Jake Simonds's Blog

prevously latenthomer.leaflet.pub (old blog jakesimonds.github.io)

Favorite claude skill: /phone-mirror

I am a Senior Markdown Engineer

March 14, 2026

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).

March 13, 2026

How to jklb.social

best practices/use cases I'm building for

March 08, 2026

jklb.social Dev Notes: the Like Chorus Explained

what's it like???

March 04, 2026

jklb.social's anti-manifesto

"Antimanifesto: contradictions that have your active attention, that you steer by"

March 04, 2026

AT friends #7: @zzstoatzz.io (aka nate!)

informal chats with people building cool stuff in the open social world

March 02, 2026

AT friends #6: @chaosgreml.in (aka Bryan Guffey!)

informal chats with people building cool stuff in the open social world

March 02, 2026

Context Windows and (quadratically scaling) one-to-one human relationships

what do wafrn.net , Rangeley, ME and Anthropic have in common?

February 27, 2026

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jklb.social posts

link collection

February 24, 2026

Software 2027

speculation and horse-car analogies

February 23, 2026

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Baby's First claude skill: tools.jakesimonds.com deploy

(I'm the baby. Waah.)

February 21, 2026

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Homer's car is the perfect LLM-coding metaphor

stop the search. We've found the perfect metaphor

February 20, 2026

jklb.social: Dev notes #1

new features!

February 16, 2026

New Bottlenecks

when code is free, other people's eyeballs become a bottleneck

February 12, 2026

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My job...is just...context window

Ralph Method -- documenting my experience

February 10, 2026

jklb.social manifesto

the only bluesky client with U2's "Songs of Innocence" included in every build

January 27, 2026

test post 456

testing (previous post ... link works but isn't showing up on my blog)

January 26, 2026

Ralphing -- first thoughts

"It's beck pressah, folks!"

January 24, 2026

2 LLM traps I have sprung on myself

in using LLMs to code + learn

January 20, 2026

How Bizarre

small social media experiences I have had recorded for posterity

January 16, 2026

2025 Delights and Not-So-Delighfuls

(This is an annual thing)

January 02, 2026

I Think You Should LEARN software engineering

three sketches that illustrate/capture something about software

December 01, 2025

what I learned at an Ethereum convention:2

tier accounts, what hard parts can get 1,000,000 times easier?

November 29, 2025

ATProto Resource List for the curious

totally unofficial/incomplete/arbitrary list of ATProto resources for the curious

November 27, 2025

We're firing 600 people because there were too many meetings

maybe technical writing should be more than dumbing hard things down

November 26, 2025

Baking Soda

Visual Essay on social media in 2025

November 25, 2025

testing 123

Okay ATProto fam. If you notice any bugs let me know. Because I just...changed:

November 24, 2025

What I learned at an Ethereum Convention

Devconnect 25 quick thoughts

November 24, 2025

Elevator Selfies

NFC card + static webpage + lambda + bsky burner + elevator

November 20, 2025

Great and not great things about San Francisco (till I run out of things to say)

with the use (& potential abuse) of leaflet subpages

November 16, 2025

Improving my relationship to technology...with more technology!

A few personal digital practices getting me away from my phone

November 14, 2025

Update, Offer, Ask

Life Update post! Woo!

November 13, 2025

Resolution: Do one thing a day

I want to try to do one thing a day.

November 09, 2025

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)

November 08, 2025

San Francisco '25ers

first impressions

November 08, 2025

Services

Four things I can do

November 07, 2025

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

November 06, 2025

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

November 04, 2025

LLM Analogies I've heard

Trying to jot down as many as I can think of

November 01, 2025

AT friends

Links to all interviews & FAQ

October 30, 2025

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

October 30, 2025

My P(oof) is 100%

How my thinking on/about LLMs has changed over 3 years

October 24, 2025

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.

October 23, 2025

Storytime: that time the Wayback Machine saved me from buying a new laptop in Ottawa

Congrats to Internet Archive on 1 Trillion Webpages

October 23, 2025

AT friends #1: @schlage.town of @leaflet.pub

informal chats with people building excellent stuff on ATProto

October 22, 2025

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:

October 20, 2025

Thing I Learned (briefly) Street Performing

(I'm saying Street Performing is like LinkedIn)

October 19, 2025

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Link Rot and Roombas

and promises. So many promises!

October 18, 2025

Social Media and Seductive Round Numbers

reflections on hitting 1K github contributions in 2025

October 17, 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.

October 16, 2025

Hello World

Hello.

October 11, 2025