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The writer Aadil Pickle has a great profile of one of my favorite hackers, \u201cTraining the Idea Muscle\u201d on Riley Walz<\/a>. Riley epitomizes the term \u201chigh agency,\u201d and I\u2019ve been continually impressed with his ability to rapidly code novel ideas and interfaces on top of public or reverse-engineered data. He\u2019s a hacker, artist, and provocateur.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m enjoying this slower time of the year, and it looks like this will be the warmest Christmas I can remember in Houston; it was 80\u00b0 F today! Makes me appreciate what Christmas in the southern hemisphere must be like.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The writer Aadil Pickle has a great profile of one of my favorite hackers, \u201cTraining the Idea Muscle\u201d on Riley Walz. Riley epitomizes the term \u201chigh agency,\u201d and I\u2019ve been continually impressed with his ability to rapidly code novel ideas and interfaces on top of public or reverse-engineered data. He\u2019s a hacker, artist, and provocateur. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nMatt: Riley Watz<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The writer Aadil Pickle has a great profile of one of my favorite hackers, \u201cTraining the Idea Muscle\u201d on Riley Walz. 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