@nateritter.com - Nate Ritter

20 Aug 2026 00:49 +0000

"Those who can make you believe in absurdities can make you commit atrocities" - Voltaire

12 Aug 2026 18:38 +0000

I mean, really. AI is amazing. (actual travel data from 4 sources being turned into a map-based travel journal). Time in our RV around the US in orange, and flights in blue.

10 Aug 2026 18:41 +0000

With attention diminishing, building getting easier, and the rise of the comparison algos, the things we will say have quality will be those we spend an inordinate amount of time to produce. This is why you hate AI writing. Not because it's wrong. But because it's easy and average.

10 Aug 2026 00:28 +0000

I'm dying inside right now. Sad.

31 Jul 2026 16:51 +0000

Build something 100 people love, not something 1M people kind of like. ~ Brian Chesky

24 Jul 2026 18:43 +0000

About to be 3 days offline. It's weird to be nervous/excited about not seeing the next AI feature get released over the weekend. Digital detox, here we come.

23 Jul 2026 23:16 +0000

The testable unit is (offer x channel) as a pair. Every test is a distribution test.

13 Jul 2026 04:14 +0000

I took 3 years to switch out of startups, do consulting, and travel with my family. Sometimes a break is needed We did some stuff in Scotland. Watch the long form video if you need some rest. youtu.be/fr7off8Sov0 S3E8 - Living in Scotland for A Month

08 Jul 2026 00:57 +0000

If you want to be great at something, you have to get comfortable with being uncomfortable. Over-performance necessitates getting uncomfortable.

07 Jul 2026 04:14 +0000

I love my kids but if I have to hear of one more story about a VR game called Gorilla Tag…. https://static.klipy.com/ii/4e7bea9f7a3371424e6c16ebc93252fe/94/8d/KCJZ1Zl3e73X.gif?hh=375&ww=498&mp4=pcxboU0PZJwo5Gqt9&webm=MNEsfTRH4IRFxVunPIM

27 Jun 2026 17:57 +0000

I’m convinced this morning that my love language is not creating shit for me to maintain or clean up.

19 Jun 2026 18:55 +0000

@andrewbeeston.com 🤝 Good luck sir. 🇦🇺 v 🇺🇸

10 Jun 2026 23:14 +0000

TIL that it takes 10 weeks (!!) to start building muscle with weight lifting. First 3 weeks are mostly repairing damage, so size = swelling, not muscle growth. Gonna say it again. I believe doing the simple, difficult, compounding thing over time is almost always the answer to "what should I do?"

04 Jun 2026 21:34 +0000

If you haven’t done this yet are you even using AI bro? 🤣 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

04 Jun 2026 21:29 +0000

Remember when too many browser tabs would crash your computer. Now it’s Claude Code terminals. Welcome to the new era.

04 Jun 2026 14:48 +0000

Is there a thing where I can put a GitHub repo behind a paywall?

04 Jun 2026 01:25 +0000

Thanks for ruining visual voicemail for us all, call spammers. Letting my voicemail box fill up like a 90 year old grandma does because I can't take it anymore.

01 Jun 2026 21:28 +0000

Heads up, Shopify stores are now being widely used to commit fraud, selling user's credit card info. Just had almost 30 transactions come in. Same bank. Same descriptor. Same person owned one Shopify store. Extremely hard to detect.

01 Jun 2026 21:03 +0000

🔥 direnv.net is so handy with multiple profiles for AI or projects. https://direnv.net

01 Jun 2026 19:07 +0000

Claude down again? This would have told you sooner than your Slack alerts: https://github.com/nateritter/status-glance

31 May 2026 21:43 +0000

You know I'm in a more relaxed season when I can catch up on a travel video. ✅ Only 2.5 years behind, but whatever.

29 May 2026 00:36 +0000

I kept Claude's status page pinned in a tab to know if it was up before blaming my own code. So I built StatusGlance — a small macOS menu-bar app showing live service status as one colored ✽. Click for per-component history. Any Statuspage site. https://github.com/nateritter/status-glance

28 May 2026 06:07 +0000

Introduced my 2 boys to Monty Python and the Holy Grail tonight. Epic. Totally forgot how good and ridiculous it was. https://static.klipy.com/ii/4e7bea9f7a3371424e6c16ebc93252fe/1e/ca/jzniV0el4po5lfD5s6u.gif?hh=388&ww=388&mp4=XDokWM9RFOQNTXs&webm=Q22yIJo7LxCEiXPzV4

27 May 2026 16:37 +0000

You know what's a great feeling? Exercising hard. Then getting to work without feeling the need to check email. Get straight into focus. Really enjoying this right now.

08 May 2026 00:02 +0000

Been thinking about legacy and generational history lately. I’m sad that because of digitization we will look back at this time and think Mr Beast was what we all did all day long. The things we gave our attention to became our history because we have little else to say otherwise.

07 May 2026 23:47 +0000

PRs are a gold mine of AI self-improvement waiting to happen. Don't like how AI is coding? Teach it with your old PRs. Train it with every PR after that. It'll get your preferences, styles, and more correct first time. Want to try the plugin I made that does this all for you? Looking for testers.

01 May 2026 14:04 +0000

Me: Show me where LLMs directly add to the quality of experience connecting with my friends and family. Others: Well, they could… Me: Nope. Moat.

30 Apr 2026 20:48 +0000

LLMs + memory = the new version of the social media tribe bubble

18 Apr 2026 06:01 +0000

Is there an open source close of Instagram on ATProto yet? Has to be already vibe coded right?