Erik Moeller
@eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
Currently working on https://permacommons.org/ - a permanent home for useful shared resources maintained with AI assistance.
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://social.coop/@eloquence, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://social.coop/@eloquence, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
In preparation for this release, I used the `VHS` utility to make scripted short videos for various features. Here are videos showcasing a few core features that were also present in older releases:
- Character cards and user personas
- Message presets […]
[Original post on social.coop]
- Character cards and user personas
- Message presets […]
[Original post on social.coop]
November 11, 2025 at 5:33 AM
In preparation for this release, I used the `VHS` utility to make scripted short videos for various features. Here are videos showcasing a few core features that were also present in older releases:
- Character cards and user personas
- Message presets […]
[Original post on social.coop]
- Character cards and user personas
- Message presets […]
[Original post on social.coop]
Chabeau 0.6.0 (open source chatbot TUI in #rust) has been released.
This is another feature-packed release. Most notably, it ships the `/refine` command (quick in-place revision of an assistant response using a prompt) and in-place editing of assistant messages […]
[Original post on social.coop]
This is another feature-packed release. Most notably, it ships the `/refine` command (quick in-place revision of an assistant response using a prompt) and in-place editing of assistant messages […]
[Original post on social.coop]
November 11, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Chabeau 0.6.0 (open source chatbot TUI in #rust) has been released.
This is another feature-packed release. Most notably, it ships the `/refine` command (quick in-place revision of an assistant response using a prompt) and in-place editing of assistant messages […]
[Original post on social.coop]
This is another feature-packed release. Most notably, it ships the `/refine` command (quick in-place revision of an assistant response using a prompt) and in-place editing of assistant messages […]
[Original post on social.coop]
Gee, I wonder why billionaires want to control the encyclopedia.
(Kudos to the contributors of this very astute section of Zohran Mamdani's Wikipedia bio.)
(Kudos to the contributors of this very astute section of Zohran Mamdani's Wikipedia bio.)
![Screenshot from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zohran_Mamdani&oldid=1320519259 (current as of November 4, 2025)
Mamdani's campaign platform has been considered by outlets to be similar to the policies pursued by former New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia and former U.S. president Franklin Delano Roosevelt.[91][92] The German state broadcaster Deutsche Welle classifies Mamdani's policies as being on the center-left of the global political spectrum.[93] This is unusual in the United States, as the 1950s Second Red Scare and the 1990s Democratic Pivot towards centrist neoliberalism occurred, which shifted the overton window of American politics significantly to the right compared to almost any other liberal democracies, and led national politics to being generally restricted between centrists and the hard right.[93] While misinformation has spread during the 2025 New York mayoral race calling his policies radical or communist, there is a consensus among political scientists that his policies are similar to those pursued by mainstream center-left parties in other developed democracies.[93] Mamdani identifies as being within the democratic socialist tradition.[51][94] He is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.[60][71] Mamdani has also been called a progressive.[68]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bza5bvcxgkztks5f4kpdypzf/bafkreichoshkqhf5hgr7jutal3jr77bgzjczzwdgd24km3bt43agarges4@jpeg)
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Gee, I wonder why billionaires want to control the encyclopedia.
(Kudos to the contributors of this very astute section of Zohran Mamdani's Wikipedia bio.)
(Kudos to the contributors of this very astute section of Zohran Mamdani's Wikipedia bio.)
Managing focus and scrolling in a terminal UI (TUI) is tricky, but I think I landed on a reasonable approach for Chabeau (https://github.com/permacommons/chabeau).
It's very subtle, but you can see it in this video:
- "›" indicates focus, "·" indicates out of […]
[Original post on social.coop]
It's very subtle, but you can see it in this video:
- "›" indicates focus, "·" indicates out of […]
[Original post on social.coop]
November 1, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Managing focus and scrolling in a terminal UI (TUI) is tricky, but I think I landed on a reasonable approach for Chabeau (https://github.com/permacommons/chabeau).
