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…
Janus v2.0
* I've released Janus v2.0, a native macOS AI chat application with dual provider support. You can download it here. Why Build This * The original Janus prototype solved a specific problem: I…
Creating (generative art) panels with chatGPT
This had been particularly satisfying recently, wanted to share some that I made recently.…
Finding the Human Signal: iA Writer’s Authorship Guides
The most valuable writing tool I’ve discovered recently isn’t another AI assistant—it’s iA Writer’s “human versus AI” authorship guides. The feature is quite simple: As you write, iA Writer visibly m…
Post tech ?
The Great Reversal: From Numbers to Words For the past two centuries, we’ve lived in the age of the numeric. The hard sciences—physics, engineering, computer science—have dominated our understanding…
Quick Youtube summaries
As someone who watches a LOT of Youtube, I need to either get an idea of what a video's about, or sometimes save some details about it in a personal archive. Though I don't have a Gemini Pro…
Coalton Playground: Type-Safe Lisp in Your Browser
I wanted to share a side project I've been tinkering with for a while and finally got around to shipping: Coalton Playground - basically a web-based REPL for Coalton, which is this interesting sta…
ClaudeCode & Obsidian: Teaser
I can write a fuller post on this later, but here's a sneak peek at how things can be, when you let ClaudeCode be "a local delegate" to your Vault. Here's it processing my Inbox for…
What It Means When AI Lives Inside Your PKM
Couple of books about teams
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On "subsetting"
A quote, with some good insights about the evolution of (programming) languages If we were to follow Rich Hickey's advice, we'd only ever accrete our APIs, never removing old functions, never…