Log Level Thoughts: LLM linting, 'wireless', other Mcluhan-isms
stick around to the end for an imagined job posting from a world where tokens are a first class consideration
RSS for Vibe Coding is a good idea
What lives between sharing raw chat transcripts and "I solemnly swear I used AI responsibly"?
Drive up Mt. Washington, but then walk around the summit
it feels like I'm coding at an incredible rate!
Mclu-points for AI: AI as extensions for humans + hot/cold media
Tired: tokenmaxxing Inspired: Mcluhanmaxxing
Log-level thoughts (HTML , how to share slop , AI is like a really big number)
And introducing...the Slog!
"More motorcars are selling, but we're not seeing the jump in hay sales or manure shoveling jobs"
The story of this chart is the people who made the apps
Streetlight Notes: The OODA Hourglass + HTML Thoughts
quick thoughts from streetlight.jakesimonds.com iterating
Midi Harness: An Experimental Stack
1 hook + 1 skill + 1 html template + 1 Go Listener + 1 (brief) system prompt + claude code + wisprflow + MIDI
Viewpoints for AI
non-scientific but slightly more specific
B.Y.O.C.: Baby Bird Failure Case
build your own claw notes
The Instrument Analogy
riffing on Geoffrey Huntley's LLM-as-guitar analogy
Harness Experiments: Danger Zone
see link
Favorite claude skill: /phone-mirror
I am a Senior Markdown Engineer
Why you should still learn to code: lunch with Stephen Hawking thought experiment
Imagine you've won some sweepstakes, and you're going to have lunch with Stephen Hawking (imagine he's still alive...while we're imagining things).
How to jklb.social
best practices/use cases I'm building for
jklb.social Dev Notes: the Like Chorus Explained
what's it like???
jklb.social's anti-manifesto
"Antimanifesto: contradictions that have your active attention, that you steer by"
AT friends #7: @zzstoatzz.io (aka nate!)
informal chats with people building cool stuff in the open social world
AT friends #6: @chaosgreml.in (aka Bryan Guffey!)
informal chats with people building cool stuff in the open social world
Context Windows and (quadratically scaling) one-to-one human relationships
what do wafrn.net , Rangeley, ME and Anthropic have in common?
jklb.social posts
link collection
Software 2027
speculation and horse-car analogies
Baby's First claude skill: tools.jakesimonds.com deploy
(I'm the baby. Waah.)
Homer's car is the perfect LLM-coding metaphor
stop the search. We've found the perfect metaphor
jklb.social: Dev notes #1
new features!
New Bottlenecks
when code is free, other people's eyeballs become a bottleneck
My job...is just...context window
Ralph Method -- documenting my experience
jklb.social manifesto
the only bluesky client with U2's "Songs of Innocence" included in every build
test post 456
testing (previous post ... link works but isn't showing up on my blog)
Ralphing -- first thoughts
"It's beck pressah, folks!"
2 LLM traps I have sprung on myself
in using LLMs to code + learn
How Bizarre
small social media experiences I have had recorded for posterity
2025 Delights and Not-So-Delighfuls
(This is an annual thing)
I Think You Should LEARN software engineering
three sketches that illustrate/capture something about software
what I learned at an Ethereum convention:2
tier accounts, what hard parts can get 1,000,000 times easier?
ATProto Resource List for the curious
totally unofficial/incomplete/arbitrary list of ATProto resources for the curious
We're firing 600 people because there were too many meetings
maybe technical writing should be more than dumbing hard things down
Baking Soda
Visual Essay on social media in 2025
testing 123
Okay ATProto fam. If you notice any bugs let me know. Because I just...changed:
What I learned at an Ethereum Convention
Devconnect 25 quick thoughts
Elevator Selfies
NFC card + static webpage + lambda + bsky burner + elevator
Great and not great things about San Francisco (till I run out of things to say)
with the use (& potential abuse) of leaflet subpages
Improving my relationship to technology...with more technology!
A few personal digital practices getting me away from my phone
Update, Offer, Ask
Life Update post! Woo!
Resolution: Do one thing a day
I want to try to do one thing a day.
Vibe Coders are Nepo-babies
A specific analog for how specifically I think LLM-use is "like cheating" (and why I think it's okay to cheat sometimes)
San Francisco '25ers
first impressions
Services
Four things I can do
AT friends #4 & #5: @gabboman.at.app.wafrn.net and @djara.dev of Wafrn
informal chats with people building cool stuff in the open social world
AT friends #3: Tim Straub of Down the Rabbit Hole
Special Edition of AT friends where I pitch my High School English teacher (who has a great Substack) on the merits of Open Social
LLM Analogies I've heard
Trying to jot down as many as I can think of
AT friends
Links to all interviews & FAQ
AT friends #2: @snarfed.org of Bridgy Fed (@ap.brid.gy)
informal chats with people building excellent stuff on (or in this case around) ATProto
My P(oof) is 100%
How my thinking on/about LLMs has changed over 3 years
I don't have your full attention. You don't have mine.
If I looked someone in the eye and said, "Hey, I want you to have this apple, okay?" and then gently, underhand-tossed it to them from a few feet away I'd expect most people to catch the apple. If someone didn't catch the apple, I might even kinda judge them, that they weren't really very present in the moment and I guess maybe they don't think very highly of me or my apple.
Storytime: that time the Wayback Machine saved me from buying a new laptop in Ottawa
Congrats to Internet Archive on 1 Trillion Webpages
AT friends #1: @schlage.town of @leaflet.pub
informal chats with people building excellent stuff on ATProto
how NOT to integrate LLMs into things
For a while now, I've been imagining & trying in my own small way to build towards this future:
Thing I Learned (briefly) Street Performing
(I'm saying Street Performing is like LinkedIn)
Link Rot and Roombas
and promises. So many promises!
Social Media and Seductive Round Numbers
reflections on hitting 1K github contributions in 2025
Swiss Cheese Heuristic for LLM use
The knowledge in my head (especially when it comes to code) is a lot like Swiss cheese. There's things large-and-small that I don't know, but what I do know almost...surrounds these pockets of ignorance, and I get by the best I can.
Hello World
Hello.