Jason Kealey
softwareengineering.ca
Jason Kealey
@softwareengineering.ca
Exited startup founder giving it another whirl; software engineer.

Particularly interested in productizing LLMs to simplify workflows.
338 is at an Idiocracy-level of ads.
<slowly backs away>
February 26, 2025 at 11:48 AM
What do you loathe most? Shameless self promotion or this?
February 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Can’t believe I’m about to watch some hockey tonight.

(By “some”, I mean it’ll be the only 4 minutes I’ve spent watching hockey since WordPerfect was a thing.)

#4nations
February 21, 2025 at 12:48 AM
“It looks like you’d like to argue about geography but my guardrails prevent that”
February 18, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Tried Le Chat to give you additional data points. You’re there.
February 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I’ve lacked time to play with all the new toys but am installing Le Chat now and giving it a whirl.

On one hand, I feel like it’s coming in late but, on the other, we saw how quickly DeepSeek built momentum.

We’re starting an era where chatbot differentiation is getting harder to market.
February 12, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Pumped that I’ll be getting between $0.50 and $2.50 in Uber Eats coupons following a class action settlement in Quebec!

Gonna blow this windfall on some delicious beavertails!
February 9, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Been enjoying time learning new languages (python and Spanish) these past few months.

Feels like a productive use of my time and a good way to stay away from doomscrolling!

Hope the snow melts soon to start running again!
January 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Confetti is a nice touch for 28m users!
January 19, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Examples I just did right now.

I have PTSD from my previous battles to avoid it writing garbage text on an image I had requested.
January 14, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Splashtop also doesn't notify you of invoices... but they let you configure 4 types of notifications.
January 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Woot! I also got my first #1 today!
January 13, 2025 at 3:17 AM
While cleaning my kitchen, I found this fortune cookie message….

… I think universe is telling me to eat another After Eight mint from the nearby box….
January 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Ironic funding source for Signal.
January 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Me today:
January 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
You may have to stop when you hit one of these
January 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
In my free time I like to make contributions to open source
January 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Here's my prediction of changes to ads & social due to LLMs.

Who we trust is about to change.

The virtual life-of-the-party will play a pivotal role.

There's a business opportunity for tools to identify them, maintain small closed communities around them and help them monetize their efforts.
January 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I need to break out a thesaurus to properly define how I feel about the Blazor component lifecycle.

Seems easy at first but when you start having a bunch of embedded components passing down parameters, listening to events from injected services or wondering why OnInitialized is fired twice….
January 3, 2025 at 4:10 AM
January 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Just completed my last 5k run of 2024!

Walking/running was the best habit I picked up in the past 5 years. (Energy/mood/drive/wit)

PS: Was a bit slower than usual due to the 10lbs poutine baby I picked up over the past week or so, but am happy we had awesome weather to conclude the year!
December 31, 2024 at 8:23 PM
This build in public bot is too kind!
December 30, 2024 at 1:12 AM
Windows Explorer is being a bit dramatic today
December 29, 2024 at 6:09 PM
Found treasure while cleaning up in my office.
December 29, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Here’s photographic evidence of that moment:
December 27, 2024 at 11:59 PM