Jake Simonds's Blog

html template I use Why I think LLM-generated quizzes are ~Good If I have an LLM write a report for me, and then I only skim it...should I say so?

Linting burns tokens but keeps internal patterns consistent I want to talk about linting in my home-spun LLM Harness: Whenever I have the LLM do any significant amount of work, a summary HTML page gets created that I call a 'Node.'

We should share our LLM use more By sharing I mean: sharing personal AI policies/preferences, formal or informal (I care most about disclosure.

The metaphor I've never done the drive or walk up Mt.

( note on title: Viewpoints for AI was me trying to use Viewpoints (a theatre/dance thing) as inspiration for finding a vocabulary to have better conversations about AI.

Benefits of HTML: It's a bookmark Your work is never done.

The story of this chart is the people who made the apps, not the users who didn't show up If a tree falls in the middle of the forest and nobody's around to hear it, does it even make a sound?

The OODA Hourglass Squishy Computer OODA-pilled me recently.

Motivating Midi-Harness: Piano Youtube "And remember: I'm a video.

The Viewpoints If you ever hit a wall in a creative exercise where someone told you to "imagine you're a mountain" or "pretend a monster is chasing you," you might like the viewpoints.

Baby birds!!!!!

Source Main takeaway: You gotta practice!

The Danger Zone is a (sorta) Vermont-shaped Polygon

^ things I could have paid for that wouldn't have worked as well The Skill itself: .claude/skills/phone-mirror/SKILL.md: name: phone-mirror description: Mirror Jake's Pixel to his Mac via USB for streaming/demos disable-model-invocation: true allowed-t…

Briefly: Imagine you've won some sweepstakes, and you're going to have lunch with Stephen Hawking (imagine he's still alive...while we're imagining things).

"How do I make an account?"

The Like Chorus On jklb.social, the profile pictures of the last dozen or so people to interact with you are displayed along the top and left-hand banners of the screen.

(inspired by: https://venkateshrao.com/twitter-book/chapters/chapter_655913909086384128.html) Contradiction 1: I want more from social media, while spending less time there.

LINK TO INTERVIEW: https://youtu.be/K8jLX6LMf5o LINKS MENTIONED IN INTERVIEW: Hilarious sora video: View post on Bluesky pdsx: GitHub - zzstoatzz/pdsx: cli for atproto record CRUD Ferret every hour: Ferret Every Hour (@ferretperhour.bsky.social) & Nate's…

@jakesimonds: So I'm curious about Atlassian, because I used Jira at work and it seems that Jira is a world.

Rangeley, ME in peak fall foliage.

(I may not always update this!

What it feels like to code in 2026 I am horse trainer with a magic wand, and the only limit for how fast I can make my horse go is my own imagination.

tools.jakesimonds.com deploy At .claude/skills/deploy-tool you'll find SKILL.md: --- name: deploy-tool description: Deploy a vanilla JS project to tools.jakesimonds.com disable-model-invocation: true allowed-tools: Read, Glob, Grep, Bash argument-hint: […

The 3 Reasons Homer's car from "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?"

New Things The jklbie Award for Excellence in Posting If Credible Exit is On (by default it will be), after you see however many posts you chose to see (default: 40) you'll be prompted to leave social media.

2024 Summer: I made a shitty app Ways latenthomer.com (dead link) was shitty: http, not https crashed more than once a week the whole thing was an ec2 container.

All I think about is the context window The context window is an array.

jklb.social is... jklb.social: An experimental bluesky client in alpha!

hello world

Agentic Loops feel...significant My LLM use patterns in very broad strokes: 1: The Oracle paradigm I go to ChatGPT (and then Claude) web chat interface to troubleshoot code, ask questions, etc.

(DISCLAIMER: I know a lot less than the average tech blogger.

Facebook, early 2023: Lonely, Bizarre, Emotional Whiplash I see a post from someone I don't know, but lots of people from my small town are reacting.

(This is an annual thing) Delights Top & tail of the year in Latin America Began the year in Guadalajara Mexico, and (almost) finished it in Buenos Aires (back to Maine for the holidays, but was in BA close enough that I saw xmas decorations in the summer…

The Driving Crooner dot com, baby!

Idea that has lingered #1: tiered accounts The (above) slide is the UI of a Chinese virtual currency app.

Non-ATProto people: Audience I had in mind for this is a developer with experience on other platforms curious about ATProto, but good stuff here for everybody!

From https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/22/meta-cuts-600-ai-jobs-amid-ongoing-reorganization/: "By reducing the size of our team, fewer conversations will be required to make a decision, and each person will be more load-bearing and have more scope and impact"

Baking Soda: noun Informal term for social media notifications which alert user to: ads generic content (despite term "for you") new features in social media platform anything that's not an actual, one-to-one social interaction Makes the somewhat-crass an…

Okay ATProto fam.

Web3 social is super fragmented My experience from most to least commonly mentioned socials: 1: telegram 2: X/twitter 3: Farcaster 4: anything and everything else Met some people excited about open social/ATProto, also met a lot of people who had really n…

What is it?

Great: no shoes, a few laptops out There's a kind of social gathering I'm sure isn't exclusive to San Francisco but I've never experienced anywhere else.

wallet for scale 1: Ebook Reasons I love my ebook: small enough to toss in back pocket as a phone-replacement when I'm going somewhere where I might be alone with my thoughts for more than 30 seconds. & it's also got wifi and a browser–never feel urge to…

Update: I am currently: in San Francisco!

I want to try to do one thing a day.

Auditions From 2010 to 2019 I went on probably 100-200 acting auditions for mostly stage plays, but also TV commercials and indie films.

why I came here When the whole world is mediated thru digital instant technologies no place is particularly special.

#1: Webmaster Crash Course (with LLMs): let's build you a personal website!

@gabboman.at.app.wafrn.net (center) and @djara.dev (left) are part of the team making Wafrn, a federated social media inspired by Tumblr that connects with both the Fediverse and Bluesky.