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I Ported My Favorite Fractal Tool to Linux With a Clean-Room AI Rewrite
Look, I have a favorite fractal tool, and it's Visions of Chaos: a free, closed-source Windows program from Softology (the sample files credit Jasonread more...
Recent Blog Posts
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Give Your Agent a System One: Disco Elysium Voices and a Smaller Prompt
My research bot is called Turing. It has voices in its head. When I ask it something with judgment in it, an inner voice can cut in, inline in the Read more...
AI;DR: Every New Post Now Points You at One a Person Wrote
Scroll up. There's a green box above the photo on this post. That's the new thing. Every new post on this blog now opens with a line called AI;DR. Read more...
My Agents' Tools Come With Tripwires Built In
Look, I let AI agents work on client code all day. So I have to plan for the day one of them gets talked into something it shouldn't do. That day Read more...
A Nix Shell for GUI Apps, Now With Fourteen Years of History
I Have a Problem With Installing Things to Try Them Once If you use Nix, you know this move: nix shell nixpkgs#cowsay cowsay "I was never Read more...