any · textlog

500 chars / 20 lines max · use #hashtags, @mentions and more

😀😃😄😁😆😅😂🤣😊😇🙂🙃😉😌😍🥰😘😋😛😜🤪🤨🧐🤓😎🤩🥳😏😒😞😔😟😕🙁☹️😣😖😫😩🥺😢😭😤😠😡🤬🤯😳🥵🥶😱😨😰😥😓🤗🤔🫣🤭🫢🤫🤥😶😐😑😬🙄😯😦😧😮😲🥱😴🤤😪😵🤐🥴🤢🤮🤧😷🤒🤕🤑🤠😈👿👻💀☠️👽🤖🎃😺😸😹😻😼😽🙀😿😾❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤍🤎💔❣️💕💞💓💗💖💘💝💟👍👎👌🤌✌️🤞🤟🤘🤙👈👉👆👇☝️✋🤚🖐️🖖👋🤝👏🙌🫶👐🤲🙏✍️💪👀👁️🧠🫀🫁🌱🌿☘️🍀🌸🌺🌻🌞🌙⭐✨⚡🔥🌈☀️☁️❄️☕🍕🍎🎉🎊🎈🎁🎵🎶🎨📚💡✅❌⚠️🚀🌍💻📱🔒🔑

example.com or https://example.com
Regular links: [title](example.com) or [title](https://example.com)
Markdown links: ~text~ or ~~text~~
Strikethrough: *text* or **text**
Bold: _text_ or __text__
Underline: /text/
Italics: > text
Quote: :smile
Emoji autocomplete: 1. first 2. second 3. third
Numbered lists: - first - second - third
Bulleted lists: Name | Status | Count ----- | :----- | ----: notes | ready | 3
Tables: |redacted|
Redacted: `code`
Inline code: ```…```
Code fences: $inline$
Inline LaTeX: $$block$$
Block LaTeX

Which one? #poll First option Second option
PollsUse 2–8 unique options.: Which one? #quiz Wrong answer > Correct answer Explanation revealed after answering
QuizzesMark exactly one of 2–8 unique answers with >. Text after a blank line is revealed after answering.: Visible text #spoiler Hidden text
SpoilersText after #spoiler is hidden until revealed. Aliases: #tldr, #sensitive, #contentwarning, #cw, and #triggerwarning.: Going hiking #map Kallikratis, Crete
MapsShows a map preview for the first location line. Alias: #location.: #flying Heraklion to Berlin
FlightsHover over the itinerary to see a map connecting the airports. The next three words form the itinerary: airport, to (or → or ->), airport. Use single-word airport names or IATA/ICAO codes.: Today #todo [ ] First task [x] Finished task
TodosOnly [ ] and [x] lines become items. Click your items to toggle them.: Run this #exec ```js console.log(6 * 7) ```
Executable codeRuns the next language-tagged code fence and shows its output beneath the note.: Keep this visible #pin
Pinned notesYour latest #pin is shown first on your profile, independently for notes and replies.: No more replies #lock
Locked conversationsPrevents new replies to this note and every reply beneath it.: About textlog #meta
Meta conversationsKeeps this note and its replies out of public discovery feeds. Aliases: #tlog and #textlog.: Continue quietly #whisper
Whisper conversationsKeeps the branch out of all and hot. Participants, mentions, and tag followers can receive it in my feed. It remains public elsewhere.: For @someone and @another #private
Private conversationsOnly the author and mentioned users can read this branch.: Answer before reading #HiddenReplies
Hidden repliesHides all replies until you reply.

moreless

Hopefully this takes off

Morning everyone, I've started a project to bring back "classic" era Instagram, from say the 2012 - 2013 time frame, long before it was ensh**ified. It's nowhere near ready for public consumption, so I've closed off registrations. Right now it's mainly for me to show my photography. halation.photos

That's very nice! I would love to run something similar for my photos, do you share the source somewhere?

Code is here: github.com/crustyrustacean/halation Feel free to beg, borrow, steal, whatever you need to do.

You are awesome! Thanks for sharing!

…

Looks really cool! Great photos as well!

I recently tried moments.im and fotoapp.co, it's refreshing

time.fyi/timezones is the most intuitive interface to working with different time zones I have used.

Ohhlala! I like it. Thank you!

