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…
- 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.
