AI hacking, fearmongering and Prometheus
There is a lot of online debate about the extraordinary cyber capabilities of AI, and how we all ought to manage introducing them to the world. I believe all of these statements are true:
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OpenClaw and the right level of automation
I've been running OpenClaw for almost two weeks now . The initial honeymoon phase you get when you blow life into your computer has somewhat worn off. Or maybe my expectations just keep rising? But now I'm dealing with the API usage bills from the AI labs that dwarf the standard $20 a month consumer plans. Here are my (still very early) reflections.
When Lisa moved into my server
Like everyone I've been using AI prompts like ChatGPT and Claude for a while now to get things done quicker. And like most programmers I've spent a good deal of time using AI coding tools as well. First with Cursor and now with Claude Code in its TUI. (Staying in the terminal feels very natural to me.) On the one hand a very fast way to generate unlimited amounts of slop and spam the whole…
Blogging in 2025: Screaming into the void
Before social media became what it is today I used to blog a lot. And I wasn't the only one, many people did. There was this idea of a decentralized and open web: everyone had their own little space on the web (with a selfhosted blog, or a platform like wordpress or blogger).
SSR a "Create React App" the hard way
I've been building out a web app using Create React App, developing and deploying is a breeze. But now I need a server side rendering solution for my specific sitation. All the solutions around the web I have found are great, but they don't address the issue I have. So in this post I'll share my own "from scratch" solution. The problem I am solving is:
Run Ethereum in a docker container on your Raspberry Pi
For a project I need to run geth 1.6 in a docker container on my Raspberry Pi that has raspbian jessie installed. I was looking online for such a docker image, but after some searching I gave up and just created my own docker image.
Monitoring nodejs apps with Prometheus
Now we've set up Prometheus we can very easily start logging interesting metrics from our nodejs app.
Setting up Prometheus on Ubuntu 16.04
Prometheus is a great open source monitoring system by soundcloud. I personally use it on a single server to:
Realtime Globe in webgl
I just open sourced the globe behind the Realtime Bitcoin Globe . When I published the globe almost a year ago it was based on this awesome project by the Google Data Arts team. That project is great for plotting data in a very specific way (a barchart plotted in 3d on a 3d earth. At that time it took me quite a bit of hacking to make it work for my needs.
Hoganizer: Precompile mustache templates for the frontend
Normally when I start working on a new webapp I end up using Jade as a template language, to get the templates working on the frontend I use a wonderful tool called templatizer which pre compiles all jade templates into plain javascript functions. I love this workflow because it has some awesome advantages like: