Tim Winter

I lose things constantly. So I built an app about it.

Founder of ItemMap, out of Acton, Massachusetts. The rest of this site is links, some writing, and the checklist that gets me out of the door.

ItemMap Point your phone at a room. Never lose anything again.

AI Consulting Starting out, or already in too deep. LinkedIn Connect! Let's build. X / Twitter @TimWinterHQ. Mostly memes about losing things. GitHub The little that goes public.

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May 23, 2026 Cyber security just had its Deep Blue moment 6,202 high and critical findings. 75 patched. A 1.2% patch rate. Open source maintainers can no longer keep up with the machines finding the bugs.
Feb 3, 2026 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot. We know why agentic AIs fail in large legacy repos: the product requirements, business rules and tradeoffs were never written down. Our job is to stop making cups of tea by hand and build the replicator.
Jan 11, 2026 A library with no code whenwords ships a spec, tests and an install file — and no implementation. Vernor Vinge imagined this in A Fire Upon the Deep: knowledge persists as spec, implementation is entirely local.