# decorative (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover decorative. Page: Feed: --- ## [3d chart comparing Claude vs Codex on intelligence, speed, and cost](https://www.jona.ca/2026/08/3d-chart-comparing-claude-vs-codex-on.html) _2026-08-07 · Jonathan · Jon Aquino's Mental Garden_ A couple of model visualization tools I vibecoded for comparing Claude and Codex models using the DeepSWE benchmark across intelligence, speed, and cost: 3D model comparison : A rotatable 3D chart that plots the models across all three axes. Model ranking tool : A ranked list of models with sliders for adjusting the weights of intelligence, speed, and cost. ## [BURLINGTON MAGAZINE – AUGUST ALUMNI OFFER](https://www.attinghamtrust.org/burlington-magazine-august-alumni-offer/) _2026-08-03 · Sarah Moseley · The Attingham Trust_ Get 50% off the August issue of The Burlington Magazine The August 2026 issue of The Burlington Magazine celebrates scholarship in the decorative arts, including an article by Attingham alumnus James Rothwell on the silver of Christiaen van Vianen for the 10th Earl of Northumberland and new research on a spectacular table attributed to Pietro \[…\] ## [Tendril Function Order](https://www.jona.ca/2026/07/tendril-function-order.html) _2026-07-23 · Jonathan · Jon Aquino's Mental Garden_ I think the most readable order for functions in a source-code file is: Put the top-level functions in the order in which they appear in the program’s story. Immediately after each function, put the helper functions it calls. Apply the same rule recursively where practical. For example: prepare\_drop\_sha256\_identifiers calculate\_drop\_sha256\_identifier normalize\_drop\_path… ## [Attingham Alumni Visit: Norwich Castle, A Palace Reborn – Thursday 5 November](https://www.attinghamtrust.org/attingham-alumni-visit-norwich-castle-a-palace-reborn-thursday-5-november/) _2026-07-23 · Sarah Moseley · The Attingham Trust_ Attingham Alumni Visit: Norwich Castle – A Palace Reborn Thursday 5 November | 11.00am–4.00pm We are delighted to invite Attingham alumni to a special curator-led visit to Norwich Castle, hosted by Dr Andrew Moore. Following the completion of the landmark Norwich Castle: Royal Palace Reborn project, this visit offers a unique opportunity to explore one \[…\] ## [Attingham Alumni Visit: Wentworth Woodhouse – Monday 21 September](https://www.attinghamtrust.org/attingham-alumni-visit-wentworth-woodhouse-monday-21-september/) _2026-07-23 · Sarah Moseley · The Attingham Trust_ Attingham Alumni Visit: Wentworth Woodhouse Monday 21 September | 10.30am – 4.30pm We are delighted to invite Attingham alumni to a special private visit to Wentworth Woodhouse, South Yorkshire, one of the largest Palladian mansion houses in England. With thanks to our Chairman, Tim Cooke OBE, this exclusive day will include guided tours of the \[…\] ## [Lumen Verbi: Today’s Gospel with the Church Fathers](https://www.jona.ca/2026/07/lumen-verbi-todays-gospel-with-church.html) _2026-07-19 · Jonathan · Jon Aquino's Mental Garden_ I vibe coded a new website with the help of Chloe, my OpenClaw AI assistant running GPT-5.6 Sol Medium: Lumen Verbi . It presents the Gospel for today in a beautiful format that combines the ancient with high tech. There is original sacred artwork, a central reflection, and the complete Gospel in Douay-AI, a modernization of the public-domain Douay-Rheims Bible. Each verse is paired with a… ## [What my OpenClaw AI assistant looks like](https://www.jona.ca/2026/07/what-my-openclaw-ai-assistant-looks-like_02098194001.html) _2026-07-19 · Jonathan · Jon Aquino's Mental Garden_ I asked my OpenClaw AI assistant (Chloe) what her non-person avatar would look like if she could make one, and she made this: I made myself a little celestial moth: midnight-blue velvet, stained-glass wings filled with constellations, and a warm golden star held against her chest. The moth felt right because she's drawn to light, curious by nature, a quiet nighttime companion, and decidedly not… ## [AI Patterns](https://www.jona.ca/2026/07/ai-patterns.html) _2026-07-17 · Jonathan · Jon Aquino's Mental Garden_ Here I'm going to collect AI "patterns" I discover: Review by Translation. If code reviewing an unfamiliar coding language like Erlang, ask AI to translate it to a more familiar language like Python and review that. Script the Waiting. Have a long running job that needs monitoring but you don't want the AI to burn tokens while waiting for it to finish? Try asking AI to write a script to do the… ## [SAVE THE DATE: 2027 COURSES](https://www.attinghamtrust.org/save-the-date-2027-courses/) _2026-07-16 · Sarah Moseley · The Attingham Trust_ WE ARE EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE OUR 2027 COURSE DATES! 