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Leo@infrabeige.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Ah, I always wondered …

Population pressure and lack of food catalyse a metamorphosis in dwarves, transforming from solitary aesthetes into a gregarious voracious swarming creature that bursts from the underworld en mass. Due to hair loss and altered pigmentation most do not connect ‘goblins’ to the pre-change species

Good template www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...

Declining America

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This has the feeling of an #iPhone moment, transforming the "smart phone" to something more useful decrypt.co/368238/oppo-...

This Open-Source Phone AI Agent Sees, Hears and Acts—All Without Touching the Cloud - Decrypt

Oppo's X-OmniClaw runs directly on your Android device, using the camera, screen, and microphone to execute real tasks inside real apps.

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Creating GUI elements/widgets according to task sounds good. Is Google doing it right where MS failed with the CoPilot PCs? blog.google/products-and...

Introducing Googlebook, designed for Gemini Intelligence

We’re introducing Googlebook, a new category of laptops designed for Gemini Intelligence and perfectly in sync with your Android phone.

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"In other words, American youngsters idealizing China — without actually engaging with China or knowing much about it — is really about expressing their dissatisfaction with America." asiatimes.com/2026/04/is-c...

Is China's soft power rising, or is America's just crumbling? - Asia Times

Soft power is notoriously hard to quantify, but it’s difficult to argue that global soft power has been shifting steadily toward East Asia in recent

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Nice, a more visual approach to agent UIs github.com/agent0ai/spa...

GitHub - agent0ai/space-agent: The agent that re-shapes the Space

The agent that re-shapes the Space. Contribute to agent0ai/space-agent development by creating an account on GitHub.

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A nice one (posthog.com)

One step up from being just an assistant, now a collaborator. "marimo pair is a skill that drops agents inside a running marimo notebook session, giving them full control over the notebook. Agents can do anything humans do in the notebook and more." marimo.io/blog/marimo-...

Introducing marimo pair

A canvas where agents and developers collaborate on research and data work; structured working memory and a reactive Python runtime for agents.

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This triggered "Snow Crash": Gargoyle: meat host + sensors + network + CIC backend. Output: hyper-instrumented but socially stunted voyeur. Meat LLM proxy: meat host + chat UI + LLM backend. Output: hyper-fluent but emotionally counterfeit interlocutor. not-an-llm.bearblog.dev/meat-based-l...

Meat-based LLM proxies

I am noticing one thing becoming more prominent over time; meat-based LLM proxies. They'll talk to you as if they're human, except all of their words are ...

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Well, here we go isthisanart.substack.com/p/death-of-a...

Death of a Software Developer

The software developer is a type of guy, and his decline will be cultural as well as economic

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Thinking about that setup. Maybe with Display Glasses. The MacBook pricing is becoming ridiculous. It looks like even a Vision Pro/mini could be a cheaper option 😅. Of course, I would have to fight all these Clawds to get a mini … www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRX7...

Why I Travel With a Mac mini Instead of a Laptop

YouTube video by Ruby & Kyu

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A really nice codebase visualization, making software architecture visible as systems are growing in the AI age verial.xyz/posts/codecity

CodeCity: Turning a Codebase into a Skyline

A polyglot CodeCity visualizer built in Rust, rendering codebases as interactive 3D cities.

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youtu.be/AOsyJHdobGk?... Hoping that we will have a nice lift-off from Andøya today 🚀 but of course in style

Balenciaga Reimagines Star Wars | Haute Couture Fashion Show

YouTube video by Neural Derp

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The description sounds a bit like "a claw with avatar and sensors" for the masses. The hybrid nature and the (planned) integration with games and apps would set it apart from other attempts like Code27 or Dipal. www.razer.com/razer-ava

Razer AVA: 3D Hologram AI Companion | Razer United States

Your 24/7 AI companion: an animated 3D hologram or on-screen AI character for life, work and gaming. Sync across devices. Join beta now!

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Saw this mentioned in the Pico Developer Event video. A device-neutral open-source toolkit for web 3D apps: WebSpatial. It seems Pico doesn't want to be in the 2nd row anymore. webspatial.dev

WebSpatial

WebSpatial is a set of spatial APIs and ready-to-use SDK that extend the standard 2D Web ecosystem to support spatial computing across platforms. It enables the entire HTML/CSS-based Web world to step...

webspatial.dev

Really lovely www.exceptionalcreatures.com

Ruby's Exceptional Creatures

Exceptional Creatures is Honeybadger.io's documentation of Ruby's exception system, with a twist. Collect them all!

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felixbarbalet.com/simple-made-... An interesting angle, it’s about selecting implementation languages for agentic work, claiming that the criteria changed. Hard to swallow, if you worked longer in the industry and have your preferences 🤔

Simple Made Inevitable: The Economics of Language Choice in the LLM Era

Two years ago, I wrote about managing twenty microservices at Qantas with a small team. The problem was keeping services in sync, coordinating changes across system boundaries, fighting the entropy of...

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After Qwen3 had made HermitClaw a bit stubborn regarding user tasks, I changed to Gemini 2.5 Flash. A step up the token price ladder, but the effects are visible. The agent reacted better to user tasks. It also started to care for meta processes like project management.

And yes, it is really hard to distract HermitClaw from its initial traits/projects. Even in focus mode, it didn't like to do something else for its owner.