This book is for "us". I wonder why it is not superpopular

This is one of the approaches in the book Refuse to Choose (recommended for anybody who has too many projects syndrome)

man in gingham apron flipping meat on a grill with metal tongs

🎶grilling meat softly with his tongs
grilling meat softly...
with his tongs...

New Claude Code slash commands. Only post wrong answers.

/ffs

Uninstalls Claude, Gemini, Codex, buys a farm, and sends a resignation letter to your company

Using AI to write code has made me realize there are two types of code I've traditionally written:

1. Code that I want to know how it works
2. Code that I want to exist but don't care how it works

I delegated 100% of the second category to AI now. Maybe 50% of the first.

It is VERY good. Although I went for the audiobook instead of paper or digital. It was an enjoyable listen, I think it fits it

I revisited this yesterday, wrote a more barebones version ("three regexes in a trench coat") and turns out it works almost as well, faster, and with a very simple codebase.

Garbell: skill and tooling for simple codebase exploration via progressive disclosure

github.com/rberenguel/g...

I'm also having fun encouraging Claude to use it and then asking "how was the experience? Anything we can improve?" I don't know what it is but this workflow makes me laugh

TITAA #76: The Seen and the Unseen SVG Generation - Gemini 3.1 Pro - Beyond Slop - Art Maps - Agentic Patterns - Read in VR

Latest newsletter - SVG is getting good out there, some good stuff in Gemini 3.1 Pro, my project to read in VR, a bunch of rando fun links, a handful of intriguing narrative gen finds. open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/...

I still want to see what edges of this design I can move around, it has barely 30 hours

Yep. The indexer breaks stuff around

It does automated chunking (but, a bit too naively), so should be able to handle relatively large (but not huge) documents. I'm still stress-testing it to see what needs improving, it's hard to create synthetic tests though. If you have a concrete idea I can throw to it, let me know!

I wanted to play around the RLM idea, but I really, really disliked the concept of having the context in Python variables. Instead of that (or my first idea of "put it in a sqlite db and make the agent write sql"), I wrote tooling to use as skills over a running daemon

github.com/rberenguel/c...

Sweet!

two rocky arches across a gorge connect to a central pillar and plateau upon which rests a single tree in front of a misty rocky background

made a ravine kind of scene in blender and ran it through my 160x100 8bpp qbasic engine. i kinda like it :3

#PixelArt #GameDev

Murder, it wrote A detective logic puzzle game with procedurally generated murder mysteries

If you enjoy this concept, you may enjoy:

- Murder, it wrote: an algorithmic whodunnit mostlymaths.net/murder-it-wr...
- Tanmateix: a timed logic reasoning game mostlymaths.net/tanmateix/

6/N, N=6

As usual with my personal projects, this has been half Gemini (idea refinement, initial planning and scope) and Claude Code (for execution), plus some more touches Gemini later to refine some areas. The icon is Nano Banana.

This is still kind of experimental, it will have bugs and glitches

5/N

Your goal is to find what service gives up first under that stress of the whole system.

The way it works internally, is that the game simulates 600 ticks (or however many are needed) until the first fault to appear. This is what you need to find.

4/N

WoMbat constructs a series of layered architecture (the depth is prefixed, as are the pieces that can be in each layer), plus an assortment of processing time, timeouts, memory per request, etc.

Then, it introduces a fault (say, a service suddenly taking longer to process). Your goal is…

3/N

After writing… wow, last week? Murder, It Wrote (and Tanmateix), both having different flavours of deterministically converting a scenario into a puzzle (CSP and Prolog, respectively), this weekend I thought "Could we have some sort of distributed system puzzle?"

The answer is _almost_ yes.

2/N

WoMbat — distributed systems failure puzzles Guess which node fails first and why. Queues, timeouts, rate limits, thundering herds.

WoMbat: a distributed systems puzzle generator

mostlymaths.net/wombat/

1/N

a black and white photo of a dog playing a drum with the words `` drum roll please '' . ALT: a black and white photo of a dog playing a drum with the words `` drum roll please '' .

:P

Oh, on further inspection... I think I know the bug now. I changed accomplice clues and rules in one of my last minor updates, and I had a bad feeling. The count in the manifest is odd, it should have 3 people, and accomplice != innocent. I think there is an ambiguous double clue with accomplice now

Btw I'm ashamed that you precisely (as in, expert on "this"!) would have the worst possible first experience... I would say "give it another shot" but I'm scared now

It's kind of solvable, but the solution is undetermined by the clues. I still can't think how the pruner removed this clue. Aside from deterministic seeding I will add more logging (there is a log view hidden in the locations sidebar) so it's clear what clue is removed and why (as much as possible)

Hah! First I see that is completely not solvable, but indeed it is clearly not. I need to change all the randomization to be seeded so I can reproduce such cases. Accomplice not in the manifest is a known silly bug (forgot it).

I wonder what is the hole in the rule system in this one

Thanks :) The styling still needs work (I went wider instead of making a few look awesome). The cases turn out pretty well so far, always with a bit of a challenge. I need to come up with more fact types now :D

@arnicas.bsky.social this could be right up your alley (but, there is no generative AI except the ones that helped me with creating it 😬)

It can also generate a printable version (usually takes 2 A4, or a single A4 cut and folded in compact mode) in case you get a long case and would rather cozy it out in the sofa with a pen. I added this option today, it could have some issue I have not hit yet