Portfolio and publisher of thoughts.
I keep forgetting this is here. I need to remember to write more and work less. I've got a lot built and it needs to start settling in I think. It's starting to feel normal again though, all the things are almost where they're supposed to be and there's like graphs and shit so I can see it. I finally got caught up enough to spend a bit of time on the front end and have nearly enough to make it…
The ability to /feel/ a system you're developing does tend to be somewhat hindered by the conversational interface that these silly things have all spawned. Friction is the key to learning and the main friction experienced when an LLM is in the middle is mainly discernment and ones ability to remember that one does know what they are doing and the machine god may not be omnipotent. A learning not…
It's starting to feel like a platform again. Capabilities popping their little heads up as things start to drop into the environment. Next up is a little inbound hook infra, shruti > viveka > . Take inbound webhooks from Slack, Github, whatever; route them to where they need to be with nothing but a bit of YAML and Wanderland's derive model. The same tech that organize's my Jira agenda routes…
I'm having more fun with these silly little drones than I am with Wanderland, though it's a good symbiosis. I built a trace receiver on `wanderland-core` in HTTP mode called `foxfire` so we can capture traces as Nextflow tasks runs across our k8s clusters to run various bioinformatics workflows. I'm going to use the samme to capture traces from `wanderland-core` itself so we can keep a central…
I got to write a thing today, because someone asked me to and not just because I was slacking off. Excellent :)
I found the code to the WMS and buy back site i wrote back in the early 10s. Apparently the spawn of the WMS is still in use in the northern reaches of the UK, all of nearly 15 years later. :)
I guess I'm officially employed again, and I get to do ... just with a purpose. """ As you were """ --- they, to the rest of them, requesting them to stand down
What do you mean there are more bicycles? Accessing your website shouldn't bring back vague memories of a train station surrounded by canals. Access should be accessible, Altcha makes that simple
The hyperscalers, and the SaaS that runs on them, aren't going anywhere. Poison still plays state fairs. AWS in 2040 will still be running the COBOL-equivalent workflow for the handful of banks and other corporate customers that can't absorb the risk to migrate.
In your environment, if you treat your GenAI agents as anything other than unreliable junior engineers, you're asking to be made an example of in every other LinkedIn post for a week. If you've been in a position of leadership long enough and run any type of operation at scale, you know this already.
When you're neurodivergent, you need a lot of help focusing. When you're neurodivergent and don't know it, you still need a lot of help focusing.
I'm not building empire though, I'm building community. Those that remember how we get along, those that I've built bridges too along the way - my friend the poor content engineer who just needed the door unlocked - we grow together if we build together.
I had a choice to make recently, after a *really* long day
When the bookmark falls out, it's like the most dangerous game of context reload where if you overshoot the whole build falls apart.
To understand something, to truly understand it to its core, is to love it
I was about ready to agree to a PiP a while ago, after another outage due to copy pasta mistakes, carelessness in other words. I can tolerate mistakes, but not lack of care. Mistakes educate, a lack of care prevents the education from occurring when the inevitible mistake is made
I got a bit bored the other day on a drive home and, as one does, I got a bit silly.
And of course, right where she should be. On the ottoman, without even having had to ask. I'd told her last time they were here where I kept their talismans when they were gone. She doesn't say much. She says everything.
Wanderland was designed to reduce the friction in the process of encoding intent to reality. Just a bunch of little things that mostly don't suck all doing their best to better
One time we watched the movie Into the Wild, about a young man's desperate escape from pain into ignorance. He had so much help along the way...
I didn't set out to build this. I didn't really set out to build anything. I don't want to build anything, I just want to watch it grow.
I'm sitting here after church, facing the side of an old brick building, nursing another large Americano - and writing. This is still a bit new for me, I'm starting to get used to it. How to get my thoughts out without letting the floodgates open. Save that for my teddy bear ;)