proud of that
Jensen: Asian parents' culture, toxic😟 I know they love me, I usually “alright, alright..." 黃仁勳今天說了內心話 一路過來真不容易 “亞洲父母有毒 總是會糾正你“ "我63歲了 他們依然覺得我不夠好“
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Nick Ang retweeted
Spoke with many friends recently, designers and engineers, all people who've been doing it for 20 years or more and had a lot of success doing it. And they all say the same thing. The AI stuff is genuinely useful right now. It's fast and things that used to take a week take an afternoon. Things you never even attempted because there was no time, now you can just do them. It's the biggest enabler ever. But in the same breath, every single one also says that it's the least fun they've ever had in their entire career. They also mention it makes no sense to do it the old way. They're all in. It's a strange paradox which I feel myself. Everything is possible now and I've never cared less about any of it. Both things true at once. Not sure if thats just the feeling of the current moment, or if I just talked to people who're tired of the computer (since all of them been doing it for a long time).
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oh this is really useful. even as a singaporean I never studied the clusters of housing estates and this makes it incredibly easy to see at a glance love this!
VibeHood is live! It's a walkability map of Singapore. Every HDB flat and condo, scored by how close it is to the things that matter to you or your family's lifestyle: MRT, hawker centres, schools, parks and clinics.
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gotta train em' young
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there is so much to learn about AI, it's hard to keep up even without a job so my plan is to get a job at an AI company and learn, learn, learn - from corridors, slack channels, customer interactions, etc.
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I kinda wanna make a shitty robot now
I wrote up how I built the shitty robot so you can too. This was a fun project that will keep on giving. Thanks to all the open weights folks out there, without whom this would not have been possible. mariozechner.at/posts/2026-0…
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watched @Casey's return to youtube and was inspired to go out for a walk and record a video of my own hehe it's about moving back to Singapore and job hunting in the AI space this is the highlight reel btw - if for some reason u wanna see the full video post a comment
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