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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 1d

Great piece from @kehyslop.bsky.social at @thetyee.ca about the pedagogical choices made in bc curriculum resulting in declining math and reading scores.

thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

Math and Reading Scores Are Declining in BC. Why? | The Tyee

And what’s the fix? Second in a series.

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · Sep 23

Like you only have one bag of flour and you have to decide if it will be used for 100 loaves of bread or play-doh for kids? Do you flip a coin or set a price? Because currently with H1Bs the government is flipping a coin.

Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · Sep 23

What about adding a price when there's limited supply of inputs and you're currently using a lottery which is wildly sub-optimal in its allocation?

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · Aug 23

The more I read about the science of teaching math the more it becomes clear how important constant testing and evaluation is for student success.

It is hard to appreciate just how much harm was done in reducing in testing because of reported testing anxiety.

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · Jul 24

It’s pretty good at capturing the bookend in real time

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · Jul 24

Does anybody else ever think about how in the early 2010s it seemed like stomp-clap was going to be a regular on the billboard charts, and then it just went away? Maybe @cmolanphy.bsky.social has written about this?

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · Jul 9

I think a lot about how “I’ll fight for you” is a very common campaign slogan, but “I’ll carefully balance competing interests” isn’t.

Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · Jun 30

AI makes list making so much fun. Anyhow, here are some 80s albums for your consideration. claude.ai/public/artif...

Top 80s Albums by Category - Sub-Lists | Claude

Top 80s Albums by Category - Sub-Lists - Markdown document created with Claude.

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · Jun 29

I want AI to curate my news feed, but not based on my lizard brain clicking on rage bait at 11pm. Give me personalization based on who I want to be, not who I am when I’m doom scrolling. The gap between my aspirational self and my impulse self is where I need a better product.

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · Jun 27

Fine dining may even be a Veblen good where people are paying for the signal of an expensive meal. It’s not even clear to me this would hurt the restaurants.

Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · Jun 27

Tax take: We should have a fine dining tax based on price per head.

If you’re paying over $200 a head for a meal you seem price insensitive to me. Charge a 50% sales tax on everything over $100 a head that all goes to the food bank.

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · Jun 21

I got to thinking about how I get a lot of my taste into vibe coding sessions by way of .md files. I started to collect them all to share, and it got a little out of control and now I can share my personal best practices for vibe coding.

gist.github.com/snoble/874a4...

Vibe Coding Best Practices For One Person Projects

Vibe Coding Best Practices For One Person Projects - vibe-coding-best-practices-for-one.md

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · Jun 13

I was chatting to Claude about nvidia really being a Linear Algebra company and ended up with a nice timeline artifact. claude.ai/public/artif...

NVIDIA Linear Algebra Tweet Thread | Claude

NVIDIA Linear Algebra Tweet Thread - Markdown document created with Claude.

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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · Jun 11

Glad this passed.
Your regular reminder that housing is good, actually. People derive tremendous value from living in housing. We should allow more of it in more places. And make sure everyone has access to it.

Nathan Lauster @lausterna.bsky.social · Jun 11

Final Vancouver City Council vote on the exceptionally long Commercial Broadway CD re-zoning (just the most recent application here: www.shapeyourcity.ca/1780-e-broad... )

ABC approved
OneCity still eloquently pro-housing
COPE opposed (sigh)
Greens abstain (sigh)

Vancouver Council vote on Commercial Broadway "Megatowers" project, all in favour except for Orr (opposed) from COPE (sigh) and Fry (abstaining) from Greens. Montague from ABC absent.

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · Jun 10

For right now, and possibly for a long time, vibe coding produces much better results when you use lots of static analysis, testing, and general ci.

Coding platforms that can accommodate a lot of dev tools are going to be very valuable for a while.

Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · Jun 9

My prediction is in the next few months we’re going to see a ton of bad data journalism as writers discover how willing ai is to do exactly the analysis you ask of it.

