Product, data and AI for problems too tangled to start. Built the Global Wine Database, ran Wine Folly. Now building https://xitter.cf/t.co/4CK2gsIkzk and more.
Kelowna, British Columbia
Joined March 2007
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Ask three apps where to eat tonight.
Yelp is built on a business and returns a review count. Resy is built on a table and returns a 7:30 booking. The Infatuation is built on a critic and returns a verdict.
The noun list is now the first design decision.
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Someone downloaded Forktales and asked to see what every user has uploaded. No. It's private by design, for now.
I think security and privacy are being forgotten in exchange for convenience.
Where have you picked privacy over a feature people asked for?
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Take the picture off this poster and you still know what the movie is about. Take the words off and you have an egg.
Now models get the words-only version of your product.
Which app still makes sense with only its words? 1/2
ALT Two line drawings of the 1979 Alien poster on black. Left, labelled The poster: the title, a cracked egg, the tagline In space no one can hear you scream and a grid floor. Right, labelled Only the words: the title and the tagline.
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I’m obsessed with using data to make the best decisions possible. Earlier this year I took that approach to camping in BC.
For years I camped at the same two places. BC has nearly 1,800 places to camp, but it’s overwhelming. So camping meant rolling the dice. 1/4
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The ten:
Recreation Sites and Trails BC
OpenStreetMap
BC Parks
Parks Canada
BC Wildfire Service for fires and bans
Open-Meteo for forecasts
OSRM for drive times
Statistics Canada for gas prices
B.C. Ministry of Finance for fuel tax
mountainbikingbc.ca for riding
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It ranks what’s within reach, customized to you. From Kelowna: under 4.5 hours’ drive, paved or gravel, some first-come sites, swimming and a hot spring within 50 km. 1,794 sites to 9.
Summit Lake is one. I camped there this summer.
Plan 2027 at abettercamper.com 4/4
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For those in British Columbia dealing with the Y2K bug that is timezones...How are we referencing this time zone? PST? PSTC? BCT?
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Pretty cool, but can it tell what is a hotdog?
youtube.com/watch?v=tWwCK95X…
Meet hunch! Jev-like decisions in ~20ms without even needing a GPU, learning live from a teacher model.
Built on @GoogleGemma's EmbeddingGemma 2, it can works with any teacher model like @CloudFlare's Clef.
Multimodal, w/a systemone endpoint, slots into your existing stack 🧵
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Looking for a print on demand book service to integrate with forktales.app. Getting requests to be able to take their recipes and print them out in a book, potentially as gifts. Send me your POD recommendations, looking for primarily north america centric today.
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How many phone calls have you "consented" to have the conversation recorded? I bet its way more than you realize. I haven't heard of anything being hacked yet to get this data, but I will not be surprised at the absolute shitstorm this unleashes once it does.
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Been quiet on here for a while. I've been heads-down building something, and honestly it's been the most fun I've had building in years. 1/7
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6/7 I designed and built it myself, working alongside AI agents, local and frontier models, Stripe, OpenRouter and more. 300+ commits in the first 14 days. Building this way has been a blast.
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7/7 On the side I made a couple of games (leveraged three.js), mostly for fun: a daily food quiz and an experimental island game with old Lost (TV Show) vibes. Both are rough, so tell me what you think.
forktales.app/quiz
forktales.app/kitchen
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