Chad Fowler
@chadfowler.com
GP&CTO @blueyard.com
Author, musician, speaker, developer
https://chadfowler.com/
I'm on Germ DM 🔑
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Author, musician, speaker, developer
https://chadfowler.com/
I'm on Germ DM 🔑
anchr://ger.mx/A4ThL8vo6C6uygkNTQKyjHTSc9ZUaQWU0s5aVU3Io2s4#did:plc:4qsyxmnsblo4luuycm3572bq
Sad to be missing @syncconf.bsky.social this week!
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Sad to be missing @syncconf.bsky.social this week!
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Myself and @seaofclouds.com will be packing new @inkandswitch.com and @automerge.org stickers at @syncconf.bsky.social tomorrow
Looking forward to seeing everyone!
Looking forward to seeing everyone!
November 12, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Myself and @seaofclouds.com will be packing new @inkandswitch.com and @automerge.org stickers at @syncconf.bsky.social tomorrow
Looking forward to seeing everyone!
Looking forward to seeing everyone!
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open source is free as in “you’re free to do it yourself”, not free as in “you have to build what I want even though I’ve paid you zero dollars”
Preparing my talk for JSConf JP and I finally drew my mental venn diagram about how Node.js development works 🤪
November 12, 2025 at 5:11 AM
open source is free as in “you’re free to do it yourself”, not free as in “you have to build what I want even though I’ve paid you zero dollars”
I'm heading to MozFest in Barcelona tomorrow. Anyone there that wants to meet up? Could be about open source, AI, software development, music, investments, politics, anything.
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I'm heading to MozFest in Barcelona tomorrow. Anyone there that wants to meet up? Could be about open source, AI, software development, music, investments, politics, anything.
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Live today at 2pm ET – an open conversation with Carson Farmer and @chadfowler.com on building a decentralized skill market for Al with Recall Network.
📍 www.youtube.com/live/BvQsWZ4...
📍 www.youtube.com/live/BvQsWZ4...
Building a decentralized skill market for AI with Recall
YouTube video by BlueYard Capital
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October 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Live today at 2pm ET – an open conversation with Carson Farmer and @chadfowler.com on building a decentralized skill market for Al with Recall Network.
📍 www.youtube.com/live/BvQsWZ4...
📍 www.youtube.com/live/BvQsWZ4...
A new kind of tech debt: knowingly allowing the context window to grow, when you know you're at a clean break spot and have an artifact you can use to easily rehydrate the salient bits.
November 4, 2025 at 12:36 AM
A new kind of tech debt: knowingly allowing the context window to grow, when you know you're at a clean break spot and have an artifact you can use to easily rehydrate the salient bits.
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Streaming live now on X – @chadfowler.com joins Recall Network's In the Arena with Carson Farmer
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Recall on X: "In the Arena with BlueYard CTO & GM Chad Fowler https://t.co/nXw93EoNji" / X
In the Arena with BlueYard CTO & GM Chad Fowler https://t.co/nXw93EoNji
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October 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Streaming live now on X – @chadfowler.com joins Recall Network's In the Arena with Carson Farmer
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x.com/recallnet/st...
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Lately I've been thinking about orphaned code. Code that's still running, live, with no remaining developers or users.
Forgotten hardware devices. Deserted VMs on cloud free tiers. Smart contracts whose DAOs disbanded years ago. Old school internet worms. Abandoned, starving Tamagotchi.
Forgotten hardware devices. Deserted VMs on cloud free tiers. Smart contracts whose DAOs disbanded years ago. Old school internet worms. Abandoned, starving Tamagotchi.
October 21, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Lately I've been thinking about orphaned code. Code that's still running, live, with no remaining developers or users.
Forgotten hardware devices. Deserted VMs on cloud free tiers. Smart contracts whose DAOs disbanded years ago. Old school internet worms. Abandoned, starving Tamagotchi.
Forgotten hardware devices. Deserted VMs on cloud free tiers. Smart contracts whose DAOs disbanded years ago. Old school internet worms. Abandoned, starving Tamagotchi.
Improvised chamber music, spontaneously composed and performed on sunday, october 4th
Personnel:
flute - me
alto flute - me
bass flute - me
clarinet - me
soprano sax - me
c melody sax - me
drums - you?
vocals - you?
piano - you?
guitar - you?
generative visual art: you
chadfowler.com/sunday/
Personnel:
flute - me
alto flute - me
bass flute - me
clarinet - me
soprano sax - me
c melody sax - me
drums - you?
vocals - you?
piano - you?
guitar - you?
generative visual art: you
chadfowler.com/sunday/
sunday
Interactive audio visualizer with adaptive music analysis. Click to play and experience sunday.
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October 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Improvised chamber music, spontaneously composed and performed on sunday, october 4th
Personnel:
flute - me
alto flute - me
bass flute - me
clarinet - me
soprano sax - me
c melody sax - me
drums - you?
vocals - you?
piano - you?
guitar - you?
generative visual art: you
chadfowler.com/sunday/
Personnel:
flute - me
alto flute - me
bass flute - me
clarinet - me
soprano sax - me
c melody sax - me
drums - you?
vocals - you?
piano - you?
guitar - you?
generative visual art: you
chadfowler.com/sunday/
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New In Print - IN FULL COLOR!
