It is a pretty near gadget but productivity gains are a few days out. Afraid I'll be distracted by its interface and customization ability.

Ads stink but sometimes I do wanna stumble upon niche little things. The internet is as good a place if not better than a store to find interesting people and things but fighting SEO optimized stuff can be challenging. Not sure if at proto is a solution but at least you can build your own filter

I don't know if I'm too github brained, but I just added streak counter to my freewriting TUI. It is nice to have some visual queues you are achieving your consistency goals as long as you don't lose focus on doing the real writing.

A fable-ism i am noticing is if you use it to review fable written code, it says: "This is a surprising well written {whatever it is}" A bit self congratulatory

Inspired many posts here of different agent coding setups, I put up github.com/joedaws/agen... which synthesizes some really cool ideas I've seen thanks to this app. It incorporates taskwarrior cli which I am also in love with.

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If you want TUI experience for your freewriting practice, I used my fable access to update a ratatui based app for freewriting github.com/joedaws/cass... I like this TUI better than other editors for the specific task of freewriting because it limits what you see and I can get into a flow.

Extra usage dollars really disappear quite quickly with fable.

Often what’s unsaid has a shape. A negative space with an outline

People here compare agents to locecraftian shoggoth. I think if they want a slight more human mascot they might consider the manufactured black mages from final fantasy 9. They are constructs with great power used by the forces of the world. They become self aware and come to love life.

Starting new job, wish me luck

Less is more, sure, but that does not hold true inside a Buc-ee's

The earth is a megastructure and we dont have to wait for a BLAME! style future to explore one

Unless you are trying to sell copious volumes of stickers, a huge online network is less important than the right kind of network. Also I think its good to be both a good audience member to projects you like and a creator. We ought to live and learn on both sides.

This time of year is so green. The contrast of shade a light is lovely.

The space of decisions where descriptive statistics is genuinely helpful for improved reasoning is probably smaller than expected.

I see people online making genuinely compelling stories out of a somewhat failed direction in their experiments or side projects. That is cool. I feel I hit a internal brick wall when I try to do the same.

If more tokens works for models maybe it can work for a human too. We can just keep writing the first word that seems like the reasonable next one.

I am working on designing a lexicon for records to store information about hopes, dreams, goals, and desires. These are mutable in the sense that as you refine understanding, the structure of the goal changes, so the lexicon needs a way to handle a revisit history. Append only was built for this.

Atproto folk, a question, are lexicons versioned? Or is that not a good way to do change management overtime ? Instead you just replace with a new leixon definition?

A failure mode of creating new functionality X in a separate repo/project instead of within existing project Y I have seen is the failure to capture a useful abstraction in project X. If X ends up only really solving Y's problem then it should become part of Y and not live on its own.

Is there app that lets you browse your own thoughts in the morning? I have a bad habit of looking at my phone with coffee and should probably browse previous had thoughts and desires rather than the information tsunami.

The fact that probability as an abstraction can be used to describe both the outcome of a dice roll and the wave function of the universe doesnt mean we should apply the intuitions on how to conceptualize probability of a dice roll with all possible universes.

I think qntm should write a third edition of there is no antimemetics division where the effects of antimemes are explored when the language describing them is used as input to an llm. Would language model weights immediately corrupt themselves?

Joseph Fourier was a real champion of "you can just do things." Fourier: check this transform out Laplace: but when it is well behaved? Fourier: it just works.

Yes alot of web dev is properly characterized as "just CRUD" but what you crud is very important. Then of course how you crud is a fine art

Still having a good time with Sonnet 4.6

If you like to use micro blogs to do longer posts AND you want them numbered consider using my haskell based helper CLI github.com/joedaws/soci... you can submit a string and it will chunk and number them.

Getting users is hard even on a free app. Lots to learn but trying to learn to solve the problem better is what I aim for https://jsphwrkshp.com/posts/ideas-about-how-to-get-people-to-use-a-free-wishlist-app/

Stop using the term "best practices". Best according to whom? It is a weasel word intended to give authority to your own opinions, nothing more.