Building GhostOff and our networked, personalized software futures
In which I agentic code Ghost to Offprint script and fall into the future of networked code sharing with Vit
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300baud modem or first broadband?
At what stage of AI model evolution are we at?
Taildrive for adding music to Navidrome
Ampache to Navidrome, with a side of Proxmox and Tailscale
Hark, a link blog!
Excitedly trying out Skyreader's new link blog and opinions on link blogging
Buying another miniPC
GMKtec Nucbox G10 for $400CAD
Case is Waiting for the Future to Load
Since @case.bsky.social sent me down a rabbit hole from her recent share… View post on Bluesky …I happened to read back over some other recent posts. This little mini thread, Waiting for the Future to Load , is great: View post on Bluesky And yes indeed: We've stayed in this timeline for a long time. What will it take to get out of the 2010s? Amber Case @case.bsky.social is the founder of the Calm…
Bluesky's Find Friends Contact Import
Screenshot step-by-step on iOS
MacBook Air Fresh Install
Notes on a fresh MacOS 26 Tahoe setup October 2025
Wardley: Not a Fan of ChatGPT
Large language models are coherence engines not truth engines, we don't teach the critical thinking needed to properly evaluate the outputs.
Add to Dock Safari web apps in MacOS Tahoe 26
From Patchwork to ATProto
Using jj instead of git with Claude
Keeping Claude in check with Jujutsu A write up of how jj can be great to use with generative coding. The last paragraph is telling: I think at this point I kinda forgot how I would do this in git and I’m also not particularly interested in learning it anymore either.
You don't look for evidence of horse droppings when cars are being built
A lot of people are looking for evidence of software abundance - that AI is making it dramatically easier to make more apps. And aren't finding it. There are no productivity increases! We don't see more software! [[Malleable Software]] points in part to separate apps maybe going away, and "apps" / visualizations / interfaces being built on the fly with the assistance of LLMs for personal, end user…
JesterKit - Tools for digital artisans to build and distribute standalone Software
JesterKit First tool is EXE to Distribute Standalone Web Apps: A build tool to pack your SvelteKit app as a single executable binary with zero runtime dependencies. I also love the tagline here: Tools for digital artisans to build and distribute standalone Software
A world of rapid change…enabled by software is not one in which programmers will be idle
Programming In The Age Of Abundance, by Guyren G Howe
With AI software abundance, where is the value?
Mehmet Yilmaz writes about the Barbell of Software Value
Martin Fowler on LLMs and Software Development
Some thoughts on LLMs and Software Development I’m often asked, “what is the future of programming?” Should people consider entering software development now? Will LLMs eliminate the need for junior engineers? Should senior engineers get out of the profession before it’s too late? My answer to all these questions is “I haven’t the foggiest”. Furthermore I think anyone who says they know what this…
OpenAI burns the boats (to go all in on advertising?)
Ethan Ding describes OpenAI’s order of magnitude pricing drop as both an attack on Anthropic and a move that means they have to get into advertising
Open Source is one person
Open Source is one person So what do we mean by one person is open source. What I mean is if we look at all the projects that ecosyste.ms is tracking, how many have a single person maintaining that project? It’s about 7 million. 7 million projects of the 11.8M projects tracked by ecosystems are maintained by one person. Looking at NPM in particular: About half of the 13,000 most downloaded NPM…
Spreading misinformation by trusting ChatGPT
View post on Bluesky A long read of using ChatGPT for research, which has wrong information, and then publishing it in a blog which further cements the information even though it links only to ChatGPT output. The author David Barry attempts to verify where the info came from and mostly debunks it. M Subtitled, “A case study in o3 hallucination”. Misinformation on Marginal Revolution The piece ends…
ml5.js - Friendly machine learning for the web!
A neighborly approach to creating and exploring artificial intelligence in the browser.
Leaflet posting
Moving off micro.blog, moving onto Leaflet for tech links
Obsidian's CEO on why productivity tools need community more than AI
Stephan Go was interviewed by Casey Newton for the Verge's Decoder Podcast. View post on Bluesky On productivity tools needing community more than AI -- or rather, how Steph thinks about adding AI to Obsidian -- he posted this screenshot from the transcript with highlights , roughly as an answer to What is the Obsidian view on AI and productivity tools? Will you add features like that?: Our…