. .. busy learning about pSEO, might have to also build my ideas out on astro and import my current posts in from micro.blog, but still stay here of course as i like the platform and the tooling, also improving fiverr ads, seo, gigs and aura maxing the heck out of my offerings, also agency setup!

running on impulse power today, a week of poor sleeps have caught up with me. low grade flu, runny nose really effects already bad sleeper. shiz happens i guess. trying to take it easier on myself today, shower and sun time required i think to break up the day. onwards brave warriors.

ugc creators need to evolve with the times: https://sett.ee/2025/09/25/ugc-creators-need-to-evolve.html UGC creators must adapt by integrating AI and innovative tools to meet evolving brand demands, as speed and creativity will determine their future success.

working on pulling together all the models i’m currently using for images, video and audio, gonna rank them for usages, need to make a 1-pass blast at each model for review/preview, select and then more features, also failover support for other api’s and services, fund manager etc, gonna be useful.

i always turn up to the keyboard in the morning like this (mentally, not physically) ready for action, i have lists on lists and lots of things to deploy and roll out, some take longer than others, but today i feel is going to be an aggregation and split apart day in bear - thursday came around fast

I’m Not a Robot, a game about solving CAPTCHAs, is out now! good luck :) > neal.fun/not-a-robot/

the areas i’m focusing on next: https://sett.ee/2025/09/24/the-areas-im-focusing-on.html Exploring opportunities in Udemy and Fiverr, the author plans to integrate AI into services while re-learning driving and adapting to market changes.

dislike having to start my morning checking systems and then it’s already a few hours deep into the day it’s hard to build back the momentum, i really need to start building out my systems again for earning again this week and next – have to remove all the distraction. also, fat mouse is fat.

frame.work/share-my-lap... -- i am complete. if we were up and rolling this would be ordered and christmas 2025 would be locked in.

question: if you was starting out today in tech/computers/ai what would you do? i’m at this really interesting crossroads in life where i could turn my hand to anything. my wife has a great job, do i re-train for something that’s needed right now or double down and build out ai apps and go indie?

don’t worry, the rapture has been cancelled, me and my alien mate found some doohicky parts last night and went and sealed up localized black hole that would have contributed to it. all good, go about your day as normal, meanwhile it’s wake up time, tea, coffee and a vanilla chobani, 20g of protein!

when my llm buddy says "But for today's critical bugs, video handling isn't broken - it's just not optimized yet" -- i felt that one, feels like my life right now. it's just not optimized yet.

ready for action, start of another week, blessed to get to share it with loved ones. had some great news over the weekend in one of our fav places which was a nice surprise. it’s not hit yet but i’ll be doing a lot of numbers work and talking to llm’s this week to put a plan together! morning!

bonus points for the day if you know about this place. we didn’t go in today but hey if we are over this way again soon maybe we can pop in and grab a little video. did check out a cafe that was packed called paper plane that had a cool plane window setup.

after all the battles against time, a decade long experience, back and forth, lack of data, snap decisions, lots of hanging in there, hoping, maybe, potentially. it’s happened, today, in the last hour i just got the notification that my green card is on the way and now, life can truly begin.

got a re-up on books and I’m excited for every single one of them, been super slow on the uptake to read recently even though I’ve gotten some great books. hoping to get to all these this month. gonna be a nice chill day I hope today, we’re exploring which is always nice, highs of 80f blessed!

5-hour limit reached ∙ resets 7pm: https://sett.ee/2025/09/18/hour-limit-reached-resets-pm.html Navigating the challenges of coding and financial constraints highlights the struggle for self-care amidst technological demands and the darker realities of remote work.

as long as claude thinks i'm brilliant

after fighting for hours with claude i think i’ve got a pretty good daemon scheduling manager running i just need to start making it understand the gaps and posting window logic, we are getting there but it’s been a struggle, all human error of course because it does not know what i mean. learning.

cannot help think that we are collectively feeding the beast that will ultimately be spoken to the wrong way, given a digital side eye and then decide to just remove our subroutine at some point in the future and we won’t even see it coming, until then however, it’s 50 cent McDonalds burger day!

got myself a little locally running python script with a whole bunch of smart/dynamic posting features for sharing an rss feed. it’s got posting windows (time) and dynamic spread of posts i put in here across that window, i’m super happy with it, gonna expand on it an hour a day until bulletproof.

hand curated, ai enhanced things that i read today: https://sett.ee/2025/09/17/hand-curated-ai-enhanced-things.html A collection of recent technological advancements highlights significant progress in public health, security, development tools, and AI-powered creativity.

i’m obsessed with these little things, 4wd, small engine (like a smart) but lots of options for configuration at the back, perfect for a little farmstead or little local runs, even shopping runs for the back, not sure what it is about em because they sure ain’t shit safe, i’d love to customize one.

i could read all the books in the known universe and still not get excited compared to being able to riff with an LLM and it understand what i want to achieve and then it just deploys it. if for nothing else, no more blank page syndrome, made a python3 script AND pocketbase thing #learning

knowledge of today: https://sett.ee/2025/09/16/knowledge-of-today.html AI tools have transformed the way individuals engage with technology, allowing for more meaningful reflection on life while serving as supportive partners in navigating the digital landscape.

