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samfirke@a2mi.social

<p>Building meutch.com, an open-source anti-capitalist social platform for lending items to friends and neighbors.</p><p>biking on my <a href="https://a2mi.social/tags/CargoBike" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CargoBike</span></a><br />fighting oppression &amp; <a href="https://a2mi.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a><br />I contribute to <a href="https://a2mi.social/tags/ApacheSuperset" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ApacheSuperset</span></a> (like Tableau or PowerBI but open-source and better)<br /><a href="https://a2mi.social/tags/KidneyDonor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KidneyDonor</span></a><br />Jew for a <a href="https://a2mi.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>F

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    Now that I realize the astounding variety of battery powered tools (DeWalt, Ryobi, etc) I realize how good these would be to get listed on Meutch! I&amp;#39;m gonna put my new drill on there now, it slaps but I&amp;#39;m still only gonna use it 0.001% of the time.

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    I builded a compost bin out of an old playset

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    I am finding that I would rather review five 200-line pull requests than the same code in a 1,000 liner.

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    Work in progress: a Meutch flyer! Me and other folks will be tabling at sustainability-themed events this month.

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    Malicious bots had started using Meutch signups to send unwanted emails to targets. I implemented a bunch of defenses Fri/Sat and it seems to be blocking all of them currently. Boo to internet jerks making more work for me but at least for now I&amp;#39;m winning 😤

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    Web search continues to struggle against AI slop. The first hit here is blatant 2024-level slop, it veers from talking about zippers to substitutions for chili peppers in recipes. I reported it as slop with @kagihq, my previous reports have been marked inconclusive but here I&amp;#39;ve found the smoking gun (as AI would put it). This stuff crowding out iFixit even on a paid search engine is a grim state of affairs. And newer slop is much less obvious than what I flagged here.

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    I spent 18 months building Meutch, a non-commercial community lending site and it&#39;s live! Come check it out: https://samfirke.com/2026/05/12/meet-meutch/ Think a better version of Buy Nothing groups on Facebook, or a decentralized peer-to-peer Library of Things. To be useful you need people to share with near you. This is the tricky part of networked products. I&#39;m focused on growing it in Ann Arbor, MI where I live - but if you have a group that already shares stuff, it would work for...

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    https://www.npr.org/2026/05/06/nx-s1-5811930/gaza-recovering-bodies A slice-of-life article about recovering skeletons from the rubble in Gaza. &amp;quot;The scale of the need is so high. One functioning excavator is simply not enough,&amp;quot; said Pat Griffiths, a Red Cross spokesman. He said a second digging machine was recently repaired and will be put to use in the coming weeks.&amp;quot;

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    Apache Superset has had AI code review bots enabled for a long time. This signal:noise ratio keeps getting better. They catch cases that humans miss. It&amp;#39;s not like we never merged bugs when all code was human written and human reviewed. There were regressions all the time!

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    RE: https://a2mi.social/@csalzman/116538790671265841 Brilliant idea

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    I&amp;#39;m goated at this game RNGdle 🎲 777673 🟧 ANOMALY • Top 3% 🟦 💰 Jackpot 🟩 🍀 Four of a Kind 🟩 🦘🦘 Double Hop +14 more 50,381 EP https://rngdle.com

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    Giveaway feature is mostly done, enough that I merged to production. I put a few items there (starting with a pair of kids&amp;#39; snowshoes that we&amp;#39;ve never used). Feels good! Re: https://a2mi.social/@samfirke/115822491494903022

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    RE: https://a2mi.social/@samfirke/115967387958391720 Anyone is welcome to use this web app at any point, it&amp;#39;s live at https://meutch.com/ and I would love feedback from anyone. But as I think harder about getting an adequate initial network for this to get traction, I will need to focus on specific atomic networks of people who will share with each other in the same locale. The magic comes from having people to share with.

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    I liked this reflection on the psychic effects of AI coding from @mitsuhiko who uses AI plenty but looks askance at Gas Town etc. https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/agent-psychosis/

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    @mitsuhiko same! Though I would add &quot;for programming&quot; after &quot;dived into AI&quot; - I get little such joy from using it for anything else. But it&#39;s exhilarating to build software with it. Also I appreciate seeing this content on the Fediverse.

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    @mitsuhiko interesting times. Thanks for linking to Thorsten&#39;s post, here it is for other folks: https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2022310010391302259 I enjoyed the twist to the story.

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    I have 99% switched from #rstats to #pydata as my job changed from analysis to data engineering. But I I was just analyzing survey results and trying to weave the result into a programmatically generated PDF. It was a struggle to get beautiful output in Python, the formatting of charts and text was endlessly finicky. I switched to #Quarto and gosh it&amp;#39;s so much better 🤩