Apparently, this is entertaining? Struggling to be brief my scribbling mimics the mainstream and becomes unintentionally obscure. My inbox has been overflowing with ads selling agents (AGI) lately.

On VS Code’s marketing page there is/was a demo where the (pre?) AGI was asked, “What steps are needed to create a wordle clone?”

My answer: “You only need one step. To make a wordle clone just git clone another worldle clone” (no code: I was trying to be funny this time).

There was a beautiful (or not so beautiful) set of fireworks in the sky the other day. Is this the first episode of Rocket Girls?

I read a bit into Starlink and it’s the sometimes cheaper/better option locally and apparently in the rest of the world too.

It’s increasingly tempting but I don’t use it because I’m locally biased.

I know there’s a lot of interest in meshes (and alternative networks). I tried out a yggdrasil mesh for a good whole ten minutes or so some planets ago. I have notes running around somewhere in the (a)ether.

• GNUnet
• Zeronet
• Freenet/Hyphanet
• Invisible Internet
• The Onion Router
• Inter–Planetary File System
• WireGuard
• Yggdrasil

If I can hack a good intuition on networking this (new) year, I’ll perform my final pseudo disappearing act.

That last clip was hard to make. My Linux systems upgraded and I entered reconfiguration purgatory. There was no time to test reverse babel strategies (lebab) or various CSS translation stuff.

Speaking of blindfolded; I once had to make do at a company for a short time with a browser only on Windows. Visual Studio Code or Codium is browser accessible now (something involving servers).

The interest in TUIs online is high. In the real world you tend to be constrained and blindfolded by the tools available/allowed. Filtering is peculiar though.

See how the terminal/editor splits? Filtering makes them kiss? Commands that input|output (pipe) work best (compilers, transpilers and code generators). The meta is the limit.

I like wordplay. I helped someone with a conundrum recently. There’s a deep ambiguity where bimonthly = biweekly. The AIs get it right/wrong on a flip of the (contextual) coin.

Then I realized; bots are smarter but it’s complicated. It’s hard to generally distinguish its output. If that’s intelligence, then it has surpassed the average in general. Too easy?

It’s like we’re testing our individualized general ignorance (if that’s a thing). In short; it excels at what you don’t know (yet). Apparently, I’m already an AI whisperer.

I occasionally revisit this wonderful shell scripting bible. On a whim, I checked the home page and it says something along the lines of “having taken up farming”.

Sardonic, maybe. I thought I had 12 (or 13) followers on GitHub but apparently it’s 10. Two (or three) must have betrayed me. Seriously though; I’m considering a bit of CSS to hide the distracting metrics.

I know there were questions about my thoughts on AI. I think time-travelling back to the future is more interesting though. I wasn’t around, but it’s deja vu.

Accessible programming is the theme but I wonder. I’ve met many people who can’t read (no joke).

Maybe the next “big social transistor” scales to the nano (video) message (nm) or pico (from micro).

“Titles and thumbnails” are exoteric. Who knows, perhaps “natural language programming” becomes the most esoteric of them all.

Merriam-Webster’s word last year was authentic. If there’s one thing about authenticity; it’s like the bottom of a clear pool of water appearing shallower than its actual depth.

There’s a kind of performative art here that invokes the so called “Wittgenstein’s silence”, where machinations can be seen but not explained. It sort of works and it’s a banal gift that keeps on giving.

There’s a sophisticated joke hiding inside of HTML’s spec. It’s subtle (pay attention) and goes something like this;

An end tag whose tag name is “sarcasm” [or satire]
Take a deep breath, then act as described in the “any other end tag” entry below.