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The Triptych Project has an official site now: https://triptychproject.org. I mentioned this a while back when writing about Big Sky Dev Con in 2024: https://alchemists.io/articles/big_sky_dev_con_2024
Happy this keeps moving forward (albeit slowly but any progress is good progress).
Been enjoying John Mauriello's work for a while but this video on
Silicon Valley's Billion Dollar Design Scams really hit the mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDvAQf1cnr8
Pay special attention to his call to action at the end. Very much echoes what I wrote in my previous post where the technology that we build should be used to enrich people's lives, not suppress or subjugate.
A letter to John Ternus: https://marco.org/2026/04/01/letter-to-john-ternus
Well written and a powerful reminder that high quality software and hardware can be an amazing way in which to delight, bring joy, and enrich people's lives.
Class variables are such a bane in Ruby. Doesn't help that Rails keeps promoting this practice: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/21942
The unnecessary mutation is why I call this out as an antipattern and always leads to unwanted surprises: https://alchemists.io/articles/ruby_antipatterns#_class_variables
Holy hell, Republicans want to cut health care to continue to fund a senseless war:
"House Republicans are considering cutting health care spending to help pay for a reconciliation bill that could provide as much as $200 billion for the Iran war and immigration enforcement."
Source: https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2026/03/30/day-1896/
Trump said his “preference” would be to “take the oil in Iran” and floated seizing Kharg Island; hackers linked to Iran accessed FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email account; House Republicans are considering cutting health care spending to help pay for a reconciliation bill that could provide as much as $200 billion for the Iran war and immigration enforcement; the Department of Homeland Security remained shut down after 44 days, setting a record for the longest partial government shutdown in U.S. history; the Trump administration’s Supreme Court case against birthright citizenship relies in part on legal arguments advanced by white supremacist and anti-Chinese activists in the late 1800s; Trump’s White House ballroom project includes a “massive” military complex under the site of the demolished East Wing; and 33% of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing as president, the lowest rating of his second term in office.
Such joy: https://lara-aigmueller.at/thoughts/leaving-the-ai-party. To quote directly, we should:
"[V]alue craftsmanship, individuality and honest, high-quality work."
Granted, I see value in LLMs as augmentation for the mundane and menial tasks but swapping out human creativity/ingenuity for pure unthinking regurgitation isn't the answer.
I've started adding folks, like this, to my second brain (i.e. Obsidian) for future collaboration/hiring. ⭐
I want to help build a community that cares (and sweats the details). 🚀
Good turnout in Boulder. Glad we got to march through downtown. Lots of amazing signs. The papier-mâché puppets were a nice touch.
