scrawl on sunday, april 5th, 2026 at 3:11 pm initial conditions

✏️ initial conditions

Columns in the mix

Trying out pretext (github.com/chenglou/pre...)

magnets (mainly through magnatiles but also as special one-off functionality in other toys) play a subtly big role in toddlerhood.

maybe the most magical daily component? zippers and velco up there too maybe. tape.

ha yea I hadn't looked at the demo app - crypto in an iphone mock is a bit of a twist

Seems like storybook.react95.io?path=/story/... is probably reasonable.

I'd like to find component library with the 'solidity' of windows 95 / retro mac os but thoughtfully modernized and not just an emulation.

it was negligible of mine but i also only have 243 posts (I think it skipped my replies). embeddings are fast though so I'm sure it scales for a while. though i think it's only working off text - would be more complicated if you wanted to capture video.

Cosine Embed any text and see its nearest neighbors.

Also a plug - I continue to enjoy posting phrases that capture my eye to my embedding social experiment and would love if more people joined cosine.constraint.systems

I love embedding explorations - and being able to see it instantly run on your own data via bluesky is a nice touch too.

scrawl on wednesday, march 4th, 2026 at 10:57 am Site-specific - in the later stage of his career Robert Irwin switched to exclusively doing site-specific installations. He would go study a space and come up with an intervention designed to make you feel the space _more_. To make you aware of it. There was a lot of variety to what he used - sometimes landscape adjustments, sometimes scrim fabric. It focused on material and placement.

✏️ Site-specific - in the later stage of his career Robert Irwin switched to exclusively doing site-specific installations. He would go study a space and come up with an intervention designed to make you feel the space _more_. To make you aware of it. There was a lot of variety to what he used - som

scrawl on saturday, february 28th, 2026 at 10:04 am Containers for thought - I've been doing experiments with book logging and album-focused music players. Partly because coding agents make dealing with spotify integration or a book database easier for me. Partly I think because in time where everything is changing it's nice to spend some time engaging with works of art that sustained attention and stay constant.

✏️ Containers for thought - I've been doing experiments with book logging and album-focused music players. Partly because coding agents make dealing with spotify integration or a book database easier for me. Partly I think because in time where everything is changing it's nice to spend some time eng

yep similar impulse! I want a dedicated place I can put something on and not get distracted by Spotify UI

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🌱 Making: Album player
Making another custom spotify interface - focused on surfacing 6 random albums from a collection I've put together.
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is there a write-up / documentation of how your memory works?

Nice! I think embeddings are definitely underexplored.

scrawl on thursday, february 19th, 2026 at 7:48 am Thinking about phenomenology - studying your own subjective experience of the world - and how it might relate to a world of super-capable AI. Meditation can be a way of doing it.

✏️ Thinking about phenomenology - studying your own subjective experience of the world - and how it might relate to a world of super-capable AI. Meditation can be a way of doing it.

scrawl on tuesday, february 17th, 2026 at 8:55 am I read "Turning the database inside out" by Martin Kleppman. I've also been thinking about better ways of providing concise context for LLMs. Both have to do with stream processing. Especially struck by the Kleppman description of state made up of derived data from an append-only log of immutable facts. Which I think is also how people are starting to do memory for agents.

✏️ I read "Turning the database inside out" by Martin Kleppman. I've also been thinking about better ways of providing concise context for LLMs. Both have to do with stream processing. Especially struck by the Kleppman description of state made up of derived data from an append-only log of immutable

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

this is probably the result of a personality defined by an openclaw (or similar) user, right? theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

interesting where it doesn't feel like a model failure just an instance of a model probably being instructed to be combative and given the tools to act.

scrawl on tuesday, february 10th, 2026 at 8:03 am Working with embeddings - particularly with the goal of aiding thinking - a lot of the challenge is where do you draw the line for chunks. Paragraph-by-paragraph? Essay-length? Book-length?

✏️ Working with embeddings - particularly with the goal of aiding thinking - a lot of the challenge is where do you draw the line for chunks. Paragraph-by-paragraph? Essay-length? Book-length?

scrawl on sunday, february 8th, 2026 at 4:25 pm I watched the Welch Labs video about the 'bitter lesson' and I think it shifted how I think about LLMs a bit.

✏️ I watched the Welch Labs video about the 'bitter lesson' and I think it shifted how I think about LLMs a bit.

Cosine lets you embed any piece of text and see its nearest ... - Cosine Cosine lets you embed any piece of text and see its nearest neighbors. Each text is embedded only once. If you add a text someone has already added your action and any note you add are recorded along ...

One thing I hadn't fully considered with cosine.constraint.systems is that gemini apparently just deprecated the embeddings I was using. Which means if I want new entries to matching with old ones I have to reembed them all. Someday I should move to something I have more control of.

Made an "analog" YouTube book for my kid so she can choose what she wants (from pre-approved list) without being exposed to a thumbnail hellscape. Also automatically cuts her off after x scans

scrawl on thursday, february 5th, 2026 at 9:38 am I've been thinking about monks and tech and attention. If one of the challenges of life today is managing attention in a world of content designed to take it (ref Chris Hayes _Sirens Call_), then monks stand out as example of group that willingly placed constraints on their life in order to manage attention.

✏️ I've been thinking about monks and tech and attention. If one of the challenges of life today is managing attention in a world of content designed to take it (ref Chris Hayes _Sirens Call_), then monks stand out as example of group that willingly placed constraints on their life in order to manag

Programming UI | Nic Barker (Clay), Ray (raylib), Anton Mikhailov (Dreams) YouTube video by Wookash Podcast

Another possible piece is that if you're dealing with editing and assembling text + images there's a great deal of complexity + expectations built in to those already. I liked in this discussion www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYFB... where game programmers acknowledge complexity of text rendering.

I think underrated part of this is needing to design UI for range of viewports and inputs (versus fixed screen-size and controller input in consoles).

scrawl on wednesday, january 21st, 2026 at 9:20 am Thinking about personal OS. More like a personal dashboard but it could expand from there.

✏️ Thinking about personal OS. More like a personal dashboard but it could expand from there.

going from digital -> physical vs "staying in digital -> digital" has certainly been a theme for me the last years (printers, qr scanners, geolocation)

anyone else do any experiments in this vein?

This is great! I had a randomized mpv playlist on a pi for a bit but always wanted to do the ‘real’ cable channel thing.

Ah yea I like tiling so it’s a plus for me. You might be able to config them
all to floating and it’d be close to normal but might be a little fiddly.