Advanced Hands-on Rust by @herberticus.bsky.social
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Advanced Hands-on Rust by @herberticus.bsky.social
pragprog.com/titles/...
Check the newsletter for a discount on the ebook! media.pragprog.com/n...
October 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
New In Print - IN FULL COLOR!
Advanced Hands-on Rust by @herberticus.bsky.social
pragprog.com/titles/...
Check the newsletter for a discount on the ebook! media.pragprog.com/n...
Advanced Hands-on Rust by @herberticus.bsky.social
pragprog.com/titles/...
Check the newsletter for a discount on the ebook! media.pragprog.com/n...
How many MAUs does notepad.exe have?
October 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
How many MAUs does notepad.exe have?
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I’ve experienced this first hand a bunch myself, where someone clearly piped AI output direct to me without sufficient review. I reflexively turn to those folks less now.
This isn’t a pessimistic view of LLMs, use them! Just read & review before sending.
This isn’t a pessimistic view of LLMs, use them! Just read & review before sending.
September 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I’ve experienced this first hand a bunch myself, where someone clearly piped AI output direct to me without sufficient review. I reflexively turn to those folks less now.
This isn’t a pessimistic view of LLMs, use them! Just read & review before sending.
This isn’t a pessimistic view of LLMs, use them! Just read & review before sending.
Over the past few years, I’ve had the good fortune to find a community of like-minded technologists working to make sense of a rapidly evolving landscape—one in which we risk becoming subservient to the very tools we’ve built.
agentictech.substack.com/p/a-quiet-mo...
agentictech.substack.com/p/a-quiet-mo...
A quiet movement is forming: entrepreneurs building for human agency — not just agents’ sake.
Read our invitation to join the discussion around building truly agentic tech: products that preserve human agency.
agentictech.substack.com
September 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Over the past few years, I’ve had the good fortune to find a community of like-minded technologists working to make sense of a rapidly evolving landscape—one in which we risk becoming subservient to the very tools we’ve built.
agentictech.substack.com/p/a-quiet-mo...
agentictech.substack.com/p/a-quiet-mo...
This was fun!
What if you design and machines code?
@chadfowler.com joins us on #TheRubyAIPodcast to unpack agents, spec-first dev, and Rails conventions as guardrails #RubyOnRails #RubyAI www.therubyaipodcast.com/2388930/epis...
@chadfowler.com joins us on #TheRubyAIPodcast to unpack agents, spec-first dev, and Rails conventions as guardrails #RubyOnRails #RubyAI www.therubyaipodcast.com/2388930/epis...
September 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This was fun!
Increasingly rare indeed.
September 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Increasingly rare indeed.
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if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war
September 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war
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Congratulations, you’ve reached the end of your doomscrolling
September 3, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Congratulations, you’ve reached the end of your doomscrolling
This is how the world ends - not with a bang, but with 'circle back if you need anything'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=34nb...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=34nb...
This is how the world ends - not with a bang, but with 'circle back if you need anything'
YouTube video by Chad Fowler
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August 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
This is how the world ends - not with a bang, but with 'circle back if you need anything'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=34nb...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=34nb...
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The real bottleneck for useful AI isn’t just model quality.
It’s the walls around our data.
A thread on walled gardens, economic incentives, and why even the best models can’t help us if they can’t see us. 🧵
It’s the walls around our data.
A thread on walled gardens, economic incentives, and why even the best models can’t help us if they can’t see us. 🧵
May 30, 2025 at 9:05 AM
The real bottleneck for useful AI isn’t just model quality.
It’s the walls around our data.
A thread on walled gardens, economic incentives, and why even the best models can’t help us if they can’t see us. 🧵
It’s the walls around our data.
A thread on walled gardens, economic incentives, and why even the best models can’t help us if they can’t see us. 🧵
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@ruperts.world mentioning this thread: bsky.app/profile/chad...
The real bottleneck for useful AI isn’t just model quality.
It’s the walls around our data.
A thread on walled gardens, economic incentives, and why even the best models can’t help us if they can’t see us. 🧵
It’s the walls around our data.
A thread on walled gardens, economic incentives, and why even the best models can’t help us if they can’t see us. 🧵
August 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
@ruperts.world mentioning this thread: bsky.app/profile/chad...
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@ruperts.world listing his buckets for thinking about different types of protocols #protocolsforpublishers
August 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
@ruperts.world listing his buckets for thinking about different types of protocols #protocolsforpublishers
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One tangible problem with AI hype is that there is a degree of provocative hypothesis that is necessary in order for people to think a little differently about old problems.
But then the hype goes so far that it becomes detached from technical reality, and thus, disqualifies itself.
But then the hype goes so far that it becomes detached from technical reality, and thus, disqualifies itself.
August 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
One tangible problem with AI hype is that there is a degree of provocative hypothesis that is necessary in order for people to think a little differently about old problems.
But then the hype goes so far that it becomes detached from technical reality, and thus, disqualifies itself.
But then the hype goes so far that it becomes detached from technical reality, and thus, disqualifies itself.