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Peter Kaminski
@peterkaminski.wiki
Friendly, helpful entrepreneur & digital maker.

I like helping people work better together. Other interests: wiki, systems thinking, knowing how things really work.

ai images: @pixelthesia.ai

homepage: https://peterkaminski.wiki
Anthropic’s “Imagine with Claude” is a preview app builder: describe an app, it generates screens & fakes persistence as you click. It’s experimental, not for real apps, and only higher-tier Claude accounts can access it for now. Kinda cool.

More deets and links: peterkaminski.wiki/imagine_with...
October 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Hey, export your ChatGPT convos once in a while. I hadn't done mine in too long and ended up with a 190Mb `conversations.json` file, oof!

I updated an existing Python JSON->MD export script to be able to handle the new reasoning and tool call messages ChatGPT uses: github.com/daugaard47/C...
August 2, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Massive Wiki Wednesday is currently on an irregular schedule. Next meeting: July 30, 12:30 PM PDT / 19:30 UTC, us02web.zoom.us/j/8487694203...

Main agenda: MarkPub 1.1.0, markpub-themes

Add'l: MassiveWiki/MarkPub+ATProto, Excalidraw

Smoke Signal (optional RSVP): smokesignal.events/did:plc:66wz...
July 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Noodling UI designs for a potential personal project, a YouTube Music "Playlist Commander". Wouldn't play music, would be a power tool for managing playlists.
May 31, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I keep fine-grained music playlists for different qualities in songs: "fast backing rhythm", "sounds happy, actually hurting", "3-4 time", etc.

I knew I had a lot of playlists, but TIL I have **~500** of them. No wonder it's hard to find the right ones!

Thinking about using AI to help. 🙂
May 28, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Arweave still looking good for "eternal" publishing / public archive, because of one-time payment and design for data permanence. permaweb-journal.arweave.net/reference/st... (Design ≠ guarantee, of course.)

And there's a Git forge, protocol.land , that uses Arweave for storage!

Will explore more.
May 26, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Need a handy calculator? Try my new "SimpleCalc by PK", it's free & open source . It runs in your web browser. Click a bookmark to toggle it on/off. It displays over your current web page.

Apologies, it's a tiny bit technical to install. I'll make a video someday.

codeberg.org/peterkaminsk...
April 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Speaking of the collapse of societies, as one might, I rediscovered this reading list of ~65 books a friend and I assembled 1.5 years ago, when times were simpler. (Didn't seem that way at the time, but Events Have Transpired.)

chronicles-of-change.collectivesensecommons.org
Chronicles of Change: Collapse, Resilience, and Humanity's Path Forward
chronicles-of-change.collectivesensecommons.org
March 16, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Claude 3.5 Sonnet w/ some simple custom tooling has been my go-to programming assistant (Node, React, Python) for a while now & it's been really great. I'm super excited to see 3.7 Sonnet & Claude Code drop. Thank you, Anthropic!

www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...

docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/agen...
February 25, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Obsidian is now free for work. Bravo, @obsidian.md!
Obsidian is now free for work.

Starting today, the Obsidian Commercial license is optional. Anyone can use Obsidian for work, for free. Explore the organizations that support Obsidian on our site.

obsidian.md/blog/free-fo...
Obsidian is now free for work
Starting today, the Obsidian Commercial license is optional. Anyone can use Obsidian for work, for free. Explore organizations that support Obsidian on our new Enterprise page.
obsidian.md
February 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I set up Forgejo (a Git forge) for an org's internal use today.

Stock docker-compose.yml plus Caddy for TLS. Pretty much Just Worked. One config change after setup: LANDING_PAGE to change the default home page.

I've been following Gitea/Forgejo since the fork; Forgejo looks like it's got momentum.
January 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Not an _amazing_, shot, but it's still pretty cool you can get a snapshot like this with a smartphone (Pixel 7 Pro).

This was two days ago. Alaska Airlines AS714, a Boeing 737 Max 9, flying over San Diego from SEA to SJD at 37,000 ft, going 522 knots. Oh, and the Moon at approx 1,190,000,000 ft. :)
January 8, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I have a mondegreen in Elton John's "Rocket Man". For "burning out his fuse UP HERE ALONE", I hear "AT PERIHELION"

I keyphrase searched ChatGPT & got a lovely hallucination that "Fuse Up Here Alone" is a track by the band "At Perihelion" avail on streaming, w/ links to Spotify & the band's website!
January 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Announcing Meridian v1.2.0!

peterkaminski.github.io/meridian/mer...