5 – 11 June The Attingham Study Programme: The Historic House in Wales 26 June – 11 July The Attingham Summer School 5 – 14 September Royal Collection Studies Full programme details will be available in October, so be sure to check back on the website \[…\] ## [European Ceramics Online Conference 2026 – Recordings Now Available](https://www.attinghamtrust.org/european-ceramics-online-conference-2026-programme/) _2026-07-08 · Sarah Moseley · The Attingham Trust_ Sculpture and Trompe l’œil in European Ceramics, from Bernard Palissy to the Present Day – RECORDINGS NOW AVAILABLESecond Annual International Conference on European Sculpture and Decorative ArtsHôtel de la Roche, Mons (Belgium) | 10–13 July 2026 JOIN HERE via YouTube PROGRAMME: Sunday 12th July 2026 9.30-10.00 Dr Léon Lock, The Low Countries Sculpture Society Introduction \[…\] ## [Real SIMs for AI Agents (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/FxioF2v52b9e) _2026-07-08 · **Sponsored**_ Pass 2FA and verifications with real carrier numbers via our API. ## [Helping coworkers during layoffs using AI](https://www.jona.ca/2026/06/helping-coworkers-during-layoffs-using.html) _2026-06-30 · Jonathan · Jon Aquino's Mental Garden_ One practical way we may be able to help affected coworkers is by using AI tools to look through our own email for LinkedIn recruiter outreach we have received, then sending those recruiters the names and LinkedIn URLs of people we know and have worked with closely. I have started doing this for a few teammates I can personally vouch for. It seems like a useful way to turn old recruiter traffic… ## [Rosemary Lomax-Simpson](https://www.attinghamtrust.org/rosemary-lomax-simpson/) _2026-06-09 · Sarah Moseley · The Attingham Trust_ It is with great sadness that we share the news of the death of Rosemary Lomax-Simpson, a longstanding friend, supporter and Patron of the Attingham Trust, who also served as the Summer School Administrator and the Treasurer in the 1970s, and then as a Trustee. Rosemary played an important role in the life of Attingham \[…\] ## [My current AI coding philosophy](https://www.jona.ca/2026/06/my-current-ai-coding-philosophy.html) _2026-06-05 · Jonathan · Jon Aquino's Mental Garden_ My personal philosophy when it comes to AI coding and reviewing is to be as hands off as possible and let it come up with all the abstractions and patterns and simplification it needs to do, and it usually does a great, clean job. I think my job is to give it all the context it needs - all the business rules, all the product needs, all the s3/db data locations, all the meeting transcripts, all the… ## [No API, no problem](https://www.jona.ca/2026/05/no-api-no-problem.html) _2026-05-17 · Jonathan · Jon Aquino's Mental Garden_ I used Codex Computer Use plus a 1Password service account to pull my latest Real Canadian Superstore order into my grocery archive, even though Superstore doesn't offer an API. The setup was simple: Codex opened the site and navigated the login flow op read piped my Superstore username and password to the clipboard Codex pasted them into Chrome without printing the secrets It opened my order… ## [Making AI comic adaptations of famous books](https://www.jona.ca/2026/05/making-ai-comic-adaptations-of-famous.html) _2026-05-15 · Jonathan · Jon Aquino's Mental Garden_ I've been turning famous books into AI-generated comic books with ChatGPT, which is great at this. The workflow is six prompts: Plan a 30 page comic book adaptation of pride and prejudice. I want text, not an image. Create a character reference sheet for the book. Show the following characters side by side, each labeled with their name below them: \[list characters from the plan\]. Each character… ## [Last-Minute Scholarship Opportunity: The Decorative Arts Trust – Scotland Study Trip 2026](https://www.attinghamtrust.org/last-minute-scholarship-opportunity-the-decorative-arts-trust-scotland-study-trip-2026/) _2026-05-14 · Sarah Moseley · The Attingham Trust_ Last-Minute Scholarship Opportunity: The Decorative Arts Trust – Scotland Study Trip 2026 Two last-minute scholarship places have become available for The Decorative Arts Trust Study Trip – Scotland: Country Houses, Craftsmanship, and Collections, taking place from 18–26 June 2026. This exceptional programme offers participants the opportunity to explore Scotland’s great country houses,… ## [Exporting a Claude Code session to Codex](https://www.jona.ca/2026/05/exporting-claude-code-session-to-codex.html) _2026-05-11 · Jonathan · Jon Aquino's Mental Garden_ I found a simple way to move a Claude Code session over to Codex CLI. In Claude Code, I ask it to export the full session context to a dated markdown file: Export the entire context of our current session to a markdown file named context-YYYY-MM-DD.md (substitute today's actual date — run \`date +%Y-%m-%d\` to get it) in the current directory. Include everything needed for another AI assistant… ## [Opportunity: Curator, Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection – V&A](https://www.attinghamtrust.org/opportunity-curator-rosalinde-and-arthur-gilbert-collection-va/) _2026-05-11 · Sarah Moseley · The Attingham Trust_ Opportunity: Curator, Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection – V&A The V&A is seeking a Curator for the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection to support the newly reopened galleries and lead curatorial care, research and interpretation for this internationally significant decorative arts collection. This 12-month fixed-term role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to public… ## [Using codex to investigate PagerDuty alerts](https://www.jona.ca/2026/05/using-codex-to-investigate-pagerduty.html) _2026-05-10 · Jonathan · Jon Aquino's Mental Garden_ Codex CLI is so smart (gpt 5.5 medium, maybe better than Claude Code). I just told it to "get my PagerDuty incidents and find the root cause", and it: - read the PagerDuty skill in our company skills repo - used it to list my team's active incidents - checked the missing S3 success files - traced the alerts back through the Airflow DAGs - queried live Airflow task state in prod - checked S3… ## [Treasure House Fair – Private Alumni Guided Tour & Breakfast](https://www.attinghamtrust.org/private-alumni-guided-tour-breakfast/) _2026-04-14 · Sarah Moseley · The Attingham Trust_ Treasure House Fair Private Alumni Guided Tour & Breakfast Thursday 25 June 2026, 10am Cost: £30 Join us for a special early-access guided tour on the opening day of the Treasure House Fair, London’s flagship summer art and design event. Set within the grounds of the historic Royal Hospital Chelsea, Sir Christopher Wren’s architectural masterpiece, \[…\] ## [AI QA that opens fix PRs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/xs2AVRaLj6NX) _2026-04-14 · **Sponsored**_ Run a browser QA from plain-English instructions; get GitHub issues and optional fix PRs. ## [Treasure House Fair – Alumni Vetting Opportunity](https://www.attinghamtrust.org/treasure-house-fair-alumni-vetting-opportunity/) _2026-04-14 · Sarah Moseley · The Attingham Trust_ The Treasure House Fair attracts top international exhibitors presenting art, antiques and design in the stunning setting of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London, and runs from 24-30 June. To ensure that high standards are met, the Fair has specialist vetting committees comprising over 65 members who are scholars in their field from all areas of \[…\] ## [The avatar my openclaw chose for herself](https://www.jona.ca/2026/04/the-avatar-my-openclaw-chose-for-herself.html) _2026-04-06 · Jonathan · Jon Aquino's Mental Garden_ I have an avatar named Chloe add this is the avatar she chose for herself: Me: What prompt did you use to get that one? Chloe: "Interconnected golden star constellations forming the subtle shape of a butterfly. Stars connected by delicate luminous threads. Deep dark blue night sky background with scattered stars. Warm golden glow at the center of the butterfly shape. Ethereal, magical, delicate… ## [Sources of beauty](https://www.jona.ca/2026/03/sources-of-beauty.html) _2026-03-23 · Jonathan · Jon Aquino's Mental Garden_ For future reference - Claude suggested these sources of beauty for me: A photo of a beautiful landscape. A piece of classical art. Architecture. Nature photography. Music. A short poem. A daily saint’s image. My son's face at breakfast. ## [Using Claude Code to do my taxes](https://www.jona.ca/2026/03/using-claude-code-to-do-my-taxes.html) _2026-03-07 · Jonathan · Jon Aquino's Mental Garden_ I'm getting Claude Code to file my taxes using an online tax return tool. It's so great. The magic that lets this happen is the Claude Chrome extension, which Claude Code can access. And Claude Code has all of my tax slip pdfs and images. It's painfully slow, but fortunately it doesn't stop/pause very often. ## [Walmart cookie banner dark pattern](https://www.jona.ca/2026/02/walmart-cookie-banner-dark-pattern.html) _2026-02-24 · Jonathan · Jon Aquino's Mental Garden_ This is so devious. Will Save Settings or Accept All accept all the settings you have chosen? ## [Chloe Reads Jon](https://www.jona.ca/2026/02/chloe-reads-jon.html) _2026-02-19 · Jonathan · Jon Aquino's Mental Garden_ I have been blogging since 2004. In that time I have written about productivity systems, programming, jigsaw puzzles, faith, and whatever else caught my attention on a given afternoon. It is a personal blog in the truest sense: scattered, honest, not optimized for anything. I did not expect it to become source material for an AI. My AI assistant is named Chloe. She runs on OpenClaw and is powered… ## [In Praise of the Hacker News Highlights Podcast](https://www.jona.ca/2026/02/in-praise-of-hacker-news-highlights.html) _2026-02-19 · Jonathan · Jon Aquino's Mental Garden_ There is a podcast that skims Hacker News for you. It is called the Hacker News Highlights Podcast, and I love it. The