It's very subtle, but you can see it in this video:
- "›" indicates focus, "·" indicates out of […]
[Original post on social.coop]
It's very subtle, but you can see it in this video:
- "›" indicates focus, "·" indicates out of […]
[Original post on social.coop]
Sometimes it's the little things .. made myself a little helper script using `yad` that I can use to quickly bounce the dev env for @lib_reviews :)
One minor annoyance this helps address is the "oh, dev env isn't running" problem when hitting the browser; now I […]
[Original post on social.coop]
One minor annoyance this helps address is the "oh, dev env isn't running" problem when hitting the browser; now I […]
[Original post on social.coop]
October 29, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Sometimes it's the little things .. made myself a little helper script using `yad` that I can use to quickly bounce the dev env for @lib_reviews :)
One minor annoyance this helps address is the "oh, dev env isn't running" problem when hitting the browser; now I […]
[Original post on social.coop]
One minor annoyance this helps address is the "oh, dev env isn't running" problem when hitting the browser; now I […]
[Original post on social.coop]
Got my first scam call with a spoofed "Kaiser Permanente" caller ID today. Apparently quite common.
Nice reminder not to put too much automatic faith in any form of "identification".
Nice reminder not to put too much automatic faith in any form of "identification".
October 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Got my first scam call with a spoofed "Kaiser Permanente" caller ID today. Apparently quite common.
Nice reminder not to put too much automatic faith in any form of "identification".
Nice reminder not to put too much automatic faith in any form of "identification".
Chabeau is fast, and works well with high speed inference providers like Cerebras. Here it is running against a Cerebras endpoint for the Qwen 480B model, showing off the speedy markdown renderer (provided by the `pulldown-cmark` crate, with some customization […]
[Original post on social.coop]
[Original post on social.coop]
October 18, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Chabeau is fast, and works well with high speed inference providers like Cerebras. Here it is running against a Cerebras endpoint for the Qwen 480B model, showing off the speedy markdown renderer (provided by the `pulldown-cmark` crate, with some customization […]
[Original post on social.coop]
[Original post on social.coop]
Chabeau 0.5.1 is out (chatbot TUI compatible with many APIs). A few goodies in this release:
- Built-in presets. You can still configure your own, but Chabeau now ships with three sample presets: short (quick responses followed by a numbered menu), casual, and […]
[Original post on social.coop]
- Built-in presets. You can still configure your own, but Chabeau now ships with three sample presets: short (quick responses followed by a numbered menu), casual, and […]
[Original post on social.coop]
October 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Chabeau 0.5.1 is out (chatbot TUI compatible with many APIs). A few goodies in this release:
- Built-in presets. You can still configure your own, but Chabeau now ships with three sample presets: short (quick responses followed by a numbered menu), casual, and […]
[Original post on social.coop]
- Built-in presets. You can still configure your own, but Chabeau now ships with three sample presets: short (quick responses followed by a numbered menu), casual, and […]
[Original post on social.coop]
"All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out." - Ludwig von Mises
October 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
"All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out." - Ludwig von Mises
Chabeau 0.5.0 (my open source terminal chatbot TUI) is the first version that supports character cards, personas, and presets.
Here's a simple preset in action that 1) keeps responses concise, 2) facilitates menu-style exploration.
`cargo install chabeau` (full […]
[Original post on social.coop]
Here's a simple preset in action that 1) keeps responses concise, 2) facilitates menu-style exploration.
`cargo install chabeau` (full […]
[Original post on social.coop]
October 13, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Chabeau 0.5.0 (my open source terminal chatbot TUI) is the first version that supports character cards, personas, and presets.
Here's a simple preset in action that 1) keeps responses concise, 2) facilitates menu-style exploration.
`cargo install chabeau` (full […]
[Original post on social.coop]
Here's a simple preset in action that 1) keeps responses concise, 2) facilitates menu-style exploration.
`cargo install chabeau` (full […]
[Original post on social.coop]
At this rate it's honestly surprising that none of the major #ai players have issued an "AICoin" yet (aside from Altman's aspirational spycoin). Maybe that's the final step after institutional investment dries up.
(Graphic from Bloomberg: https://archive.is/Pagn7)
(Graphic from Bloomberg: https://archive.is/Pagn7)
October 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
At this rate it's honestly surprising that none of the major #ai players have issued an "AICoin" yet (aside from Altman's aspirational spycoin). Maybe that's the final step after institutional investment dries up.
(Graphic from Bloomberg: https://archive.is/Pagn7)
(Graphic from Bloomberg: https://archive.is/Pagn7)
Credit to /u/Im_so_little/ for this light edit showing the war zone outside the Portland ICE facility.
October 7, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Credit to /u/Im_so_little/ for this light edit showing the war zone outside the Portland ICE facility.
