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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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  • Post #2478664

    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...

  • Post #2367345

    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;

  • Post #2367343

    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!

  • Post #2367342

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

  • Post #2367340

    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

  • Post #2356707

    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

  • Post #2356705

    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.

  • Post #2195906

    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/

  • Post #1325707

    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 🤩