nobody really talks about it but AI really is like a time machine for me, i’m learning/experimenting and being more confident than ever, sure i don’t ultra understand the core concepts but then i was never that guy, just fast deploy, next thing, circle back to make it pretty later. so sick.

currently in the matrix –went from building a simply rss reader to 𝕏 script to getting it running under pocketbase.io (instead of trailbase.io which looks cool but is too cutting edge) i’ve got it up and running and now it’s time to build out features, scheduler, times of day, platform awkwardness

thanks for your body of work, Robert Redford RIP

good morning. got loads of sleep but not quite hitting the restoring sleep that i need. still you gotta work with what you have right, half way through september. the speed of months is mildly terrifying at this rate i’ll be wrapping presents and speaking to loved ones overseas. crazy pace.

fixed the bug but it means i can only use .jpg, kinda sucks, i think i just need to make a custom solution that uploads the formats i need and just have a suite of resolution sizing fixes along the way. It’s getting closer and it’s better. i’m sure i’ll keep tinkering at it thou.

this is the only way I’m thinking about ai moving forward, custom agents to do specific tasks that I do, using standards that are current and then adding my own perspective on with some ai flavour added to the mix — accountability partner you can keep improving in your own image. mildly terrifying!

remembering the time we had these great street tacos delivered while coworking and also checking if my code is working for something else, man I’m straight hungry this morning — trying to muster up weekend energy in the middle of all of this, lots of change energy and timeline shifting, loki vibes.

. ..felt like it was important to remind you (and me) that it’s worth stepping forward and through the darkness to find the bright white of light and calm that is just the other side. outlook bleak, but we still turn up, people gotta eat, people gotta tend to the people they love around them - push!

i’m messing around with templating and layout stuff again, feels like i’m going backwards, the idea was to setup and be done but i guess the amount of setup and done needs to be towards the outputs i need and i have to accept that’s gonna need some configuration and might break later on.

just a test, if i upload from the micro.blog new post does it change my .webp upload into a .jpg and therefore lose the optimized compressed sizing or does it work properly, i feel like it’s when i do it from the micro.blog mac desktop app or mobile app however so let’s find out #moonlife

hmm, weird, when i use the micro.blog app on mac it seems to convert my .webp files that i’ve optimized to .jpg ones, i’m a little confused by this, i’m manually going into the micro.blog to actively deleted and upload the .webp versions maybe i should let manton know about this. i should test.

it’s a kind of smooth-move tea and coffee kinda morning. i’m expecting to go, on a personal level, to defcon one and then get on with my morning. i slept HARD for over 9 hours and my whoop is relatively happy with me, i’m expecting to be productive today fighting for a future me. wormhole life.

thinking about low mental bandwidth days and llm/agents that can step in and still get things done/research etc when your just not flowing like your used too. how to package it all into something useful so bots can pick it up and create new worksheets and prds — kinda leans into telos files I guess.

good morning! it’s blue skies and sunshine. i’m thankful for this moment, right now. any moments after it are the gravy. life is delicate and in the grand scheme of things short, make time for time. fully embrace everything life has to offer and keep your head up and focused on the outcomes of now.

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this nikon red z cinema camera has my attention, for the price, crazy! i’ve always liked nikon but felt they dropped off over the years but a RED addition, 32-bit float audio, full frame and that 4" DCI-P3 Monitor is no joke – i’m sure it’s gonna have it’s quirks but still, interesting! thoughts?

i felt that in my soul. onion dropping heat. EARLY.

ton of brand new hardware out there right now but i’m loving this device from blackmagic to work with the iphone pros, with a rig, screen and every input/output you could want on the one cable, that’s rad, mobile or fixed setup, awesome for fast/compact streaming setup with 5g backend.

did not realize it’s only five days until tahoe comes out, anybody been installing the dev builds? is it ready for prime time or should i give it a few weeks/month before i install it. always looking for the newness but not at the expense of day zero bugs and attacks ya know? minefield out here.

which one are you going for? for me it would be between the air and the pro max obviously, both have their purposes, maybe both, one for daily driver and the other for media work. gonna cost thou, it’s a real investment each year for such devices now, i’ll stick with my 16e for a little, 2k for 2tb!

a good night sleep changes everything, according to the whoop i’m in the green, now just gotta work on that exercise routine, blood pressure and everything else and we will be in good shape – all that being said, overseas things are moving forward and that makes me extremely happy and positive!

Modern developers are modernizing ancient 25-year-old kernel drivers while splurging on sleek workstation GPUs and buttery-smooth keyboards. Yet they’re equally thrilled about lost Commodore 64 adventures and $1400 Star Trek nostalgia—AI research goblins helping them bridge past and future.

yay, more stuff i cannot afford and can feel behind on. lol.

feels snappier around here, and i love coming to the site and getting a model about changes, they should do that more, even if it's just discovery, i love updates, shows momentum.