Delicious cortado at Little Joy Coffee in Northfield. ☕️

Two cups of coffee with latte art are served on wooden trays alongside glasses of water.

I’m not eager to have someone riding my bumper, but…

BACK OFF BUMPER HUMPER!!!
MY BREAKS ARE GOOD!
HOW ABOUT YOUR INSURANCE?

😬

I’ve been using ChatGPT so much that I hit the limits on my Plus account. I’ve been getting so much value out of it I made the jump to ChatGPT Pro. I’m curious to explore some of the advanced features further. 🧠

I created my very first location-based POAP. Our “Peanuts Tree” is a popular spot on Cannon Lake and you can now mint a POAP if you visit it. I’m going to place a QR code by it so visitors can get more info. Will anybody do it? I don’t know, but it is fun either way. See screen recording of mint.

Screen recording claiming my very first location-based POAP.

Smashburgers! 🍔🍔🍔

Lucky and I.

The Summer of 2025 Magic Pines POAP is now minting! Available for visitors until Labor Day. 🤩

Related: Magic Pines Summer POAPs for 2022, 2023, and 2024.

I’m wondering what MCP endpoints I would like to have:

  • My blog
  • Weekly Thing
  • OmniFocus, that could be amazing
  • Manuals for stuff I own
  • My media library
  • My photo library
  • My house, or whatever that would mean

Boat Day 2025! Got the boat out just in time to get on Cannon Lake for Memorial Day.

How cool that the S3 Files app added a local MCP server so you can expose any S3 bucket of files to Claude or Cursor for local use.

Traeger Grill

My brother-in-law got a Traeger Grill a while back and he found he was never using it. They decided to get a Blackstone Flat Top and I volunteered to provide a good home for the Traeger they didn’t want. I got it fired up for the first time tonight.

Why get this when I’ve got a perfectly good Big Green Egg already? Brisket. I’ve never been able to do brisket acceptably on the Big Green Egg and I’m hoping I can get a great product off of the Traeger. Sure is simple to get going!

Got to do a firmware update on the Traeger Grill. 🤓

TeamSPS at the Cristy Rey “Ungala” tonight celebrating our long-standing partnership with the organization. It is a great program and amazing results. Proud that SPS Commerce can be part of it!

We put a Phyn Plus in our home and I had to celebrate getting to do a firmware update. The unit is now inline and it is super interesting to see the data on water consumption. I’m really curious to see what this shows over time. Plus a solid discount on homeowners insurance for having it. 💧

I’ve been a bit obsessed thinking about AI agents and this definition shared by Willison from Anthropic’s Hannah Moran works for me.

Agents are models using tools in a loop.

Perfect. I might add “and have a memory” to that too, but that isn’t required.

Omnivore announced they were shutting down last October, but it wasn’t until this week I saw a group of Omnivore addresses subscribed to the Weekly Thing bounce. Seems they turned off the email addresses now.

Dave Winer today…

Where AI fits in

  • The Beatles
  • Personal computers
  • The web
  • Napster
  • AI

It is interesting and I’ve made similar comparisons lately myself. It matters who your audience and point is for such a list. For technologists I keep saying it is like…

  • GUI
  • Internet
  • Cloud
  • Mobile

I think of those because they changed nearly everything about how technologists do their craft. I believe AI is going to do that too.

I went looking for this photo that I knew I had of my by an SR-71 Blackbird. I found it and then selected map view. It is cool how you can see the plane in the aerial satellite view. Location is pretty accurate at U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Nice dinner at Oceanaire with our partners from Cognisive visiting from Hyderabad, India.