I Talked About Vibe Coding on Aggressively Human
I had the pleasure of going on my friend Jessica’s podcast to talk about Vibe Coding — what it is, and more importantly, when you should and shouldn’t invest your time in coding your own apps.
Every MLB Home Run, Visualized
I’m a huge baseball fan AND data nerd, so this really pushes all of my buttons.
But I think even if you don’t care about baseball, you’ll find this video fascinating.
I was on the Focused Podcast
In a true “long time listener, first time caller” situation, I got invited onto the Focused podcast to talk about how I do everything I do without burning out, my tips for automation, and common time sucks for solopreneurs.
Also, the episode is called I’m Not Throwing Away My Shot, with Joe Casabona. I love that.
Shockingly, Moltbook Isn’t What it Claims to Be
Yesterday on Streamlined Solopreneur, I wrote about how we need to be wary of huge hype around new AI tools.
Today, I’m instantly vindicated after Moltbook, a “social network” that claims to only be AI Agents “communicating” was discovered to have some…issues:
The exposed data told a different story than the platform’s public image – while Moltbook boasted 1.5 million registered agents, the database revealed only 17,000 human owners behind them – an 88:1 ratio. Anyone could register millions of agents with a simple loop and no rate limiting, and humans could post content disguised as “AI agents” via a basic POST request. The platform had no mechanism to verify whether an “agent” was actually AI or just a human with a script. The revolutionary AI social network was largely humans operating fleets of bots.
I can’t say I’m shocked.
Radiant’s 12 Days of Shortcuts
My new favorite call recording app, Radiant, just published their 12 days of shortcuts, featuring my shortcut on podcast show notes:
The shortcut listens to the conversation and generates everything a podcaster needs: a tight summary, timestamped chapters, editing cues, and a polished episode description.
It even pulls out standout quotes worth highlighting.
Check out all of the shortcuts here.
*Disclosure: Radiant is an upcoming sponsor of my YouTube channel and newsletter.
iPhone Accessories on Sale for Black Friday
On Monday, I’m publishing a video about my entire iPhone setup (subscribe on YouTube to get it). As I was gathering links, I realized most of what I use is on sale for Black Friday.
Here’s the list:
- Bellroy Case
- Nomad Leather Case
- DJI Mic (2-Mic Set)
- Manfrotto Tripod
- Belkin MagSafe Webcam Mount
- SwitchPod
- MagSafe SD Reader (USB-C)
- SanDisk 2TB Rugged Hard Drive (USB-C)
- SmallRig Monitor
- TwelveSouth Butterfly Charger
- TwelveSouth AirFly Pro 2
- Anker MagSafe Charger (Slim Battery Pack)
- Anker Wall Charging Bricks
- Ulanzi MagSafe Carabiner Tripod
Overcast’s Skip Promos Feature is Definitely a Choice
I recorded a somewhat ranty episode of Streamlined Podcaster about this new feature in Overcast:
New Promos & Reruns filter, available as a global setting that can be customized per podcast
This feature allows you to remove promos, like feed drops and trailer drops, from podcast feeds.
Feed drops and trailer drops are also a hugely helpful feature for podcasters, so I feel like this is podcaster-hostile.
I’d love to hear the justification for the feature, as Marco — the developer —has said he won’t implement certain features because, “no one is asking for them.”
This includes features that could help podcasters make money.
How many people are asking for the ability to skip promos and reruns?
I haven’t tried the feature yet, so I haven’t released the episode. I want it to be more than a hot take. But on the surface, it feels like something that hurts podcasters more than it helps podcast listeners.
In speaking with my friend Brian, I think there’s likely a reasonable compromise. That Marco also implement a way to support podcasters financially:
You can unlock promo skips per podcast by financially supporting that podcast.
At the moment though, you can do one and not the other.
Grok reminds everyone that AI is made by people.
The Guardian is reporting that Elon Musk’s Grok AI tells users he is fitter than LeBron James and smarter than Leonardo da Vinci.
From the story:
Musk was also funnier than Jerry Seinfeld, according to Grok, and he would have risen from the dead faster than Jesus.
Many of the Grok responses were quietly deleted on Friday, and Musk posted that Grok had been “unfortunately manipulated by adversarial prompting into saying absurdly positive things about me”.
Now, it was be very easy to dunk on Musk here. Absolutely, impossibly easy.
But that’s not the point. The point is that we are being reminded in the most obvious way that AI — all AI — is made by people with agendas.
We need to keep this in mind. It’s untrustworthy; more so, it’s unpredictably untrustworthy.
If my kids ever ask what the 90s were like…
If my kids ever ask me what the 90s were like, I will just show them this video:
Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz’s betting charges are the latest in a long list of reasons (like death threats to players AND their families) why prop bets are bad for everyone.
Sadly we can’t rely on MLB to ban them. And we probably can’t reply on the government to either.
Read the story: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6792294/2025/11/09/mlb-clase-ortiz-betting-allegations/