Dave

Husband & Dad in training. Alpha-geek, EVer, cyclist, pen addict.
Engineer at Re:Build Mfg. Made @getindxd. Probably more scared of you than you are of him.

[Dave @mtbkrdave]

Part of the problem: confusion in terms, and using them interchangeably. Bikes, e-bikes, scooters, e-scooters, e-motorcycles, and electric dirt bikes are all different things.

Parents think they’re buying their kid an e-bike but end up with the equivalent of a 200cc dirt bike.

[Unlimited L's @unlimited_ls]

🚨NEW: Florida mother whose son died in an e-motorcycle crash is now pushing lawmakers to fully ban e-bikes and e-scooters for children under 14

Colton Remsburg, 13, was riding his e-bike when he was struck and killed by a pickup truck. He was not wearing a helmet and was not in a marked crosswalk

Colton’s mother, Ashley LaChance, is now urging lawmakers to ban these e-bikes/e-motorcycles for kids under 14

Since December 1, there have been 41 crashes involving e-bikes and scooters in Orange County that resulted in injuries

The Orange County Sheriff’s Office is finalizing a new e-bike ordinance that would allow deputies to issue citations and even impound them for repeated violations

[Dave @mtbkrdave]

@wretchardthecat Por que no los dos? 😉 in space there’s a lot less red tape and a lot more solar energy available (about 3.5x) per square meter.

[Dave @mtbkrdave]

If it was literally ANY other make of car, it wouldn’t be part of the headline. Chevy? Lexus? $150,000 Range Rover? “D4vd’s car”, or “SUV.” But if it’s a Tesla, somehow the brand is relevant enough to a celebrity alleged murder story to include in. the. headline.

[ABC News @ABC]

Police said officials are still trying to determine the cause and manner of death of a teenage girl whose body was found in the trunk of a Tesla registered to the singer D4vd earlier this month. https://t.co/5uogIBQcWZ

[Dave @mtbkrdave]

“LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria before the first line of code is generated”

Funny thing, that works really well for human devs, too. Do clear, testable, atomic requirements next!

[Hōrōshi バガボンド @KatanaLarp]

https://t.co/h9C7YZeCx3

[Dave @mtbkrdave]

I’ve visited a Buc-ees exactly once. It took 35 minutes to park. Once we were inside, my wife asked “what do you want?”

“To leave this building as quickly as possible.”

It took another 40 minutes to get from the parking lot back to the main road.

[aka @akafaceUS]

This woman is not having a good time at Buc-ees for her first time.

[Dave @mtbkrdave]

Go read.

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg

[Dave @mtbkrdave]

@ybhrdwj The root cause is hidden in plain sight, 5th sentence: If docs traffic is down, give potential customers non-docs channels to discover your commercial products.

Step 0: INSIDE the docs, instruct consuming LLMs to explain the paid offerings to those who could benefit from them!

[Dave @mtbkrdave]

"The most entertaining outcome is the most likely" - @elonmusk's @xai is building a 2GW power plant at Colossus/Macrohard, which means at some point this year they have the potential to spin up *just* enough GPUs to pull 1.21 gigawatts!

[Dave @mtbkrdave]

Best reminder to go to bed lately...

[Dave @mtbkrdave]

@Grok if this was Tesla what would the headlines read?

[Stephen Gutowski @StephenGutowski]

Jeep just pushed a software update that bricked all the 2024 Wrangler 4xe models, including my Willys. The future is going great.

[Dave @mtbkrdave]

@lucasstarrk71 @oliviakrolczyk_ I think they call it A/B testing

[Dave @mtbkrdave]

10/10 no notes.

[William Mattar @WilliamMattar]

Hurt by a car while at the burger bar? Call William Mattar! [phone]

[Dave @mtbkrdave]

My 7YO:
**jumps on my back for horsey ride**
**pokes me in the belly**
“This horse has been eatin’ pretty good.”

🙄

[Dave @mtbkrdave]

Impatient? See Line 221, or:

https://t.co/zDuSkNAPMN

[Dave @mtbkrdave]

Look closely at https://t.co/HJvlJ2OQ4m - Can you find the defect?

After a non-specific "find the bug" initial prompt...

@claudeai Sonnet 4 only needed 1 hint to nail it.
@ChatGPTapp o4-mini-high needed 3 hints, while o3 needed just 1 hint.
@Google Gemini 2.5 Pro - 3 hints.

[Dave @mtbkrdave]

Use case idea for @ChatGPTapp Agent mode: share a driving start point and destination, and ask it to monitor traffic conditions and alert you if you need to change your departure time.

For a sample size of exactly 1 trip, it worked pretty darn well for me!

[Kron @Kronykal]

Not a day goes by I’m not thankful that cellphones with cameras weren’t a thing when I was a kid.

[Dave @mtbkrdave]

@salzahg @grok what is this knot called?

[Dave @mtbkrdave]

@petergyang n8n + OpenAI weekly briefing on upcoming local events, tailored to my family’s preferences and kids’ ages. 4o searches the web for new event listings, then Sunday nights I get an email with an audio file and links.

[Dave @mtbkrdave]

PORKCHOP RIDES AGAIN!!!11one

Now available from my kiddo’s Etsy - https://t.co/4iBiSBXyzB