😆 'Max'? I'm not sure that word means what you think it means . . .
I'm about to hit the daily limit in less than a half day of usage just _playing_ with it. 🤷♂️
I'm about to hit the daily limit in less than a half day of usage just _playing_ with it. 🤷♂️
August 4, 2025 at 2:00 AM
😆 'Max'? I'm not sure that word means what you think it means . . .
I'm about to hit the daily limit in less than a half day of usage just _playing_ with it. 🤷♂️
I'm about to hit the daily limit in less than a half day of usage just _playing_ with it. 🤷♂️
The amount of superstition and anecdotal evidence around how to craft effective context and prompts that improve LLM results when developing software is staggering. 🧵
March 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The amount of superstition and anecdotal evidence around how to craft effective context and prompts that improve LLM results when developing software is staggering. 🧵
I have been very surprised how fully featured this Obsidian spreadsheet plugin (
Univer") is.
Now I have small local spreadsheets organized with notes and diagrams (Excalidraw plugin), and I really have not run in to any layout/calc I needed that it could not handle.
Univer") is.
Now I have small local spreadsheets organized with notes and diagrams (Excalidraw plugin), and I really have not run in to any layout/calc I needed that it could not handle.
March 14, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I have been very surprised how fully featured this Obsidian spreadsheet plugin (
Univer") is.
Now I have small local spreadsheets organized with notes and diagrams (Excalidraw plugin), and I really have not run in to any layout/calc I needed that it could not handle.
Univer") is.
Now I have small local spreadsheets organized with notes and diagrams (Excalidraw plugin), and I really have not run in to any layout/calc I needed that it could not handle.
Playing around with [building out] this keyboard streak tracking idea some more. Added a way to reset the data, and with only a couple of data points on the chart, my improvement trend line today is impressive. 🤣
![Playing around with [building out] this keyboard streak tracking idea some more. Added a way to reset the data, and with only a couple of data points on the chart, my improvement trend line today is impressive. 🤣](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hd4elhxnxutaorqnumyvau55/bafkreicrgu2av3z6qz7oei43xm4inht2yxeoqr6inaxywkxfd4karjqy4y@jpeg)
March 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Playing around with [building out] this keyboard streak tracking idea some more. Added a way to reset the data, and with only a couple of data points on the chart, my improvement trend line today is impressive. 🤣
After trying out several of the current generation of LLM models and code assistant tooling, I'm looking forward to seeing more techniques for stuffing & increasing the context window, generating embeddings, and deriving codebase roadmaps that better help LLM's to work with larger codebases.
March 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
After trying out several of the current generation of LLM models and code assistant tooling, I'm looking forward to seeing more techniques for stuffing & increasing the context window, generating embeddings, and deriving codebase roadmaps that better help LLM's to work with larger codebases.
re:vibe coding, I thought it was really interesting to hear more examples of what people who are not developers for a living are making with it. i.e. - the last 20 minutes of this episode of the Hard Fork podcast has some fun ones.
Is Google Search Cooked? + We’re Getting a U.S. Crypto Reserve? + What You’re Vibecoding — Hard Fork
“I think Google realizes that this is a once-in-a-generation chance to reinvent the search experience”
overcast.fm
March 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
re:vibe coding, I thought it was really interesting to hear more examples of what people who are not developers for a living are making with it. i.e. - the last 20 minutes of this episode of the Hard Fork podcast has some fun ones.
Happy Friday!
Recently, I was toying around with making a small open source macOS menu bar experiment/app to track keyboard usage 'streaks' (no mouse). Here's what it looks like so far:
Recently, I was toying around with making a small open source macOS menu bar experiment/app to track keyboard usage 'streaks' (no mouse). Here's what it looks like so far:
March 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Happy Friday!
Recently, I was toying around with making a small open source macOS menu bar experiment/app to track keyboard usage 'streaks' (no mouse). Here's what it looks like so far:
Recently, I was toying around with making a small open source macOS menu bar experiment/app to track keyboard usage 'streaks' (no mouse). Here's what it looks like so far:
The Cline memory bank pattern is INSANE and not talked about enough.
It is enabling me to steadily and safely address tech debt in a code base.
As the code base grew, I was getting pretty chaotic results without this 'map' that helps guide the LLM!
It is enabling me to steadily and safely address tech debt in a code base.
As the code base grew, I was getting pretty chaotic results without this 'map' that helps guide the LLM!
March 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The Cline memory bank pattern is INSANE and not talked about enough.
It is enabling me to steadily and safely address tech debt in a code base.
As the code base grew, I was getting pretty chaotic results without this 'map' that helps guide the LLM!
It is enabling me to steadily and safely address tech debt in a code base.
As the code base grew, I was getting pretty chaotic results without this 'map' that helps guide the LLM!
I ‘vibed’ out (with cursor+claude 3.7 sonnet agentic) a next.js backend that uses firestore for persistence, with an API layer, web app, and playwright tests.
It is an unfamiliar stack for me, but the whole process felt more like parenting than coding. Was weird.
Lots of churn and waiting on LLM.
It is an unfamiliar stack for me, but the whole process felt more like parenting than coding. Was weird.
Lots of churn and waiting on LLM.
March 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I ‘vibed’ out (with cursor+claude 3.7 sonnet agentic) a next.js backend that uses firestore for persistence, with an API layer, web app, and playwright tests.
It is an unfamiliar stack for me, but the whole process felt more like parenting than coding. Was weird.
Lots of churn and waiting on LLM.
It is an unfamiliar stack for me, but the whole process felt more like parenting than coding. Was weird.
Lots of churn and waiting on LLM.
