Background Noise
“Stuff” I’ve left on the background while doing “other stuff”
Foo Fighters: Tiny Desk Concert
Felt like a time machine to my young days listening to “Learn to fly” and “Everlong” _\,,/
It’s amazing to see music being performed live without playback and no doubt that it’s hoomans performing and hear other homo sapiens singing along without mobile phones blocking our vision </old-man-happy-rant>
I LOLed at this comment:
Ok, its official NPR its the new MTV
While there, remembered of this old but gold: The Black Crowes: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Note to self: try to bring back YouTube PiP with always on top for Brave Desktop Linux… 😭
If it can compute, it can run Ratatui - Orhun Parmaksız
Ratatui has become the foundation of a growing ecosystem of creative terminal tools, proving that the terminal can be a canvas for anything. But it’s not just limited to that! It is now even capable of running on your toaster.
The AI layoffs end in 12 months and Mo knows why!
OSS feed
Open Source Related stuff that popped up on my GitHub feed or elsewhere
- ⚠️ Do not install Pi by via any method other than what’s shown on the website and in the docs. E.g. we do not publish to brew and never will. Someone else did. We have zero control over what goes into the brew release.
- The community fork of devpod got a new release, strongly recommended to try it out in case you are still using unmaintained the loft-sh version. If you’re on Linux and live on the terminal, check out my very own crib instead 🙊
- PriNova/pi-agent-codebase-workflows - “Pi skills and prompt templates for codebase reconstruction, architecture-aware review, and safe changes.” It’s a Pi package but I suspect you can just copy the skills / prompts over to your projects and it might just work.
- Jam Programming Language is open source!, repo at https://github.com/raphamorim/jam
- Raindrop Workshop - “A local debugger for AI agents. Watch every token, tool call, and decision stream into your browser as it happens.”
- TIL that DuckDB has a client-server protocol now. I would have loved this back in the day I used duck in a previous company. Somehow I got to know that Tobi (not the one from Shopify) released a TS client library for it, including an analysis of the protocol shared as a gist, don’t ask me how the repo landed in my
CHAOStab group in Brave though.
Yet another thing that I had open in my tab group: https://glance.sh/
Share an image with your coding agent.
For agent environments where copy/pasting images is hard.
Can’t remember what was the context when I opened that tab but worth mentioning that I built cartage for that use case when working with containers.
Chaotic Echo Chamber
Mostly notes for future me
Here be dragons
Claude plans are changing, again
Starting June 15, paid Claude plans can claim a dedicated monthly credit for programmatic usage. The credit covers usage of:
- Claude Agent SDK
claude -p- Claude Code GitHub Actions
- Third-party apps built on the Agent SDK
More info:
Born Private: Reserve your child’s first email address with Proton
Proton Mail is built on a simple belief: Privacy is a fundamental right, not a tradeoff. Your inbox — and your child’s — should protect private information by default, not scan it or profit from it.
If you got a child and worry about their privacy, check it out. You can reserve an email address with proton for as little as 1 USD. I have personally been trying to find the time to slowly move away from gmail over to proton but it’s a ton of work. Taking baby steps towards that though.
The Mediatrician’s Guide: A Joyful Approach to Raising Healthy, Smart, Kind Kids in a Screen-Saturated World (Book)
Anyone read it out there? Worth the time? No idea how it got into in front of me. I started but haven’t finished The Anxious Generation, switched over to Calm Tech for now.
Notion just turned its workspace into a hub for AI agents (Tech Crunch)
With its new Workers, Notion’s cloud-based environment for running custom code, customers can write their logic and deploy it to a secure sandbox (i.e., an isolated environment that keeps the code from interfering with other systems).
The future is here! 😬 Related tweet
Token Anxiety (n.): the persistent, low-grade dread that you’re either burning through your AI usage too fast, or that “reset day” will arrive with quota still unspent.
Got these on an investment newsletter with insights on our information overload times which applies to the current state of what I like to call “permanent COVID-era breaking-news energy” of AI things:
O problema principal é: estamos reagindo ao invés de decidir.
Antes as pessoas mal tinham informações, hoje em dia falta tempo para processar. E desse ponto que surgem as decisões impulsivas, ansiedade, efeito manada, comparação e o eterno medo e ficar para trás. E isso não acontece só no mercado financeiro, acontece na carreira, compras, redes sociais e na vida como um geral.
Quando tudo parece urgente, a clareza vira um diferencial.
No mercado financeiro, essa sensação fica ainda mais evidente. Todos os dias surge uma nova previsão, uma nova oportunidade ou alguém dizendo qual é o melhor caminho para investir.
That applies to our tech world in this AI age.
On note taking:
- A note taking problem and a proposed solution, author’s own tl;dr on the ponto:
It’s too painful to quickly get frequent notes into note taking and related platforms. Hypothes.is has an open API and a great UI that can be leveraged to simplify note taking processes.
- Differentiating online variations of the Commonplace Book: Digital Gardens, Wikis, Zettlekasten, Waste Books, Florilegia, and Second Brains Good read if you are into note taking and wondering about what to do with the many options we got these days.
I personally tried many tools and approaches to this, most recently decided to simply not give a f* about structure / format and just went note taking away in whatever format with whatever content that comes to mind.
TIL about the market-leading social annotation platform while reading the article. Never knew this was a thing.
Side note: this /dev/random section of this site is part of that exercise too. Thinking out loud in a chaotic way feels great, even though no one is seeing what I’m writing at this point. I’m gonna do this for a week before publishing for real 🙈
Was discussing some ideas with Claude and it brought up this idea of “home cooked apps” from this blog post the last paragraphs resonated with me:
When you liberate programming from the requirement to be professional and scalable, it becomes a different activity altogether, just as cooking at home is really nothing like cooking in a commercial kitchen. I can report to you: not only is this different activity rewarding in almost exactly the same way that cooking for someone you love is rewarding, there’s another feeling, too, specific to this realm.
This messaging app I built for, and with, my family, it won’t change unless we want it to change. There will be no sudden redesign, no flood of ads, no pivot to chase a userbase inscrutable to us. It might go away at some point, but that will be our decision. What is this feeling? Independence? Security? Sovereignty?
Gergely Orosz from pragmaticengineer.com
Wild to see every VC funded and publicly traded tech company rebrand to being an AI company
Paging company —> the platform for AI-first operations
CDN -> AI Cloud
Helpdesk software -> AI-powered helpdesk platform
o11y -> AI-powered intelligent o11y
Everywhere…
As a reply to that tweet found people pointing out to this lobste.rs post by @mitchellh on “Redis and the Cost of Ambition”, the post is long and I didn’t read, I guess Gergely’s reply summarizes it for us?
OK this is good context, coming from @mitchellh
Worth considering indeed who the target customer is for a landing page. And that these companies owe it to all their staff, investors, shareholders to focus on growth
And AI is where growth is!