Boris Mann Tech Blog

I made a Ghost blog export to offprint script that I call "GhostOff" and it's available on Tangled: bmann.ca/ghostoff This also happens to be one of my first experiments with agentic coding1.

I recently had a discussion about whether we are at the 300baud modem level of AI models, or at the first home broadband stage.

I rebooted my [[homelab]] with a new machine and moved to proxmox which also meant shutting down [[my Ampache install]] and moving to Navidrome.

Storing and sharing links is something that I've been doing in parallel with blogging for like 25 years.

I ended up buying another miniPC.

Since @case.bsky.social sent me down a rabbit hole from her recent share… View post on Bluesky …I happened to read back over some other recent posts.

The Bluesky team added a privacy preserving, opt in "find friends" feature that imports your contacts.

I got a new MacBook Air M4 with 10‑core CPU and 10‑core GPU / 32GB memory / 1TB storage / sky blue as my main machine, replacing a MacBook Air M1 from late 2020.

On our current path, we will create a civilisation fluent in everything except truth.

Since I'm setting up a new computer, I try new things - new OS features, new apps, etc.

Keeping Claude in check with Jujutsu A write up of how jj can be great to use with generative coding.

A lot of people are looking for evidence of software abundance - that AI is making it dramatically easier to make more apps.

JesterKit First tool is EXE to Distribute Standalone Web Apps: A build tool to pack your SvelteKit app as a single executable binary with zero runtime dependencies.

Programming In The Age Of Abundance A great post by Guyren G Howe covering the optimistic case for AI supporting the development of more software, but also in what ways in might be very different, more personal software.

The Barbell of Software Value | Mehmet I started with my own theory about internal leverage.

Some thoughts on LLMs and Software Development I’m often asked, “what is the future of programming?”

openai burns the boats last week, openai dropped gpt-5 at $10 per million tokens at almost 10x cheaper than anthropic’s flagship and on par in performance benchmark, it’s openai’s declaration of its willingness to destroy the margins in “training and deli…

Open Source is one person So what do we mean by one person is open source.

View post on Bluesky A long read of using ChatGPT for research, which has wrong information, and then publishing it in a blog which further cements the information even though it links only to ChatGPT output.

ml5 - A friendly machine learning library for the web. ml5.js aims to make machine learning approachable for a broad audience of artists, creative coders, and students.

I haven't really been using my "personal blog" on micro.blog, so it's time to turn it off.

Stephan Go was interviewed by Casey Newton for the Verge's Decoder Podcast.