Building ThoughtSnaps (https://www.thoughtsnaps.app/), a minimal tool that turns short-form writing into social cards, and longer thoughts into SnapEssays: visual documents you can share natively instead of linking to a blog post the algorithm will bury.

Pick a color theme, pick a template, export. No drag-and-drop, no layers, no fuss. I built it to scratch my own itch.

Stack is SvelteKit on the frontend, Go/Fiber on the back. Built oAuth, some templates.

Building primarily using prompts & cursor + agy. Currently building an MCP server (why not ;-) ) for it so AI assistants can generate and export cards directly.

> In social media the algorithm determines what you see. On forum boards, everyone sees the same set of posts.

Isn't there an algorithm on HN to boost and downvote? It might be a different algo but there is one.

We have been homeschooling our kids. Homeschooling in India is not that widespread. So when a national newspaper covered our experiment, I got lot of questions around what we were doing. For a while I wrote blog posts answering them.

Now I've written quite a few posts (and given talks), I thought of writing a book. Just wrote two chapters. The draft lives here: https://www.jjude.com/books/hs/

A CEO answered on Twitter:

> Mine runs my auto parts company.. tracks 395K products on Amazon, manages 3 warehouses, scrapes competitor pricing, handles email, posts to social media

https://x.com/BrianRoyBarber/status/2023389093648884000

Lol, I believe this thread is a bait:

> Do you still have friends?

> Fortunately, I do. My OpenClaw agent keeps a personal friends CRM and reminds me to actively maintain my friendships using a weekly CRON, it event suggest what to write/plan/talk abou

Been using tachyons.css

Would love to take this for a test if it is available for public use

I just created a repo: https://github.com/marchildmann/IDS-Think It's MIT licensed. Would love feedback, especially on the data table component.

Remember blackhat SEO? This is the new blackhat AEO

Doesn't bsky support rss: profile_url/rss ?

For example: This is rss for Simon Willison: https://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/rss

I wish I could host the RSS and the bsky network can accept them.

I use predictions to prepare rather than to plan.

Planing depends on deterministic view of the future. I used to plan (esp annual plans) until about 5 years. Now I scan for trends and prepare myself for different scenarios that can come in the future. Even if you get it approximately right, you stand apart.

For tech trends, I read Simon, Benedict Evans, Mary Meeker etc. Simon is in a better position make these predictions than anyone else having closely analyzed these trends over the last few years.

Here I wrote about my approach: https://www.jjude.com/shape-the-future/

I want to get good at "taste"

I am a software engineer and I have trained to think logically and structurally. In that processes, I have lost "taste". I don't have any design (user facing) capability. I bet in the near future, developing apps and hosting will become so easy that we will soon see "substack for apps" [1].

If I'm right, the thing that will set me still apart (I'm currently a CTO with 30 years of experience) will be taste and not engineering. Or putting it differently, taste + engineering will set me apart than just engineering.

I don't know what that will look like yet. But that is what I want to learn in 2026.

[1]: https://jjude.com/substack-for-apps/

I love the design and content. Keep writing Nicolas