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…
Computing
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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…
Replit as personal computing.
The dream of “deployable” personal development I’ve been experimenting a lot with Replit, and found their “Core” subscription quite valuable. My former understanding of it (from a few years ago) as a…
Nix 'n' flakes
Makes keeping track of personal software (and rolling back when needed) a breeze. Here are the steps I stick to now: Step 1: edit flake $ nvim flake.nix Add whatever packages I want Step 2: upd…
RISC, 30 years ago
Heard this in a Lex Fridman interview (with George Hotz), wouldn't have believed it if I didn't find the clip. But, yes, it's true. Hackers. 1995. Angelina Jolie. "RISC architect…
On Languages being all wrong
An extract from David Moon's presentation of "Lunar": Most current-day programming languages seem to be based on the idea that computation is slow, so the user and the compiler must wor…
Allegro Common Lisp
I’ve always been curious about trying different lisp/scheme implementations (will write about that someday). One of these has been Allegro Common Lisp. It’s old, it’s stable, it’s maintained, it’s at…
"Live" Objects
An interesting new paper on "Live Metacircular Runtimes" (or, to put it a bit edgily, "making live objects great again" 😀) The examples and focus are from "the Smalltalk sc…
Solo app development
A wonderful look behind the scenes, for what it takes to build a single app, alone. https://papereditor.app/dev The amount of work that goes into this is immense -- and won't feel commensurate w…
Smalltalk Redux
The "Glamorous Toolkit" (imo could use a better name) is something I've been following for a while. They've built on Pharo (closest thing to a "modern" Smalltalk), and as…
Old Computers
Stumbled across this great curated set of old computers: "Dave's Old Computers" Commodores! IBM PCs! Macintoshes! Old calculators! Game systems! They're all here. Here's a sne…
Cosmopolitan: Better computing, slowly, steadily
Justine Tunney is one of my heroes I aspire to have a tenth of this output Cosmopolitan is impressive: * It solves the problem of making C a build-once run-anywhere language -- run natively on a…