(this policy is almost entirely based on Complexly's AI Policy , retrieved on 2026-08-15) NAMTAO Productions AI Policy For good reason, AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, DALL-E 2, and Midjmyney have generated a lot of interest. Their ability to synthesize stories and images can be impressive. But they're also incompatible with much of what I do here. While I don't want to ignore the role they…
My Standard Library [dependencies] # COMMAND LINE PARSING clap = { version = "4.5.53", features = ["derive"] } # ERGONOMIC DATETIMES chrono = "0.4.42" # SIMPLE PRETTY ERROR HANDLING color-eyre = "0.6.5" # BENCHMARKING criterion = "0.8.1" # SUPERPOWERED ITERATORS itertools = "0.14.0" # PARALELL ITERATORS rayon = "1.11.0" # SERIALISATION / DESERIALISATION serde = { version = "*", features =…
THE MISTAKE let (feature_values, _) = features .append_with_names(&self.config.feature_names) .unwrap(); -- Cloudflare Hi friends my name is Tris and this is No Boilerplate, where I focus on fast, technical videos. 4 years ago, I wrote a video called "Rust on Rails: Write code that never crashes", but it seems like some companies didn't get the memo. As Cloudflare showed by temporarily releasing…
[!QUOTE] "Fast, technical videos" Scripts for my talks on the YouTube channel. up to the 43rd are in https://github.com/0atman/noboilerplate , then I switched to publishing them here on this site (the repo is https://github.com/NamtaoProductions/namtao-com ). I build these using obsidian.md and presenterm : I take each slide, screenshot it at 4k, then splice it with my audio using reaper.fm .…
STATUS: DRAFT It all started, as so many things do, with a tweet by @mitchellh: But I thought he didn't go far enough, I think it's more like: I READ WRITE THE CODE So maybe there are a few different levels? And I thought about diverless car assistant levels: https://illuri-sandeep5454.medium.com/self-driving-cars-intro-6831192cd95d Autonomous Car Levels Driver Regular manual car Feet Off Adaptive…
INTRODUCTION [!IMPORTANT] The premise is simple yet profound. While humans excel at generating insights, our capacity to retain them is limited. We’re forgetful. We lose our train of thought. Great ideas vanish as quickly as they appear. "A System for Writing", by Bob Doto Hi folks, my name is Tris, and this is No Boilerplate, where I focus on fast, technical videos. Both the co-writer of this…
Hi friends my name is Tris and this is No Boilerplate, where I focus on fast, technical videos. RELATIONSHIP ANARCHY A lesson that I suspect many parents and teachers are already hoping to instil in the young people in their care is: No one is ALWAYS more important than anyone else, and no relationship is ALWAYS more important than any other. This received wisdom comes in many forms, "don't forget…
I was tempted to start this whole video at the end because most other guides start at note-taking and then trail off and handwave the most important part, the process. And if you just take notes but don't do anything with them, that won't get you to where you need to be. The biggest unanswered question in nearly every book, article, and video on note-taking I have seen is: flowchart TD style B…
[!QUOTE] "How do you learn to be human if there's no-one around to teach you?" A hard sci-fi hopepunk podcast following the journey of a little satellite trying to understand what has happened after Earth stops returning his calls. New episodes Wednesdays. Watch here , or subscribe in your favourite podcast app. Season Summary [!DANGER] Spoilers ahead! Note summary LT Season 01.0 On Station 6, an…
Caroline is a 33 year old human programmer, she speaks with a high, posh voice and has long blue hair and TODO eyes. she lives in Station 6 . The voice of Caroline is Gina Sneezby .
[!QUOTE] "Unpacking life." Discussing tech, tools, and tips on how to survive inside a creative brain. Hosted by Tris & Robin. Episodes fortnightly. Website here , or subscribe in your favourite podcast app.
Background bsc software engineering Initial Email/chat I am Hema, a software engineer early in my career. I appreciate your content materially and stylistically. I thought it would help to get some direct career guidance from you. I have already been working for a year and a half in a small startup as a junior rust engineer but I am disappointed at my rate of improvement over the past year. I used…
Empire is a 16C-themed glamping sandbox LARP that runs for 4 weekends a year just outside Cambridge, UK on a 180-acre dedicated site. Players choose the kind of character they want to play based on what they want to do in the game (anything from combat to politics, to setting up a for-real tavern!), and are free to be involved in as much or as little of the game as suits them. Info Largest LARP in…
[!QUOTE] The transmitter mast is calling. Come home. Modem Prometheus is an anthology podcast of urban folktales. This is where any roundabout could be a gateway to Faerie. Where trains that don’t exist run from the foundations of skyscrapers. Where there is no deeper dark than the shadows between buildings.
