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agent-shell: stop spilling your outputs since the beginning of time, ai agents have wanted one thing at one thing only: redirecting stderr to stdout then piping the output to head or tail or grep or sed or awk.

fancy slopping you here Slop has an intentional meaning which is more subtle than the common verbiage of the vernacular of the online disgruntled discourse cohorts: Slop presupposes a user of AI or some auto-generation method is using the auto-generated c…

Interactive visualizations of friend/enemy attractor/rejectors with a hundred customizable parameters

claude-hooker The mystery of claude code over the past year and a half has been how does a world leading ‘AI productization lab’ continually generate such shitty amatuer globally distributed software and services over and over again?

mattouch I’ve been using bettertouchtool for probably 15 years now, but only for two features: I bind fn+opt to window drag I bind fn+cmd to window resize That’s it.

macsetup - matt’s app config setup What do you do when you get a new mac?

Kvestigate - Investigate Kubernetes Clusters Ever find yourself given access to a piece of garbage kubernetes cluster and you need need to audit it to figure out what the hell is going on?

Converting exiftool to Python exifmodern We did it.

claudo & claude prompt Claudo If you’ve used claude code you’ve probably seen (if you didn’t succumb to disabling seizures from the terminal flashing for 8 months with no fixes) it often creates and uses a “task list” to track progress and goals over time.

H3 and Fixing ASCII Boxes Smaller updates today.

Project Management System Continuing spring cleaning 2026 for day two brings us to: project management system.

hyperdjango Following up from opsmas 2025 is spring cleaning 2026.

SaaS Delusions Walked so AI Psychosis Could Run For a while now, I’ve been trying to find a way to illustrate and convey how over-reliance on SaaS ruins companies and lives.

AI Story Tuesday This is in the big green bat & cactus person cinematic universe.

An Expert Review of A Fire Upon The Deep Over the years I’ve read A Fire Upon The Deep a couple times so here’s some stuff about it.

Opsmas 2025 Day 13: mesh image router cdn-like thing & claude prompt TOC: mir claude prompt mesh image router I wrote mesh image router five years ago to be the backend of a photo sharing app.

Opsmas 2025 Day 12: carrier-db & carrier-cache carrier db & carrier cache We’re back here again. what happens if you have the world’s most efficient in-memory database system, but nobody notices?

Opsmas 2025 Day 11: pyjobby & hiproc TOC: pyjobby hiproc pyjobby pyjobby is a python-centric postgres-backed dynamic workqueue system.

Opsmas 2025 Day 10: lematt & pai TOC: lematt pai lematt I originally wrote lematt in 2017 to manage lets encrypt cert libraries more “professionally” than just letting random web servers or proxies self-create certs with no tracking or logging or backups.…

Opsmas 2025 Day 9: crcspeed I wrote crcspeed in 2014 over about 8 months of figuring out how speed up CRC-Jones-64 and CRC-16-CCITT variants.

Opsmas 2025 Day 8: kraft & wtf is wrong with anthropic TOC: kraft what the holy hell is anthropic doing kraft kraft is my take on a self-contained and easy to verify raft implementation.

Opsmas 2025 Day 7: (kv)(idx)(kit) & (m) TOC: kvidxkit m kvidxkit I like writing specific interfaces on top of more general systems.

Opsmas 2025 Day 6: loopyring loopyring What is a loopyring?

Opsmas 2025 Day 5: ring & actionboard TOC: ring actionboard ring into every developer’s life two things happen: they discover then fall in love with bloom filters and then the process repeats again when discovering the lmax disruptor. we already have bloom

Opsmas 2025 Day 4: loopy & billions TOC: loopy billions loopy event loop To advance my career the most and the fastest, I only focus on the hottest in-demand tech, so here’s another event loop.

Opsmas 2025 Day 3: datakit & ram prices TOC: datakit notes on ram prices and computational efficiency datakit datakit oh datakit how thy data structures are so memory-efficient!

Opsmas 2025 Day 2: varint updated & tigerwired TOC: varint tigerwired merry opsmas 2025 day 2. varint In my never-ending goal to make all software as efficient as possible, I collected and extended some variable-length integer strategies a while ago in va…

Opsmas 2025 Day 1: new haproxy config system & mpreg TOC: haproxy-translate mpreg merry opsmas 2025. this year i’ve created (somehow) more code than ever before including both new projects and cleaning up existing/abandoned projects.

AI Story 2: The Song of Broken Wings Another one Claude did a while ago.

AI Story: The Song of Broken Wings Claude did this a while ago in one session.

datakit — the most efficient data structure library A while ago I made a data structure library fixing memory efficiency problems across many data structure types, but I never ended up releasing it.

The Most Talented Person In The World I discovered a genius online.

Dune 2: More Dune Is Actually About AI and Economic Inequality walk without rhythm and you won’t attract the worm JS notes how characters in dune have two perspectives, and one perspective is: as if the characters are aware they are in a novel and are act…

Let Me In The AI Bunker Somebody made this perfect image a while ago: 2024-03-09 2024-03-09 NO COMMENTARY YET!

AI Litany we train the ai, but what if we let the ai train us. are you ready to play a sonata of purpose?

AI More Stories 2 more stories from local models (or at least attempts at stories) while testing what they are willing to accept or outright reject for conceptual premises.

AI More Stories These were all generated locally using the 34 billion parameter Yi model quantized to 4 bits (20 GB total quantized instead of 70 GB natural width).

AI Helps the Dreaming would you trust your dreams to the AI?

AI Reminds Me Topological Sort Exists once i had an interview where they described a problem to solve on a whiteboard. the actual way to solve the problem was “implement topological sort from memory,” but I didn’t know that (sidenote: people who don’t und…