Fable is... okay
Not great, not terrible.
ʕ☞ᴥ ☜ʔ Kix's blog
In the audacious pursuit of things that spark joy.
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Are my glasses making me more tired than I should be?
Owndays blue-light blocking glasses might be making me more tired, not less. The science, the orange tint, and the bad fit.
Cursor is dead to me
I opened Cursor this morning out of habit. The window sat there, idle, while I reached for my terminal instead. A few years ago, that would've been unthinkable. Cursor was the editor -- their tab-editing was the best in the game, bar none. Speedy, smart, and fully context-aware. It understood what I was about to type before I even knew I was about to type it. For a long stretch, it was my single…
TIL: you can wake on lan from full shut down
I bought a JetKVM recently along with an ATX power controller board -- the kind that has leads that go into your motherboard's front panel pins so the KVM can cycle power and reset the machine remotely. It's a neat piece of hardware. I've been running home servers for a while and figured it'd close the last gap: being able to turn the machine back on when it's fully off even when I'm miles away…
The Raccoon Test
Or the quest to find which cheap models can actually follow my preferred agent personality.
Smaller and smaller things
As I get older, I've noticed a weird trend in what I like -- I'm starting to prefer smaller things over bigger ones. Younger me wanted the 15-inch MacBook Pro. All the power. All the screen real estate. Younger me wanted the Pro Max iPhone. A giant slab for all the content. Younger me wanted the 40-inch OLED screen front and center of my desk. The big bookshelf speakers. The biggest version of…
Anthropic is Scrooge McDuck
Having driven OpenClaw for a few months, I decided to give Hermes Agent a spin recently because I wanted to see how far I could push it with claude as the backend. And honestly, the setup was kinda neat. Hermes lets you wire up different models and toolchains, and one of the options is using Claude Code CLI through ACP. On paper, that sounds great. If Claude Code is already the thing I like using…
The age of thin clients and middle managers
Why I flipped on anthropomorphizing AI agents: notes on running Claude and Codex as a two-person team.
Great device, wrong problem: Two months with the Ultrahuman Air
It's definitely a killer -- both the device itself and its companion app are really well executed. But it's not replacing my Apple Watch.
Utteranc.es is really neat
It's hard to find privacy-respecting (read: not Disqus) commenting systems out there. A couple of good ones recommended by Bear are Cusdis and Komments -- but I'm not a huge fan of either of them: Cusdis styling is very limited. You can only set it to dark or light mode, with no control over the specific HTML elements and styling. It's fine but I prefer something that looks a little neater.…