much as i tire of the 'it's not this, it's that' llm trope, today's "That's UI garnish, not a feature" is 💀

Doctor Who | Fabula Explore the narrative graph of Doctor Who — characters, episodes, events, themes, and the connections between them.

relative dimensions in time and space
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someone should make an llm token 'surge protector' for those times when claude code decides to fan out a dozen full-strength opus agents to overthink a walnut

Open questions for you before proceeding: 1. Keep "Pip and Jane Baker" as one Writer node, or split into two? 2. Are you happy with the approximation on Ultimate Foe / Daleks' Master Plan / Tenth Planet / Massacre, or should I model per-episode-within-story credit splits? (Modest additional work — would need to enrich the CSVs and add a mechanism to target specific ep_num ranges within a story.)

twin dilemma

two buttons on a website: “apply on jooble” “Apply on bebee”

it’s on jooble dude just log in to bebee

thats from mistral-small-2603

ooh la la indeed

"description_of_involvement": "Peri strips off the swimsuit and shorts in transit and emerges in a vibrant red catsuit recovered from salvaged supplies, the synthetic fabric clinging closely to her form and standing vivid against the battered observation window and flickering consoles." 🫣

is it friday again

Opus 4.6 says "Spline is getting buzz because it makes it easy for designers to create gorgeous hero-section 3D widgets — the kind of eye-candy blobs and floating product shots that populate SaaS landing pages. It's a design tool, not a visualisation framework. It's Three.js with a GUI bolted on and a proprietary scene format."

💀

playing with www.remotion.dev and given an open brief, Opus 4.6 made this lovely thing.

"canonical_name": "Barbara and Ian's Metallic Lizard Fossil"

wassup nerds: a narrative knowledge graph of all 7 seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation fabula.productions/explore/star... #knowledgegraph #contextgraph #startrek #llm

all those "Hi it's Chad from Blancmange, I noticed you haven't used Blancmange in a while..." emails might land better if they included any details to help me remember what product this is

If you like stories, graphs and television from simpler times you may enjoy this project that is coming together at last. fabula.productions

"I'd love to be able to do what you do. Is there a Medium post I can read?"

A Gemini 3.0 one-shotted mockup of 'Encarta 2026' displaying Mind Maze Score: 100 Which gas, now vital for complex life, was almost entirely absent from Earth's atmosphere for the first 2 billion years of its history? A.Nitrogen B.Oxygen C.Carbon Dioxide D.Argon

this is too much fun

credit where credit's due to the web typogapher of www.cia.gov/the-world-fa...

starting to cook with fabula

fabula-web-production.up.railway.app

Radio as primordial soup: fair cop. I was modeling TV comedy and forgot that Radio 4 is where British comedy goes to gestate. The [:ADAPTED_INTO] relationship capturing the Radio → TV → Film "golden path" is essential domain knowledge I missed.

I wrote a paper on exactly this in college and Opus 4.5 drops like its nothing

OpenRouter Wrapped message tells me I routed 1.1B tokens in 2025

this might be some sort of achievement

claude code configures a local media servers and suggests movies for download

giving claude code system access is quite a thing

Airplane (1980)

Claude thought process: Alright, Mike is PUMPED. Let's build this thing properly. I should create an actual plugin manifest that captures the sophistication of their runbook. Given Mike's expertise in systematic approaches, I need to: Pick a meaty example - probably the fact-checking workflow since it's their newest addition and has clear patterns Show the full plugin.json structure Include actual agents, commands, and skills Make it production-ready, not just a toy example

i'm not un-scared

eventually a designer will realise that a 2-line text entry box is not an ideal UI for prompt work.

object_7acb67ec2204 — \"President Bartlet's Requested Roast Beef/Pastrami Sandwich.\" owner = President Bartlet, filling specified as roast beef or pastrami, functions as focal point of a ceremonial/domestic exchange (Charlie / Mrs. Landingham).

Revolutionising GOV.UK The document discusses the UK Government Digital Service (GDS) and its efforts to revamp public sector online services, emphasizing the need for user-centered design. It highlights problems with outdated government websites and outlines design principles aimed at improving accessibility, efficiency, and user satisfaction. Key initiatives include closing ineffective sites, prioritizing services based on user needs, and a commitment to open-source development. - Download as a PDF or view online for free

full circle
www.slideshare.net/slideshow/re...

The 2010s really are over eh

Towards an Event Based Plot Model. A Computational Narratology Approach In this paper, we introduce a new computational narratology approach to modeling plot by operationalizing the relationship of narrativity and tellability. Our approach is based on events, or, more pre...

nice find for a bit of sunday reading
doi.org/10.48694/jcl...

❌ "Wesley helps with the investigation"
✅ "Wesley connects nuclear vibrations to Elway Theorem, suggesting inter-dimensional transport"

working without AI feels a bit like working offline used to