# miscellanea — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover miscellanea. Page: Feed: --- ## [Smoky Skies, Raccoon Pool Parties, and Domain Negotiations (Week 32)](https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/08/07/w32/) _2026-08-07 · blog.lmorchard.com_ TL;DR: A smoky week in Portland brings back 2020 wildfire PTSD. My smart appliances have started nagging me to buy phones, the raccoons threw a midnight pool party and wrecked my fountain pumps, and the cats are handing out RPG quests. Plus, some thoughts on treating AI coding assistants as peers rather than tools. ## [Cat Parole, Coding Sprints, and a Memorial Tattoo (Catching up: July 11 – July 31)](https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/07/31/w31/) _2026-07-31 · blog.lmorchard.com_ TL;DR: It's been a hectic three weeks. The main event has been the slow, tense, and ultimately successful integration of our new cat, Minnaloushe, who graduated from "cat jail" to a tentative peace with the other furballs. In between managing the cat drama, I got a memorial tattoo for Puck, poured a ton of work into decafclaw and other side projects, and fell down a rabbit hole of game streaming… ## [Volere tutto #29](https://carlomartello.substack.com/p/volere-tutto-29) _2026-07-27 · Carlo Martello · Carlo Martello_ Praticamente una miscellanea ## [Volere tutto #28](https://carlomartello.substack.com/p/volere-tutto-28) _2026-07-22 · Carlo Martello · Carlo Martello_ Praticamente una miscellanea ## [Somewhere to stash my mixtapes (Week 28)](https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/07/10/w28/) _2026-07-10 · blog.lmorchard.com_ TL;DR: I built mixtapes.lmorchard.com to publish playlists on my own domain instead of leaving them trapped in Spotify, which spun off two new repos (byom-sync and byom-player). Plus more starnet gamedev (an exploit-barrage mini-game with a Butterchurn "brain damage" overlay), I finally ditched Disqus for remark42 after almost 20 years, and Minnaloushe is inching toward parole from cat jail. ## [Minnaloushe in cat jail (2026 Week 27)](https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/07/05/w27/) _2026-07-05 · blog.lmorchard.com_ TL;DR: This week saw Minnaloushe's 'cat jail' reintroduction process, deep dives into live-coding music with strudel.cc (including a cover!), and a major overhaul of the starnet project's audio engine and core mechanics. Plus, reflections on the web's evolution, LLMs, and other miscellanea. ## [A masochist and his MacBook (Week 26)](https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/06/26/w26/) _2026-06-26 · blog.lmorchard.com_ TL;DR: I spent a good chunk of this week trying to drag a 14-year-old MacBook Pro into the present by way of every Linux distro that would boot, got a screen full of static for my trouble, and eventually clawed my way to a working Fedora install. Also: my Benchy finally floats, purple gaming gear keeps breeding on my desk, and I scheduled a memorial tattoo for Puck (lost in 2015). ## [starnet ate the month (Catching up: May 29 – June 18)](https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/06/18/w25/) _2026-06-18 · blog.lmorchard.com_ TL;DR: It's been about three weeks since the last weeknote, so this is a catchup. The short version: our newest cat tried to murder one of the other cats and broke my heart a little, a raccoon declared war on our backyard pond, I learned the hard way that ASA needs a brim, and I poured an absurd amount of agent-driven coding into a procedural cyberpunk hacking game called starnet. Also Technology… ## [Volere tutto #27](https://carlomartello.substack.com/p/volere-tutto-27) _2026-06-17 · Carlo Martello · Carlo Martello_ praticamente una miscellanea ## [A whole fake season of Star Trek (Week 22)](https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/05/29/w22/) _2026-05-29 · blog.lmorchard.com_ TL;DR: A week that felt like nothing but Star Trek shitposts. Underneath that: two videos about being a nervous introvert, a serious darkwave bender, and an unreasonable craving for a Junji Ito horror-manga cardigan. About on brand, honestly. ## [Meet Claude, the AI assistant (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Lxu6JfsEadoV) _2026-05-29 · **Sponsored**_ Conversational AI to answer questions, brainstorm ideas, and help with tasks. ## [me-to-markdown: a robot to fetch my whole week (Catching up: April 25 – May 