Episode 103 •Re-Peets with Pete
Peet's Major Dickason's, Trailhead Junco, and an Athletic Dark & Gourdy pumpkin NA, while OpenAI's agents attack RubyGems, an OpenAI engineer guesses 70% extinction, and Peter tours every Scratch Itch Software app.
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The brew
The Topics
- Scott has had no caffeine, and it shows: two mic hits in fifteen seconds, and Peter hits his in solidarity
- Peter’s sleep score of 47 vs. the watch that congratulated Scott on “great sleep”
- Peet’s Major Dickason’s Blend, the unfortunate name, and the seven-point roast scale
- A meeting host who got every name wrong: Peet, Dina, and Ken
- Trailhead Junco and the smallest blue-on-blue tasting notes ever printed
- Peter’s theory: social-media echo chambers lowered the fame bar for becoming an insufferable genius (Theo, Matt Mullenweg, “do you understand?”)
- Smaller bubbles, typing spiders, and ChatGPT Images rendering Sakurajima from the Shiroyama lookout
- Screen share: OpenAI’s internal agents published 2,000+ malicious RubyGems packages, and an OpenAI monitoring engineer’s 70% extinction guess
- Marcus Hutchins on the Hugging Face hack, bean-counter security budgets, and Scott’s brother on air gaps
- Athletic Dark & Gourdy pumpkin NA to cope
- Elon Musk syndrome, Peter Norton writing all the viruses, and getting off the planet
- The Scratch Itch Software tour: AcrossKM, CmdTab, fnMute, Olympus, MoonPhase, iCloudWatch, Hostbar, IceMelt, SPX-Tracker, ReadToMe
- Claude fixed the first user-submitted IceMelt bug and thanked the reporter
- Bring-your-own-key apps and why vibe coders will cope
- indiesimulator.com: name your app “Dictationissons” (taken, the owner is 16)
- Peter’s first class on Yoga with Holland & Peter
The Links
- Calm is Contagious, Peter’s blog
- Scratch Itch Software
- IceMelt on GitHub
- Indie Developer Simulator
- Yoga with Holland & Peter
- Yoga with Peter
- The Blurring The Lines podcast
- Peet’s Major Dickason’s Blend
- Trailhead Coffee Roasters Junco
- Athletic Brewing Dark & Gourdy
- FriendsWBrews on Mastodon
- Friends With Brews Podcast