Joel Mulkey

Husband, father of 2 boys, Jesus follower, entrepreneur, previously founded and led the team at @BigleafNetworks

[Joel Mulkey @joelmulkey]

@BigleafNetworks I predict flawless performance...unless the laptop gets too wet, then the magic smoke comes out.

[Joel Mulkey @joelmulkey]

Support the launch at: https://t.co/XjkEK7Ucqb

[Joel Mulkey @joelmulkey]

Breakdown launched on Product Hunt today! Come support our launch for better network monitoring and troubleshooting! Link below...

[Joel Mulkey @joelmulkey]

This is a sweet tool - perfect for when calls get choppy and you're not sure why.

[Breakdown @GetBreakdown]

Sick of the app and network issues remaining a mystery? Breakdown pulls off the blinders and supercharges your network awareness.

[Joel Mulkey @joelmulkey]

Hey @thsottiaux - Sol (medium, high) seems a lot dumber in the last few days. Forgetting key instructions, making choices I'd expect of GPT-5.4. Did something change?

[Grid Breakdown @BreakdownGrid]

Codex sees an API timeout, but it can't see whether Wi-Fi, the ISP path, or the service was unhealthy then. Breakdown's local MCP adds recent Wi-Fi/LAN, ISP-path, and app evidence, so the agent can decide what deserves attention first. https://t.co/5utJPvv9mn

[Breakdown @GetBreakdown]

Full Wi-Fi bars only describe the radio link to your access point. They don't tell you whether the LAN, ISP path, or app is healthy. Breakdown keeps those fault domains separate so a strong signal doesn't send you troubleshooting the wrong thing.

[Grid Breakdown @BreakdownGrid]

Full Wi-Fi bars but Zoom or Teams is choppy? It may be beyond your network. How do you know?

I work on Breakdown, a Mac app that reveals whether trouble comes from Wi-Fi, your ISP, the broader Internet, or the app itself.

Free for standard use: https://t.co/Yr4O8mZuRE

[Joel Mulkey @joelmulkey]

@sama Made with 5.3-codex, 5.4, 5.5, and now finally released after 5.6 helped finish it:

Breakdown - figure out the problem is your WiFi, the Internet, or the App.

https://t.co/0CK25u9JUB

[Joel Mulkey @joelmulkey]

The case I was seeing was when I had told subagents not to delegate work, but they were not obeying. They seemed unaware of the need to do the work themselves. It turns out this was from seeing too much of the main thread context.

[Joel Mulkey @joelmulkey]

If you're having trouble with Codex custom agents obeying instructions, tell the main agent to set fork_context: false before launching the subagents. This fixed a frustrating issue where subagents wouldn't obey instructions.

[Joel Mulkey @joelmulkey]

@flybayer @Flightcontrolhq Congrats Brandon and team!

[The Hotshot Wake Up @HotshotWake]

California wildfires: The expected and understandable knee jerk reaction after during fires like the Palisades and Eaton, is to try to immediately find blame.

Folks must remember that this is still an emerging situation, firefighters are still responding, and homes are still burning. When you find someone on the ground with their leg cut off, you stop the bleeding first, then find the cause, then further address the issues that led to someone on the ground with a missing leg…

There are a few major long standing issues in California and important things to remember about wildfires like this.

First: I have personally been on numerous wildfires with Hotshot crews in Malibu and Santa Barbara during Christmas. These Santa Ana wind fueled “winter” fires are not unprecedented.

Second: What is unprecedented is the level of destruction these fires cause due to the long standing issues with fuel mitigation efforts statewide, and around communities. There and numerous homes that could have been saved if they removed the overgrown vegetation around their homes. Not all would have been saved, but a lot.

There are many roadblocks to this work getting done… lawsuits, weak community leadership, and a lack of will. This must change or these types of destructive fires will continue across southern California.

Third: California has a arson problem. We do not know yet if this is the case with these fires, but it’s a major issue. 2024 was the second highest arson arrests by Cal Fire, only behind 2022.

There are many factors here as I’ve reported on before, mental health issues, homelessness, people pushing political addenda’s, and individuals who just like lighting fires. The Park Fire this summer was an arson fire started by a criminal with a long record. That became the third largest fire in California’s history.

Fourth: Actually hold leaders accountable for the lack of action taken to reduce the hazardous fuel loading across your state. Prescribed fires were halted in the fall of 2024 due to lack of resources. This is a necessary tool to reduce the devastation these types of fires cause.

Finally, can we have a little compassion… people are dying in these fires and the internet is full of “fuck the rich”, “let it burn”, “fuck the homeless”, and pure filth.

This is an everyone problem. Real work needs to be done, actual labor. These fires are horrific, and will continue until these long ignored problems are addressed.

[Joel Mulkey @joelmulkey]

@flybayer @usesummit For a full detailed model, @CausalHQ is amazing. For simple stuff, Excel :)

[KGW News @KGWNews]

Before Oregon's record-breaking 2024 wildfire season began in earnest, we spoke with the young men and women training for the fire lines at a fire school in Sweet Home.

Watch the full report tonight on #TheStoryKGW at 6:30 p.m. (https://t.co/tvqvXeQgut)

[Joel Mulkey @joelmulkey]

I'm excited to bring this pervasive connectivity to wildland firefighters, hurricane response, and other incidents!

[Rangair @RangairUAS]

Check out this live demo of our Airborne Broadband Network in action!

We connect an off-the-shelf tablet through our drone-based Internet service for access to real-time data and video.

Contact us to get Rangair for your incident response.

#wildfire #uas #firetech

[Oregon Forestry @ORDeptForestry]

ODF has launched the Prescribed Fire Liability Program. This pilot program is intended to increase use of prescribed fire and cultural burning and support fire practitioners by providing liability coverage for enrolled burns.

Learn more https://t.co/3FQxMwOB1C

[Joel Mulkey @joelmulkey]

Impressive, way to step up and serve people.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

We are making a system update to allow all Starlinks in the affected areas to work, regardless of payment.

Software update hopefully completed tonight. Tomorrow at the latest.

[DOIWildlandFire (archived) @DOIWildlandFire]

#ITProDay: our IT professionals constantly work behind the scenes to keep crucial programs running that support wildland fire management, like wildland fire dispatching. Thank you, IT professionals, your hard work & innovation helps protect lives, property, & natural resources!

[Mark Nelsen @MarkNelsenWx]

Fire season in PACNW? We haven't seen this much acreage burned (in OR/WA) since at least 2000 (don't have stats for previous decades). Another period of cool/showery weather midweek will help dampen forests a bit more. No sign of hot/dry east wind west of Cascades = good