Delicious breakfast and coffee at Kek in Delft.
Sticker spotting.
Delft, Netherlands.
Catching train to Delft for the day! This was supposed to be day two so tiredness will be real.
Fun running into former colleagues Sam and Andy on our flight to AMS.
Flight seems to be holding. Should be boarding in 35 minutes. MSP is much, much quieter than normal. Seems most the planes are the big ones.
Our flight to AMS is still listed as on time, but the Misery Map sure paints an ugly picture.
Sunday morning. Working on the Weekly Thing. Codex improving Elixir in another window. Coffee. “Bonus time” at home because of Delta flight cancellation, and hoping our flight today actually goes.
Codex: The codebase feels much healthier after the recent changes.
I agree Codex.
Was supposed to be flying to Amsterdam tomorrow at 6:50 PM on DL 162 and they have already cancelled the flight because of the forecasted weather. That sure seems overly cautious given how accurate weather forecasts are. 😖✈️
Fun morning irrationally celebrating π Day - 0.01! 🥧
POAP 7573675 at TeamSPS Pi Day 2026.
OpenClaw just eats tokens like an animal.
Automatic Programming Speed
This morning with my morning coffee (skipped meditation, intermingled with getting ready) I shipped three new features in Elixir.
- Stronger memory for clan continuity (diff)
- Track fresh ladder and Path of Legend momentum to celebrate hot streaks (feature Codex suggested from cr-api-docs, commit)
- A weekly clan recap (commit) next week to highlight our ongoing story and progress.
Tammy and I had a great evening seeing Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway live for Resist and Unsubscribe, or Live PIVOT.
We saw Hoppers today and it was really good. Our kids are not so kid-like anymore, but a bunch of our nieces and nephews were going so we joined and it was a wonderful story and movie. 🍿
Making Elixir Smarter
Elixir has come a super long way and is very agentic. In usage though its intelligence was really limited due to the data layer. In the midst of a total refactoring of the data and tools with Codex using GPT-5.4 and it is pretty amazing.
- I asked Codex to do an analysis of the current data and tools and provide me an ERD to see as well as an assessment of shortcomings and gaps. It found so much that was problematic.
- I asked it to do a full reconnaissance of the Clash Royale API to get a better understanding of what was available.
- We redesigned the entire tool set to represent state better.
- Claude and I developed a list of 50 test questions that we used 10 at a time to test the new data model and tools.
- Codex finalized the new design and data model and is now refactoring.
Pretty amazing for 45 minutes.