21)](https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/05/21/w18-w19-w20-w21/) _2026-05-21 · blog.lmorchard.com_ TL;DR: A few weeks of catch-up. First tattoo (Catsby in a vine of purple flowers). The backyard pond is done, and the raccoons and crows have already moved in. Built out the rest of the me-to-markdown family and an orchestrator that fans them out in one fetch — this post is the first dogfooded weeknote drafted from its output. The AI-coding bookmark pile this period was mostly variations on being… ## [Volere tutto #26](https://carlomartello.substack.com/p/volere-tutto-26) _2026-05-15 · Carlo Martello · Carlo Martello_ Praticamente una miscellanea ## [Atomic purple (Week 17)](https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/04/24/w17/) _2026-04-24 · blog.lmorchard.com_ TL;DR: This week, my body is broken from digging a hole, my expensive controller is falling apart, and my cats are cute. Also, I fell down a rabbit hole of personal knowledge bases and AI agents. ## [Glued to the Artemis II livestream (Weeks 14–16)](https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/04/17/w14-w15-w16/) _2026-04-17 · blog.lmorchard.com_ TL;DR: It's been a weird 3 weeks. We adopted a new cat, a void named Minnaloushe. I also got completely sucked into the Artemis II mission, watching the livestream like it was my favorite TV show. Also featured in this post: more random crap and miscellanea than usual, because it's been a little while. ## [Volere tutto #25](https://carlomartello.substack.com/p/volere-tutto-25) _2026-04-16 · Carlo Martello · Carlo Martello_ Praticamente una miscellanea ## [The Drifting Art of Coding (Week 13)](https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/03/27/w13/) _2026-03-27 · blog.lmorchard.com_ TL;DR: Got ADHD meds for the first time ever and promptly disappeared into a productivity fugue state, bookmarked an alarming number of articles about whether AI is killing the craft of programming, and declared myself a software meat popsicle. ## [Decafclaw: Building an AI Agent in a Week](https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/03/20/decafclaw/) _2026-03-20 · blog.lmorchard.com_ TL;DR: I set out to spend an afternoon understanding OpenClaw. A week later I'd built my own agent with 80+ tools, a web UI, and self-reflection. Here's how that happened. ## [Tabstack + OpenClaw sitting in a tree](https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/03/20/tabstack-openclaw/) _2026-03-20 · blog.lmorchard.com_ TL;DR: I built a skill to hook OpenClaw up to Tabstack - and it seems like a pretty great upgrade to the web fetch tool it comes with out of the box. Oh yeah, and OpenClaw is not nearly as scary as the headlines make it out to be. ## [2026 Week 12](https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/03/20/w12/) _2026-03-20 · blog.lmorchard.com_ TL;DR: Built an entire AI agent from scratch in a week, wrote two blog posts about it, got worked up about San Francisco's AI billboard hellscape, and bookmarked way too many things (again) about whether AI is making us smarter or dumber. ## [2026 Week 12](https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/03/20/w12/) _2026-03-20 · blog.lmorchard.com_ TL;DR: Built an entire AI agent from scratch in a week, wrote two blog posts about it, got worked up about San Francisco's AI billboard hellscape, and bookmarked way too many things (again) about whether AI is making us smarter or dumber. ## [Find it on Amazon (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/7qZvuyEm2GMM) _2026-03-20 · **Sponsored**_ Open the Amazon product listing to see details and availability ## [Miscellanea for 2026-03-13](https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/03/13/miscellanea/) _2026-03-14 · blog.lmorchard.com_ Hello world! Occasionally I remember I can do these random daily posts. Look: here's one now! I think Anil Dash's " What do coders do after AI? " hits on the same thing I was getting at a couple days ago with " Grief and the AI split ": Your job changes into describing software . Now, if you're the kind of person who only ever wanted to have the end result, maybe this is a liberation. Sometimes,… ## [Volere tutto #24](https://carlomartello.substack.com/p/volere-tutto-24) _2026-03-04 · Carlo Martello · Carlo Martello_ Praticamente una miscellanea ## [Volere tutto #23](https://carlomartello.substack.com/p/volere-tutto-23) _2026-03-03 · Carlo Martello · Carlo Martello_ Praticamente