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Slowly going out on a limb. Making experimental creative tools on the web at http://constraint.systems. He/him. grantcuster.com
this is probably the result of a personality defined by an openclaw (or similar) user, right? theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...
interesting where it doesn't feel like a model failure just an instance of a model probably being instructed to be combative and given the tools to act.
interesting where it doesn't feel like a model failure just an instance of a model probably being instructed to be combative and given the tools to act.
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…
theshamblog.com
February 12, 2026 at 9:33 PM
this is probably the result of a personality defined by an openclaw (or similar) user, right? theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...
interesting where it doesn't feel like a model failure just an instance of a model probably being instructed to be combative and given the tools to act.
interesting where it doesn't feel like a model failure just an instance of a model probably being instructed to be combative and given the tools to act.
✏️ Working with embeddings - particularly with the goal of aiding thinking - a lot of the challenge is where do you draw the line for chunks. Paragraph-by-paragraph? Essay-length? Book-length?
scrawl on tuesday, february 10th, 2026 at 8:03 am
Working with embeddings - particularly with the goal of aiding thinking - a lot of the challenge is where do you draw the line for chunks. Paragraph-by-paragraph? Essay-length? Book-length?
scrawl.grantcuster.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:03 PM
✏️ Working with embeddings - particularly with the goal of aiding thinking - a lot of the challenge is where do you draw the line for chunks. Paragraph-by-paragraph? Essay-length? Book-length?
✏️ I watched the Welch Labs video about the 'bitter lesson' and I think it shifted how I think about LLMs a bit.
scrawl on sunday, february 8th, 2026 at 4:25 pm
I watched the Welch Labs video about the 'bitter lesson' and I think it shifted how I think about LLMs a bit.
scrawl.grantcuster.com
February 8, 2026 at 9:26 PM
✏️ I watched the Welch Labs video about the 'bitter lesson' and I think it shifted how I think about LLMs a bit.
One thing I hadn't fully considered with cosine.constraint.systems is that gemini apparently just deprecated the embeddings I was using. Which means if I want new entries to matching with old ones I have to reembed them all. Someday I should move to something I have more control of.
Cosine lets you embed any piece of text and see its nearest ... - Cosine
Cosine lets you embed any piece of text and see its nearest neighbors. Each text is embedded only once. If you add a text someone has already added your action and any note you add are recorded along ...
cosine.constraint.systems
February 7, 2026 at 6:46 PM
One thing I hadn't fully considered with cosine.constraint.systems is that gemini apparently just deprecated the embeddings I was using. Which means if I want new entries to matching with old ones I have to reembed them all. Someday I should move to something I have more control of.
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Made an "analog" YouTube book for my kid so she can choose what she wants (from pre-approved list) without being exposed to a thumbnail hellscape. Also automatically cuts her off after x scans
February 4, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Made an "analog" YouTube book for my kid so she can choose what she wants (from pre-approved list) without being exposed to a thumbnail hellscape. Also automatically cuts her off after x scans
✏️ I've been thinking about monks and tech and attention. If one of the challenges of life today is managing attention in a world of content designed to take it (ref Chris Hayes _Sirens Call_), then monks stand out as example of group that willingly placed constraints on their life in order to manag
scrawl on thursday, february 5th, 2026 at 9:38 am
I've been thinking about monks and tech and attention. If one of the challenges of life today is managing attention in a world of content designed to take it (ref Chris Hayes _Sirens Call_), then monks stand out as example of group that willingly placed constraints on their life in order to manage attention.
scrawl.grantcuster.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:45 PM
✏️ I've been thinking about monks and tech and attention. If one of the challenges of life today is managing attention in a world of content designed to take it (ref Chris Hayes _Sirens Call_), then monks stand out as example of group that willingly placed constraints on their life in order to manag
✏️ Thinking about personal OS. More like a personal dashboard but it could expand from there.
scrawl on wednesday, january 21st, 2026 at 9:20 am
Thinking about personal OS. More like a personal dashboard but it could expand from there.
scrawl.grantcuster.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:31 PM
✏️ Thinking about personal OS. More like a personal dashboard but it could expand from there.
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going from digital -> physical vs "staying in digital -> digital" has certainly been a theme for me the last years (printers, qr scanners, geolocation)
anyone else do any experiments in this vein?
anyone else do any experiments in this vein?
🌱 Making: Barcode experiments
Testing out a barcode scanner as a way to play albums (through Spotify in this case). Wondering if this is a way to bridge from tangibility of physical media to flexibility of digital. feed.grantcuster.com/post/2026-01...
