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It begs the question of how to not be impotent. What can those who feel this way do?

We have a little bit of land, just over 2 acres with woods around. I really enjoy seeing deer and turkeys. Coyotes not so much.

It doesn’t “feel” like everything is caving in while at home. But when we leave, it really does. Like the traffic on the way to the airport this morning.

There seems to be a lot of latent stress. I think that’s what this post is talking about. It’s hard to sum it up in a single sentence. Not even “everything is getting unaffordable” lands…because of all those new full sized pickup trucks.

Something doesn’t fit and even I have a hard time putting my finger on it. I go to the local grocery store which is in a lower income area and I ask myself how all of these people survive. But they do.

But even as someone not struggling to survive by any means I feel what this post is saying.

Claude Code, ffmpeg, iOS simulator, and anything else Claude Code deems necessary I guess.

I started doing this for my product's instagram account (not using this skill). https://www.instagram.com/trysojourn/

It depends on what you mean by "low wage earners". You can own a home and save money in virtually all of the United States as a teacher or someone doing anything in tech. You could also be a single income family if one partner makes $150k.

That's a lot of independence.

I was in the Bay Area for almost 2 decades. I’m familiar with this mindset. There are so many compromises you make living in the Bay Area … like any other location.

More traffic, fewer families, faster pace of life, etc.

The Bay Area has its pros and cons.

Why live somewhere and be dependent on subsidies if you can move and be independent?

I lived in the Bay Area for 17 years. Enjoyed the time but it’s “for a season”. It’s common for folks in the Bay Area to look at other locations as “lesser”. In reality, it’s about tradeoffs.

I love this idea and hope the trend continues. It could even lead to finding niche communities to join.

I think the idea has always been wealth extraction.

Open source let your project be rebranded and resold. That happened to me a decade ago. A company named ClickUp rebranded https://github.com/photo/frontend. It’s a risk with Apache 2.0.

Turned out not to materially impact our efforts. But it felt like a gut punch at the time.

AI enables this for closed source. Reputation and community are durable differentiators nowadays. I hope your 10 years of investment provides that.

PhotoStructure looks great, by the way. I have known about it for some time and love to see great open source photo offerings.

Sounds like a great reason to gtfo.

Same. It’s been set and forget for me.

PSA: Getting out of Google Photos is both easy and super rewarding if you can run Immich and use Google Takeout. It’s also better than Google Photos.

https://jaisenmathai.com/articles/my-ridiculously-robust-pho...

My 2nd generation iPod stopped working last week. It had a spin wheel but its predecessor's actually spun.

The monochrome screen shows a folder icon with a warning sign. I haven't looked into it but I fear that something happened to the internal hard drive. It's one with spinning disks. It was truly a work of art, that device.

The distribution and customer research of building a durable and successful product and company is incredibly complex. LLMs can probably do each of the parts but it requires a lot of coordination.

Agent swarms, you say? Perhaps. But I don't think we're there quite yet. At least, we're not seeing it manifest.

I understand what you're saying. What I was saying is difficult is introducing a new tax that would tax already taxed dollars. It's the "new" part - but I get that most new tax laws will do this.

So I probably agree with you.

Multiple taxation is not the problem. It's reforming tax law and charging on things that have already paid taxes.

Imagine tax reform which collects an extra 1% of sales tax for items you have already purchased.

I'm all for reforming tax such that the wealthy cannot dodge them and pay a higher effective tax rate. I just don't know how to get there.

Elon moved the Tesla HQ to Austin which employs around 22k people. I'm not sure how much that moves the needle but it's not 0. California is doing just fine but if I were a public servant there then I'd think twice before making sweeping reforms.

I think it's difficult to tax people on money they've earned and "paid" taxes on. The billionaire tax in CA is a good example. It makes sense that the ultra wealthy would rather move than to pay that tax - for lots of reasons ranging from greed to wanting to decide how their wealth gets used.

It reminds me of student loan forgiveness. It's too hard to retroactively forgive them. It may sound good in theory but it's not fair - i.e. for people who worked 2 jobs while going through college.

The laws for wealth accumulation moving forward need to be reformed and I think we have to accept that we let people run away with massive wealth and it turned out to be not the best thing for society.

Some lessons are learned the hard way.

If the HQs move then along with them moves the high paying jobs and retail, housing, etc taxes also go. Rank and file employees at Meta can't dodge taxes as efficiently as their CEO.

My kids and their friends all dislike AI. I haven't put my finger on why, yet.

I think a part of it is a growing negative perception of technology. I think they're smarter than we might give them credit for and can feel when they're being exploited.

Maybe, despite not liking schoolwork they dislike more being a "dumb pipe" between AI and their teacher. We've stripped away purpose in the name of efficiency (and profit).

Some of the adults in charge....really shouldn't be. And I'm not referring to teachers or school administrators here.

We have 2 Frame TVs. It's a great product if you aren't someone who obsesses over picture quality and have the budget.

I'd love a clean UI to accompany the minimalistic design of the TV itself...but this looks a bit early for me to try :).

Not yet, unfortunately. Nor Android, which people have asked for.

I think Android would be supported first but no specific timeline for it yet.

I built this for my own private use but it’s since become public.

Free to use, no accounts, no subscriptions.

https://trysojourn.app

I was using Claude to bounce ideas for parenting with a focus on biblical principals. Trying to really understand how to discipline my children without provoking them, for example.

I was pleased with the experience but Claude did not make it easy for me to dive deeper into scripture. I wanted a different LLM chatbot experience that was focused on less chatting and more scripture reading.

I TestFlighted it out and friends liked it so I ended up publishing it.

Exposing yourself to great taste educates AND inspires. I love Peters Design Company and how amazing they are at identity branding.

Here's an example of rebranding Uhaul. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cMU0G8h0pys

The problem with a "software factory" as a dev is that it leads to infinite dev work. Build project A and struggle to get users, start project B.

The author is saying, build project A and stick with it. This isn't new to the "AI era" but it's more pertinent.

I think many of us have already started automating it so that they update alongside code changes.

I used their API for several years for a project to get reverse geocoding to turn city names into lat/lon pairs and vice versa.

Like Mapbox, I assume they have a profitable business selling their mapping services to other companies.

Can this work against a cheaper cloud LLM like Deepseek? https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/agent_integrations...

Screencast looks great btw.