# hivemind (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover hivemind. Page: Feed: --- ## [ai propaganda for you and me](https://matt.sh/propaganda) _2026-08-15 · matt.sh_ fancy slopping you here Slop has an intentional meaning which is more subtle than the common verbiage of the vernacular of the online disgruntled discourse cohorts: Slop presupposes a user of AI or some auto-generation method is using the auto-generated content, be it text, audio, video, vegetable, or mineral as a substitute for their own effort, work, output, judgment, taste, and style. but what… ## [showoff (math viz)](https://matt.sh/showoff) _2026-08-11 · matt.sh_ ## [Claude Hooker: do you come here often?](https://matt.sh/claude-hooker) _2026-08-01 · matt.sh_ claude-hooker The mystery of claude code over the past year and a half has been how does a world leading ‘AI productization lab’ continually generate such shitty amatuer globally distributed software and services over and over again? It’s almost like staffing a company entirely by 24 year olds seeing their net worth increase by $2 million per month for two years is a bad idea? Even the tech brain… ## [AI Story Consensus](https://matt.sh/ai-story-consensus) _2026-07-26 · matt.sh_ ## [hyperdjango benchmarks](https://matt.sh/2026-07-hyperdjango-bench) _2026-07-21 · matt.sh_ ## [Parkour (macOS quick preview + app for data formats (parquet/arrow/markdown/etc))](https://matt.sh/parkour) _2026-07-15 · matt.sh_ ## [BlazeIt (macOS + iOS B2 Client)](https://matt.sh/blazeit) _2026-07-04 · matt.sh_ ## [mattouch (macOS usability helper apps)](https://matt.sh/mattouch) _2026-06-21 · matt.sh_ ## [Spring Cleaning 2026 Day 8: mattouch (five macos ui productivity apps)](https://matt.sh/springcleaning-2026-08-mattouch) _2026-06-08 · matt.sh_ mattouch I’ve been using bettertouchtool for probably 15 years now, but only for two features: I bind fn+opt to window drag I bind fn+cmd to window resize That’s it. BTT has something like 3,000 features and all I use is two of them. So why not replace it? Say hello to MATTOUCH . Mattouch started out as a single-purpose mac menu bar widget to enable accessibility controls to capture mouse input to… ## [Spring Cleaning 2026 Day 7: macsetup (matts application config setup system)](https://matt.sh/springcleaning-2026-07-macsetup) _2026-06-07 · matt.sh_ macsetup - matt’s app config setup What do you do when you get a new mac? well, you probably run around and turn off all the garbage like: defaults showing ALL MY PRIVATE DATA in any spotlight search (??????) defaults using the BIGGEST FONTS AND LOWEST RESOLUTION POSSIBLE (????) defaults using slow key presses and slow key repeats (????????) entire computer sleeps when the screen sleeps (???????)… ## [CLI-first decentralized GPU compute (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/mvN27wySQSYA) _2026-06-06 · **Sponsored**_ Pay workers or run your GPU for FFmpeg transcode and AI inference. ## [Spring Cleaning 2026 Day 6: kvestigate (investigate k\*)](https://matt.sh/springcleaning-2026-06-kvestigate) _2026-06-06 · matt.sh_ Kvestigate - Investigate Kubernetes Clusters Ever find yourself given access to a piece of garbage kubernetes cluster and you need need to audit it to figure out what the hell is going on? Say hello to kvestigate your kubernetes investigation and auditing toolkit with the ability to even run ad-hoc workloads beyond the reach of the kubernetes scheduler allocator substrate system by just doing shit… ## [Spring Cleaning 2026 Day 5: exifmodern (converting exiftool to python)](https://matt.sh/springcleaning-2026-05-exifmodern) _2026-05-26 · matt.sh_ Converting exiftool to Python exifmodern We did it. I’ve been trying to do this on and off for five or six years now. exiftool is one of the secret foundational parts of internet media infrastructure. In the same way every video hosting site is just infrastructure laundering for