Busy week with less time in front of computer, not much time to read or reflect on things, just GSD while on the keyboard.

I’ve been archiving all the online content I’m coming across in the internetz that might be relevant to future me as markdown. Google has going sideways for a while now and I already use other search engines, but nothing beats a local collection of things we care about that we can grep as needed.

Throw in qmd on top of that markdown and you got a mix of a “DIY Google + WaybackMachine” at your disposal that you can even use while offline. I’ve extracted that piece of my stack into a new project I’m hacking on called PiggybackMachine coz I threw in some LLMs with Pi for tagging / summarization.

Mobile Tab Bankruptcy, Fight Club style

It’s friday, time to let go of all my tabs. I started my day with like 50+ tabs in my CHAOS tab group in brave.

glanced over some of them and picked some that I might want to check on monday and pushed through as the second edition of my lazy digest, in the voice of Tyler Durden from the classic Fight Club movie.

Background “Noises”

Stuff I was watching / listening while multitasking

Dev stuff

Demis Hassabis: Agents, AGI & The Next Big Scientific Breakthrough

Lots of stuff to unpack there, wont’ try to summarize, go watch paying the attention it deserves if the subject is interesting to you. will need to watch more than once if multitasking like me

Nice quote that I spotted while I waited for a build to run:

Nothing that is really long lasting and worthwhile is easy.

Also gonna share a “silly” side note: he’s a 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and also (much less important, but nice surprise to me) was a lead programmer of Theme Park, I played and loved those kind of games when I was a kid :P

TypeScript, C# and Turbo Pascal with Anders Hejlsberg

It’s “refreshing” to listen to something not directly related to AI and more computer science in general these days. The first program I wrote was in pascal when I was around 14, one of my first internships was working with C#, all thanks to Anders in a way.

Music

Alceu Valença - Tiny Desk Brasil

Getting into São João vibes in prep for next month 💃

Nneka - Africans (Videoclip)

Amazing vibes if you’re into some reggae jamming, nice lyrics too, enjoy

IFÁ | Programa Instrumental Sesc Brasil

IFA is an amazing instrumental afrobeat band from here. Great for vibing while smashing the keyboard

OSS

  • I’ve cut a new v0.4.0 release of my project with most chars: main new feature is the open-url subcommand that lets you try before you buy it.
  • pi-ollama-cloud v0.5.0 is also out
  • 🤖 zellicat - Run a command in a zellij pane and capture its result.
  • remorses/tuistory - “TMUX for agents. let agents control & test terminal user interfaces. Like Playwright & agent-browser but for TUIs”
  • Foam - “Foam is a personal knowledge management system built on Visual Studio Code and GitHub. It helps you organize research, create discoverable notes, and publish your knowledge.”
  • Portent - “An open spec for work & personal knowledge bases”
  • ast-grep - “ast-grep(sg) is a fast and polyglot tool for code structural search, lint, rewriting at large scale.”

TIL

May 22nd is “Bitcoin Pizza Day”, from Wikipedia:

The first notable retail transaction involving physical goods took place on 22 May 2010. Laszlo Hanyecz, a programmer in Jacksonville, Florida, posted on the Bitcointalk forum offering 10,000 of his mined bitcoins in exchange for two pizzas

Fun