Trek Glowacki
@trek.bsky.social
Helped start Ann Arbor's OG Coworking community, couponed at Groupon, usually working to get some startup acquired. Ember.js core emeritus. Paul Irish once called me a hero. ❤️ Ruby and JavaScript. 🏳️🌈. 📍Chicago.
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Who needs browser extensions when you can use bookmarklets?
Here is a bookmarklet that makes *any* website able to toggle between light and dark mode.
Site only has dark mode? you can make it light mode.
Site only has light mode? you can make it dark mode
Here is a bookmarklet that makes *any* website able to toggle between light and dark mode.
Site only has dark mode? you can make it light mode.
Site only has light mode? you can make it dark mode
December 13, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Who needs browser extensions when you can use bookmarklets?
Here is a bookmarklet that makes *any* website able to toggle between light and dark mode.
Site only has dark mode? you can make it light mode.
Site only has light mode? you can make it dark mode
Here is a bookmarklet that makes *any* website able to toggle between light and dark mode.
Site only has dark mode? you can make it light mode.
Site only has light mode? you can make it dark mode
Turns out many of the apartment buildings in Chicago I really like were all done by Robert DeGolyer
December 14, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Turns out many of the apartment buildings in Chicago I really like were all done by Robert DeGolyer
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also by the the talented @usagiboots.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
also by the the talented @usagiboots.bsky.social
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"co pay" is a brilliant rebranding by insurance companies of them not paying
December 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
"co pay" is a brilliant rebranding by insurance companies of them not paying
me too bitch u ain't special
December 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
me too bitch u ain't special
Truly do not understand the "you've got to adopt 'AI' now or be left behind" rhetoric. Doesn't that imply it's so complicated that if you're late to adopt it you'll never catch up? That seems like a really shitty pitch.
December 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Truly do not understand the "you've got to adopt 'AI' now or be left behind" rhetoric. Doesn't that imply it's so complicated that if you're late to adopt it you'll never catch up? That seems like a really shitty pitch.
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We have transitioned to Workday for all college functions. If you have not yet experienced this misfortune, imagine being being transported back to a corporate hellscape fever dream from 1997 and that’s just where you live now.
December 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
We have transitioned to Workday for all college functions. If you have not yet experienced this misfortune, imagine being being transported back to a corporate hellscape fever dream from 1997 and that’s just where you live now.
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It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
December 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
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I try to stay grateful for free things but I am losing my cool with how GitHub can no longer count to 10 comments without taking off its socks.
December 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I try to stay grateful for free things but I am losing my cool with how GitHub can no longer count to 10 comments without taking off its socks.
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Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
December 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
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is there a *mr* information?
December 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
is there a *mr* information?
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Soon. Maybe initially it was neat to gen images and text—novel. Now, as creative shifts towards a statistical center, we notice a bit more that AI is primarily a tool of exploitation. A bit more sense-making happening at the edges in 2nd/3rd order effects. It's so new and alive, yet... decaying.
Stunned we haven't seen the rise of "anti-AI" businesses.
Media outlets that promise human reporting and authorship.
Shopping sites that promise human curation.
Art sites that promise human creation.
"How do I avoid slop?" is gonna be a defining question in 2026. Businesses should answer it.
Media outlets that promise human reporting and authorship.
Shopping sites that promise human curation.
Art sites that promise human creation.
"How do I avoid slop?" is gonna be a defining question in 2026. Businesses should answer it.
December 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Soon. Maybe initially it was neat to gen images and text—novel. Now, as creative shifts towards a statistical center, we notice a bit more that AI is primarily a tool of exploitation. A bit more sense-making happening at the edges in 2nd/3rd order effects. It's so new and alive, yet... decaying.
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I couldn’t leave Chicago without getting a cut from my old barber, Zariff!
December 11, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I couldn’t leave Chicago without getting a cut from my old barber, Zariff!
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One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them
December 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them
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I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY
December 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY
Your average app trying to figure out their unread notifications badge label
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5RO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5RO...
