I’m Lucas! I write unconventional takes and stories about tech, culture, and society. As a software engineer and tech lead, I’ve worked on everything from the Dewey Decimal System to vaccinating tens of millions of people.
This is my blog, shadowban. It’s the main spot I post on the internet. It goes out to all your other favorite spots. shadowban is the best place to keep up with me. Read on to see my best essays and viral posts, plus my full bio
Check out my most popular essays:
You may know me from Bluesky or Threads, but if not, here’s my two most viral posts:
- Escape mandatory attendance (12 million views)
- New work laptop hack (8.5 million views)
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my projects
- gyst — we turn your personality into products so you can make money doing what you love. learn more
- interweave — analytics for Threads. see your personalized threads horoscope!
- blueskies forever - analytics for bluesky
Anyway, that’s the short version.
The Long Version
Many people found me through Interweave, an analytics tool I created that has had tens of thousands of users. It is now morphing into a collection of fun Threads tools
Interweave was a fascinating problem to solve because there was no Threads API initially and almost every way to traditionally create an analytics tool resulted in breaking Meta’s terms of service. So I found a workaround: export your data directly from Meta. It allowed us to release a fully function tool before anyone else in the interim until the official API could be released.
Threads opened up many opportunities, including the chance to be the technical reviewer for the book Building AI Applications with Microsoft Semantic Kernel: Easily integrate generative AI capabilities and copilot experiences into your applications . So you could say I wrote (or tech reviewed, at least) the book on AI.
Before social media, I was (and continue to be) a humble software engineer. My code has been used by hundreds of millions people. During the COVID pandemic, I helped schedule millions of vaccines. I’ve worked at every type of company from non-profit to Fortune 25.
Oh, and I have 5 cats.