Meridian is a free, open source time zone converter in one HTML file.

It instantly creates easy-to-copy time lists using standard time zone abbreviations.

It's perfect for printing times for international events or global teams.
Meridian - A Time Zone Converter
peterkaminski.github.io
January 4, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Macro underwater shot of the arm of a Fragile Rainbow Star (Astrometis sertulifera) at the Point Loma tide pools in Cabrillo National Monument. In real life, it was cute and attractive, not scary. :-) Camera: OM System TG-7.
January 2, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Plex: 1 January 2025, the newest issue of my inter-community newsletter, is now available on the web. If you're a subscriber (free or paid), you should have also received it in your email inbox.

plex.collectivesensecommons.org/2025-01-01/
Plex: 1 January 2025
Earth Remembering; X Marks the Past; Announcing MarkPub 0.4.3; Let in the Light; Regenerative or Greenwashed; State of the World 2025; Pix from Italy; Fall 1986–As My Dad Lay Dying
plex.collectivesensecommons.org
January 2, 2025 at 6:07 AM
I'm not saying I used these. I'm not saying I didn't, either.

git-repos-no-upstream.sh
# finds git repos without an upstream, outputs list to stdout
paste.sr.ht/~peterkamins...

tar-repos.sh
# tars repo directories, excludes venv and node_modules, reads list from stdin
paste.sr.ht/~peterkamins...
December 21, 2024 at 10:16 PM
In another part of my life, I'm a Midjourney maniac. I just started a separate account, @pixelthesia.ai, where I aim to share beautiful and unique pieces that spark joy.

There's also a free email newsletter, with paid newsletters coming early next year: pixelthesia.ai
December 21, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Thx to Chris Aldrich of boffosocko.com for turning me on to Kuru Toga mechanical pencils!

I'm now the happy owner of a white Advance (turns twice as fast), a 3-pack of graphite leads (2B, B, HB), and a 7-pack of assorted colored leads.

Also nice paper to write on: a Maruman Croquis S163 sketchpad.
December 20, 2024 at 4:06 AM
A science fiction exploration of the idea of "Large Emotion Models", which would focus on understanding, processing, and generating subtle, complex, and dynamic emotional content and responses in high-dimensional emotional spaces. whtwnd.com/peterkaminsk...
Large Emotion Models (LEMs) Framework: A Comprehensive Analysis | Peter Kaminski
Large Emotion Models (LEMs) Framework: A Comprehensive Analysis This is a fictional exploration of the idea of "Large Emotion Models" following the release of the Meta AI paper, Large Concept Models:...
whtwnd.com
December 17, 2024 at 5:38 AM
Human-written prompt: "Write a short SF story about me in 2025 sending writing advice to myself in 1985 ... based on contemporary advice about changing LLM-generated language to sound more personal and less like marketese."

(1985 Pete needed the advice!)

Claude story: whtwnd.com/peterkaminsk...
December 16, 2024 at 10:44 PM
This seems like a big deal.

Meta AI proposes "Large Concept Models" to complement "Large Language Models".

(i.e., reasoning in an embedding space of concepts rather than words)

github.com/facebookrese...

arxiv.org/abs/2412.08821

popularized article: www.marktechpost.com/2024/12/15/m...
December 16, 2024 at 9:22 PM
The word "attention" is a neat little pivot point in the near history of AI, particularly the current crop of LLMs.

Andrej Karpathy & Ksenia Se do a nice job of straightening out the history of "attention" in AI:

x.com/karpathy/sta...

www.turingpost.com/p/attention

huggingface.co/posts/Ksenia...
December 14, 2024 at 4:13 PM
A few of my (non-techie) AI friends & I are launching AI Coaching Forum next year.

We've been prototyping internally, but next week we're going to have an open house: 5 free one-hour zoom calls with our coaches.

Check out our home page to read more. Click the zoom links to RSVP.

aicoaching.forum
AI Coaching Forum (AICF)
AI Coaching Forum (AICF) is a welcoming community for all levels of AI expertise. From curious beginners to seasoned professionals, AICF offers peer mentoring, expert-led seminars, exclusive resources...
aicoaching.forum
December 14, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Nice post by Ev Williams announcing Mozi, which helps connect you and your friends when you'll be in the same city at the same time. Bravo for apps that do something useful, important, and not trying to be all-encompassing.

ev.medium.com/making-socia...
Making “Social” Social Again
Announcing Mozi
ev.medium.com
December 13, 2024 at 4:50 AM