James Fryman

Technologist, Entrepreneur, Hacker and General Human. My views and opinions are my own. Side gig #3DPrinting at

[James Fryman @jfryman]

It’s icy out there. Don’t be like me - be careful. #icestorm

[James Fryman @jfryman]

My Sega Genesis has Wi-Fi now 📡✈️ (Live Radar!) https://t.co/uok0MOt3pN

I wrote about this a bit on my blog as well. https://t.co/mXaqqeGhq9

[James Fryman @jfryman]

@cwage I have this already hooked up to signal my Vestaboard when a flight comes nearby… so stay tuned.

[James Fryman @jfryman]

It turns out… you can just do things. Like… why not add an ESP32 to a Sega Genesis cartridge. And then, why not stream ADS-B data to it?

Introducing Mega WiFi Radar, a project that does exactly this!

[Brad Garlinghouse @bgarlinghouse]

Big news heading into @RippleSwell: the @USOCC has granted final approval for Ripple National Trust Bank.

This gives Ripple a federally supervised platform to support $RLUSD and provide digital asset custody to enterprises.

We’ve always said crypto and banks work better together — this is what that looks like. Real innovation, real accountability, federal oversight.

The revolution isn't happening outside the system. It's happening from within it.

[James Fryman @jfryman]

@vineerpasam Promotion Driven Design

[log4j @log4j]

finally found a company that truly listens to its customers

[Jamu Kakar @jkakar]

In light of the PHP vulnerability sweeping the universe today this couldn’t be more timely. We’ve built a platform with governance built in designed to run in your VPN away from evil. Hit me up for a demo and more details.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.

[James Fryman @jfryman]

@cwage Slow down, cowboy

[James Fryman @jfryman]

Every engineer I've managed told me lines of code was a meaningless metric. I agreed and fought management over it. Now my timeline is nothing but line counts. I'm tired, boss.

[James Fryman @jfryman]

25 years ago when the towers were hit, I was asleep - It was 11pm on Guam.

By the time I woke up the next morning, the news as lit up with coverage and the military base I lived on went into immediate lockdown.

For an entire week.

Everything changed that day.

[Jamu Kakar @jkakar]

The 90s dream of information as rich multimedia content is here with agents and artifacts. They're changing how people make decisions and get things done. We regularly generate and collaborate on several artifacts a day in the course of our work at Valet. https://t.co/wcOTex7l1W

[James Fryman @jfryman]

My daughter received a @dollyslibrary book today.

I got teary. A thousand thank yous to @DollyParton for not only enriching my family, but so many across the world.

[James Fryman @jfryman]

@DollyParton is the only celebrity I have shed tears over. Not because of what she created, but how she lived.

She was the best of us.

A true follower of Jesus in both words and actions.

Rest in peace. I hope to live a fraction of the life she did.

[James Fryman @jfryman]

Forget this tokenmaxxxing business.

I’m here when we finally start having the tokenrightsizing conversation.

[James Fryman @jfryman]

Dang. RIP @DollyParton. You were a real one.

[James Fryman @jfryman]

@TnTroll2727 Honestly wouldn’t surprise me if he got accidentally drugged/roofied. This is a real problem downtown. What happens after that …

[James Fryman @jfryman]

@fjzeit Are you signing as well? I have a few projects cross compiling like this, and have yet to setup Apple or Windows Signing.

[James Fryman @jfryman]

This is, without a doubt, the best endorsement for @grok that exists, ever.

@vmg is the standard to strive for as a serious engineer. If it’s good and works for him, then it’s worth giving a serious look at.

I know I am.

[Vicent Martí @vmg]

Seriously though, this is how I usually do these blog posts: I write down and edit a pretty final version of the post by hand, and leave placeholders that explain what the visualization should look like. Then I just pass it on to Grok 4.6 and let it cook!

I used to use Fable for visualizations (e.g. in the Indexed Grep blog post), which also does a very good job at interactive SVGs, but it had the very bad habit of going "I did your visualization and AKSHUALLY also fixed some of your English grammar because it seemed off". ffffffffffuu please dont fucking do that.

After testing 4.6 here and looking at the quality of the viz and how well it follows instructions (i.e. leaves my text alone, tyvm), I'm not going back!