Mike O’Toole

Mike O’Toole

@mikeocool.bsky.social

Software engineer - formerly Co-founder/CTO at Funnel Leasing

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Mike O’Toole
@mikeocool.bsky.social

Taco Bell started pulling fresh ingredients from their menu last week — seemingly well before anyone else connected their suppliers to the outbreak. Apparently Taco Bell is more on top of it than the CDC.

Mike O’Toole
@mikeocool.bsky.social

My personal text editor history: -1998 : BBEdit 1998-2006 : Editeur (Windows Shareware) 2006-2007 : Text Wrangler 2007-2009 : TextMate 2009-2016 : Sublime Text 2016-2025: VSCode A few months in 2025 : Cursor 2025- : Zed

Mike O’Toole
@mikeocool.bsky.social

TIL Curious George is not a monkey. He lacks a tail and almost all monkey species have tails. There appears to be a lot of debate about what species he is, though there appears to be some loose consensus around chimpanzee.

Mike O’Toole
@mikeocool.bsky.social

While watching “good night construction site read aloud” on YouTube with my kid, we got an ad from Hyundai about leasing heavy equipment and an ad for construction project management software. So surely AI is going to take all of our jobs soon.

Mike O’Toole
@mikeocool.bsky.social

Republicans in Minnesota worked really hard between 2003 and 2005 to ensure you can in fact do this without breaking the law.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Kash Patel: "You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple. You don't have a right to break the law." (Pretti was carrying a gun legally.)

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Jason Kirk
@jasonkirk.fyi

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

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Mike O’Toole
@mikeocool.bsky.social

If you rent in New York City in a building with more than six units built before 1974 (and the rent didn’t hit certain thresholds and the landlord didn’t put a certain amount of money into renovations before 2019), you very likely live in a rent stabilized apartment.

Mike O’Toole
@mikeocool.bsky.social

Interestingly, I used to have more than 3 friends, but Meta replaced them all with videos of strangers eating perfectly curated açaí bowl breakfasts.

Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's chatbots will supplement your real friends: "The average American has fewer than 3 friends ... but has demand for ... 15 friends" (h/t x.com/romanhelmetg...)

Mike O’Toole
@mikeocool.bsky.social

Just asked Claude Code to help debug a failing test. It told me multiple incorrect things about the code, charged me $1, and ended by giving up and saying “Try adding debug logging in your code to see what's happening in that specific check, or look at the exact error message from the failing test.”

Mike O’Toole
@mikeocool.bsky.social

The Girl Scouts need to learn something about brand clarity — why are Tagalongs also known as Peanut Butter Paddies, not be confused with Peanut Butter Sandwich cookies, also known as Do-Si-dos.

Mike O’Toole
@mikeocool.bsky.social

Steps to buy shampoo at CVS: 1. Ring call button on locked shelf 2. Wait for employee not to show up, since all employees have been fired 3. Download CVS app 4. Turn on Bluetooth and location services 5. Signup for a CVS account 6. Wait for app to fail to unlock shelf 7. Order shampoo on Amazon.

retailbrew.comWe checked out CVS’s pilot program that lets shoppers unlock display cases with their phonesThe chain declined to name the pilot stores. We found one.

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