Enthusiastic hacker. Startup veteran (Rill Data, Retool, Looker, Apptio). I like it when things "just work" but have been known to tweak bits and bytes to get things "just so".https://bsky.app/profile/jonwalls.devhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonwalls.dev/post/3migh5txl322wSo is Claude's new buddy thing a random pet or a personality profile of the user? "No snark but also no patience" is probably a fair assessment of my interactions with Claude! I'm guessing released since letting their source code into the wild must have accelerated a few decisions!01 Apr 2026 10:09 +0000at://did:plc:lj3r2kgk5nbfwi7pd2vfsdpd/app.bsky.feed.post/3migh5txl322whttps://bsky.app/profile/jonwalls.dev/post/3mhfj3frpyc2pThis is such a beautiful little idea. Wonderful! [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Mar 2026 07:46 +0000at://did:plc:lj3r2kgk5nbfwi7pd2vfsdpd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhfj3frpyc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/jonwalls.dev/post/3mhb6kfphrk2yIt's one of the new phrases of the age, isn't it? (working with coding agents)17 Mar 2026 14:26 +0000at://did:plc:lj3r2kgk5nbfwi7pd2vfsdpd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhb6kfphrk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonwalls.dev/post/3mgiqaiwids2zThere's some great terminology in deep learning. I will never again make a wild-ass guess. From now on, I only make high-variance Monte Carlo estimates.07 Mar 2026 21:06 +0000at://did:plc:lj3r2kgk5nbfwi7pd2vfsdpd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgiqaiwids2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonwalls.dev/post/3mgclzbl3ns2vHey @anthropic.com please don't do a Microsoft and make it impossible to figure out how to just login. I just want to try out your voice mode in Claude Code. I've tried all the Anthropic options via /login. Do you have a third hidden option? Is claude.ai considered a third party service?05 Mar 2026 10:35 +0000at://did:plc:lj3r2kgk5nbfwi7pd2vfsdpd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgclzbl3ns2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonwalls.dev/post/3mg6jukcp7225This is something I feel deserves more mindshare - AI is good with code, but that can mean using just a language and its standard library, adding a library, using an SDK, a DSL, an API call, etc. [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Mar 2026 19:46 +0000at://did:plc:lj3r2kgk5nbfwi7pd2vfsdpd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg6jukcp7225https://bsky.app/profile/jonwalls.dev/post/3me26ikkjhk2qThis is super interesting. Go is a lovely language to work with, and compiled binaries offer a very nice experience to what we so often experience in Python land! [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Feb 2026 15:21 +0000at://did:plc:lj3r2kgk5nbfwi7pd2vfsdpd/app.bsky.feed.post/3me26ikkjhk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonwalls.dev/post/3mbop6k47q22kI love the smell of burning tokens in the morning. (This is the new motto of everyone leaning into agentic coding)05 Jan 2026 14:58 +0000at://did:plc:lj3r2kgk5nbfwi7pd2vfsdpd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbop6k47q22khttps://bsky.app/profile/jonwalls.dev/post/3mbk52bepgc2qNice first test run of Beads (https://github.com/steveyegge/beads) from @steve-yegge.bsky.social. A new tool slotting smoothly into an existing project is nice. It really jibes with my way of thinking to have the coding agent use a real-but-lightweight issue tracker. Good summary from Claude on completion.03 Jan 2026 19:22 +0000at://did:plc:lj3r2kgk5nbfwi7pd2vfsdpd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbk52bepgc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonwalls.dev/post/3mbhqprqz522nI do love a good data vis labour of love [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Jan 2026 20:36 +0000at://did:plc:lj3r2kgk5nbfwi7pd2vfsdpd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbhqprqz522nhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonwalls.dev/post/3m4psv4xc4227Liked this post by Ahmad El-Alfy (via HNews thread) on URLs as state containers. Often neglected in app design but compelling to end users. Not so easy to get right since not all state should be in URL, and weirdness can happen with permissions. Always worth it though. https://alfy.blog/2025/10/31/your-url-is-your-state.html03 Nov 2025 10:31 +0000at://did:plc:lj3r2kgk5nbfwi7pd2vfsdpd/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4psv4xc4227https://bsky.app/profile/jonwalls.dev/post/3lr47naenqs26Enjoying messing around with Claude Code! It does say "you're absolutely right" a lot, though. Pretty sure I'd have been done with my little weekend project by now if I was "absolutely right" with every idea and prompt...08 Jun 2025 15:48 +0000at://did:plc:lj3r2kgk5nbfwi7pd2vfsdpd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lr47naenqs26https://bsky.app/profile/jonwalls.dev/post/3lqhnsi6msk2o"You're absolutely right on all counts." Oh LLM sycophants, I may talk like it (it's a professional hazard in tech), but it really isn't true.31 May 2025 11:36 +0000at://did:plc:lj3r2kgk5nbfwi7pd2vfsdpd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqhnsi6msk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/jonwalls.dev/post/3lqchedk5o227A bit inspired by @simonwillison.net 's stream of vibe-coded "low stakes" tools, was pleased with Claude's take on explaining composition effects. The ratio of a subset of unique counts to the total unique count falls the longer the time window. Which still boggles my mind. How can 7 x 29 = 6?!29 May 2025 09:57 +0000at://did:plc:lj3r2kgk5nbfwi7pd2vfsdpd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqchedk5o227https://bsky.app/profile/jonwalls.dev/post/3llwrkxy72c2tThat's one helluva landing page! [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Apr 2025 20:47 +0000at://did:plc:lj3r2kgk5nbfwi7pd2vfsdpd/app.bsky.feed.post/3llwrkxy72c2thttps://bsky.app/profile/jonwalls.dev/post/3ljwjravtac2gSixteenth century version of having too many tabs open [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Mar 2025 07:37 +0000at://did:plc:lj3r2kgk5nbfwi7pd2vfsdpd/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljwjravtac2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/jonwalls.dev/post/3libs574sqs2jWork has had me in JS world for years and recently Go. I’ll still fire up the occasional Python notebook to try out a technique or perform a quick task. Tried uv recently when I got a new machine, and was gearing up to review my Python setup. It’s sooooo much better. Good infra. Recommended. [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Feb 2025 08:16 +0000at://did:plc:lj3r2kgk5nbfwi7pd2vfsdpd/app.bsky.feed.post/3libs574sqs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonwalls.dev/post/3lf6dslw54c23Had my first Zoom call of the year today - audio problems made me grateful I wasn't the main speaker! The culprit was app memory bloat. Since I don't have a 192GB Mac that won't be the real consumption by Acrobat, the memory thief could be something else altogether. But that caught my eye!07 Jan 2025 19:06 +0000at://did:plc:lj3r2kgk5nbfwi7pd2vfsdpd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lf6dslw54c23https://bsky.app/profile/jonwalls.dev/post/3ldg3sa3uss2r“the fintech grew organically, acquiring a similar business with thousands of customers” It’s a valid strategy - but that is called “growth by acquisition”, usually seen as the opposite of growing organically. [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Dec 2024 10:13 +0000at://did:plc:lj3r2kgk5nbfwi7pd2vfsdpd/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldg3sa3uss2r