Testing out a barcode scanner as a way to play albums (through Spotify in this case). Wondering if this is a way to bridge from tangibility of physical media to flexibility of digital. feed.grantcuster.com/post/2026-01...
Making : Barcode experiments - Feed
Testing out a barcode scanner as a way to play albums (through Spotify in this case). Wondering if this is a way to bridge from tangibility of physical media to flexibility of digital. <p><video cont...
feed.grantcuster.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:12 AM
going from digital -> physical vs "staying in digital -> digital" has certainly been a theme for me the last years (printers, qr scanners, geolocation)
anyone else do any experiments in this vein?
anyone else do any experiments in this vein?
Working on connecting webamp.org to my spotify account while cycling through winamp skins - web displayed on a raspberry pi.
January 13, 2026 at 2:19 AM
Working on connecting webamp.org to my spotify account while cycling through winamp skins - web displayed on a raspberry pi.
Interesting how much Claude Code/Cowork work with folders and files. Makes sense to me as it is a transparent way for the user to manage the context. But I don't know if I would have bet that things would go this way (vs abstracting away folders/files completely).
i think the days of “AI isn’t useful” are going to quickly come to end in a matter of months — Claude Code changed coding forever, and Claude Cowork (or some equivalent) likely will change how everyday average consumers use computers forever
https://claude.com/blog/cowork-research-preview
https://claude.com/blog/cowork-research-preview
January 12, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Interesting how much Claude Code/Cowork work with folders and files. Makes sense to me as it is a transparent way for the user to manage the context. But I don't know if I would have bet that things would go this way (vs abstracting away folders/files completely).
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prototyping co-drawing with Gemini Flash 3 at Google
in these demos "thinking" is disabled, which makes the model return tokens very quickly (all videos are realtime), and I find these rapid responses pretty good for the use-cases I'm experimenting with, like:
executing simple diagrams ...
in these demos "thinking" is disabled, which makes the model return tokens very quickly (all videos are realtime), and I find these rapid responses pretty good for the use-cases I'm experimenting with, like:
executing simple diagrams ...
January 12, 2026 at 1:04 PM
prototyping co-drawing with Gemini Flash 3 at Google
in these demos "thinking" is disabled, which makes the model return tokens very quickly (all videos are realtime), and I find these rapid responses pretty good for the use-cases I'm experimenting with, like:
executing simple diagrams ...
in these demos "thinking" is disabled, which makes the model return tokens very quickly (all videos are realtime), and I find these rapid responses pretty good for the use-cases I'm experimenting with, like:
executing simple diagrams ...
🌱 Tabletop: Psalm for the Wild-Built
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2026-01-09-16-31-17-psalm-for-the-wild-built
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2026-01-09-16-31-17-psalm-for-the-wild-built
January 9, 2026 at 9:32 PM
🌱 Tabletop: Psalm for the Wild-Built
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2026-01-09-16-31-17-psalm-for-the-wild-built
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2026-01-09-16-31-17-psalm-for-the-wild-built
Probably codeberg.org/gen-ai-trans... is needlessly antagonistic but I think a project of using only software without AI contributions is an interesting one (I use lots of AI stuff). Kind of like a control group, especially as agent use ramps up.
January 9, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Probably codeberg.org/gen-ai-trans... is needlessly antagonistic but I think a project of using only software without AI contributions is an interesting one (I use lots of AI stuff). Kind of like a control group, especially as agent use ramps up.
I recorded a video on my current Neovim-as-window-manager setup. At youtube.com/watch?v=pCbw...
January 6, 2026 at 5:15 PM
I recorded a video on my current Neovim-as-window-manager setup. At youtube.com/watch?v=pCbw...
Just signed up for this!
The next book we'll read in the Software Internals Book Club is Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces.
We'll read it in three chunks. Discussion leaders will be selected only for one chunk at a time and we'll take a few weeks break in between chunks to regroup.
eatonphil.com/2026-ostep.h...
We'll read it in three chunks. Discussion leaders will be selected only for one chunk at a time and we'll take a few weeks break in between chunks to regroup.
eatonphil.com/2026-ostep.h...
January 5, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Just signed up for this!
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✉️ Q4 2025 Newsletter — Independent Consulting, and Interfacing with LLMs
szymonkaliski.com/newsletter/2...
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I'm an independent consultant as of November, currently exploring at Google Creative Lab
reach out if you're interested in working together! hi@szymonkaliski.com
szymonkaliski.com/newsletter/2...
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I'm an independent consultant as of November, currently exploring at Google Creative Lab
reach out if you're interested in working together! hi@szymonkaliski.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:17 AM
✉️ Q4 2025 Newsletter — Independent Consulting, and Interfacing with LLMs
szymonkaliski.com/newsletter/2...