Vox dot com, explained in one image
October 4, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Vox dot com, explained in one image
Mario Guevara is being punished for speech by deportation to a country he fled decades ago: El Salvador, a dictatorship that operates horrific gulags the US has previously made use of.
You can read Guevara's letter from detention in English here […]
[Original post on social.coop]
You can read Guevara's letter from detention in English here […]
[Original post on social.coop]
October 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Mario Guevara is being punished for speech by deportation to a country he fled decades ago: El Salvador, a dictatorship that operates horrific gulags the US has previously made use of.
You can read Guevara's letter from detention in English here […]
[Original post on social.coop]
You can read Guevara's letter from detention in English here […]
[Original post on social.coop]
Permacommons devlog 2025-10-02
Finally released Chabeau 0.4.0. If you're looking for a non-agentic chatbot UI that runs in the terminal, do check it out.
https://github.com/permacommons/chabeau
It now has interactive dialogs for theme, provider and model […]
[Original post on social.coop]
Finally released Chabeau 0.4.0. If you're looking for a non-agentic chatbot UI that runs in the terminal, do check it out.
https://github.com/permacommons/chabeau
It now has interactive dialogs for theme, provider and model […]
[Original post on social.coop]
October 3, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Permacommons devlog 2025-10-02
Finally released Chabeau 0.4.0. If you're looking for a non-agentic chatbot UI that runs in the terminal, do check it out.
https://github.com/permacommons/chabeau
It now has interactive dialogs for theme, provider and model […]
[Original post on social.coop]
Finally released Chabeau 0.4.0. If you're looking for a non-agentic chatbot UI that runs in the terminal, do check it out.
https://github.com/permacommons/chabeau
It now has interactive dialogs for theme, provider and model […]
[Original post on social.coop]
Set your name and username, but we'll focus you on the password field.
If you try to select the username field before you set a password, we'll bounce you right back to the password field, reminding you it can't be empty.
"This is great. Ship it."
If you try to select the username field before you set a password, we'll bounce you right back to the password field, reminding you it can't be empty.
"This is great. Ship it."
September 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Set your name and username, but we'll focus you on the password field.
If you try to select the username field before you set a password, we'll bounce you right back to the password field, reminding you it can't be empty.
"This is great. Ship it."
If you try to select the username field before you set a password, we'll bounce you right back to the password field, reminding you it can't be empty.
"This is great. Ship it."
September 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Permacommons devlog 2025-09-10
Lots of features in `chabeau` (terminal chatbot TUI) coming together over the last few days:
- markdown support with syntax highlighting and rendering cache
- table rendering
- block selection for quick code extraction to […]
[Original post on social.coop]
Lots of features in `chabeau` (terminal chatbot TUI) coming together over the last few days:
- markdown support with syntax highlighting and rendering cache
- table rendering
- block selection for quick code extraction to […]
[Original post on social.coop]
September 11, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Permacommons devlog 2025-09-10
Lots of features in `chabeau` (terminal chatbot TUI) coming together over the last few days:
- markdown support with syntax highlighting and rendering cache
- table rendering
- block selection for quick code extraction to […]
[Original post on social.coop]
Lots of features in `chabeau` (terminal chatbot TUI) coming together over the last few days:
- markdown support with syntax highlighting and rendering cache
- table rendering
- block selection for quick code extraction to […]
[Original post on social.coop]
Even more than Trump himself, nobody symbolizes the decline of the United States more profoundly than RFK Jr.
The damage he is doing will impact millions -- hurt them, and in many cases kill them. Even if he resigned tomorrow (he won't), he already has blood on […]
[Original post on social.coop]
The damage he is doing will impact millions -- hurt them, and in many cases kill them. Even if he resigned tomorrow (he won't), he already has blood on […]
[Original post on social.coop]
September 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Even more than Trump himself, nobody symbolizes the decline of the United States more profoundly than RFK Jr.
The damage he is doing will impact millions -- hurt them, and in many cases kill them. Even if he resigned tomorrow (he won't), he already has blood on […]
[Original post on social.coop]
The damage he is doing will impact millions -- hurt them, and in many cases kill them. Even if he resigned tomorrow (he won't), he already has blood on […]
[Original post on social.coop]
Permacommons devlog 2025-09-06
Today was pretty productive, mostly working on https://github.com/permacommons/chabeau with Codex.
