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An “everything” feed reader. Its a plugable framework that allows you to push anything into an RSS feed reader type interface. Email, Slack notifications, RSS, etc.

I want one place to manage ALL notification settings. So if I want to be notified of Slack messages that contain the word “cat”, I can do that.

I am also looking to add summarization and tagging using a local SLM. Trying to find a method that can run on older hardware.

I had a similar situation using Jekyll (before Docker) so I wrote my own SSG, and its compatible with Jekyll frontmatter.

Its been a great experience and completely solid to use. Need a URL shortener feature? Code it into the generator. Want some static search? Code it into the generator. Want to generate a newsletter for certain posts? Wire your generator up to SES and do it.

I guess my first thought here is that I would just implement this on my blog platform as a series specific RSS feed. Generating an RSS feed per series and even per tag would be trivial to implement and make for a decent user experience. IMO.

I want RSS with micropayments. I want to consume information in my own interface, and am willing to pay. I am not willing to pay for a full subscription to a publication when I only find a few articles a year that I want to read.

I want Spotify for text, but with a business model that makes sense for all involved.

Data Story: Ethics, Productivity, Age and AI:How do these correlate with Developers’ Stances Towards AI at work, 2024

A smaller scale yet interesting look at how ethical issues impact stance on AI in developers. This post looks at data from the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2024.

So for people building real things today are you saying instead of stringing prompts together with logic we should just sit on our hands for a year and wait for the models to catch up to the agent paradigm?

I’d be interested to see what this does to overhead costs of businesses that actually need a large vehicle.

I have a small horse farm and drive a 2010 F-150. I haul horses, 900lb. hay bales, feed, lumber for repairing fences and building shelters, etc.

If my truck breaks down I am going to have to scrape through used inventory to find something that fits my needs. I don’t need leather, 16 cameras, seat warmers, and a high end sound system. I need a truck that can get done everything I need around the farm, and I need it to be cheap enough that I’m not worried about it getting scratched.

All cars seem to be luxury vehicles now, I don’t know what folks are doing the just need something more utilitarian.

So I discovered the opposite. My reading was always tied to a goal of some sort. I started reading on a kindle and turning off progress indicators and suddenly I had my attention back. I wasn’t worried about improving or reading a certain amount per day or finishing a book by a certain date. I just read.

I have no use for this but my first thought is wondering how safe the features like InfiniteSpin are from hallucinations. That’s assuming it’s using an LLM of course.

I’ve been using radicale for contacts and calendar for quite a few years now. Plays nice with iOS Mail and Contacts as well as Gnome Evolution and has overall been a great experience.

“ By putting themselves in a corner, he created (at no small cost) the conditions where he could do the work.”

I think this might be the more important part. I am a firm believer that you do your best and most creative work under known and limiting constraints. With the constraints in place you couldn’t afford to NOT bring your half-baked ideas to the table.

The Raleigh NC area has quite a bit of tech, and if you stay about 20-25 minutes outside of downtown you can get that rural lifestyle while still being close to the city and tech companies. Specifically if you stay south of the city. I have 2 acres and regularly see cows across the field in my backyard but I also have a good selection of local tech conferences and reliable fiber internet.

I haven’t and haven’t had to. With this setup though I could really do anything I want with the messages.