Thank you to Coach Antonio Veloso for your dedication to the program and good luck at Mission College. Once a Cougar, always a Cougar! Excited for the opportunity to coach hoops on the Coastside!
A guy bought a $1,500 Samsung TV 3 years ago.
He watched Netflix. He watched YouTube. He thought the picture looked fine. He assumed that's just what a TV looks like.
His friend, a home theater installer who calibrates TVs for a living, walked into his apartment and looked at the screen for 5 seconds.
"You're watching everything in demo mode. The motion smoothing is on. The eco dimmer is cutting your brightness by 40%. Your TV is taking a screenshot of your screen every 30 seconds and selling your viewing data to advertisers. And you're watching a $1,500 panel in the same picture mode Best Buy uses under fluorescent lights to make TVs pop on a showroom wall."
He changed 9 settings in 12 minutes.
The picture looked like a different television. The soap opera effect disappeared. The colors became natural. The TV stopped spying on him.
Here's every setting he changed 🧵
Yesterday Mark Cuban reposted my work, DM'd me, and told me to keep telling my story.
So here it is.
I'm a Master Electrician. IBEW Local 369. 15 years pulling wire in Kentucky. Zero coding background. I didn't go to Stanford. I went to trade school.
Every week I'd show up to a home where someone just bought a Tesla or a Rivian. And every time, someone had already told them they needed a $3,000-$5,000 panel upgrade to install a charger.
70% of the time? They didn't need it.
The math is in the NEC �� Section 220.82. Load calculations. But nobody was doing them for homeowners. Electricians upsell. Dealers don't know. And the homeowner just pays.
I got angry enough to build something about it.
I found @claudeai. No coding experience. I just started talking to it like I'd explain a job to an apprentice. "Here's how load calcs work. Here's the NEC code. Now help me build a tool that does this."
6 months later — @ChargeRight is live. Real software. Stripe payments. PDF reports. NEC 220.82 calculations automated. $12.99 instead of a $500 truck roll.
I'm still pulling wire. I still take service calls. I wake up at 5:05 AM for work.
But something shifted.
Yesterday @vivilinsv published my story as Claude Builder Spotlight #1. Mark Cuban saw it. The Claude community showed up. And for the first time, I felt like this thing I built in my kitchen might actually matter.
I'm not a tech founder. I'm a dad who wants to coach little league and be home for dinner. I just happened to build something that helps people.
If you're in the trades and thinking about using AI — do it. The barrier isn't technical skill. It's believing you're allowed to try.
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Girls BB: NEW Division State Ranks.
New No. 1 teams are Windward of Los Angeles (D1), Marin Catholic of Kentfield (D3), Half Moon Bay (D4) and Rosamond (D5). Still No. 1 is Ontario Christian (Open) and Caruthers (D2).
@HaroldAbend@HMBHSAthletics
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There’s a lot to unpack from the election, including the somewhat bizarre fact that across the globe incumbent parties that brought their countries through Covid are now losing elections in part - and I emphasize only in part - because of those Covid disruptions. Folks need to remember that the Biden/Harris administration did more for the working folks and the middle class in the USA than any administration in modern history. Yeah, we may have lost the cultures wars but because of the Inflation Reduction Act, the infrastructure bill, CHIPS and other economic measures, we have the strongest economy in world. Period. Remember that when others start to take credit for it come January.
@KasselMedia doesn’t it make sense to separate public and private, and have a small medium and large division in each with criteria of what constitutes each as far as size and demographics? CIF needs to define what each division means…
@KasselMedia After we read this from our first MA game, we agreed. We lined up a PA announcer for quads, and made sure we had experienced scoreboard operators. The only thing we can’t fix is the number of refs, since they are set by the league. We’ve had a few games with 3, but all should be.
15 points, five rebounds and five assists last night for @gavinglynn33, who did a little bit of everything for @HMBHSAthletics.
His 11 points in the first half kept the Cougars afloat.
Tonight we were blessed to be able to present him his championship ring and share this special moment with our Ohana (missing seniors from last year and some coaches)
Huge shoutout to @BaronRings and Tyler for making these for our program.
Go VIKINGS!! #Ohana#4sheldon