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I'm an independent consultant as of November, currently exploring at Google Creative Lab
reach out if you're interested in working together! hi@szymonkaliski.com
szymonkaliski.com/newsletter/2...
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I'm an independent consultant as of November, currently exploring at Google Creative Lab
reach out if you're interested in working together! hi@szymonkaliski.com
Testing out printing little foldable music boxes with the barcodes. Fun to try and decide on dimensions - I really want a spine.
I want to do something more interesting than the cover in a black-and-white. Maybe run a line art filter and then color them in?
feed.grantcuster.com/post/2026-01...
I want to do something more interesting than the cover in a black-and-white. Maybe run a line art filter and then color them in?
feed.grantcuster.com/post/2026-01...
January 4, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Testing out printing little foldable music boxes with the barcodes. Fun to try and decide on dimensions - I really want a spine.
I want to do something more interesting than the cover in a black-and-white. Maybe run a line art filter and then color them in?
feed.grantcuster.com/post/2026-01...
I want to do something more interesting than the cover in a black-and-white. Maybe run a line art filter and then color them in?
feed.grantcuster.com/post/2026-01...
🌱 Making: Barcode experiments
Testing out a barcode scanner as a way to play albums (through Spotify in this case). Wondering if this is a way to bridge from tangibility of physical media to flexibility of digital. feed.grantcuster.com/post/2026-01...
Testing out a barcode scanner as a way to play albums (through Spotify in this case). Wondering if this is a way to bridge from tangibility of physical media to flexibility of digital. feed.grantcuster.com/post/2026-01...
Making : Barcode experiments - Feed
Testing out a barcode scanner as a way to play albums (through Spotify in this case). Wondering if this is a way to bridge from tangibility of physical media to flexibility of digital. <p><video cont...
feed.grantcuster.com
January 3, 2026 at 10:57 PM
🌱 Making: Barcode experiments
Testing out a barcode scanner as a way to play albums (through Spotify in this case). Wondering if this is a way to bridge from tangibility of physical media to flexibility of digital. feed.grantcuster.com/post/2026-01...
Testing out a barcode scanner as a way to play albums (through Spotify in this case). Wondering if this is a way to bridge from tangibility of physical media to flexibility of digital. feed.grantcuster.com/post/2026-01...
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🌱 Inspiration: Screenless office
A "artistic operating system" made up of printers and a barcode scanner. http://screenl.es/
I don't see any videos of the full system in action but it's kind of fun/evocative to guess at.
A "artistic operating system" made up of printers and a barcode scanner. http://screenl.es/
I don't see any videos of the full system in action but it's kind of fun/evocative to guess at.
Inspiration : Screenless office - Feed
A "artistic operating system" made up of printers and a barcode scanner. http://screenl.es/ 
feed.grantcuster.com
January 1, 2026 at 9:35 PM
🌱 Inspiration: Screenless office
A "artistic operating system" made up of printers and a barcode scanner. http://screenl.es/
I don't see any videos of the full system in action but it's kind of fun/evocative to guess at.
A "artistic operating system" made up of printers and a barcode scanner. http://screenl.es/
I don't see any videos of the full system in action but it's kind of fun/evocative to guess at.
Enjoying slowly adding interesting snippets and seeing their neighbors in cosine cosine.constraint.systems/text/a73c46b...
In the quietness, with nothing to accomplish, there is only ... - Cosine
In the quietness, with nothing to accomplish, there is only direct experience.
cosine.constraint.systems
December 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Enjoying slowly adding interesting snippets and seeing their neighbors in cosine cosine.constraint.systems/text/a73c46b...
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atgarden.club
December 16, 2025 at 1:39 AM
🌸 Introducing AT Garden Club - CSS Zen Garden meets decentralized data ownership
Your stylesheets, your PDS, your data. OAuth auth, firehose integration, custom lexicons - all working together.
Designers & CSS devs: same HTML, infinite possibilities. Build your own theme, own your work 💅✨
Your stylesheets, your PDS, your data. OAuth auth, firehose integration, custom lexicons - all working together.
Designers & CSS devs: same HTML, infinite possibilities. Build your own theme, own your work 💅✨
Tried implementing a naive 'fingerprinting' on the table. Just measuring the distance between the points (with some threshold built in) and classifying based off that - I think this opens up possibilities for things like dials.
December 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Tried implementing a naive 'fingerprinting' on the table. Just measuring the distance between the points (with some threshold built in) and classifying based off that - I think this opens up possibilities for things like dials.
Wrote up some experiments from work including this silly canvas feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-12...
December 11, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Wrote up some experiments from work including this silly canvas feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-12...