Clue (6/9) Movie CLIP - One Plus Two Plus Two Plus One (1985) HD
YouTube video by Movieclips
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Your average app trying to figure out their unread notifications badge label
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5RO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5RO...
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And, not to be a hater but...
If you hear someone saying cooling will be easier in space, you can instantly write them off as someone who has never read a single relevant book or paper and never talked to a single person with undergraduate level expertise. This is very basic.
If you hear someone saying cooling will be easier in space, you can instantly write them off as someone who has never read a single relevant book or paper and never talked to a single person with undergraduate level expertise. This is very basic.
December 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
And, not to be a hater but...
If you hear someone saying cooling will be easier in space, you can instantly write them off as someone who has never read a single relevant book or paper and never talked to a single person with undergraduate level expertise. This is very basic.
If you hear someone saying cooling will be easier in space, you can instantly write them off as someone who has never read a single relevant book or paper and never talked to a single person with undergraduate level expertise. This is very basic.
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can't get over the team behind the mcdonald's ad wanting credit for all the late nights and long hours they spent prompting for clips. you've somehow invented a form of ersatz creativity that recreates the suffering inherent to all creative work without any valuable output or intellectual growth
there’s just a certain type of person who would show up to your writer’s group wanting praise for presenting work but violently rejecting any form of constructive criticism that might improve it, and that right there is the target market for AI
December 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
can't get over the team behind the mcdonald's ad wanting credit for all the late nights and long hours they spent prompting for clips. you've somehow invented a form of ersatz creativity that recreates the suffering inherent to all creative work without any valuable output or intellectual growth
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The way you're taught that VC works is they fund 100 risky ventures and 99 of them fail. They lose money on those, in the hopes that the 1 that succeeds goes really big.
The reality is that VC looks a lot more like Ponzinomics. These guys make absolute BANK on failed moonshots.
The reality is that VC looks a lot more like Ponzinomics. These guys make absolute BANK on failed moonshots.
December 11, 2025 at 9:47 AM
The way you're taught that VC works is they fund 100 risky ventures and 99 of them fail. They lose money on those, in the hopes that the 1 that succeeds goes really big.
The reality is that VC looks a lot more like Ponzinomics. These guys make absolute BANK on failed moonshots.
The reality is that VC looks a lot more like Ponzinomics. These guys make absolute BANK on failed moonshots.
CRITICAL winter question: which sweater(s) should I keep?
December 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
CRITICAL winter question: which sweater(s) should I keep?
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"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 AM
"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard
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I don't know man, billionaires are raising their kids on private islands with wooden blocks as toys
Also, I don't hire people who know how to use iPads
Also, I don't hire people who know how to use iPads
December 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I don't know man, billionaires are raising their kids on private islands with wooden blocks as toys
Also, I don't hire people who know how to use iPads
Also, I don't hire people who know how to use iPads
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“Wait you mean it will require skilled technical operators and increase productivity but not change org charts or headcount very much and be in many/most cases more trouble than it’s worth like every other new form of automation ever?”
one reason the framing as "AI" is so bad is that it makes people think "interact with this like a person" when in fact the only way to make it remotely useful is "interact with it like an extremely powerful but extremely weird user interface"
This is really a huge part of why upper management is so in on AI. They think it will let them manage computers the way they currently manage the people who make the computer work. It will not.
December 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
“Wait you mean it will require skilled technical operators and increase productivity but not change org charts or headcount very much and be in many/most cases more trouble than it’s worth like every other new form of automation ever?”
I've worked at one (two?) places that started with and kept a high amount of engineering rigor: it was exactly what you'd expect: minimal paper cuts (i.e. flaky tests), super predictable velocity, weeks without uncaught exceptions or customer bug reports. Been chasing that high for 10+ years.
December 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I've worked at one (two?) places that started with and kept a high amount of engineering rigor: it was exactly what you'd expect: minimal paper cuts (i.e. flaky tests), super predictable velocity, weeks without uncaught exceptions or customer bug reports. Been chasing that high for 10+ years.