Garrit Franke
Simon Willison has an amazing personal benchmark that he uses on any new AI model that comes out: "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle" The outputs are as funny as they are informative about the AI model. The pelican is very saturated on the internet by now, so it's hard to tell if an AI is particularly trained against this prompt. So, for the longest time, I wanted to have my own…
So you've been using an agent harness like Claude Code , Codex , Pi or one of the many others on the market. This is great! It's incredible how quickly these projects are evolving. After talking to some coworkers, reading articles on various blogs and seeing countless memes, it seems like many developers are still stuck in the habit of using "an agent" to aid their work - meaning they use one or…
I always felt a little bad for the ghosts in Pac-Man. They patrol the maze, they corner the guy, and then he eats a glowing pellet and suddenly they're the ones running for their lives. So I built a small game where you finally get to play the other side. Pac-Man has its own AI, and your job is to catch him before he clears the maze. The twist is the same one that always ruined my day as a ghost:…
TL;DR: My meter dropped offline for ~13 days. Home Assistant's long-term stats came back wrong — a -4,500 kWh bar, a phantom 862 kWh solar spike. The dashboard is a view . The truth is in the statistics table. You fix it with one SELECT to find the damage and one UPDATE to undo it. For a while now, my energy dashboard in Home Assistant reports that my house had produced negative 4,500 kWh in…
I recently watched a video that put a name on something I'd been feeling. The author splits an LLM's context window into two zones. There's the smart zone , where the model is sharp, and the dumb zone , where attention drops off and the model starts forgetting what you told it five minutes ago. The cutoff sits somewhere around 100k tokens. It doesn't matter how big the advertised context window…
n8n-nodes-open5e is an n8n community node that lets you access D&D 5th edition SRD content from the Open5e API in your n8n workflows. The Open5e node provides access to 12 different D&D 5e resources through the Open5e API. Each resource supports three operations: Get Many : Retrieve multiple items with optional filters and pagination Get : Retrieve a single item by its identifier (slug or key)…
From my notebook : Brains are pattern recognition machines. I seek structure, sometimes meta-structure. I try to structure how I structure things. Projects, stories and adventures often only become apparent when they are in the past. They evolve naturally, organically. Starting a project can result in something completely different. Is there a structure in that? I am trying to find structure…
The Setup MacOS VSCode Vim Extension The Issue Long-pressing j or k (think "down" or "up" in Vim) only results in one down or up action, instead of continuous scrolling. The Fix In a terminal, run the following command: defaults write com.microsoft.VSCode ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false Original post: https://stackoverflow.com/a/44010683 Additional tip In the MacOS settings, set "Key Repeat…
The Scientific Method is widely accepted among researchers and academics to be the de facto standard of establishing truth. Lately, I was wandering if parts of the scientific method could more often be applied to every day life. There are many different resources out there explaining the scientific method, often with examples of how to apply it outside of an academic environment. The core method…
The Cult of Done Manifesto is a fascinating way of embracing a chaotic mind. I copied the 13 golden rules into my very first pocket notebook and stumble upon them from time to time. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done. There is no editing stage. Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as…