My 2026 AI experiments: Hermes, OpenCode, and a home server
When I'm at a job, the daily goal is shipping features in the codebase - there's no time to question the tools, you just use what works, and it is most likely Claude Code. Between jobs, that pressure lifts, and I finally get to slow down and actually explore the workflows and tooling itself. That's where extra lessons about AI engineering and agentic flows come from. So I spent the last 3 months quietly experimenting with my daily AI stack. The result runs on a local Mac Mini, uses Hermes and Op...
weird circle #1
A weird chain of events, as told through bluesky posts, starting with this post from dan 3 days ago. I've always had an irrational fear of movie piracy 📼 due to knowing someone who was kicked out of college for watching How to Train Your Dragon in their dorm 🤣. (so the story went, I never verified I just believed and this was a long time ago). But a newer friend who loves movies and this post from dan compelled me to look into it. A few prompts with China's finest and I learned about usenet and ...
Pckt Blog like a blogging platform from Japan
The pckt blog platform reminds me of a Japanese blogging platform. I first know about blogging from one of my favorite Japanese artists/musicians, and they used a blog platform with the same concept. Unfortunately, I stopped using it in 2020 because it became increasingly slow to load and I actually discovered this similar platform thanks to one of my mutuals as well.
What I Actually Do, For Anyone Who's Heard Me Say "AT Protocol" and Nodded Politely
Someone told me recently that I should get some work experience. I have about fifty repositories on GitHub. I also have a poetry anthology running past 180 pieces over six years, and by the same logic, apparently, I'm not a poet either, because nobody's put my name on a spine yet. Both claims are wrong for exactly the same reason, so let's deal with them properly.
Varför minskas inte sillkvoterna i Östersjön?
Internationella Havsforskningsrådet (ICES) ger varje år en rekommendation om hur mycket sill som kan fiskas i Östersjön.. Sen 2018 innehåller råden en miniminivå och en maximinivå. Yrkesfiskarna i Sverige vill att kvoten ska läggas på miniminivån.
Motherfucker, You ARE the Mainstream
I was just on NPR's website for an unimportant reason and I encountered this remarkable artifact of the media in the year 2026: Screenshot Bear with me, please, because I want to describe what is in this screenshot that I grabbed: First, it says "Popular on NPR.org." Then, there's a picture of an old white...
Dark Scrolls - A quirky side scroll adventure!
They don't make them like they used to—except when they do. Dark Scrolls is a quirky side-scroll adventure, but it’s really a time machine straight back to the golden age of the SNES. From the moment I booted it up the nostalgic 16-bit soundtrack hooked me and the endlessly fun gameplay kept me glued to the screen. Controls I'll cut straight to the chase here and say that this game puts you RIGHT into the action with very little explanation. Part of the SNES-era charm here is getting to learn fr...
Von Scheinriesen und Zombies
Felix schreibt über „Scheindringlichkeit“ und mir ist sofort der Scheinriese Herr Tur Tur aus Jim Knopf eingefallen. Herr Tur Tur ist ein sogenannter Scheinriese: je weiter man sich von ihm entfernt, desto größer scheint er. Nur wer sich ganz nah an ihn heranwagt, erkennt, dass er genauso groß ist wie jeder normale Mensch. (Wikipedia) Geht...
Chelsea Snags Portuguese Wonderkid Geovany Quenda on Mega Deal Through 2034
London, July 8, 2026 — Classic Chelsea. Just when you think the Stamford Bridge transfer carousel is finally slowing down to a manageable tilt, they go and sign one of the most coveted teenagers in Europe. Geovany Quenda is officially a Blue. The 19-year-old Sporting Lisbon prodigy has put pen to paper on an eye-watering […]
Poem: Priceless Worthless Speechless Words
I love you, Isn't that so easy? Isn't talk cheap?
Vegetable Garden Update
This season has been a good vegetable gardening season thus far. Pests have been minimal, aside from the occasional deer lurking around (but the fencing means the deer usually leave our garden alone). Tomatoes are now steadily appearing; I suspect we’ll be eating some within a week or two. Cucumbers and lettuce have done great and we even recently harvested our garlic, which is now drying out in our basement. I’m most excited about the jalapeño peppers. Those are always delicious.
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, 2026
About Pckt Notes & Writers Block
I'm feeling bad at writing lately. I think that's okay sometimes, not everything has to be perfect... And it's not really perfection that I'm seeking, but it can be very inconvenient when I'm trying to write something that is easily understood. It's like, I don't quite know where to start, or how to explain what I'm trying to.
Get Ready For the Powerful CSS border-shape Property!
We recently got the shape() function and corner-shape property. What else could we possibly need as far as making shapes in CSS? Let me tell you: the border-shape property!
#oneaday Day 762: Some nice things
I started typing out a post about how shit everything was. I got to about 600 words, and I even found a really good stock image of some horseshit. Then I looked at what I had written and thought, "no, I should not give in to despair, even if it does seem like it has...
Rohe Tomatensauce
Passend zu Hitze und Spaghetti. Für 2 Personen 3 große Tomaten, bei mir 270 g2 Knoblauchzehen, mindestens1 Schuss Ahornsirup oder Agavendicksaft10 g Tomatenmark1 Schluck WasserSalz, Pfeffer Die Tomaten häuten und in grobe Würfel schneiden, die Knoblauchzehen pressen. Alle Zutaten miteinander vermischen und pürieren. Zum ersten Mal abschmecken. Wenn Sie denken: "Besser als gedacht", ist es...
Notes and links from Thur 9 July
Taking it easy in the heat today. Had a brief visit from my sister this morning and a long-overdue visit from one of my Loaf colleagues though we mostly talked about other things. It was all nice. House continues to be 4-5 degrees cooler than outside, which is a win. Last night was a bit warm though — still haven’t got a good draft going between the bedrooms yet. (The idea of opening the loft hatch so it worked like a chimney had to be quickly abandoned on Tuesday when it became an oven and started heating the landing. Probably needs a temperature controlled extractor fan up there.)
#oneaday Day 761: The depths of the id
I think one of the hardest things to watch during the latest of myriad sessions of layoffs over at XBOX, The Everything Console has been seeing id Software be gutted. Everyone has That One Company who always made stuff that they liked, which has been there since their childhood, and for me I think that...
Wildlife B&W #21
Namibia Einfach nur Tierfotos - in Schwarz-Weiß
HappyView v2.11
Background jobs, repo export, and spaces refinements.
Doing the Standard.Site Thing
After seeing Andy Bell talk about it on his site, I've gone ahead and added the ATMosphere plugin to the site to try and publish the site over the ATProtocol (which integrates with Bluesky) using standard.site. If this works well, reacting to this post on BlueSky will mean that likes/boosts/comments will feed through to the...