Jamie Thingelstad

Writer of The Weekly Thing. Explorer of tech, the open web, AI, and a good escape room. Minneapolis is home.

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I was inspired by the time analysis I had Claude do last week on what it took to send the Weekly Thing so I decided to build in some additional logging and a better visualization. Now I get a report like this for each issue I send. WT352 showed some benefits from my new automation! 🪄

Stats card for issue 352: 2 h 05 m writing in 10 sittings, Notable took 54 m, and most time fell on the final Sunday.

Working with Otto this morning to create a new version of my mb utility that will extend features and provide an MCP interface for agents to interact with micro.blog.

We went to BRKTHROUGH tonight and tried out their various games. We’ve been to Activate many times. BRKTHROUGH seems like a good place for a larger group and adds food and beer options. We found Activate’s games better though.

Selfie of four people under a blue neon "Enter the Game" sign, with a lit hexagonal tunnel entrance and pricing screen behind.

My newest MCP experiment was to add it in WT Builder and then Claude was able to watch me creating content in near real-time through tool calls and give me immediate feedback on typos and grammar suggestions.

Watt Window was my other demo highlight from Minnedemo. Combination of hardware and software to monitor industrial motors and increase efficiency. This is a real-world use case for how you can lower the carbon footprint of a plant. And, reliably predict equipment failures! Impressive!

A presenter at a laptop on stage, with an overhead camera projecting a DIN rail of wired terminal blocks onto a large screen. The presenter talks beside a projected web dashboard of circular gauges showing amps, volts, kWh and dollar costs per motor.

Beastbox was an amazing demo at Minnedemo. The engineering required to do signal detection in about 10ms to keep the time from beatboxing with your mouth to the audio being triggered is impressive.