Riding home on the train. The repo on my work computer isn't up-to-date, but since these are all markdown files I can write and trust it will work when I upload later.

A bit of a dip in my new writing habit, mostly because my parents were in town for the weekend. Also maybe have some sort of lingering illness. Hoping it's just a temporary blip. I'm still enjoying the idea of this blog.

Been trying to take some stock of where my work and projects are at. The pace of AI experimentation feels a bit exhausting, and a lot of it feels like hype. At the same time there do appear to be some movements towards steerability, to interaction at a more feature-based and interpretable level that are interesting to me. I'm still looking to carve at the joints and put the right pieces together in the right order to make something that feels empowering and extended, rather than a replacement. But it varies day-to-day how achievable and likely I think that is.

Two comedy clips I think about surprising often. Tim Robinson on how not everyone knows everything:

Harris Wittels on not being impressed by juggling:

Now writing this on the porch with the AR glasses. I think I finally got Network Manager set up so I feel more confident I can take these and connect to wifi outside of my own. Maybe I'll take them on their first train ride tomorrow.

I'm happy I've gotten as far as I did on this blog but I'm not quite sure how to use threads and untitled posts yet. Untitled posts feel weird even though part of the goal was to normalize that. Threads feel weird to, like it feels like I'm really declaring something important for it to be a thread. I want it to feel lightweight.

Writing this from the backyard using the AR glasses plus the mini PC in the cross-body bag. Trying to get more of a feel for it. Definitely still a lot of wires to track, and I don't trust things like the bluetooth keyboard to work all the time. The transparent mode is pretty, though.

I really enjoyed Meeting Mr. Kid Pix by jeffrey aka Whistlegraph on Twitter. I appreciated the sincerity of both him and Craig Hickman. So nice to see people putting effort to understand + be understood.

This does touch on something I've tried to nail down before in regard to creative tools and video games.

It would be cool to make using the garden a fullscreen terminal experience. Fzf menu is already pretty close, maybe I just need like an ASCII art welcome message, and I should clear terminal history on menu open.

I have the fzf menu working now. It looks like this:

Screenshot of my fzf garden menu

I added month section subheaders to the main page and changed the timestamp display. I think I am mostly happy with it though I'm a bit concerned I'm getting too fiddly.

• Sloth favicon (in green?)
• Bash + fzf admin script
  • build
  • build with images
  • commit and push

I was writing a lot and then I decided I needed to redo the blog and then I thought I can't write more until I finish redoing the blog and so I wasn't writing.

So I pushed this version. It's more like Twitter, with individual entries and also the ability to thread. There are some unaswered questions (like pagination). I also can't decide if I should move all my feed posts in here. They might overwhelm the writing posts, but I think I'd like to figure out a way everything can live together.

I changed from bash scripts to typescript scripts, which has been helpful for organization. It's going well but I can also feel it in danger of sprawling out of what I can hold in my head -- and I feel like that is dangerous for solo projects, it's where it starts getting harder to jump back in and tinker. I should think about consolidating and carving up the pieces to make it easier to work on pieces at a time without feeling the stress that the whole thing might break.

After Dark Mowing Man From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nfQnJ9EsCw

Thinking more about an RGB physical slider

Most of the point of HTML is hyperlinks.

Editing this on the train. It would be good to have more posts to test with.

I should probably move in the garden posts.

Working on a stream

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Is this good syntax for a thread?

Setting up my stream.

Seeing the OG images I generate for this blog has me thinking. If you split a blog post by paragraphs and generated PNGs, and then you stitched those into a GIF with the frame time based on text length... that would maybe be a portable / embeddable blog post? Not good for accessibility and not to replace the post, but maybe an interesting derivative.

This site is a bash build script that concats HTML together. I also put together a little start script using fzf that has some common task options new_post / build / commit. I really like the feel of the starting bash script - it makes it feel like writing in this blog is its own little dedicated computer program.

The source for this one is viewable on github.

I think I'm going to try a new blog concept (a continuation of the thread-focused blog idea), that combines what I do on feed.

Building a general purpose image uploader.