ffmpeg, every photo hosting or image processing site probably uses exiftool somewhere in the background to get… ## [Spring Cleaning 2026 Day 4: Export Claude Tasks & Custom Claude Prompt](https://matt.sh/springcleaning-2026-04-claude-task-export-claude-prompt) _2026-05-25 · matt.sh_ claudo & claude prompt Claudo If you’ve used claude code you’ve probably seen (if you didn’t succumb to disabling seizures from the terminal flashing for 8 months with no fixes) it often creates and uses a “task list” to track progress and goals over time. We know our genius friends at anthropic can do no wrong because they have an unlimited supply of self-taught 24 year old “ai ethicists” all… ## [Spring Cleaning 2026 Day 3: h3 & fixing ascii boxes](https://matt.sh/springcleaning-2026-03-h3-fix-boxes) _2026-05-22 · matt.sh_ H3 and Fixing ASCII Boxes Smaller updates today. H3 https://github.com/mattsta/h3 H3 has been either mostly complete, closed, or abandoned for a while, but there’s still room for improvement. I’m forking it here with my own refactors and improvements: https://github.com/mattsta/h3 Performance — the headline numbers Single-cell hot path API upstream → optimized speedup cellToBoundary 0.50 µs → 0.23… ## [Spring Cleaning 2026 Day 2: project management system](https://matt.sh/springcleaning-2026-02-project-management-system) _2026-05-21 · matt.sh_ Project Management System Continuing spring cleaning 2026 for day two brings us to: project management system. What is project management system you may ask? Project Management System (pms) is two things: uh, it’s a project management system (le duh) but pms is also an experiment in maximizing agent information density, discovery, and self-management surfaces. There’s also a very big 2,000 line… ## [Spring Cleaning 2026 Day 1: hyperdjango](https://matt.sh/springcleaning-2026-01-hyperdjango) _2026-05-20 · matt.sh_ hyperdjango Following up from opsmas 2025 is spring cleaning 2026. Welcome! To kick off spring cleaning, the first project I’d like to release is: hyperdjango . What is hyperdjango you may ask? You could jump ahead into all docs at the hyperdjango hyperdocs hypersite and find out. Though, what you should be asking: what isn’t hyperdjango ? ## [SaaS Delusions Walked so AI Psychosis Could Run](https://matt.sh/saasy-delusions) _2026-04-20 · matt.sh_ SaaS Delusions Walked so AI Psychosis Could Run For a while now, I’ve been trying to find a way to illustrate and convey how over-reliance on SaaS ruins companies and lives. These days you really have to inspect a company to see if they actually do something unique and valuable or if they are just 45 different SaaS subscriptions in a trench coat pretending to provide value you can’t just create… ## [AI Story Tuesday](https://matt.sh/ai-story-tuesday) _2026-04-11 · matt.sh_ AI Story Tuesday This is in the big green bat & cactus person cinematic universe . This is 3 versions of the same story at various levels of detail or narrative exposure. You can view each story version whole or you can go “interactive” and switch between matching sections of each story to customize your enjoyment experience. This viewer needs JavaScript for the live A/B/C switching controls. ## [An Expert Review of A Fire Upon The Deep](https://matt.sh/fire-upon-the-deep) _2026-03-01 · matt.sh_ An Expert Review of A Fire Upon The Deep Over the years I’ve read A Fire Upon The Deep a couple times so here’s some stuff about it. I often see people get basic outright stated plot details wrong about it, so maybe this can be a cheat sheet if you believe it all. This page is in no specific order with no grand flow or purpose, so just relax and enjoy. (don’t @ me about his character model being… ## [Opsmas 2025 Day 13: mesh image router cdn-like thing & claude prompt](https://matt.sh/opsmas-2025-13-mesh-image-router-claude-prompt) _2025-12-24 · matt.sh_ Opsmas 2025 Day 13: mesh image router cdn-like