i think i’m going to start building one of these myself but for my niche over on WHOP, ugc for the over 50’s – learn how to make ai videos that look real – it seems like the days of udemy are numbered, this whop platform is super well designed for the attention economy. it’s a good fit for ugc.

“Researchers used CRISPR to enhance a naturally meat-like fungus” – all i can say is get some organic food in you this weekend just so you have a reminder what food was like before the BURN as i’m calling it, where information and data and food eats itself and we start again from 3d printed junk!

it was good to get the yoga started again today. if we can keep that up till at least christmas eve then i might be able to survive christmas! after boxing day thou back on it, our machine bodies deserve it, we gotta keep the engines running somehow even when inflammation kicks in, bit by bit.

gotta remember that ai tools and the whole “tokens” thing is no different from buying your favorite brand of fizzy drink, first they get you hooked on the taste/flavour, then you debate it ad finitum, then you wake up and realise sugar is bad for you and you look for alternatives, switch. it. up!

starting to find flow again: https://sett.ee/2025/12/12/starting-to-find-flow-again.html Rediscovering a consistent routine, particularly focusing on sleep and mindfulness, is essential for mental clarity and overall well-being as the writer prepares for the new year.

the easy coast is popping these up like crazy, i know two locations that are not all that far away that are putting together a movie studio on old army base and now industrial areas, money is flowing into media spots like crazy. i do hope i can ride on the wave of some of that activity close by.

started work on a tool that sorts my offline youtube videos grabs (if i’m offline for a while, still have content i can watch without connectivity) into categories, using whisper both locally via m1 gpu and remote replicate api, all vibe coded, works a treat, mini tools that help your process rock!

good morning, friday, the 12th came around fast, i’m not ready for christmas at all, in any shape or format, i’m instead trying to lock in and spend mucho time at the computer so i can finish a bunch of things off and be in a good position for next year. think we got snow coming in soon too! eek.

pasta sauces in america is an economy in itself. the prices are absolutely crazy, is it because you gotta get the tomatoes over the pond or what? we used to get some fire ones in europe at m&s and they were super reasonable — I feel like that grumpy old time traveller who’s landed in the future!

Disney–OpenAI partnership (three-year agreement, December 11, 2025): Disney will invest $1 billion in OpenAI, license 200+ characters across Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars, and enable short-form, user-prompted social videos in Sora using these characters – they jumped on that fast!

like these days you can just build things, adding back meta information to video files and folders, using local m1/gpu libraries and also replicate to do comparisons in speed but also building in support for offline and online usage, if cost too high or ok to do overnight offline! :) so rad ;)

supergirl looks fire but like APRIL next year? for real, and we are putting out trailers now? six months seems like a lifetime away in the age of ai and big phat render farms but maybe i’m completely off base, certainly one i would check out as they nailed the rebooted superman, much fun! onwards.

actually crazy the price of mistral.ai if you are a student, for the price of apple tv (for the next six months at least) $6 for all this ai power, kinda crazy, it’s got a 200k context window but i’ve literally been bashing away on it for ages and it’s way cheaper than claude code and still smart.

call me fickle but i’ve been playing around with the mistral cli and the context window, even on free is massive and it does a good job, i keep hitting the usage window on claude code pro, they better start changing the limits or i’m out and i’m gonna build a local inference and be done with cloud

it’s time. this morning i’m finally learning about repos a little bit, the amount of areas i’ve been exposed to because of vibe coding is insane, i always had a rough idea how a lot of this worked but the morning i learn, the more hand holding and guard rails i implement the better feeling i have.

good start to the morning, wife showed me a man that lives at home and cleans the house for his wife and three kids, i think she’s trying to tell me something, picked up some ugc hardware for videos to make, grabbed a speedrun dunkin and i’m setup for morning vibecoding, god is good all the time!

man, some people are just so clever, just found this contact sheet process using nano banana pro, they use photoshop to extract the frames but i’d like to have a cleaner way than that, i’m using replicate to upscale the image so that “cutting” out each frame will be high quality, need to automate!

the trinkets of moments we collect to log memories to moments and moments as reminders once a year on a tree that pay good money for that we dig up to then cover it with bits of plastic that’s been formed and produced in another country that was flown here damaging the environment in the process!

“vibe” coding is strange, some days i have this feeling of “this is complete junk” and then as i’m making mistakes i’m learning so much about how things actually hang together and how scary it must be to be a person with all this stuff in there heads all the time, eventually it’s all magic!

pretty sure manifesting is real, everyone we go back to that place it feels right, great energy, would love to live super close to it, feels so open and recharging and we already had so many great bits of news/events there, it’s certainly pulling us closer! meerkat wednesday today! let’s get it!

i think i need to shift mondays to more of a doing/physical/admin day because yesterday was kinda lame. did not get a bunch of things started mainly because my postal receiver was closed on sundays so that made the work week kick off slowly, mondays need a reboot. let’s get today huh?

claude code today me this morning that missing 6 posts from being scheduled was just a “casualty” of some manual script that it had used to fix the issue with my queue! i was shocked to say the least, it got them back but it was so happy for it just to be lost to the ether, it’s gone all british!

not that I’m a big drinker these days because I’m really not but it was nice to see I can get some of the classic whiskies that my dad introduced me too when I was younger and the differences, I’ll probably pick one up for Christmas and the New Year just to go alongside the dinners ;)

nice day out with the wife, fantastic breakfast, walk around one of our favourite spots, good energy here, so much closer to get too, it might be pick up the christmas tree kinda day, also we discovered a new korean spa setup, can it best SoJo or at least been in the similar wheelhouse? more soon!

