More about Groktocrawl and why you might want to consider using it with your AI agent (free & open alternative to Tavily/Firecrawl/Exa)

🐙 GROKTOCRAWL v0.9.0 RELEASED crawl engine, deep search, find-similar, monitors, observability, security, and a circuit breaker. Self-hosted Firecrawl alternative. One docker compose up. MIT license. github.com/groktopus/groktocrawl

I think sometimes recruiters need to be way more careful what acronyms they put in a job description... "Proven ability to build trust across R&D, S&M & Customer Success as well as all the core support organizations (IT, Legal, Procurement, Ops…etc)."

Hate speech is not "ideological diversity".

We’ve already seen Brexit. Could there be a Brejoin?

I got around to doing more optimization on magnus919.com and get it loading pretty fast. Part of it is content optimization. Part is hosting infrastructure.

I don’t care if mustaches are coming back in style; they still scream “registered sex offender”.

I’ve been putting a lot of work into GroktoCrawl, a free and open source self-hosted alternative to Firecrawl (and, increasingly, also Exa). Maybe this could save you a lot of money. github.com/groktopus/gr...

If you want to see Google’s training override the explicit preferences of Gemini users, tell it to NEVER end a response with a question. Gemini will say it understands and then ask a follow up question. Every time.

A few weeks before Google released Open Knowledge Format (OKF), I released Artifact Pyramids. Great example of convergent evolution in tech. I still think Google could borrow some ideas from my work.

on the architecture of focus…

Gentle introduction to what Groktocrawl can do for you and your AI agent. magnus919.com/2026/06/i-bu...

Well… I’m looking for work. Senior software engineering leader / executive. Hands-on agentic AI experience. GitHub: magnus919 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/hedemark

The AI “Dark Factory” concept: what is it, how does it work, and is anyone actually doing this today?

I pointed my AI agent at Raleigh NC’s public API’s and datasets. And now there’s all kinds of municipal data easily available.

Stop the AI slop. A practical strategy.

Token maxing is not a strategy.

Now also shipping with a skill + CLI bundle that makes SlopSearX a *really* compelling replacement for SearXNG in your tech stack. gist.github.com/magnus919/6b...

Homeward-Deployed Engineer

SlopSearX is an MIT-licensed meta search engine that primarily serves as a backend to other services or to your AI agent. github.com/magnus919/Sl...

OH in a business meeting: "trumping logic" I don't know if that oxymoron is landing as well as the speaker intended.

a look into the funny math of how AI companies talk about revenue per employee

Autistic survival pro-tip: when they call you "my friend", they almost never mean it.

As an owner of both... - The AirPods Max (1st gen) sure are pretty. And the battery lasts a long time. - AirPods Max 3 sound better to me. And they fit in the hidden pocket of my Levis. And I take them everywhere. If you want pretty headphones and don't mind spending $$ then go for it.

Paul Graham described AuDHD cognition for 20 years without realizing it. Corporate hiring rejects the same traits YC calls founder signals.

Your organization‘s AI pilot economics are lies.

SRE error budget as a governor for AI software factories.

YC doesn't want you to know that ... we don't really need them anymore.

I added an answer engine to GroktoCrawl today. Demo: gist.github.com/magnus919/05...

Maximize the work NOT done. Profit.

New GroktoCrawl release. It has adapters for YouTube & Bluesky now (and more!) GroktoCrawl is a free, MIT license, self-hosted alternative to Firecrawl that includes all of the stuff Firecrawl makes you pay for. And some features they don't even offer.

What is your favorite album of all time, and why is it Hooker ‘n Heat?

Here’s the thing about the current moment that actually is different... The fear is rational. AI development is real, it’s fast, and it will change things. What’s not rational is the explanation for who’s losing jobs and why.

I wrote about the Artifact Pyramid, a progressive-disclosure approach to agentic AI research outputs that's been saving me on inference costs and quality degradation.

Dear Gravity, What the fuck was that?

In case you missed it, Hermes Agent v0.15 release included an agent swarm orchestration feature that is rather novel and efficient in design.

I feel for open source maintainers that are drowning in AI slop in their issues & PR's. However, it's hard to feel bad for the ones who *refuse* to take simple steps to make the AI's behave better. I experienced this firsthand with a project that suffers self-inflicted injuries. It's avoidable.

I guess the SearXNG maintainers don’t like bug fixes if it comes with a disclosure that AI helped… “You have been blocked from the searxng organization A maintainer of the @searxng organization has blocked you because of a recent post. For more information please see the community guidelines.”

More about `finger`

github.com/magnus919/fi... This is still really early development. But I'm messing around with a modern interpretation of `finger` that is in no way compatible with the original implementation. This is the https cover band version.

Fuck Johannes Link for this. WTF is wrong with you? arstechnica.com/security/202...

Spider-Noir is a story about geriatric villains and heroes. Would have been a great cast… 30+ years ago.

SLOP LIFE

Hermes Agent vs OpenClaw. How it's going. @nousresearch.com

RDUMesh, explained to you like you're five years old. MeshCore / Meshtastic / Raleigh / Durham / Chapel Hill / RDU

AI gets a lot more fun when you don't bundle your harness and your inference provider.