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<img src="/images/lair-gremlins-lair.png" alt="GREMLIN's Ultra Secure Lair" class="full-width" /> Contents The Problem with OpenClaw Enter NanoClaw The Great Migration Life on NanoClaw The Personality Problem Deterministic Core, Agentic Shell The Architec…

Since launching GREMLIN five days ago, I've been steadily expanding his skillset, adjusting and tweaking things, and figuring out ways to detect and prevent the inevitable mistakes.

In my last post I mentioned that the biggest gap in GREMLIN's capabilities was scheduling - he could do all sorts of cool stuff, but couldn't actually handle the one thing I wanted most: responding to the endless stream of "can we find a time to connect?"

A few weeks ago I started seeing stuff on the internet about OpenClaw (the renamed project that began life as ClawedBot).

The year is 1997, I was an American teenager living in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin and there was nothing to do.

About ten to twelve years ago, I found some free Tower Defense game on the App Store.

I still remember the first time I went to a Turing Festival event - Steve Wozniak was speaking at the Edinburgh Playhouse Theater.

Over three years ago, a good friend of mine asked if I’d consider joining the board of a local startup.

About a year ago, I put a Sonos sound system in my flat.

A few weeks ago I resigned.

One of the things I'm passionate about is helping other startups and the community of entrepreneurs we have here in Edinburgh (and in Scotland).

We're about to kick off another year, resolutions have been made, lots of parties have been attended, a bunch of milestones have been reached, and it hopefully feels good to get some closure on a year and plan for another.

I've always loved Pixar's movies.

Last night I experienced the privilege of visiting the Tech Model Railroad Club on MIT's campus.

Wow, that was an incredible year!

It's become clear to me that we desperately need a viable competitor (or two) in the search engine space.

I got an early-ish start with computers when I was about 6 or 7 years old.

I had the pleasure of reading a recent article by Scot Adams (creator of Dilbert) on the secret to success.

I feel like a lot of people miss the point on electric cars.

May 12 was the Caledonian Etape, an 81 mile sportive race which is billed as the largest cycling event in Scotland.

With two days to go before we cycle 81 miles in the Scottish Highlands, I thought I'd give a quick update on the pre-race preparation.

Updated on the 25th of April, 2013 to include some more ride reports and videos.

The company I work for is fortunate enough to have offices in the Edinburgh TechCube, a technology and startup accelerator/incubator/hub that opened in January of this year.

A few weeks ago I had the privilege of attending an event that included a short speech by the UK Government CTO.

Here's a review of what for me was one of the best years I've had since college. ## Travel in 2012 Paris, France Aberdeen, Scotland Copenhagen, Denmark Mallaig (Harry Potter Train) London (Olympics), UK Dubai, UAE Boston, USA Beirut, Lebanon Campbeltown,…

Since moving to Scotland I haven't done quite as much reading (we've had a busy first ten months here).

I've been struggling about what to make of the recent patent spat between Samsung and Apple.

I've long believed that we seriously underestimate kids.

There's a lot of abstract advice about employing simplicity when building great products or writing great code.

I don't ever watch the news on TV.

I've been spending the last month or so setting up, honing, and dialing in our Google Pay Per Click (PPC) strategy.

This is a great talk and synopsis of Martin's fabulously well researched book "When China Rules the World" which I reviewed a couple years ago on this blog.

It's hard to find good books on China.

I keep finding these little areas of ignorance that surprise me.

I'm trying something out and it only tangentially happens to correspond with the New Year.

This is probably one of the more generic bucket list items I have.

NOTE: Updated Oct 17, See Below This is a thought that's been percolating around in my head for the last year or so, but has recently become even more crystalized: I'll probably never hire another Systems Administrator.

There's been so much written about Steve Jobs that there's not much to add.

Note: I've previously read and reviewed two other books by Charles Cumming here.

Software development is a remarkably fashion driven industry.

I wasn't a big Disney buff until I live in Florida.

Most of you know that I really like trains.

A few weeks ago I attended Github's CodeConf in San Francisco.

The last three places I've lived in South Florida were "gated communities" which is supposed to make you feel exclusive and special.

It's a question you often see timidly asked, in an almost guilty fashion.

We had a great time last night watching Watson take on two humans in a round of Jeopardy.

Tomorrow Jeopardy will feature a computer facing off against former champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter.

I love hard rock music.

There's been an uproar (at least in tech circles) over the past week about allegations from Google that Microsoft's Bing search engine was copying results from Google's offering.

Grisham's books have this familiar quality to them and even though I think The Firm and A Time to Kill stand head and shoulders above his other more recent books, I generally pick up his latest and find it enjoyable.