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Keefer 
@keefer@c.im
Husband. Dog dad. Public transportation enthusiast. I write software @ cash.app. Opinions my own (obviously!).
I go by he/him or they/them pronouns.
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- Nov 05, 2022
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I've seen variations of this posted online and always assumed they were jokes. But somewhere along the line, OpenAI trained the largest and most used LLM in the world that "strawberry" has only 2 r's, unless there is an extra... then there are 3. Mind blowing.
Every year, I'm always so excited for the CNE. Not because of the rides, or really the fair itself. Because it's like a weird vendor competition to see who can come up with (and sell) the strangest food items. This year, I rate:
- Wasabi ice cream 
- Deep fried pickle Oreos 
- Kool-aid fried chicken 
- Nitro-frozen cereal snacks 
Using LLM assistants in browsers to summarize overly lengthy LLM assistant generated articles 
Software engineering exists as a profession to generate unnecessary acronyms, change my mind
Ok yeah, 1 face Macbook please
Blarg
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It took a year, but it worked! Let's go!
Keefer boosted
boostedFast is a feature! 
I've spent a lot of time at my dentist lately (for reasons), and last week her assistant was out sick. I swear every other minute she would apologize for not having her assistant and "acting stupid."
Wrong take! Externalizing and delegating is probably the no. 1 most effective way to be a productive and organized person.
But when systems you come to rely on break down, it can make you feel helpless and stranded. Redundancies are important, too.
The Organized Mind should be required reading for every human
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18693669-the-organized-mind
GoodreadsThe Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Inf…New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Da…
When I was a kid and my parents would inevitably come to me for IT support, I used to judge them so hard for having hundreds of unread emails in their inbox. INBOX ZERO FTW!!
A while ago I realized *I have become my mom*, as I've repeatedly declared bankruptcy on my inbox for all personal and work-related accounts.
Today I get to be a bit of a vagabond 
Fast is a feature!
My 2023 goal is to see how many engineers I can get to parrot the phrase 'fast is a feature' and then see if that can become a reality
Write cute but useful readmes
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Also Slack's Markdown but not Markdown is 
Cmd+K has become the universal "make this a link" shortcut. I get that Slack has had Cmd+K open the command palette for years, but you gotta keep with the times.
I waste so much time trying to make links when chatting with my coworkers.
Is there an alternative Slack client out there that isn't so anti-user?