Jay Shirley

Another year of @theonion.com coming up. I keep subscribing to other news, then they run ridiculous water-carrying stories so I cancel (Atlantic 😠). Not The Onion, though. They stay true to their mission. Thanks @bencollins.bsky.social!

The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.

And commentary on building this thing: Frequently I'm like "ugh I bet that's a lot of code" and then it ends up being a very small amount of code because SwiftUI does a *lot* and is documented pretty well.

Increasingly often, Opus 5.5 will generate some code that is _much_ better than I would have done. 2-3 months ago, it was normal to steer and revise but now I'm like "Huh, yeah, that's a better approach". This is a great time to be a solo dev!

It turns out when you make a million boxes each filled with a million monkeys, typing it can produce Shakespeare or also exploit vulnerabilities. Come on people, watch your monkey boxes.

I have been learning a ton about CloudKit this week, and having Claude helping me organize my experiments, notes, and conclusions. It's been great... Except my weekly quota is >80% gone, half of that is telling it to rewrite its notes to not be florid prose but technical writing. Over and over.

Over the summer I went up in a glider for the first time, and it was pretty magical. I think next summer I'll be adding my glider rating.

What's My JND? 0.0039 [my monitor has some slight burn in which got very confusing, this was surprisingly fun] Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

Got to take a friend up flying (1.7 hours), around Hoover Dam and Valley of Fire. It's such a privilege to be able to do this. Flying is rad.

A very good morning.

Last Friday, I took my checkride and passed and I'm now a private pilot. It's been a goal I never thought I'd reach, and days later I'm still in awe. I get to go see things like this whenever I want, now!

170,000 paid subscribers and 1.5m readers is substantially fewer than I thought. ~$882 per paid subscriber.

日本にマンションを買いました。二月ぐらい日本語を勉強してでもまだ下手です。毎日ここに書いたら役に立つかもしれない。

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

First flight after my son got his PPL, great way to spend Sunday morning.

I love time zones because I’m flying away at 4:20pm and arriving at 4:20pm on the same day. It’s neat that humans tackled time zones and agreed on a line to reset it all.

The best part about Imola is when Max tries to push someone off the track, they're more inclined to fight back since it's gravel and big curbs.

This guy's a hero. Good shit, Senator.

When I get to the Senate, I'll support a bill to ban Congressional stock trading on day one. No elected official should be cashing in while the American people see their retirements go down the drain.

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

me: I'm going to build a time machine him: *eating the last donut* what you gonna use it for me: *eating the last donut* righting wrongs

Las Vegas showing up. #handsoff

Great surprise in the mail today! @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social and the incoming leaders are keeping me macro-optimistic.

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

Me too! Last night my feeling was it’s constructively performative and now I’m getting hyped.

Here is a list of town halls taking place next week that you should show up at. I am sorry, I mean Chuck Schumer’s book parties. If there are any missing, please add in the replies. The only thing he should be doing today is cleaning out his office.

This is like when Ferrari’s F1 team brought out 3 tires to a pit stop. I’m waiting for the next email, “Donate $5 so we can buy bigger clown shoes”

primary.every.democrat

Some friends and I made this to try to help with that: primary.every.democrat