Lindy Grill

[Lindy Grill @nethingiam]

@SullyOmarr I’ve found you just need to be super explicit in the initial frame - “no implementation, no code, only coming up with hypothesis and questions to ask that could lead to productive design.”

Without that it just doesn’t get what I want out of a design/ideation session

[Lindy Grill @nethingiam]

Older lady just looked me right in the eyes and said “I LOVE when they’re large” in reference to my dog

[Lindy Grill @nethingiam]

Australians aren’t real people

[CHURRASCO SAUDADE @churrascooooo]

sun anglos are the superior race

[Lindy Grill @nethingiam]

@churrascooooo I briefly contemplated re running building the monolith and instantly knew I would puke on the platform mid workout

[Lindy Grill @nethingiam]

@velaatpub Literally me on some “this is water” type shit

[Lindy Grill @nethingiam]

I’m in the line at the Costco car wash and many people are saying they have never seen someone so zen and at peace, it’s me and the Dalai Lama.

Upon entering the wash itself I may ascend my earthly existence

[Lindy Grill @nethingiam]

@garrrish There is a 10% food tax in Seattle which is why everything feels insane

[Lindy Grill @nethingiam]

Now that I own linen pants I’ve never been more chill

[Lindy Grill @nethingiam]

It takes a lot to be horny in a place like Seattle. Miami? Yeah sure everyone is naked and hot. But Seattle, home of nonbinary furries who have been in the rain for the last 3 months? Salute brother

[hope hopes hoping @hopes_revenge]

@skooookum imagine nutting in one of these bad boys and leaving it on the floor for your wife to launder

[Lindy Grill @nethingiam]

In Berkeley for the afternoon any Lindy table there

[Lindy Grill @nethingiam]

@2Loonz Lunker

[Tom Ruby @bgcts]

This morning @scratchyjohnson tweeted an important factoid. Squanto, the Indian who spoke English and helped the pilgrims survive, was sold by John Smith to a Spaniards and the deed exists in the city we're in for Excursion.

Rather than rolling our eyes, Alan, Gavin & I went to the state archives in Málaga to see if we can find said recorded deed of 20 Indians sold by John Smith to Juan Bautista Reales.

We get to the Archives (see Alan's picture below), and a small genial white lab coat wearing gentleman who speaks no English says this is impossible to find. His new boss, the head archivist, Carmen, comes in and says it certainly exists but may be difficult to find. If you only had the year. We tell her it was 1614. She pulls up a list of the books from 29 notaries whose work they have from 1614. She asks who the notary was. We have no idea. They say they can't go through 29 archives to look for it. Also it's all in old Spanish which nobody speaks and it'll be hard to locate even if they know the Notary.

So Alan and Gavin get to work. Gavin finds an article in the internet archive that seems to have a partial picture of the document. Carmen and the other archivist decipher the name after 15 min. They find that name in their cross reference. Carmen goes to the vault to look while the lab coat gentleman asks for my life history, driver's licence number and a lien on my grandchildren. Totally worth it.

Carmen comes back to say she found the volume. It is tremendously delicate. Opening it may break some pages. Does it have to be today because if so the answer will be no. We ask her if this is interesting to them. Both very seriously nod their heads. We tell them this is very important to the United States and many of our friends. Carmen tells us she will find it but that it takes time. White linen gloves and patience. We tell her to take her time. She says she will take a picture and email it to me.

So here's why all this is important: after Squanto was sold by an Englishman to a Spaniard names Reales, said Spaniard brought Squanto and 19 other "inios" to Málaga. He recorded the deed in the state archives. Then a Franciscan priest ransomed Squanto. Squanto became Catholic. Was baptized and confirmed in Málaga. He then made his way to England where he worked and learned English. He paid his passage back across the ocean and found his Wampanoag tribesmen. Then when the Pilgrims landed they found a Catholic English-speaking native who helped them survive their first winter.

It is entirely possible that but for a Franciscan priest who ransomed Squanto, the Pilgrims may not have survived their first winter in New England. That's history. American history. And the record of it is in Málaga. In a book. One of 29 books kept by notaries in Málaga in 1614. That are still searchable.

This image, when it comes, belongs in the US National Archive.

This is Cultural Debris.

https://t.co/THgVYIAgcK

cc: @alancornett @gwbled @Gonnassaurius_ @wrathofgnon

[Lindy Grill @nethingiam]

"The instruction following of GPT 5.4 is so precise that I need to learn to interact with the models differently after spending so much time with Claude."

Codex is pretty autistic, but if you harness this, extremely powerful

[Nathan Lambert @natolambert]

GPT 5.4 didn't get enough praise for how big of a step it was in OpenAI's agent arc.

At the same time, with better context management, speed, rate limits, instruction following, code -- it's revealing that I still turn to the "warmth" of Claude.
https://t.co/rZ777ptEFu

[CHURRASCO SAUDADE @churrascooooo]

um, kino alert?

happy st patricks day

[Lindy Grill @nethingiam]

Claude why do I fart so much

[Lindy Grill @nethingiam]

@pleasemilf cauliflower ear

[Lindy Grill @nethingiam]

Lat spreading during standup when asked if I have any blockers

[Lindy Grill @nethingiam]

@2Loonz Congrats big dog

[Lindy Grill @nethingiam]

@pleasemilf The fattest brand I have ever seen on the shoulder of an Alpha Phi Alpha

Dude was also 6’6’ and probably 300 lbs