Tech guy with an annoying French accent 🇫🇷🇺🇲. Pedestrian advocate. Lobster whisperer. If it ain't broke, improve it.

Baltimore, MD
Joined March 2008
Every day we are fighting to prevent French stats from looking like this.
Every day we are fighting to prevent American streets from looking like this.
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Foursquare was acquired last month. The outcome was disappointing. It's taken me a while to write this, but I think I'm finally done grieving it. Here are some thoughts on our final years, an effort to honor the team who helped build & maintain FSQ's legacy, and my attempt to finally get some closure. teendrama.substack.com/p/som…
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Another one bites the dust in our War on Expensive Software. 😵 Zapier. An old friend. We’ve used it for 10 years. We paid for 123 automations. 63 hadn’t run in a month. 2 did 88% of the work. The rest was form-to-Slack and HubSpot-to-Sheets plumbing. Claude rebuilt 1 of them. Everything else moved into tools we already pay for. Zapier: $4,788 a year → $0. Steal the audit. Export your Zapier task history and give Claude or ChatGPT this: “List every automation, its owner, and runs in the last 30 days. Flag anything that hasn’t run. Show which few do most of the work. For each one, name a tool we already pay for that could replace it. Give me a cancel plan with dates.” Bye bye, old friend. 👋
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NEW: Highlight reel of all the stunts performed at the Tesla Roadster event. INSANE 🔥🔥🔥
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The .si domain rush is very real: - 46k new domain registrations in September 2026 (200x YoY) - 22k registered today - #2 TLD after .com, ahead of .ai (Hostinger)
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Those two 🤣
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Zapier is officially a connector in @Muse, Meta's new personal agent 🤝 Connect Zapier MCP once, and Muse can get your work done across all 9,000+ apps Or, ask it to build a workflow for you that’ll keep working while you sleep
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First #ParisFashionWeek show for little sis!!! Couldn’t be prouder!!!!🔥 Well done @LOrealParisUSA . instagram.com/virginie.dubos…
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Anyone else noticed their @Muse model slowly nerfed after a couple of weeks? From spark xhigh to…
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Looks like you can now view and edit markdown files in Google Drive on the web. It opens the Google Docs editor, limited to markdown features. Saving the file does not convert it to Docs, it just saves the .md file.
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Of all the crazy things AI can do, what blows my mind most is when it listens to my 2-minute voice note in 3 seconds.
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Bot detection & human verification will be one of the most urgent demands for businesses over the coming years. Agent swarms will suffocate every website and form; small companies and government websites are most vulnerable. There is a huge gap in the market for this right now. When we looked at what offerings were in the market to use at X, there was not a single company that brought together all the latest technologies so we had to do it all in-house.
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JUST IN: Dating startup Ditto launches AI agents that go on “simulated dates” with hundreds of other users’ agents to find compatibility before recommending real-life matches.
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The speed difference between Muse and Openclaw is discombobulating. Muse executes and confirms in seconds. OC blabbers a stream of “📖 read” and "🛠 exec" for 1-2min before result. Anyone else?
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1Password, but for AI agent auth tokens / API keys.
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Starting on Sept 15th, SpaceXAI team members will build a company from the ground up using Grok @Bot and livestream it. Link to register for the stream is below. Agenda: "Starting with an idea and a blank slate, they’ll work through a business plan, feature decisions, and real engineering work to turn a concept into a reality. Over the course of this three-day livestream, you’ll be able to follow their building in real time and will see how Grok Bot fits into each stage of the development process. ​Throughout the livestream, we’ll also hand off to teammates for department-specific deep dives. From the first line of code to setting customers up for success, you’ll learn how to use Grok Bot for real workflows across every stage of your business, and will walk away with actionable use cases for your function. ​The livestream runs from 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM every day, with the following guest sessions: ​Day 1: September 15 • 9:00 - 10:00 AM: Grok Bot 101 ​• 12:30 - 2:00 PM: Grok Bot for Engineering • ​2:30 - 4:00 PM: Grok Bot for Product Managers ​• 4:30 - 5:30 PM: Grok Bot for Founders ​ Day 2: September 16 • 9:00 - 10:30 AM: Grok Bot for Sales Engineering • 12:30 - 2:00 PM: Grok Bot for Sales ​• 2:30 - 3:30 PM: Grok Bot for SDRs ​• 4:00 - 5:00 PM: Grok Bot for Customer Support ​ Day 3: September 17 • 9:00 - 10:30 AM: Grok Bot for Marketing Operations ​• 12:30 - 1:30 PM: Grok Bot for Post-Sales ​• 2:30 - 4:00 PM: Grok Bot for Marketing" ​ Link to register for livestream: luma.com/3ifrgttw
Next week, the SpaceXAI team will build a company from the ground and livestream it. “We'll use Grok Bot for every part of the build - from ideation and product development to real engineering work and deployment.”
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what a live ceo looks like
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Make Mac screenshot previews stick around for 30 seconds instead of disappearing after 5. Changed my life. defaults write com.apple.screencaptureui "thumbnailExpiration" -float 30 && killall SystemUIServer
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