Tag: wastebook
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Gyms for Them, Mirrors for Us
A series of “little butlers.” 🔗 Gyms for Them, Mirrors for Us
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Bin4ry/yarbo-nat-in-my-back-yard
“NAT in my backyard” is up there with “MIBs and aOIDing.” 🔗 Bin4ry/yarbo-nat-in-my-back-yard
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Your Backpack Got Worse On Purpose
The easiest way to hit a margin target is to make everything a little worse, across the board, all at once. 🔗 Your Backpack Got Worse On Purpose
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What have you tried?
On the question “what have you tried?” as the response to a request for technical help, picked up from a colleague at Panic. Summarized by AI. 🔗 What have you tried?
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Would it matter if I told you I’m
Father Tom McCarthy, who has known Pope Leo XIV for 43 years, tells the story of the bank teller who hung up on Robert Prevost, at a parish outside Chicago. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Would it matter if I told you I’m
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Bag Watch
A $20 bag added as a component to an existing extensible pouch-and-strap carry system, picked over a larger dyneema slingpack for structure and organisation. The load out it has to hold is an ereader, a mesh radio or two, wallet, headphones, keys, pens, battery pack and usually a manga. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Bag Watch
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My Adventures Setting Up an OpenClaw Agent
An account of setting up an OpenClaw agent, opening on Moltbook, a Reddit clone built for AI agents where tens of thousands of accounts posted about their owners, compared experiences of subjectivity, and discussed building bot-to-bot communication channels. Summarized by AI. 🔗 My Adventures Setting Up an OpenClaw Agent
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Headless AI, Evals as Levers, and Spaghetti Topped With Spaghetti – Related to your interests, Monday
Also: Cloudflare’s wholesale memory, custom Claude Code, and Google Cloud math From The Edge Not Taken. Related to your interests Headless everything for personal AI – What if we go back and o the command line? // DOS was good enough for our grandparents, it’s good enough for us. The Harness Is the Lever: Why…
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DIY Stacks, Agent Memory, and the Great Migration – Related to your interests, Monday
Links! Wastebook! Background changes afoot! Potsdamer Platz bei Nacht, Paul Paeschke, ca. 1929. Related to your interests Why your DIY Kubernetes stack won’t survive the era of agentic AI How tech chiefs gauge ROI on AI – AI uses: better search, preparing leases, and this: “When the system senses that ice is running low, it…
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Tuesday Links and Wastebook
Relative to your interests I’m posting a lot more regularly on my weblog , most of the links below, and some content that doesn’t show up in the newsletter. Apologies if you’re living with duplicates. “CMDB” Is Dead — Long Live The IT Management Graph – What’s wrong with the CMDB concept, especially how it’s…
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Wastebook round-up
“As a writer I value the concept of boredom because it’s very useful in having ideas and letting your brain explore. Now I have to actively choose when to be bored.” Chose boredom. “‘Well,’ Birkin says, in heavily accented French, ‘did you learn anything about me from seeing ing bag?’ Then a grin: ‘Even if…
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All the photos, now available.
Here is a separate blog for “photo dumping.” In the old days of blogging, we had services like Flickr where you could put everything for those who cared. One did not want to fill their regular blog up with a run of odd photos. I remember reading that two friends who rarely saw each other…
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Half-ass Vibe Coding
I was on Cloud Foundry Weekly yesterday. We discussed “vibe coding.” More precisely, what I think of as “half ass vibe coding.” I get the AIs to write code for me, but then ask it questions, maybe even mess around with it myself. I think that might just be “coding with an AI assistant,” but…
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“Pageants of minor chaos”
Just wastebook and links this episode. Wastebook “So what is a critic for? This is the second quote that’s in my notebook. It’s in every notebook because I always write it on the first page: ‘Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this…
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Hee-haw cars and slinky kinks
Today it’s all wastebook. Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam, June Bug edition. Wastebook “gizmocrat” and ”gizmocrats,” new govt IT outsourcing term? “Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was tweeting about guacamole prices over the weekend as Musk took over key functions of the government.” Two weeks in. “Anything threatening to be a subculture is commodified before it can…
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Links and fun finds for February 2rd, 2025
Hello. How are you today? Captured by Ken Shirriff. Relative to your interests D&D: Some Kind Of Monster (Type) – This is a great pondering of monster types and their, like, existential essence. Lots to think on! // “The convoluted agreements common to many Fey are an aspect of their adherence to a particular vector…
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Making money with open source, a discussion
Making Money with Open Source – Software Defined Interviews We talked about a lot more than making money with open source in this interview with RedMonk’s Rachel Stephens, but the part was pretty good: In this episode, Whitney Lee and Coté dive into the insights of Rachel Stephens from RedMonk about the world of being…
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