My hope is we will see ai tools emerge that able to identify and label the worst of it.

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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · Jun 8

Fun way to compress the history of zoning battles. Loving the phrase “Provincial Defibrillator” for our current stage in this saga. (The verdict is still out if the defibrillator will work to return life to our ability to respond to housing demand.)

Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · Jun 7

I got chatgpt to transform 50 years of Vancouver zoning battles into a “Density Health Meter” — a visual timeline of how protests, policies, and new reforms shaped what the city can build.

📊🏘️ Read the full story on GitHub Gist: gist.github.com/snoble/8eea9...

Timeline narrative showing how neighbourhood activism, political decisions, and recent reforms shaped (and are reshaping) Vancouver’s capacity to add housing density, 1970 – 2023.

Timeline narrative showing how neighbourhood activism, political decisions, and recent reforms shaped (and are reshaping) Vancouver’s capacity to add housing density, 1970 – 2023. - vancouver-densi...

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · Jun 7

I should have called this the NIMBY history of Vancouver.

Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · Jun 7

I got chatgpt to transform 50 years of Vancouver zoning battles into a “Density Health Meter” — a visual timeline of how protests, policies, and new reforms shaped what the city can build.

📊🏘️ Read the full story on GitHub Gist: gist.github.com/snoble/8eea9...

Timeline narrative showing how neighbourhood activism, political decisions, and recent reforms shaped (and are reshaping) Vancouver’s capacity to add housing density, 1970 – 2023.

Timeline narrative showing how neighbourhood activism, political decisions, and recent reforms shaped (and are reshaping) Vancouver’s capacity to add housing density, 1970 – 2023. - vancouver-densi...

gist.github.com

Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · Jun 7

I got chatgpt to transform 50 years of Vancouver zoning battles into a “Density Health Meter” — a visual timeline of how protests, policies, and new reforms shaped what the city can build.

📊🏘️ Read the full story on GitHub Gist: gist.github.com/snoble/8eea9...

Timeline narrative showing how neighbourhood activism, political decisions, and recent reforms shaped (and are reshaping) Vancouver’s capacity to add housing density, 1970 – 2023.

Timeline narrative showing how neighbourhood activism, political decisions, and recent reforms shaped (and are reshaping) Vancouver’s capacity to add housing density, 1970 – 2023. - vancouver-densi...

gist.github.com

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Jamu Kakar @jkakar.bsky.social · Jun 4

Building wallets used to be really hard. This article by @snoble.bsky.social demonstrating how Fragment makes it easy is really cool: www.linkedin.com/pulse/pairpr...

Pair‑Programming a Wallet on Fragment

How an LLM used Fragment to delete code I thought I had to write Me: "I want to build a wallet for my app. Can you help?" LLM: "Great, let's build a wallet! …But first—what *is* a wallet?" Me: "It's t...

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · Jun 2

After a bunch of iterations with o3, claude, and cursor, we got something fun.

Pair-Programming a Wallet on Fragment (@fragment.dev).

www.linkedin.com/pulse/pairpr...

Pair‑Programming a Wallet on Fragment

How an LLM used Fragment to delete code I thought I had to write Me: "I want to build a wallet for my app. Can you help?" LLM: "Great, let's build a wallet! …But first—what *is* a wallet?" Me: "It's t...

www.linkedin.com

Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · Jun 2

I was chatting with chatgpt on how to make a fintech app on Fragment. I thought the conversation was pretty interesting so I asked it to turn our conversation into an essay. Naturally it swapped me into the role of Fragment neophyte and itself into the role of Fragment expert.

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · May 13

This is not the language to publicly post the day your party leader announces their new cabinet. All this does is confirms to decision makers in the party that they made the right choice leaving you out.

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · May 6

I'm at stripe sessions next few days. I'll be at the fragment booth off and on. Let me know if you are here and want to say hi.

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · Apr 29

Seat deltas per province compared to 2021.