AI Agent Loop - John Oram
A loop that forgets is just a faster line. The interesting property is not that agents write the software. It is that each cycle can make the next one cheaper.
Don't Give Them the Time of Day
How Nix can defend against the encroachment of external influence of politics
The Advantages of Culture | Michael Gomes Vieira
Many Nigerians from the Yoruba people blend a mix of red peppers together to make a versatile sauce that is often eaten with chicken, called Obe...
Large Language Models
How predicting the next token across vast amounts of text turns statistical patterns into conversation, reasoning, and useful behavior.
Lotte’s Attic
Megolm key confusionEstablished cryptographic algorithms like Signal’s double ratchet algorithm may include guidance or cautions for application or modifications of the parameters or construction used
Infinite-Dimensional Vectors - flo.znkr.io
I don’t know why (it’s probably me) but the topic of infinite dimensions comes up regularly in conversations I am in. I don’t think I have ever done a good job in explaining what that means. This time, for sure!
Base84 deserves a place in file names
The TurboCrypt file encryption tool was originally designed for Unix systems.
Very niche software, part 2
Personal website of Phil Booth
How my e-reader lost its stripes
I’ve been a lifelong reader, which has proved a fragile habit in our era of endless trivial distraction. While books and e-ink readers solve the problem of competition for attention, they can’t compete with a phone for convenience. That tiny device in my pocke…
What It Actually Takes to Build Yocto Properly on Arch Linux
A Yocto build on Arch Linux fails with glibc mismatches that no recipe explains. The cause: uninative.bbclass catches its own ceiling check and downgrades it to one bb.warn line, after which native sstate silently stops being shareable. Closing it took buildto…
I Lost Track of What My Agents Were Doing, So I Gave Them a Shared Notebook
Running parallel Claude Code sessions across a dozen repos, I kept losing the thread of long efforts that branched into many PRs and months of blockers. GitHub was the wrong place for in-flight state, a knowledge base like gbrain answered the wrong question, a…
Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
Everything Is a Trust Decision
Make them explicitly, count them, and know what each one costs.
My golf simulator now hosts local LLMs
The story of redmonitor — or how I turned four computers I wasn't using into a tiny private cloud, mostly because my wife wouldn't let me buy another one.
I Am a Flat-Rate Monthly Responsibility Service
Most people, when asked why they do what they do, lie. This isn’t because they’re malicious but it’s because the honest justification for a career is rarely noble. It’s usually a combination of a decent paycheck, tolerable hours, and whatever neurosis you were…
Just me, a keyboard, and a computer
Or, why I care about open-weight AI models
You Can Drop SEO
I started learning web development around the time the term search engine optimization, SEO, was becoming more common. You could still see the shift between pre-SEO content and post-SEO content. A pop
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The butt (of your charger) matters
What's the difference between these two butts? BadButt GoodButt They do the same thing right? WRONG Power adapters (butts) seem like simple devi...
Give me knobs
A small idea for AI coding tools: let me tweak generated work directly.
Seven years of bitwise: a weekend project, a Hackernews front page, and the long road into Debian
I started bitwise because I was tired of opening the KDE calculator. Seven years, one Hacker News front page and sixteen distributions later, here’s what I learned — mostly about how hard it …
OH Scale
Age assurance on Claude | Claude Help Center
Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?
Some thoughts on Astra and newfangled long-horizon models.
Review a pull request by booting it
tl;dr; trynix-preview is a GitHub action that comments a link on a pull request which lets you boot the PR’s build in the browser using https://trynix.dev. No servers, just browsers.
I Rewrote English with Spanish Spelling Rules
– Photo I took in London. Sorry Britain for what I’m about to do. Learning to read and write English is a nightmare I’ve been learning English for around 25 years already, and there are still words that there’s no way I could’ve known how they were pronounced.…
The Limits of Miles Driven as AV Safety Evidence
Explored through interactive Bayesian models
A Minimal Stack for Scalable Machine Learning
In this article, I'd like to provide a good answer to the question: "What is the simplest technology stack that can support scalable machine…
Having a Point Is Power
This is a rough take, but the history of human tools began with giving things a point. Fists and fingers are round. Put something with a point in you
In Search of More Friends - Lyteforce Writes
For as long as I can remember, I've always had trouble "making" friends. Now that's not to suggest that I don't have friends, as I'm pretty sure I do (maybe...
How I build a mechanical Garmin watch face: a real gear train for a watch with no gears
How I design skeleton, tourbillon and regulator watch faces for Garmin: solving the gear train, checking a watchmaker could assemble it, and lighting the metal.
(why do) i hate chocolate
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Meet Pip, my new favourite agent
When OpenClaw became mainstream this year, everyone lost their minds. It really felt like agents were here to help us with everything. We soon found out that these agents were only as good as the models they used. If you’re like me, you probably set up OpenCla…