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Mar 27, 2026 • 8 min read

Before Polymarket, I Had a Side Hustle Trading Super Bowl Ticket Futures

In the late 2000s, a startup called Yoonew turned Super Bowl tickets into a strange quasi-prediction market. I built a live pricing model around its stale quotes and learned an early lesson about markets: slow liquidity is an invitation, not a defense.

Before Polymarket and Kalshi, I had a side hustle trading Super Bowl ticket futures.

This was in the late 2000s, mostly 2007 and 2008 from what I remember, which is part of why the whole thing feels like it belonged to a different internet.

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AI Mar 17, 2026

Most of Life Is Pattern Matching Until It Isn't

The more I learn, the less random the world looks. Stories, people, math, and LLMs all seem to rest on patterns, but the most interesting work happens right where those patterns stop being enough.

8 min read
coding Mar 16, 2026

I Got Starting Lineup Talking Baseball Running in the Browser

A tiny weekend project turned into one of my favorite uses of Codex yet: take a rough command-line C emulator for a 1988 Intel 8051 baseball game, have Codex adapt it for Emscripten and WASM, debug two nasty lockups, and play a childhood favorite again in the browser for the first time in 30 years.

8 min read
Personal Feb 16, 2026

GitHub Workflows Turned My README into a Living Homepage

My first GitHub Workflow now auto-refreshes my profile README from my blog RSS feeds every six hours. The setup is simple, but it changed how I think about lightweight personal automation.

4 min read
AI Feb 11, 2026

Seedance 2.0 and the Future of Infinite TV

Seedance 2.0 feels like a preview of a new entertainment era: cheaper, faster video generation that makes it plausible to resurrect formats we loved, with licensing and ethics becoming the real product layer.

5 min read
AI Jan 13, 2026

Chrome, the Clipboard, and Two Buttons

A practical AI workflow: use Gemini to generate one-off console scripts, and use small TamperMonkey buttons to turn web pages into clean Google Sheets rows and predictable Google Drive receipt filenames (Walgreens + HSA receipts case study).

6 min read
coding Jan 7, 2026

Celebrity Death Bot: curation beats detection

A slightly morbid, very practical bot that watches Wikipedia’s recent deaths, uses an LLM to decide what’s actually notable, and sends my family the updates that matter.

4 min read
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Bruce Hart

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Engineer tinkering with AI and automation. I like clear tradeoffs, readable code, and weird little experiments that sometimes work.

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GPT-5.5 Is Better at UI When You Give It a Picture

Apr 27, 2026 • 6 min read

GPT-5.5 Feels Like an Incremental Upgrade That Actually Matters

Apr 26, 2026 • 7 min read

I Built Some SMS Backup Tools So My Texts Could Escape XML

Apr 19, 2026 • 5 min read

The AI Race Is Starting to Look Like Logistics

Apr 3, 2026 • 7 min read

I Added AVIF Export to My Browser Image Editor in Under 10 Minutes With Codex

Apr 1, 2026 • 5 min read

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Mar 11, 2026

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