(graphics design is my passion) Hi friends my name is Tris and this is No Boilerplate, where I focus on fast, technical videos. I've made a little project for you that's ready to use today, but first, story time: ME Hey, could you help me? I don't understand what's wrong... I've been staring at this code for an hour and at this point I just want to burn it all down! SENIOR No problem! First off,…
Hi folks, my name is Tris. I'm digital maker based in London. I write and produce electronic music under the name NAMTAO , fast technical videos on my channel, NoBoilerplate , a hopepunk podcast called Lost Terminal , a magical realism art history podcast, The Phosphene Catalogue , and direct and produce a contemporary urban fantasy podcast called Modem Prometheus . My Site - namtao.com Mastodon…
Episode 1.3 Tape click Introduction Welcome to The Phosphene Catalogue no. #15003 We see light where others see only darkness. We hope the reader is weathering the cold snap here in London this week. The artwork in our storerooms is quite safe from the snow, under the lowest basements and vaults of London's oldest and most reliable buildings. Both The Woolf Room and The Bell Room are available…
Can't Beat the Boss? Load a Previous Save A command watcher that commits when you fix errors Feel free to poke around the code , I would love feature suggestions ! Usage Usage: savepoint [OPTIONS] --filetype <filetype> [COMMAND]... Arguments: [COMMAND]... Command to run (use after -- if your shell requires it) Options: -f, --filetype <filetype> Filename extension to watch (eg rs, js, py, java) -d,…
[!QUOTE] "We see light where others see only darkness." The Phosphene Catalogue is a 1970s mail-order catalogue, specialising in those items that cannot be sold at other auction houses: Paintings of lost origin, statues that are too grotesque for public display, and books better left unread... Read the Phosphene Catalogue Back Issues Meet the TPC Character Index Inspiration The idea of an urban…
This is my custom spacekeys config for obsidian, based on the sample keymap that comes with the plugin, but with some structural changes to match https://lazynvim.org 's defaults. Lazyvim Reference items: SPC: darlal-switcher-plus:switcher-plus:open TAB: editor:focus /: global-search:open ",": editor:context-menu "?": switcher:open P: app:go-back N: app:go-forward e: file-explorer:open r:…
Description Stillman is a 43 year old human engineer . he speaks with a serious, nasal voice and has long, brown hair and blue eyes. he lives in the Kuethir . The voice of Stillman is Tris Oaten
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Quent is a 38 year old human teacher of oceanography . he speaks with a low, soft voice and has black hair and green eyes. he lives in the Kuethir . The voice of Quent is Tris Oaten
Samik is a 62 year old human writer . he speaks with a low, halting voice and has short, grey hair and blue/grey eyes. he lives in The Quiet Signet . The voice of Samik is Nils Brobakk
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I often daydream of what my university life might have been, if only I had access to a tool like Obsidian: A powerful knowledge platform and second brain that acts like a force multiplier to everything I do today. What could I have learned? How fast could I have learned it? I can't turn back time, but I can do the next-best thing: I can teach YOU, dear viewer, how to use this tool to learn way…
The existing obsidian template that Readwise provide is good, but it can be GREAT. I've taken fromsergio's modifications and made them even better. Features: Headings per highlight so you can scan them in the outline view (truncated to 200 characters) Markdown checkbox per highlight, allowing you to track if you have read/processed it iNdented readwise tags (namespaced as #readwise/tagname ) under…
Find out the Names of Connected Midi Devices aseqdump --list Find out the Codes for Your Device aseqdump -p "Launchkey Mini MK3" Add in Mappings #!env bash aseqdump -p "Launchkey Mini MK3" | while IFS=" ," read src ev1 ev2 ch label1 data1 label2 data2 rest; do case "$ev1 $ev2 $data1" in "Note on 36") echo wheel -1 | dotoolc ;; "Polyphonic aftertouch 40") echo wheel +1 | dotoolc ;; "Note on 40")…
Our bodies are not even CLOSE to adapting to AGRICULTURE , let alone desks and computers. Hi friends my name is Tris and this is No Boilerplate, where I focus on fast, technical videos. I talk a lot about hacking your brain on this channel: Lifehacks to increase your productivity or happiness, polyphasic sleep to get more time out of your days, and a LOT on how to organise your life with plain…