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Erik Craddock
Erik Craddock@eriklink

How to stop being boring

This happens gradually. In middle school, you learn that certain enthusiasms are embarrassing. In high school, you learn which opinions are acceptable in your social group. In college, you refine your persona further. By the time you're an adult, you've become so skilled at reading rooms and ajusting accordingly that you don't even notice you're doing it. You've automated your own inauthenticity.

How to stop being boring

Westenberg.

How to stop being boring

The most interesting people I know aren't trying to be interesting. Thank God. They're saying what they actually think and wearing what they actually like, pursuing hobbies that genuinely fascinate them, regardless of whether those hobbies are cool. The most mind-numbingly boring people I know are working overtime to seem

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Erik Craddock
Erik Craddock@eriklink

GitHub - qualisero/awesome-pi-agent: Awesome list of add-ons, hooks, tools, skills, and resources for the pi coding agent (pi-mono).

Here is a list of pi coding agent extensions.

GitHub - qualisero/awesome-pi-agent: Awesome list of add-ons, hooks, tools, skills, and resources for the pi coding agent (pi-mono).

GitHub

GitHub - qualisero/awesome-pi-agent: Awesome list of add-ons, hooks, tools, skills, and resources for the pi coding agent (pi-mono).

Awesome list of add-ons, hooks, tools, skills, and resources for the pi coding agent (pi-mono). - qualisero/awesome-pi-agent

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Erik Craddock
Erik Craddock@eriklink

Six Selfish Reasons to Have Kids

Here is Kevin Kelly's selfish reasons for having kids, the following is my favorite.

Children are entertaining, much better than any other streaming option you might pay for. The questions they ask, their antics, watching them play, witnessing or being the recipient of their creativity, sometimes on a daily basis, is the best streaming there is. Their creativity is often inspiring. They can be creative in negative ways, too, but in all ways they will not be boring, and they are right there in your presence.

Six Selfish Reasons to Have Kids

The Technium

Six Selfish Reasons to Have Kids

Until the sale of contraception pills in 1960, no one needed a reason to have children. It was the biological consequence of sex, so it was also the cultural default. There were only reasons NOT to have children. Now after … Continue reading →

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Erik Craddock
Erik Craddock@eriklink

Introducing Deno Sandbox

Introducing Deno Sandbox (via) Here's a new hosted sandbox product from the Deno team. It's actually unrelated to Deno itself - this is part of their Deno Deploy SaaS platform. As such, you don't even need to use JavaScript to access it - you can create and execute code in a hosted sandbox using their deno-sandbox Python library like this:

Simon Willison’s Weblog

Introducing Deno Sandbox

Here's a new hosted sandbox product from the Deno team. It's actually unrelated to Deno itself - this is part of their Deno Deploy SaaS platform. As such, you don't …

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Erik Craddock
Erik Craddock@eriklink

writing RSS reader in 80 lines of bash

I also use newsboat. I've been thinking about building my own bespoke rss reader. Not sure I want to do it in bash though.

Recently, I started reducing my dependencies on external software. Yesterday, I thought, why not write an RSS reader myself. It will not be as powerful and robust as my current one, but it will be simpler, more hackable, and mine, i.e. I will not be dependent on a stranger's commit that might break my system accidentally or on purpose.

yobibyte.github.io

writing RSS reader in 80 lines of bash

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Erik Craddock
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Import AI 443: Into the mist: Moltbook, agent ecologies, and the internet in transition

"The central challenge of brain emulation is not to store or compute the neurons and parameters, but to acquire the data necessary for setting neuron parameters correctly in the first place," he writes. ""I believe that to get to human brains, we first need to demonstrate mastery at the sub-million-neuron-brain level: most likely in zebrafish. For such organisms, like the fruit fly, a well-validated and accurate brain emulation model could be created in the next three to eight years… "Conditional on success with a sub-million-neuron brain emulation model, a reasonable order of magnitude estimate for the initial costs of the first convincing mouse brain emulation model is about one billion dollars in the 2030s and, eventually, tens of billions for the first human brain emulation model by the late 2040s."

Import AI 443: Into the mist: Moltbook, agent ecologies, and the internet in transition

Import AI

Import AI 443: Into the mist: Moltbook, agent ecologies, and the internet in transition

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Erik Craddock
Erik Craddock@eriklink

I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog

I love the idea of having my website directly connected to the fediverse. A bluesky comment section is really cool. I instead turned my website into an ActivityPub actor. I don't have comments setup though. I bet I can do something similar.

There are other services that could be used for this purpose instead. Notably, I could embed replies from the social media formerly known as Twitter. Or I could use a platform like Disqus or even giscus, which hosts comments on GitHub Discussions. But I see Bluesky as a clearly superior choice among these options. For one, Bluesky is built on top of an open social media platform in AT Proto, meaning it can't easily be taken over by an authoritarian billionaire creep. Moreover, Bluesky is a full-fledged social media platform, which naturally makes it a better option for hosting a conversation than GitHub.

micahcantor.com

I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog

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Erik Craddock
Erik Craddock@eriknote

I had my clanker convert my personal website into an ActivityPub actor. It was a lot of fun when it actually did what I wanted it to. I also learned quite a bit about how ActivityPub works while trying to steer this thing in the proper direction.

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Erik Craddock
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Pi: The Minimal Agent Within OpenClaw

Pi is written by Mario Zechner and unlike Peter, who aims for "sci-fi with a touch of madness," Mario is very grounded. Despite the differences in approach, both OpenClaw and Pi follow the same idea: LLMs are really good at writing and running code, so embrace this.

Pi: The Minimal Agent Within OpenClaw

Armin Ronacher

Pi: The Minimal Agent Within OpenClaw

A gentle introduction to the Pi coding agent and why I think it’s a glimpse into the future of software.

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