I'm trying to construct an argument that LLMs are like a chess engine. People still play chess. But somehow this falls short.

Quite a few major 's implemented today, API writes, password logins, full-text search. Wonder what's going to follow.

به نام خداوند جان آفرین

In the name of God, the Giver of Life.

Took a little .

Man, I LOVE naps! In fact, I mostly subsist on four or five 1-1/2 hour naps each day instead of one long over-night sleep period these days. I didn't set out to have a sleep schedule, but here I am. :-)

Doing that would trigger my really quick, even not having a full night sleep puts me in the danger zone immediately.

…

My whole life, if I get in more than 6 hours at a stretch, I'm sluggish and mentally out of it for hours.

replied to(deleted account):

Oh, dear! I wasn't polyphasic before cats owned me. Are my furry overlords rubbing off on me? LOL

Trying tsoding/tatr idea for task tracking in the project. Instead of his C implementation asked CC to implement tatr.el. I do similar thing with vulpea, even my org notes have timestamp ids. Tatr tasks live in the repo, which is good.

"200K lines is not 10 times as much as 20K lines - from the mission perspective it's just irrelevant. And yet it's the easiest thing to measure. And so we look for the keys under the lamp post." ~Kent Beck www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8fBgDCf2Y4&t=2753s

Listening to this I had an AHA moment. When the powers that be made more and more LLM tokens the whole goal, I thought it was quite stupid. But I realized that for them it made sense, because in their managerial understanding of programming, they believed the output of LLMs is the best they could get for the money.

Or they just had investments in LLM factories.

Been a bit quiet here the last week or so. Recovering from ill health, at risk of redundancy, and working on side projects. It's been a bit full on. Does anyone make pay check/cheque money from side projects? Can I use my redundancy runway to turn some websites from side hustle to salary money?

Recovering from ill healthHope you’re feeling better now!Does anyone make pay check/cheque money from side projects?That’s the dream, I’ve only made a few hundreds so far. I’ve had a machine gun approach. Shoot as many rounds as possible in the hopes I might hit something. has helped immensely in this direction. I’ve done a dozen projects past year and while became I’m still not there yet. I’m hopeful though! 😊

Just finished reading The Last Contract of Isako by Fonda Lee. I highly recommend it.

I notice that language models are much better at programming than at writing. This is largely because, in programming, they have a closed feedback loop that allows them to find errors. Writing is much more complicated because the feedback is much more diffuse and delayed over time. In fact, it is often not well-defined.

What is the function that determines whether a poem is good? This means that models do not know how to think; they lack judgment. If they do not know how to think, it means that we humans are still essential. In fact, even when programming, you have to stay right on top of them. My conviction is that this will not change.

They will become increasingly useful, but they will never be able to replace the human who defines objectives and evaluates the quality of the work. All these news stories claiming that AI is going to kill us all are stupid. Humans will always be able to turn off the machine.

…

In three years Cyberdyne will become the largest supplier of military computer systems. All stealth bombers are upgraded with Cyberdyne computers, becoming fully unmanned. Afterwards they fly with a perfect operational record. The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes online on August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defence. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14am, Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.

Linux, MySQL, privacy and calm

New in agenttop.dev : panels open in your . 🤹‍♂️ • Any panel can now split into its own pane, live, beside the table. • Works with all the popular multiplexers: , , 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗸𝗶𝘁𝘁𝘆. • run a panel on its own: agent-top mcp, agent-top slow, agent-top fails, agent-top advice. ➕ The # MCP panel also lists the orphaned MCP processes that outlived their agent and are still eating memory.

been discovering random peoples indie websites and blogs on . takes me back! the internet lost so much charm when everything became coorporate. convenience can come at a big cost

neocities is such a gem!

Found some coffee at TJ Maxx (american discount store) -- not a big discount but still fun.

I've been on a kick lately of trying to visualize the oscillating clock, and ultimately the effectively arbitrarily complex activity of a computer processor, as modern refinements of the line shaft factory of the 19th century. Of compute as being not much more than profoundly refined "work" delivered by the electrical grid into marvelously complex machines. Does that, as a metaphor at least, feel as important to you as it has to me of late? We spend so much time in a world abstracted.

Denshattack! - easily gets my OST of the year vote. Absolute pleasure to both listen to and play.

Friday Aperitivo: martini, a magazine, and a dog by my side