- Finalized integration of `tui-textarea` to make the input area more reliable and future-proof
- Added interactive theme picker & […]
[Original post on social.coop]
Today was pretty productive, mostly working on https://github.com/permacommons/chabeau with Codex.
- Finalized integration of `tui-textarea` to make the input area more reliable and future-proof
- Added interactive theme picker & […]
[Original post on social.coop]
September 6, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Permacommons devlog 2025-09-06
Today was pretty productive, mostly working on https://github.com/permacommons/chabeau with Codex.
- Finalized integration of `tui-textarea` to make the input area more reliable and future-proof
- Added interactive theme picker & […]
[Original post on social.coop]
Today was pretty productive, mostly working on https://github.com/permacommons/chabeau with Codex.
- Finalized integration of `tui-textarea` to make the input area more reliable and future-proof
- Added interactive theme picker & […]
[Original post on social.coop]
I find dealing with MIME parts (e.g., when troubleshooting email rendering) incredibly annoying. There's solid CLI tooling (e.g., `ripmime`) but it still involves a fair bit of poking to get the stuff you want.
Ended up vibe-coding (*gasp*) a quick solution for […]
[Original post on social.coop]
Ended up vibe-coding (*gasp*) a quick solution for […]
[Original post on social.coop]
September 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I find dealing with MIME parts (e.g., when troubleshooting email rendering) incredibly annoying. There's solid CLI tooling (e.g., `ripmime`) but it still involves a fair bit of poking to get the stuff you want.
Ended up vibe-coding (*gasp*) a quick solution for […]
[Original post on social.coop]
Ended up vibe-coding (*gasp*) a quick solution for […]
[Original post on social.coop]
Permacommons #devlog 2025-08-19
This took a while to get working, but in my quest to automate all the things I managed to end up with a publish workflow for the `chabeau` crate that seems fairly sane.
1) Stage release on a release branch, using "cargo release" […]
[Original post on social.coop]
This took a while to get working, but in my quest to automate all the things I managed to end up with a publish workflow for the `chabeau` crate that seems fairly sane.
1) Stage release on a release branch, using "cargo release" […]
[Original post on social.coop]
August 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Permacommons #devlog 2025-08-19
This took a while to get working, but in my quest to automate all the things I managed to end up with a publish workflow for the `chabeau` crate that seems fairly sane.
1) Stage release on a release branch, using "cargo release" […]
[Original post on social.coop]
This took a while to get working, but in my quest to automate all the things I managed to end up with a publish workflow for the `chabeau` crate that seems fairly sane.
1) Stage release on a release branch, using "cargo release" […]
[Original post on social.coop]
Permacommons #devlog 2025-08-14
Today was a bit of a side-quest into "how to print a version string".
The behavior I ended up with is:
- For dev builds, print detailed git version info
- For "cargo install" builds, print only basic build info
- Ensure we […]
[Original post on social.coop]
Today was a bit of a side-quest into "how to print a version string".
The behavior I ended up with is:
- For dev builds, print detailed git version info
- For "cargo install" builds, print only basic build info
- Ensure we […]
[Original post on social.coop]
August 14, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Permacommons #devlog 2025-08-14
Today was a bit of a side-quest into "how to print a version string".
The behavior I ended up with is:
- For dev builds, print detailed git version info
- For "cargo install" builds, print only basic build info
- Ensure we […]
[Original post on social.coop]
Today was a bit of a side-quest into "how to print a version string".
The behavior I ended up with is:
- For dev builds, print detailed git version info
- For "cargo install" builds, print only basic build info
- Ensure we […]
[Original post on social.coop]
Pretty neat feature in the #cline VSCode agent -- you can create custom workflows fairly easily as project-local or global markdown file.
Here I'm running a custom workflow by just typing `/msg.md` to generate a commit message in the […]
[Original post on social.coop]
Here I'm running a custom workflow by just typing `/msg.md` to generate a commit message in the […]
[Original post on social.coop]
August 14, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Pretty neat feature in the #cline VSCode agent -- you can create custom workflows fairly easily as project-local or global markdown file.
Here I'm running a custom workflow by just typing `/msg.md` to generate a commit message in the […]
[Original post on social.coop]
Here I'm running a custom workflow by just typing `/msg.md` to generate a commit message in the […]
[Original post on social.coop]