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Janus [v1]
About * JanusX is your personal AI companion for deep conversation and philosophical insight. * Ideal for journaling, ideation, and immersive reflection * Crafted for thinkers, readers, and builde…
Current setup
Chickened out on getting the ZSA Navigator; instead, just have a (relatively cheaper) Kensington trackball — not the Slimblade but it’s “junior version”, the Orbit.…
Screenshot Loops as Security
I thought Claude's computer use (the new Chrome extension) was slow (watching it work felt like waiting for a careful driver at a four-way stop). Screenshot, analyze, take action, screenshot agai…
The Augmentation Revolution Hiding in Plain Sight
Everyone's debating whether AI will replace workers. They're missing the revolution: it's already augmenting millions of us. Edward Zitron’s "The Case Against Generative AI" ma…
Prometheus, generated: Take 3
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Renting Intelligence by the Hour
[saw how new features over the last year are all either "Pro-first" or even "Pro-early", have had lingering thoughts about this since ...] Think of the gap between two people tack…
Developing StoryWeaver
… or, co-creating an AI-powered interactive fiction platform, using a multi-AI development approach What I (“we”) Built StoryWeaver is an AI-powered “Choose Your Own Adventure” platform, which can…
Traveler’s Notebook setup
Journaling I'll need a long post to talk about how I first (and finally) got started with writing some sort of daily log (will write that someday). This practice migrated through various tools,…
Tempo and the Real Fintech Use of Blockchain
Parsing the Signal from the Noise When Stripe announced Tempo, its new blockchain for payments, Hacker News erupted in a 1,000-comment storm of crypto skeptics versus true believers. The debate matt…
Coalton Playground "V2", now with sharing and snippets
Following up on the initial version here, so read that first. tl;dr: Coalton is a statically-typed dialect library for/within Common Lisp. You get to have your ML cake and eat it with the parenthe…