una miscellanea ## [Volere tutto #22](https://carlomartello.substack.com/p/volere-tutto-22) _2026-02-04 · Carlo Martello · Carlo Martello_ praticamente una miscellanea ## [Volere tutto #21](https://carlomartello.substack.com/p/volere-tutto-21) _2026-01-21 · Carlo Martello · Carlo Martello_ praticamente una miscellanea (ma stavolta il tema è uno solo) ## [Volere tutto #20](https://carlomartello.substack.com/p/volere-tutto-20) _2026-01-15 · Carlo Martello · Carlo Martello_ Praticamente una miscellanea ## [More portraits in 2026](https://miscellanea.substack.com/p/more-portraits-in-2026) _2025-12-01 · M.G. Tucker · Miscellanea_ My journey in portraiture thus far + why I love to photograph non-models ## [Volere tutto #19](https://carlomartello.substack.com/p/volere-tutto-19) _2025-11-05 · Carlo Martello · Carlo Martello_ Praticamente una miscellanea ## [Volere tutto #18](https://carlomartello.substack.com/p/volere-tutto-18) _2025-10-09 · Carlo Martello · Carlo Martello_ Praticamente una miscellanea ## [Volere tutto #17](https://carlomartello.substack.com/p/volere-tutto-17) _2025-07-30 · Carlo Martello · Carlo Martello_ Praticamente una miscellanea ## [Zero-Persistence E2EE (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/XCc0sT3P4qH2) _2025-07-30 · **Sponsored**_ End-to-end encryption with client-side WebCrypto and volatile memory. ## [Sacred and terrible](https://miscellanea.substack.com/p/sacred-and-terrible) _2025-07-30 · M.G. Tucker · Miscellanea_ Some scraps from my digital notepad; a new batch of links; wisdom from other people ## [Volere tutto #16](https://carlomartello.substack.com/p/volere-tutto-16) _2025-07-23 · Carlo Martello · Carlo Martello_ Praticamente una miscellanea ## [The BB gun](https://miscellanea.substack.com/p/the-bb-gun) _2025-07-20 · M.G. Tucker · Miscellanea_ Last Fourth of July we gathered in the backyard and shot at beer cans with a BB gun ## [What is Miscellanea?](https://miscellanea.substack.com/p/hello-my-name-is) _2025-07-11 · M.G. Tucker · Miscellanea_ A reintroduction of sorts ## [You're annoying and I love you](https://miscellanea.substack.com/p/youre-annoying-and-i-love-you) _2025-07-02 · M.G. Tucker · Miscellanea_ On who we let in and how come ## [Volere tutto #15](https://carlomartello.substack.com/p/volere-tutto-15) _2025-06-13 · Carlo Martello · Carlo Martello_ Praticamente una miscellanea ## [Volere tutto #14](https://carlomartello.substack.com/p/volere-tutto-14) _2025-05-20 · Carlo Martello · Carlo Martello_ Praticamente una miscellanea ## [Volere tutto #13](https://carlomartello.substack.com/p/volere-tutto-13) _2025-05-07 · Carlo Martello · Carlo Martello_ Una storiella inventata. O no? ## [We want the document of ourselves](https://miscellanea.substack.com/p/we-want-the-document-of-ourselves) _2025-05-02 · M.G. Tucker · Miscellanea_ On the solipsism of the front-facing camera ## [Vogliamo tutto #12](https://carlomartello.substack.com/p/vogliamo-tutto-12) _2025-04-17 · Carlo Martello · Carlo Martello_ Speciale amic3, amichettismo e altri atti senza senso e non mi ricordo come dovevano essere, credo gentili o comunque non fastidiosi, sicuramente non deleteri ## [Volere tutto #11](https://carlomartello.substack.com/p/volere-tutto-11) _2025-04-07 · Carlo Martello · Carlo Martello_ Una miscellanea dopo un po' di tempo ## [Volere tutto #10](https://carlomartello.substack.com/p/volere-tutto-10) _2025-03-28 · Carlo Martello · Carlo Martello_ considerazioni su I.B.A.N. #4 e due o tre cose belle ## [Go to the Mardi Gras](https://miscellanea.substack.com/p/go-to-the-mardi-gras) _2025-03-10 · M.G. Tucker · Miscellanea_ Wonders and weirdos amass; a weekend Uptown and Tuesday morning in the Marigny ## [The odd-man-out argument for social media, maybe](https://miscellanea.substack.com/p/the-odd-man-out-argument-for-social) _2025-02-18 · M.G. Tucker · Miscellanea_ Substack-ers have social media on life support; the rest of the world is still drowning in the algorithm ## [What might have been lost](https://miscellanea.substack.com/p/what-might-have-been-lost) _2025-01-30 · M.G. Tucker · Miscellanea_ On the fever dream of our southern snow storm ## [Ditch 'engagement' and start participating](https://miscellanea.substack.com/p/ditch-engagement-and-start-participating) _2025-01-20 · M.G. Tucker · Miscellanea_ A brief note on where I'm at with social media, email, and the opportunities that await us; plus some recent favorite film photographs