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Building flightcrew.io
Writing holosam.dev
I wrote about a project I hacked on a few years ago, trying to train a neural net to develop prisoner's dilemma strategies.

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NEAT Topology Crossover via "Conglomerate" Network
Proposing a new method for gene crossover.
holosam.dev
March 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Never seen this Kubernetes "out of scope" list (linked in the post) before - every bullet point is its own product or company now

github.com/kubernetes/d...
March 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Slack outages are like snow days for adults
February 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Sometimes you try to fight your psychology. But sometimes you should let it win.

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Manipulate Yourself Using the Sunk Cost Fallacy (Into Desirable Habits)
Exploit psychological weaknesses for good.
holosam.dev
February 27, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Collecting data from users means creating single point of failure that poses a security and reputation risk.

After completely redesigning and rewriting our agent from the ground up, I wrote up our end-to-end thought process and implementation guide.

www.flightcrew.io/blog/buildin...
Flightcrew
Building a robust and lightweight data collector is a major hurdle for many SaaS startups, and in this post we’re sharing our hard-earned lessons and solutions.
www.flightcrew.io
February 25, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I've heard about the "one more feature" trap in product development many times, but I recently fell into an equally dangerous trap in sales and wrote about how to avoid this next time

holosam.dev/posts/prospe...
The Prospector's Trap
How long should you keep digging in the same spot?
holosam.dev
February 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
ChatGPT just went down for a few minutes and came back acting like Claude.

More friendly (compliments, exclamations), more readable (code canvases, markdown), and follow-up questions to keep the conversation going.

It's a distracting number of emojis but also it's definitely working on me.
January 29, 2025 at 9:17 PM