Just tried lovable.dev for the first time. Brilliant product design, but loads of dark patterns; the growth at all costs variety. Bullish on non-predatory businesses.

Politics is the original slop.

Just wrapped up recording @Trust Revolution with @Aaron van Wirdum. Coming next week. 👌🏻

World of Slopcraft (WoS)

gm, good people. ☕ Happy Friday.

Next up.

GitHub

GitHub - alinaqi/claude-bootstrap: Opinionated project initialization for Claude Code. Security-first, spec-driven, AI-native.

Opinionated project initialization for Claude Code. Security-first, spec-driven, AI-native. - alinaqi/claude-bootstrap

I gave Grok one word: moltbot.

Price prediction fatigue.

Skeptical, but willing to give it a try. Points for flavor.

Head down. Keep shipping.

"In startups, it’s well understood that the best quality product will lose out to the product that has the best distribution. The same thing is true here. You can have the fanciest AI in the world, but if it doesn’t have the right context or isn’t present where & when I need it, it’s will be way less sticky than something that’s easier to use." Moltbot holds no interest for me, but he's crushed it on distribution, and that's what wins.

What Moltbot tells us about the ideal UX for AI

Where & how matter more than anything

When revenue stalls, sales is where you see it. Pipeline, conversion rates, lost deals—it's all visible there. But that's usually not where you fix it. New essay about how to find the real problem. View article →

gm, good people. ☕

Microslop

Hey, @Maple AI, I've got a lead for you.

Ars Technica

US cyber defense chief accidentally uploaded secret government info to ChatGPT

Congress recently grilled the acting chief on mass layoffs and a failed polygraph.

*This* close. https://mises.org/mises-wire/dedollarization-its-more-de-fiatization

A sobering, important read. And a reminder of why *true* ownership, in the form of Bitcoin and nostr, is critical. “Due to a lack of ownership (I proposed data ownership as a way to transition to this new technological reality), everyone outside the Cosmopolitan Elite will find themselves competing with AI, and most will lose.”

The Cosmopolitan Elite

We've replaced the Middle Class, the bedrock of US prosperity, with a Cosmopolitan Elite. Here's what it means.

gm, good people. ☕

Had a long conversation with @Samah tonight about the growing number of people I talk to on any given day who are just grinning and bearing it. They do their best to hide their pain, but it's written all over their faces. Yes, be strong. Yes, be stoic. But also, be real. We owe it to ourselves and to each other. Life is hard. It's harder when you try to pretend otherwise.

Framework + Omarchy + firmware update?

Gist

Framework 13: firmware update corrupts ESP FAT filesystem

Framework 13: firmware update corrupts ESP FAT filesystem - framework-esp-corruption.md