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I love Val.town for building little experiments and getting them hosted quicky. The fact that you can instantly have a URL to run code is incredible. I use townie (their agent - https://townie.val.run ) a lot to knock out ideas quickly. Give it a prompt and some $ and you have an app on that url in...
I went down a rabbit hole researching the origins of hypertext and one of the articles I liked the most was "The Memex Revisited" - https://worrydream.com/refs/Bush_1967_-_Memex_Revisited.pdf - it describes today from the late 60's. It describes deep research, LLM memory, personalisation, multimodal...
We went to the Pablo Picasso museum in Málaga. It was rather spectacular, they also didn't force a use-once app down your throat and instead had a good, high-quality we experience. Best of all, I saw a lot of people using it.
"Tinderbox has its legacy in the hypertext world, a once rich community of researchers who were exploring how computing could free us from the limits of linear narrative. Unfortunately, the web came along and pulled the energy out of that vision because links conceived more broadly than ‘go’ were es...
I'm writing this on my phone as I dab on Aloe Vera to appease the sunburn. I've spent some time reading about the nature of hyperlinking and how people thought about it from the Memex and through to Xanadu. It's very fun to read the ideas that people had about ep, 40, 50 and 60 years ago. I'm eager...
I think Townie is super interesting. On a user level, I really like that I could build this blog with it, and it just worked... It seems like a pretty complex set up, but looking at the source code it's been really interesting to see the agent, the tools and the tool loop in action and how the syste...
I really liked this podcast on the Pragmatic Engineer with Gergely Orosz and Steve Yeggie , specifically the point about not writing code but building software. My work has changed significantly over the last couple of months. LLMs have enabled me to bring projects that I've always wanted into exist...
It's awesome to see the continued innovation around Web Browsers. To me it just reinforces the opportunity that the web can give everyone. It would be nice to see all these well-capitalized companies that ship AI browsers support the common infrastructure of browser development more and if not that,...
I wrote in Whither CMS? that I think with the introduction of LLMs that I think that traditional CMSs (e.g, the WordPress' of the world) have the potential to be massively distributed. This site is my test to show that I think the world is changing. Yes, the world of content might change with more a...
This blog is a custom CMS created on val.town (a rather neat function-as-a-service service). I (well an LLM) custom built the mastodon integration and it worked surprisingly well apart from one small thing: whenever you clicked on the link to the actor (`@ blog@posthero.us `) then it would just navi...
This is a demo post to show it working. I really hope it works.
Hello. Welcome to PostHero.US I think this is all working now and it's pretty neat to be able to email a blog and have it appear.
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Maybe it will now cross post
Really not sure why it's not appearing in Mastodon timeline
Added better logging.
Hopefully this is working now...
Testing
Tada...
Testing
Hopefully it really works this time.
Fingers crossed. Signatures should be set.
This is a test. Hopefully it works.
Hello Woooorrrllld
This is a test post to verify the verification system works.
Testing to see how the verified posting works.