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Co-Founder of Poolaroo, a pool supplies retail site, where we are redesigning how Ecommerce operations works in 2026 and on. Co-Founder of StatBid, a search marketing agency for Ecommerce companies.

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a cartoon character is standing in the middle of a field with smoke coming out of it . ALT: a cartoon character is standing in the middle of a field with smoke coming out of it .

Look, even if you AREN'T using AI to code, it is worth getting Claude Code to do a QA pass over your codebase. I can't guarantee it will find everything, but from my testing, everything it DOES surface is worth fixing.

And if you ARE a vibe coder... it's on YOU to ask for QA. DOOOO IT.

11.03.2026 02:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Heh, not the first post, but I got it with the second. We are both on team find-the-source. Better two citations than none.

05.03.2026 16:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Toshiyasu Morita

A solid policy, to be honest. That was just the first source I found that seemed authentic. www.toshiyasumorita.com

Click on "+Projects" to get to the good stuff, no Cambridge Analytica hangover required.

05.03.2026 01:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Toshi Studios - Locations Toshi Studios - Locations. 690 likes Β· 14 talking about this. Photography of various locations, mostly around the San Francisco Bay Area.

Found the original photographer (Toshiyasu Morita), and they are AMAZING with bird shots, especially hummingbirds.
www.facebook.com/toshistudios...

This whole scroll is worth it.

05.03.2026 00:47 πŸ‘ 51 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
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04.03.2026 23:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Barabados is amazing! Beautiful island, lovely people, delicious food.

Now I want fried flying fish from Oistins.

04.03.2026 17:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a robot with a bald head is smiling and saying `` ai be like '' . ALT: a robot with a bald head is smiling and saying `` ai be like '' .

...that's... that's not how reflections work.

03.03.2026 02:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, select all delete is the routine I never asked for ...

28.02.2026 03:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We're aiming to be the best Unicel site out there (except maybe the manufacturers), and while I look forward to continuing to refine it, I think we're getting there on a lot of the major PDPs.

27.02.2026 23:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ah, yes, the long tail rabbit hole. And with regex as garnish.

I know it well. More fun than actionable, but SO fun, in my experience.

Great idea, though.

26.02.2026 01:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Phacellophora - Wikipedia

And they get BIG. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phacell...)

But I hadn't seen a photo of one that looked like that till now, with the blue bits, or the REALLY yolk-shaped core. A quick search turned up a LOT of amazing shots like that I'd have missed--thanks for sharing!

20.02.2026 21:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Also, acquiring PE.

20.02.2026 21:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oooh, that is a fantastic effect for such a straight forward treatment! The original shot was excellent, which helped, certainly, but you laid out the mirrored layers so well it definitely has a psychedelic fractal quality that I really dig.

20.02.2026 17:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sorry, can't respond to your inquiry, something just popped up.

20.02.2026 00:45 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Eh, I don't "trust it completely" but I also haven't had to write a single line of code in months--but I can take responsibility for the output, though. You have a valid concern, but so does Anthropic--this is a crazy time to be alive, and it really can unlock some incredible things.

19.02.2026 05:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Google is generating 360 views IN Shopping results tiles!? What?

None of the sites linked had 360s, so Google is inferring this from the source images. Not sure I'm a fan of it, but could be inevitable at this point, huh?

Still going to shoot REAL ones.

#ecommerce #googleshopping #googleads

18.02.2026 19:33 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I didn't believe this when I first saw it. But it's legit.

Geo-stat orbits are just far enough from Earth that on their "night" side of the orbit, they can produce a difference sufficient to explain how small the moon appeared here.

Gemini really wanted to blame "bloom". No. Obviously no.

18.02.2026 04:29 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

data.ngdc.noaa.gov/platforms/so...

Verified with JS9.

Thanks for sharing, once again! I'd have never seen this otherwise.

18.02.2026 04:24 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I had to do so much more math to explain the relative "small" moon than I care to admit. Having seen a total solar eclipse from the Earth, this looked implausible, but accounting for both lunar apogee and the farthest the satellite could be from the moon at the time... it adds up! SO AWESOME.

18.02.2026 04:17 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That is the most ear-ish Jelly Ear I've seen!

12.02.2026 00:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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So, there was this music composition app that enshittified, breaking all of the custom plugins I had for tin whistle tabs.

So I just vibe coded (Claude Code in VSCode) a replacement that's just my style in less than 90 minutes.

It's "tea, earl gray, hot" for software. No joke.

10.02.2026 22:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Good (default) plan!

It's totally a manageable risk for anyone who gets into the details, but not like foraging blackberries, for sure.

I'd eat Chicken of the Woods, but not much else without a lot of diligence. But that one is really, really obvious where I live.

08.02.2026 21:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I guess now we know "why do they always run?"

08.02.2026 20:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

...I have exactly the same canoe! I grew up with it, and inherited it from my parents. While the aluminum frame has seen better days, I'm pretty sure the Coleman shell will outlive the sun.

07.02.2026 22:31 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

No one knows REALLY how to optimize for LLM visibility for brands.

But if you sound confident, and are early, you can collect cash and hope to figure it out on the fly. 🀫

Only trust those with data, and a healthy dash of humility.

05.02.2026 22:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Or the GΓΆdel generalization: A proof like this exists in all webcomics complex enough to state the premise.

03.02.2026 21:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Fair enough.

But, I mean... we both probably would prefer to show up in both places, regardless. We're probably splitting hairs, either way. :)

02.02.2026 22:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's built into the EMACS text editor, too, ha ha!

02.02.2026 20:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sure! Are you thinking that normal users really pay attention to the difference? They don't live in this stuff like we do.

02.02.2026 19:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

And for those wondering, the banks of sliders are volume, then volume LFOs (frequency and intensity), then stereo sweeps (frequency and separation), per selected harmonic.

It's a dumbed down synthesizer, basically, but I kind of backed into that convergently.

27.01.2026 13:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0