RIP Frank Gehry

signal to noise ratio in new jersey for “services” is wild. like i was looking for a company that does house cleaning, they had an offer, sounded good but actually the monthly for six months was tough to go for it, the ai twilio phone calling backend is so aggressive too. ai just making calls man!

real shame that the www.toyota.co.th/en/model/… will never make it to the US Shores, i did hear that there was a weird reversal about the KAI trucks that the trump adminstration was doing but i don’t know if that’s real or not. i hope it is, maybe this will come too, would buy!

the wife really knows how to get my attention. i’m loving toyota stuff these days more than i ever have in my life tbh. the 4runner looks elite and while some of the range won’t ever make it to american shores this expression of “platform” really speaks to me. like everything in our lives, modular

i can’t believe that we get to have an accountability partner everyday to talk to with ai, surely someone is working at refining a mental health ai bot that is actually incredibly well tuned right? i wake up everyday knowing that i can pretty much get any answer i need is a damn superpower.

it’s about this time of day that i look at all the windows and realise that i’ve not done the things i wanted to do yet and i’ve still not had lunch, at some point you have to accept that this is not healthy and it’s time to take a break and come back to it! :)

was investigating matter protocol light switches last night, not ready to drill down that further but knowing it’s possible is useful, today I’m focused on working with a new n8n community setup installation instead. adhd is heavy today but we are working through. bit by bit! ;)

i gotta get a better photo of me, the one i used was whack but hey, to virtually be on set with all these people was a blessing. we are so cooked right?

it was a rough day on set but we made it through. as if, but then, maybe in another universe in another life, still there, on the island, trying to work it all out, for a meerkat wednesday that probably makes a lot of sense, packed day, all over the map, big uptick, systems back online. we move.

i think i need a tool for routing my llm requests, a bit like open router but for the mac desktop, like i use grok for real time product reviews and finding “quite recent” discovery, claude code for coding, perplexity for like quick fire questions, any thoughts or ideas of a tool for that?

helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB – maybe they should be hired in other industries too. even thou we have faster internet connections these days there is something to be said to being efficient. just because we can, does’nt always mean we should, file size/download time esp!

been doing a lot of research about trusts this last week, gotta include all the different 1099’s. i could re-train and work for a “company” but i’m too long in the tooth and volatile for that kind of work, i need to do things that work with my flowstates. things i enjoy that have value.

you gotta respect the fact that he did try and make it to the toilet – www.bbc.com/news/arti…

If you have invested in ai voip type services for your business that do lead capture type activities do check on them, I showed a little interest in a house cleaning service and their twilio backend is finding random numbers to call me on, blocked but goddamn. major turnoff, poor implementation!

i had no idea i could order a truckload of copy printer paper from amazon – 8,400 reams (4.2M Sheets) – quite the bargain too, only $35k to get a literally truckload delivered to your house, $4.25 a ream ain’t too shabby! :)

there is a big space in the market for a lot more handholding when moving to another country, from driving licenses and local information, to existing things you need to know about the process of moving, you are bound to miss something in the process. thinking how i can build that at some point.

is it not crazy that a series of clicks and typing can get you out there into the world and activate a whole series of events, woke up this morning to ugc stuff coming in and that’s a good feeling, put a 8hr slow cook stew together early this morning, txt’d the daughter, fed the wife. life is good!

anybody into meshtastic, lora, all of that stuff. as someone who did cb radio and wanted to do HAM radio the idea of being a NODE in between all of that is really appealing to me, thoughts on gear etc? cheers! is the kit pretty solid now? wanna dabble.

gotta tell you, that was a nice thanksgiving, i admit everything was outta sync and we should have done things earlier or at least thawed out a bunch of stuff as well but hey, we got easily a weeks worth of nice turkey to eat and that’s just another thing of the calendar for the year!

obviously there is gonna be some feedback on the events of today, I’m presuming the combo is where the action is rather than the colours of the trays, right? also im not a big fan of turkey these days. I’m more the like of chicken mediterranean whays.

“Yes, Black Tea Motorbikes does export and ship to the USA. They offer online ordering with delivery to US customers, though wait times for assembly and shipping can range from 3 to 5 months depending on supply chain factors” – my life is complete. gotta have STRETCH goals!

that’s how much time i have today to get a nice meal together for thanksgiving. i say me, me and the wife, her family over today, we are hosting, we had the whole thing delivered from costco, we just need to cook it, easy dub, but i run a e.ggtimer.com anyway, it’s a whole day thing here.

finally finding a rythem, you forget after a year, it’s thanksgiving here today, i just delivered a ugc gig while i walked to a dunkin, now i’m destroying said bagel and coffee while looking at spears and premier pump & mylar starter kit harvest right freeze dryers. thursday hitting different.

the amount of stuff we have managed to achieve this month alone is kinda mind blowing. logistics at warp speed, my body is feeling a little battered but in a good way i guess, saved $50 getting a gym membership for the month at least anyway. onwards to fresh year workout vibes.

apple at $5.99 for the next six months is a heck of a deal, the content and output that apple are putting out for shows is insane, it’s well worth it for 4k content through the telly, next is to get a good sound system and a record deck setup in the pad. good times. excited.

it’s crazy to me the life we lead, the images, the moments, the locations and the people within them, how ai is going to surface and remind us and bring these vaults of life back to us as reminders, to cross references, the currency of the interactions exposed. it’s a blessed and cursed life.