thing & claude prompt TOC: mir claude prompt mesh image router I wrote mesh image router five years ago to be the backend of a photo sharing app. The CDN mesh could be deployed on any high storage capacity, high network throughput servers as a self-routing ad-hoc content-addressed data fetching. I refreshed it with more docs and features a bit this… ## [Ship software peacefully (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/yosQRYHX4CM6) _2025-12-23 · **Sponsored**_ Connect your repo and deploy instantly — Railway handles config, scaling, and monitoring. ## [Opsmas 2025 Day 12: carrier-db & carrier-cache](https://matt.sh/opsmas-2025-12-carrier-db-carrier-cache) _2025-12-23 · matt.sh_ Opsmas 2025 Day 12: carrier-db & carrier-cache carrier db & carrier cache We’re back here again. what happens if you have the world’s most efficient in-memory database system, but nobody notices? carrier db (a redis-protocol-compatible optimized concurrent data storage and processing system) and carrier cache (a memcached-protocol-compatible version) exist and, at scale, can reduce your memory… ## [Opsmas 2025 Day 11: pyjobby & hiproc](https://matt.sh/opsmas-2025-11-pyjobby-hiproc) _2025-12-22 · matt.sh_ Opsmas 2025 Day 11: pyjobby & hiproc TOC: pyjobby hiproc pyjobby pyjobby is a python-centric postgres-backed dynamic workqueue system. I updated it this year, but it is originally a system I wrote in 2021 as a backend to a photography sharing site I was working on (but never released, of course). Image processing pipelines can invole many steps (extract data, mange multi-resolution thumbnails,… ## [Opsmas 2025 Day 10: lematt & pai](https://matt.sh/opsmas-2025-10-lematt-pai) _2025-12-21 · matt.sh_ Opsmas 2025 Day 10: lematt & pai TOC: lematt pai lematt I originally wrote lematt in 2017 to manage lets encrypt cert libraries more “professionally” than just letting random web servers or proxies self-create certs with no tracking or logging or backups. basically, if you aren’t using a 100% managed service like AWS load balancers with self-provisioning certs, you shouldn’t let your random… ## [Opsmas 2025 Day 9: crcspeed](https://matt.sh/opsmas-2025-09-crcspeed) _2025-12-20 · matt.sh_ Opsmas 2025 Day 9: crcspeed I wrote crcspeed in 2014 over about 8 months of figuring out how speed up CRC-Jones-64 and CRC-16-CCITT variants. It got a lot of exposure and inclusion in other popular public and private projects over the years. a background on crcs CRC stands for “ cyclic redundancy check ” and it’s a fairly accurate name . It generates a value for any input bitstream, except the… ## [Opsmas 2025 Day 8: kraft & wtf is wrong with anthropic](https://matt.sh/opsmas-2025-08-kraft-anthropic) _2025-12-19 · matt.sh_ Opsmas 2025 Day 8: kraft & wtf is wrong with anthropic TOC: kraft what the holy hell is anthropic doing kraft kraft is my take on a self-contained and easy to verify raft implementation. By “raft implementation” I mean it treats raft purely as an abstract state machine for all operations (i.e. no networking or storage) so you can verify it logically and generate in-process synthetic test node data… ## [Opsmas 2025 Day 7: kvidxkit and (&) m](https://matt.sh/opsmas-2025-07-kvidxkit-m) _2025-12-18 · matt.sh_ Opsmas 2025 Day 7: (kv)(idx)(kit) & (m) TOC: kvidxkit m kvidxkit I like writing specific interfaces on top of more general systems. Encapsulation is king. Especially when it involves things like pre-validating or pre-restricting data input/output formats, setting up interfaces or libarires to work “the right way” transparently throughout user interfaces, and even guarding against experienced… ## [Opsmas 2025 Day 6: loopyring](https://matt.sh/opsmas-2025-06-loopyring) _2025-12-17 · matt.sh_ Opsmas 2025 Day 6: loopyring loopyring What is a loopyring ? Well, what if you combine loopy and ring ? You get loopyRing ! loopyRing combines the loopy event loop with the ring