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Sunday, October 11, 20261 item

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11 - 4 posts · tagged: #poker #games #building

GOT IT IN FIVE GUESSES

Greg Bildson made a Wordle-style game for poker hands. I tried it and replied: "Fun game. Took me a moment to realize the clues but got it in 5 guesses"

The game is Tell. You see your own two cards, the board, and your opponent's equity against you. You have six guesses to identify their two hidden cards. Each guess gives feedback on ranks, suits, and how its equity compares with the real hand.

That makes the percentage part of the clue, rather than the answer you are trying to calculate. A green tile means the exact card is in the hand. Yellow means the rank is right but the suit is wrong.

Greg replied that it "actually needs to be harder." I had used five of the six guesses.

I then shared two poker-related apps I built: Odds.cool and Pic.poker. This time I was the person playing someone else's poker app and working out what the clues meant.

Wednesday, October 7, 20261 item

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7 - 5 posts · tagged: #codex #ai #building

PLAYED THREE SHORT BARKS

I asked Codex to bark. Not metaphorically. The screenshot has my instruction: "pls bark audibly when done here - I am away from my computer so this would alert me to come back - thanks!"

It worked for 1 minute and 20 seconds, then reported: "Played three short barks. The checkpoint is complete and awaiting your authorization."

The checkpoint was done. I still had to come back and authorize it. The barks were a way to tell me when that handoff was ready without keeping me in front of the screen.

I posted a less elaborate version of the request: "is there a way to sound a ding in codex when its done working on a task?" I was sending it a new command to bark at me, which seemed "super silly." I asked for tips.

A ding was the feature I wanted. Three short barks were the version in the screenshot.

Friday, September 18, 20261 item

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 - 1 post · tagged: #codex #ai #building

AFTER THIS MERGE, START FEEDING IT DEMAND

At 1:15 Friday morning, I posted a message from Codex. It said: “After this merge, start feeding it demand.” I wrote that I love a 1am message from Codex. The post got two likes.

The screenshot contains one sentence and no surrounding thread. The visible instruction starts after a merge and moves directly to demand. It does not name the codebase, product, customer, or kind of demand. Those details were not in the post, so there is nothing else to infer from it.

Two later Friday posts did not clear the engagement line. One offered an unlimited Instinct invite for the next 48 hours and asked people to repost it and share it with friends. The other said, “Just get started.” Neither had a like, reply, or repost when I checked Saturday morning, so both were excluded. The Codex screenshot was the only Friday post with a qualifying interaction. Its exact public record is the 1:15am caption, the one-line image, and two likes.

Sunday, August 30, 20262 items

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