Ryan E. Brock

📱🔨 Building the Pixel phone #Google.
⚾ Baseball analysis just for fun
🕶 PhD Materials Science @Stanford '16. @NorthwesternU '11.

[Ryan E. Brock @RyanEBrock]

Just waiting for the free market to kick in and stop climate change. Any day now

[Ryan E. Brock @RyanEBrock]

Full open-source setup guide:
https://t.co/aKczuGHVl9

Don't have a spare Pixel? A Pixel 7a runs the full stack for ~$150 on eBay.

[Ryan E. Brock @RyanEBrock]

Been playing around with @claudeai Claude Code more and more. I had a spare refurb Pixel 10 Pro sitting in a drawer... Turns out it has the same specs as the typical @openclaw mini PC.

So I made it one! Say hello to Pixie Agent.

[Ryan E. Brock @RyanEBrock]

It triages my email every morning, manages my home server, and controls my @home_assistant - basically a home digital personal assistant.

All from @Discord, from anywhere.

Zero extra hardware. The phone was already in a drawer. This has been super fun to set up and play with!

[Ryan E. Brock @RyanEBrock]

@derek_j_morris Nothing and "without an ID" continues to be half true as I said before...

If you're saying it's fraud you should just say it so we can stop pretending this is evidence based?

[Ryan E. Brock @RyanEBrock]

@derek_j_morris What is gained by restricting it in that way?

[Ryan E. Brock @RyanEBrock]

@derek_j_morris It seems like a pointless energy barrier.

https://t.co/ATBnyZEsnA

🤷‍♂️ Actually sounds like it doesn't really matter to turnout, but at least the point they make here was that there's no good reason to restrict it...

[Ryan E. Brock @RyanEBrock]

@derek_j_morris "no one checks"

[Ryan E. Brock @RyanEBrock]

@seanjsanders @AnxiousHolly I was actually impressed by that too. But don't worry, JerryRig is never more than a few moments away from doing something irreparable and stupid like snapping it in half on purpose or holding a lighter to the screen...

[Ryan E. Brock @RyanEBrock]

@derek_j_morris You need ID to register and they signature match to your registration. There's a high trust society joke in here somewhere...

[Chris Kavanagh @C_Kavanagh]

Yes this is from 4chan. The point remains extremely valid. The conspiracy theorists are massive hypocrites and almost always political partisans.

[Ryan E. Brock @RyanEBrock]

As long as old white people keep showing up to Guardians games wearing the racist hat, there's no way this team will win a WS

[Michael Thomas @curious_founder]

I think about this cartoon a lot.

[Ryan E. Brock @RyanEBrock]

Scope the "E" badge at the beginning. Temp badge. Either a new hire, or someone on vacation who is checking out a Google office that isn't their home office.

If a new hire, one thing that is 100% true of Google is that onboarding wastes the time of everyone involved.

[Ryan E. Brock @RyanEBrock]

This is true. Love the people I work with, but the ones still primary driving on iPhones and Apple Watch should understand they are part of a cultural problem, especially the senior folks.

[Dan Luu @danluu]

A former Apple engineer discusses Google product culture:

> My director wore an Apple Watch and had an iPhone ... my VP too. Nobody was expected to eat the dog food and so few did. This was crazy to me coming from Apple ....

[Ryan E. Brock @RyanEBrock]

Leave Google alone

[David Pfau @pfau]

My basic political philosophy is that monopolies are bad but the decline of Bell Labs set back human civilization by several decades. I'm still not sure how to reconcile this.

[Ryan E. Brock @RyanEBrock]

@seanjsanders Spoken like a true person over 30, you don't even have to have kids yourself but you're old enough to know people that do!

I do really need to see an extended Sean-taunting-Erick sequence about this though.

[Ryan E. Brock @RyanEBrock]

It's funny how once you have kids you can just immediately place someone's age by how stupid the shit they say about time management is

[Basil🧡 @LinkofSunshine]

I actually disagree, its pretty easy to meet friends after work from like 5:30-8 and then get home and have two-three hours to yourself