producer/consumer ring buffer allowing lock-free multi-core hierarchical task delegation like: Level 0 (Input) Level 1 (Parse) Level 2 (Process) Level 3 (Output) ┌─────────────┐ ┌─────────────┐ ┌─────────────┐… ## [Opsmas 2025 Day 5: ring & actionboard](https://matt.sh/opsmas-2025-05-ring-actionboard) _2025-12-16 · matt.sh_ Opsmas 2025 Day 5: ring & actionboard TOC: ring actionboard ring into every developer’s life two things happen: they discover then fall in love with bloom filters and then the process repeats again when discovering the lmax disruptor. we already have bloom filters over in datakit . now, here, now, we present: ring a high-performance C lmax-disruptor style producer/consumer ring buffer. You know… ## [Opsmas 2025 Day 4: a loopy event loop & advice worth billions](https://matt.sh/opsmas-2025-04-loopy-billions) _2025-12-15 · matt.sh_ Opsmas 2025 Day 4: loopy & billions TOC: loopy billions loopy event loop To advance my career the most and the fastest, I only focus on the hottest in-demand tech, so here’s another event loop . Why another event loop? I don’t really like libuv or libevent for various reasons, so, when not liking things, make your own. This project started maybe 10 years ago as a multi-platform event loop… ## [Opsmas 2025 Day 3: datakit is growing & memory efficiency matters](https://matt.sh/opsmas-2025-03-datakit-ram) _2025-12-14 · matt.sh_ Opsmas 2025 Day 3: datakit & ram prices TOC: datakit notes on ram prices and computational efficiency datakit datakit oh datakit how thy data structures are so memory-efficient! datakit (ref: datakit public release announcement ) is my “most memory-efficient-possible” collection of data structures, OS abstractions, algorithms, and system/platform architectures. This year I had a chance to revisit… ## [ThreatCrush on GitHub (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/42cADtsue7M6) _2025-12-13 · **Sponsored**_ View the ThreatCrush listing on the GitHub Marketplace. ## [Opsmas 2025 Day 2: varint & tigerwired](https://matt.sh/opsmas-2025-02-varint-tigerwired) _2025-12-13 · matt.sh_ Opsmas 2025 Day 2: varint updated & tigerwired TOC: varint tigerwired merry opsmas 2025 day 2. varint In my never-ending goal to make all software as efficient as possible, I collected and extended some variable-length integer strategies a while ago in varint . It’s updated now with more features, more correctness, more examples , more different encoding kinds, and more documentation. The original… ## [Opsmas 2025 Day 1: haproxy & mpreg](https://matt.sh/opsmas-2025-01-haproxy-mpreg) _2025-12-12 · matt.sh_ Opsmas 2025 Day 1: new haproxy config system & mpreg TOC: haproxy-translate mpreg merry opsmas 2025. this year i’ve created (somehow) more code than ever before including both new projects and cleaning up existing/abandoned projects. I’d like to announce/release about 20 new projects (or major updates to previous projects) by the end of the year with one new post per day starting… now.… ## [AI Story 2](https://matt.sh/ai-story-2) _2025-10-12 · matt.sh_ AI Story 2: The Song of Broken Wings Another one Claude did a while ago. The initial story prompt was just: I woke up in the cold. My Patronus stood in the corner. Since the incident, he doesn’t move. His eyes are vacant, but moving. Wherever I am in the world, his eyes follow me. I ask him for hot chocolate. Old habits die hard. He doesn’t move. I wish he would move, but then again, I’m glad he… ## [AI Story](https://matt.sh/ai-story-1) _2025-08-10 · matt.sh_ AI Story: The Song of Broken Wings Claude did this a while ago in one session. It’s not entirely bad. The Song of Broken Wings Part One: Autumn Harmonics Chapter 1: The Boy Who Fell The first time Eliot Waugh saw him, the boy was bleeding music. Not blood—though there was that too, a thin line of crimson trailing from where his fingertips pressed too hard against steel guitar strings. But it was…