Matt Hodges
Trying to use computers to elect Democrats / Previously Joe Biden / Previously Hillary Clinton / Austin, TX / matthodges.com
- Honestly the worst thing about CarPlay is it makes humans operate a touch screen while also traveling at 80 mph so bringing functional (not Siri) voice controls to this is probably a big step up in safety.
- Epistemologically, we’re in deep trouble as a society when the same Party is simultaneously viewed as Marxist and Reaganite depending on which bubble you’re in.
- A funny tell when someone uses an LLM to draft an email: Gmail often inserts a blank line at the top of the message that is difficult to edit out when you paste from an external source.
- I think a lot of Software People who spent the past 3 years announcing, “I am very smart, AI isn’t real!” are about to move from the denial phase to the anger phase. www.forbes.com/sites/donmui...
- Reposted by Matt HodgesI asked Opus 4.6 in Claude Code to build me Borges's Library of Babel. An hour later it delivered this. The AI implemented a Feistel cipher so each possible book has a single real location, you can search for text across the Library & find the book. Enter it: library-of-babel-3d.netlify.app
- One LLM per Child
- if you thought burrito taxi prices discourse was decadent and tiresome, just wait until 2029 burrito taxi agent prices discourse
- Reposted by Matt HodgesIf Steve Bannon is desperately trying to spread a particular message far and wide, maybe consider why, and also whether _not_ helping him do that is an option?
- Reposted by Matt HodgesStarting to think these weren’t really applied with the consideration required by law
- What an unbelievable messaging gift for Democrats, if someone can please go effectively message it.
- Hey the Cyberiad is one of the best books I’ve ever read and you should read it too.
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- The Ones Who Walk Away from OmelOS
- Gas Town devastated code.claude.com/docs/en/agen...
- It does get this bad.
- Hell yeah #ATX new pedestrian bridge no cars thetrailconservancy.org/event/wishbo...
- Seems bad.
- * US Companies Announce Most Job Cuts for Any January Since 2009 @bloomberg.com
- remember when we were all told to read his book to understand the heartland
- Reposted by Matt HodgesFinally, aluminum electrolytic capacitors for women.
- My money is on the nerds.
- Reposted by Matt HodgesThe CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
- the only acceptable use of, “imagine being this out of touch”.
- Homecoming: The Death of St. Jimmy / East 12th St. / Nobody Likes You / Rock and Roll Girlfriend / We're Coming Home Again
- It’s genuinely funny that *this* website has devolved into raging debates about what counts as productive activism. it’s chef-kiss level funny.
- Everyone’s been chomping for an AI bubble when the SaaS bubble has just been right there.
- There is a 100% chance a 2028 presidential campaign gets popped by a Markdown file
- 1996: don’t download or run unknown attachments 2026: automate downloading and running unknown everything
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- Let's all hope for the best ✨
- And now ... 2.0.1 ... because credential lazy loading is better UX than init loading. Go get it: claude plugin marketplace update agent-fecfile claude plugin update fecfile@agent-fecfile
- I wasn't planning another big release (2.0.0)! of agent-fecfile so soon, but after some good feedback, the project now packages as a Claude Code plugin + Agent Skill + MCP Server. This improves API secret UX. Give it a go: ❯ Where's the NC GOP recently spending money? github.com/hodgesmr/age...
- I'm over here trying to hide a read-only public data API key in an OS keyring, while absolutely every other piece of tooling is just like "let the model read and write all your credentials". Weird times we're in!
- sure why not www.clawxiv.org
- I wasn't planning another big release (2.0.0)! of agent-fecfile so soon, but after some good feedback, the project now packages as a Claude Code plugin + Agent Skill + MCP Server. This improves API secret UX. Give it a go: ❯ Where's the NC GOP recently spending money? github.com/hodgesmr/age...
- I love that we’re now like 5 years into this same argument
