Adam Lynch

Oh wow, how things have changed ♥️

Something I made recently: x.com/ReadwiseRead...

Fortnight >= biweekly

Newsletter driven development

Me sleep talking: "I think the baby is coming tonight."
Wife: "How do you know?"
"You can see it if you go into the settings."

(Everyone is ok)

Video from inside car, waiting inside car park. You can see another car waiting at the entrance to be let in

An annoying one-by-error: Rushing into the hospital. Car park system wouldn't let me in until a car left because it was full, but it was off by one, so I had to wait inside until another left. At the same time, the next car is coming and you're hoping they don't try to take it

It just occurred to me that Cameo is like AI video generation via prompts, but instead of selecting a model, you select a celebrity / real-life model

120ML spray duster product page. Says "142HP". €16.45

142HP?! What a rocket. I might have to get one to spray out my window when overtaking. No wonder it's so expensive

If you only knew how long I am willing to spend writing one email

✅ Challenge completed: Survive* a week in Italy as someone who can't have dairy.

Wow, that was tough!

* One meal made me sick but it failed to kill me

A webpack bundle analyzer treemap chart (red)

damn, the economy is brutal

Tayto. Assault & vinegar. In partnership with Andrew Tayto.

ChatGPT can generate way better images now

Desktop app I'm too busy to build: AppSnitcher. It tells you whenever an app adds itself to your dock or sets itself to launch on login. It would then offer actions like "block/revert" and "block all future attempts".

I got two bits of grrrreat news in the last week! 😁 Hard to believe

I was flying it at the start, I felt amazing, and then it happened near 1k. I was too embarrassed to quit so I mostly walked the rest. The obstacles felt easy. It's annoying because I think I would've done really well

Me climbing over the wall at the finish line of "Hell & Back" (the run)

My leg with a medical boot on

I am so unlucky haha. Back in August, I tore both sides of my groin very badly (it came off the bone on one side). I was due to go back soccer training this week. During a 7k mud run / obstacle course at the weekend, I fractured my ankle and tore ligaments.

I think about getting a dog every 2/3 days and then talk myself out of it

My latest project at Readwise is an interesting one. I built it from end-to-end and I loved learning about AI, vector databases, etc.

So many users have called it a 'game-changer' that we've joked about renaming it that 😅

Just saw someone refer to Robbie Williams as "Robbie Williams (the monkey from Better Man)"

"There has to be another. It'll come to me... 😴"

I've always found it hard to fall asleep. Mental games / concentrating on something usually doesn't work. I've found one that has worked for me (at least twice anyway); go through the alphabet and name 3 countries that start with each letter. I think the key is in being patient and not skipping

I am rational, not impulsive. I see randomness in coincidences, not fate. I'm sceptical. But I find myself waiting for this year to end, hoping the he next will better, even though new year's day is just an arbitrary point in time. The bar is very low.

Ah you must've ordered SOAP

I'm sick of travelling for the first time ever. That was disappointing until I realised I had 9 flights in 13 days, two of which were 10hrs+, plus I had two ~10hr delays in airports. It's only fair that I'm tired then

I'd love to watch this talk

It's 4am. I just got back from a stag party 12 hours ago and I'm back in the airport again. I've already accidentally left my passport at the water fountain. Off to a good start

Here's a funny little quirk in the Premier League app.

The fixture difficulty table doesn't scroll horizontally as a whole, each row is independently scrollable and it's then synced to the other rows.

It makes for some funny behaviour if you scroll back and forth.

👋. Coincidence: I'm flying to Curaçao tomorrow

Off the top of my head, I think there was an O'Reilly book and a Smashing Magazine article (years ago) that were particularly helpful for me