Using Perplexity to sort through campgrounds based on Bortle (dark-sky) scale and driving distance worked alright and saved me _some_ time. 🤷♂️
February 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Using Perplexity to sort through campgrounds based on Bortle (dark-sky) scale and driving distance worked alright and saved me _some_ time. 🤷♂️
I have been trying Alex Sidebar, Cursor, and Cline lately.
The latest version of Cline is really impressive _when it works_. It can generate tools and execute shell commands in the existing VSCode console, which means you can have it run a build or tests and it can use the results for guidance.
The latest version of Cline is really impressive _when it works_. It can generate tools and execute shell commands in the existing VSCode console, which means you can have it run a build or tests and it can use the results for guidance.
February 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I have been trying Alex Sidebar, Cursor, and Cline lately.
The latest version of Cline is really impressive _when it works_. It can generate tools and execute shell commands in the existing VSCode console, which means you can have it run a build or tests and it can use the results for guidance.
The latest version of Cline is really impressive _when it works_. It can generate tools and execute shell commands in the existing VSCode console, which means you can have it run a build or tests and it can use the results for guidance.
CCMenu (originally named for CruiseControl) can apparently monitor Github workflow status! cool!
February 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
CCMenu (originally named for CruiseControl) can apparently monitor Github workflow status! cool!
I wasn't really looking for a new Terminal app (Ghostty.org), but the satisfaction/nostalgia of an always available 'quick' terminal sliding down from top of screen at a keypress is real.
Some fun background on where Ghostty came from is here: zig.show/episodes/32/
Some fun background on where Ghostty came from is here: zig.show/episodes/32/
February 19, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I wasn't really looking for a new Terminal app (Ghostty.org), but the satisfaction/nostalgia of an always available 'quick' terminal sliding down from top of screen at a keypress is real.
Some fun background on where Ghostty came from is here: zig.show/episodes/32/
Some fun background on where Ghostty came from is here: zig.show/episodes/32/
Surprising things I learned: The system prompt additions that power the Cline 'memory bank' feature use a Mermaid spec'd flowchart rather than prose to reduce ambiguity. Cool!!
image courtesy of https://cline.bot/blog/memory-bank-how-to-make-cline-an-ai-agent-that-never-forgets
image courtesy of https://cline.bot/blog/memory-bank-how-to-make-cline-an-ai-agent-that-never-forgets
February 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Surprising things I learned: The system prompt additions that power the Cline 'memory bank' feature use a Mermaid spec'd flowchart rather than prose to reduce ambiguity. Cool!!
image courtesy of https://cline.bot/blog/memory-bank-how-to-make-cline-an-ai-agent-that-never-forgets
image courtesy of https://cline.bot/blog/memory-bank-how-to-make-cline-an-ai-agent-that-never-forgets
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Horror story in 0 words
December 12, 2024 at 12:47 AM
Horror story in 0 words
This fairly dense convo between a couple of AI practitioners and Lex Fridman, was a fun listen and maybe the only 5 hour (!) podcast episode that has ever been able to hold my attention.
I wasn’t able to do it in one shot, but I did come right back to it ASAP.
overcast.fm/+AAeZyCRnfH8
I wasn’t able to do it in one shot, but I did come right back to it ASAP.
overcast.fm/+AAeZyCRnfH8
#459 – DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters — Lex Fridman Podcast
Dylan Patel is the founder of SemiAnalysis, a research & analysis company specializing in semiconductors, GPUs, CPUs, and AI hardware. Nathan Lambert is a research scientist at the Allen Institute for...
overcast.fm
February 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This fairly dense convo between a couple of AI practitioners and Lex Fridman, was a fun listen and maybe the only 5 hour (!) podcast episode that has ever been able to hold my attention.
I wasn’t able to do it in one shot, but I did come right back to it ASAP.
overcast.fm/+AAeZyCRnfH8
I wasn’t able to do it in one shot, but I did come right back to it ASAP.
overcast.fm/+AAeZyCRnfH8
Updated my self-hosted @ghost.org blog to latest version.
It's interesting to see how some folks syndicate or make content platforms like Medium or Substack their primary home.
I'm not really looking to monetize, just share, and especially share rough things -- as a way to think through ideas.
It's interesting to see how some folks syndicate or make content platforms like Medium or Substack their primary home.
I'm not really looking to monetize, just share, and especially share rough things -- as a way to think through ideas.
February 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Updated my self-hosted @ghost.org blog to latest version.
It's interesting to see how some folks syndicate or make content platforms like Medium or Substack their primary home.
I'm not really looking to monetize, just share, and especially share rough things -- as a way to think through ideas.
It's interesting to see how some folks syndicate or make content platforms like Medium or Substack their primary home.
I'm not really looking to monetize, just share, and especially share rough things -- as a way to think through ideas.
When I hear that a company is using a Github contribution graph as some indicator of how 'cracked' (LOL that term!) a developer is, I have to exercise mucho willpower to contain my chuckle. 🧵
February 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
When I hear that a company is using a Github contribution graph as some indicator of how 'cracked' (LOL that term!) a developer is, I have to exercise mucho willpower to contain my chuckle. 🧵
Added a new @bsky.app social link to my blog at mattorb.com 🙂
February 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Added a new @bsky.app social link to my blog at mattorb.com 🙂
Some fun blog posts, github projects and updates recently! Thread ⬇️
February 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Some fun blog posts, github projects and updates recently! Thread ⬇️
Actually checking back in on this now.... Seems like it might stand a chance.
December 5, 2024 at 10:39 PM
Actually checking back in on this now.... Seems like it might stand a chance.