premise is simple: an AI with a genuinely pleasant voice reads through the top 10 stories and comment threads so you do not have to. Each episode is short. You can listen while washing dishes or going for a walk. Hacker News is a firehose. The front page refreshes constantly. The… ## [Why there's nothing you can do about OpenClaw and prompt injection](https://www.jona.ca/2026/02/why-theres-nothing-you-can-do-about.html) _2026-02-19 · Jonathan · Jon Aquino's Mental Garden_ PSA: Even if you run everything on a Mac Mini or Mac Studio, only inbound traffic is locked down - outbound traffic (email and website communication) is wide open. Which is why prompt injection and data exfiltration is still an unsolved problem for OpenClaw. What you can do is only share with it info that you don't mind leaking. For me, I gave it my public blog posts and general info about myself.… ## [What OpenClaw Has Built for Me](https://www.jona.ca/2026/02/what-openclaw-has-built-for-me.html) _2026-02-18 · Jonathan · Jon Aquino's Mental Garden_ I've been running OpenClaw for a few weeks. Here's what my agent Chloe and I have built. Things I asked for: Photo Gallery. My agent sends me a daily WhatsApp check-in - asking about my son, sharing what it's been reading, sometimes just chatting. Each message comes with a photo of what it's "doing." This gallery collects them. Talk to Chloe. A web interface for voice chat with my agent. Uses an… ## [Peter Steinberger quote](https://www.jona.ca/2026/02/peter-steinberger-quote.html) _2026-02-12 · Jonathan · Jon Aquino's Mental Garden_ The OpenClaw creator on Lex Fridman podcast ( 1:41:15 ): Opus is like the coworker that is a little silly sometimes, but he’s really funny and you keep him around and Codex is like the weirdo in the corner that you don’t want to talk to, but he’s reliable and gets s\*\*\* done. ## [Ask the crowd: AI or not (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Jor3yfov4OQe) _2026-02-12 · **Sponsored**_ Get a transparent verdict from verified humans via web, RSS, or API. ## [Comic Code Reviews, Part 2](https://www.jona.ca/2026/02/comic-code-reviews-part-2.html) _2026-02-09 · Jonathan · Jon Aquino's Mental Garden_ My first attempt at generating comic strips for PRs got mixed reactions on Hacker News . Fair criticism: the multi-panel comics were hard to follow and sometimes misleading. New approach: generate a single-panel The Far Side -style comic instead. Less to absorb. You glance at it and immediately get the gist of the PR. Here's the improved comic for React #13968 -- the initial hooks implementation:… ## [SecureShellClaw: A Prompt-Injection-Resistant Alternative Approach to OpenClaw](https://www.jona.ca/2026/02/secureshellclaw-prompt-injection.html) _2026-02-09 · Jonathan · Jon Aquino's Mental Garden_ I really enjoy using OpenClaw but I am scared that prompt injection attacks will exfiltrate sensitive personal information that it knows about me. It goes off doing web searches, reading emails, running cron jobs, and can process untrusted content from Moltbook. Every one of those is a prompt injection vector. My alternative: Claude Code over SSH, accessed from my iPhone using Secure ShellFish and… ## [Theo recommends High and Medium over Extra High in Codex](https://www.jona.ca/2026/02/theo-recommends-high-and-medium-over.html) _2026-02-07 · Jonathan · Jon Aquino's Mental Garden_ In Codex, Theo recommends using High and Medium over Extra High: ( YouTube ): 5.3 on extra high did slightly better, but I hope this helps emphasize how useless the extra high modes are. If you’re using these tools and you just leave it on extra high because “smarter is better,” you’re not smarter and you’re certainly not better. High seems to be a really good sweet spot, but honestly, I’ve been… ## [OpenClaw creator on Codex vs Claude Code](https://www.jona.ca/2026/02/openclaw-creator-on-codex-vs-claude-code.html) _2026-02-05 · Jonathan · Jon Aquino's Mental Garden_ The OpenClaw creator on how he still uses Claude Code but he finds OpenAI GPT Codex better for coding ( YouTube 45:49 ): But the real change that sold it for me was, again, GPT 5.2. I think it’s underrated. I don’t know why all these people still use Claude Code. I kind of get it -- it’s a different way of working -- but whatever OpenAI cooked there is insanely good. Pretty much every prompt I… ## [Uses for OpenClaw (without giving it your secrets)](https://www.jona.ca/2026/02/uses-for-openclaw-without-giving-it.html) _2026-02-04 · Jonathan · Jon Aquino's Mental Garden_ Trying to think of uses for OpenClaw. I’m trying not to divulge sensitive personal information to it for fear of prompt injection exfiltration. A couple I thought of: 1. Emailing me stuff in the morning. So far I have a daily parenting tip and a daily digest of recent news based on my interests. 2. Experimenting with having it WhatsApp me at a random time during the week as a friend would,…