Tyler Hellard

Hi. I’m Tyler.

I’m a writer in Calgary. I like making mixtapes, watching baseball and playing old video games. I have three kids and one wife. I wrote a novel that eventually became a best seller. Pop Loser is the name I use for my blog, social accounts and other occasional projects. Learn more here.

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Playing with Glaze some more. It made me a radio app that does exactly what I want it to do. It's great. https://www.glaze.app/app/effem-1BzHKv That said, if everyone can build their own perfect radio app basically for free, nobody has any need to use this perfect radio app that is free. Still trying to sort how that shakes out in the longterm. Dinky software is now effectively free, similar to how media and news effectively became free before it. But seriously, this radio app FUCKS SO HARD. Streams, Apple playlists and podcasts in one simple interface.
I keep making the same app over and over to test different coders. Glaze built this version of Marktwain in 94 minutes of prompting with 3 of 50 free credits to spare. That is by far the best performance I’ve found and is absolutely fucking bonkers. glaze.app/app/marktwain-b03H7i
I think I’ve found the fatal flaw in this plan.

📸 August snapshots.

(Or: What I did on my summer vacation).

On this 25-day trip I learned a lot of people don’t log out of their Netflix when leaving their AirBnb and I absolutely sullied the shit out of everyone’s algo.
Three weeks deep, one stop left. Back on the train, this time headed to Montreal. We are tired but this last leg is mostly just about eating food.
I’d like to thank Apple for saving us all from the terribly trying task of writing down a book title now and then.
Family Circus hitting real close to home today.
Arrived in Toronto after 4 days on the train. Everyone shouldn’t only do that once, it should be the default mode of travel across Canada.
We are taking a train most of the way across the country today (and tomorrow and the next day and most of the day after that). I’ve wanted to do this since a one-night trip from Moncton to Montreal 30 years ago. Unless, of course, all that fire stops us in, like, Winnipeg.