Paul Ford
@ftrain
Aboard.com and Ftrain.com. Not steadily here. If you need me: ford@ftrain.com.
every time I take the ferry from the Rockaways I end up vibe coding on my phone for half the trip and the other half looking out the window and thinking “the sea changes a man”
Still thinking about this signed photo sitting in the otherwise empty Boston VRBO.
I’m checking Craigslist for synths in Boston and there’s one ad offering to use Dunkin’ Donuts gift cards at a favorable exchange rate in a transaction.
My daughter just showed me her phone and I couldn’t figure out what I was seeing, so she explained that what you do now is create totally unique icons for all of your apps that represent your aesthetic, and arrange them into different home screens.
Checking out the glass flowers collection at Harvard. Hundreds of handmade scientific models of plants at different levels of magnification. It’s bananas.
hey guys let me get your attention for a minute...got something here I think we ALL need to see and think about
I vibehacked a fun little sight reader app that runs in browser. Works with MIDI in Chrome; you play and if you get all the notes right you go to the next level of complexity. It doesn't save any data to a server, it just is. ftrain.github.io/sightreading/ (Source at github.com/ftrain/sight...)
First, Happy Thanksgiving. Second, I've been doing my best to really understand Claude Code so I've been building a piano practice app, and asked it to include some inspirational quotes, and the result is somewhere between “oh god no“ and “knocked it out of the park.”
Late last night in Phoenix I asked the Lyft driver who picked me up at the airport about local nightlife. He said, “It’s all nightlife. No one can go out during in the day.” Then I woke up to this particular view which somehow captured the early Anthropocene of it all.
I can’t find the video but in Feb a man named Joe Stutler was at an Iowa Legislature session and spoke to defend trans rights. He has a funny delivery—a little nasal—and kept saying, “You’re doing the Nazi stuff again!” I keep hearing his voice echo in my head. www.legis.iowa.gov/committees/p...
I’m taking a class where we’re learning to make synths. This will be a MIDI controller that we will use to control VCV Rack. It keeps the goblins out my brains.
The US Navy paid Lyft to make the little cars into fighter jets on Columbus Day, all circling around your exact location.
Because I’m Anglo and out on my bike ride the other Anglos keep asking me how to cross the street at this Mexican pride parade on Madison Ave and I’m like man they got ladies dancing with pineapples what the hell else do you have on your calendar?
