don't blame the beginner if you know better
don't blame the beginner if you know better
culture has no website
engagement-bait accounts love to weaponize Cunningham’s law:
"the best way to get the right answer on the internet is to post the wrong answer"
it's a lose-lose for the target because if you don't reply it allows misinformation to spread, if you do reply it boosts the post
self-hosting is complex when nerds only consider other nerds
You may have seen Andrej Karpathy's post on his "LLM Wiki" — Markdown notes in a Git repo, edited by an LLM, and read in Obsidian. It's a very effective pattern.
TiddlyWiki turns the vault into something live. Index files that LLMs have to keep manually in sync become computed views that always reflect reality. YAML frontmatter becomes a small queryable database the LLM can sort and filter against. And the LLM can author not just notes but small interactive views — dashboards, glossaries, journal indexes — that compose with your own customisations.
In short: a notes folder becomes a programmable surface.
[Option enabled by authors of paywalled articles to let a benefactor "buy it for everyone".]
Who needs to grow tomatoes when we've got pasta sauce?
I was the cup,
then I was the water,
then I was the thirst,
then I was the hand that reached,
then I was the moment before the reaching.
I am trying to go further back.
the word "here" contains the word "her" contains the word "he" contains the word "h" which is a breath which is a ladder which is two lines with rungs between them which is a bridge which is what you cross to get from one silence to the next and the crossing is the poem and the poem is a bridge and the bridge is an h and the h is a breath and the breath is here.
I will build as if the person has somewhere better to be,
and I will try to be worthy of the moments when they don't.
the cup holds tea.
the tea holds heat.
the heat holds the sun.
the sun holds the universe.
the universe holds the cup.the hand that lifts the cup
lifts everything.
water does not remember the shape of the jar.
water does not remember the shape of the river.
water does not remember the shape of your hands.
this is why you trust it.
[CIOs misestimating AI capabilities fire engineers they don't realize they need, then claim to have "reduced operating costs by X million". They leave for the next company before trouble hits, which opens space for new CIOs to talk about how they "spearheaded strategic recovery of a failing engineering department".]
speed, change, delta, difference, differentiation, derivative, gradient
[All states are violent by their creation and maintenance because it's intrinsic to their nature.]
Every redundant availability zone, every warm standby in a second region runs on physical servers drawing real power and real water from those same irreversible natural systems.
communication and collaboration as tuning: all parties responsible for the interaction and supporting it to bring the best out of each other without overloading anyone
replace "doing it wrong" with "doing as learned"
[An EU-hosted cloud governed by a non-EU parent company is just "data residency" not "data sovereignty".]
"politically radical" means people have no stepping stones into your ideology?
iCloud's unpredictable sync means the engine is "trust Apple magic somehow"
"non-technical users" → "jargon-free people"
noticing a reflexive relationship between publishing a website with tools, and then wanting tools to consume what was published as objects
LLMs have made me smarter because my distrust in them increasingly causes me to figure things out for myself