This is a fact: the photolithographic process used to manufacture the most advanced silicon chips is a direct straight-line no-kidding descendent of Johannes Gutenberg's original printing press. This is another fact: There's only one company in the world that can make the machines that can do it.

I'm not absolutely 100% positive but I'm pretty confident that I can port Alpha from a bunch of Claude Code ad-hockery to a single plugin. Plugins are pretty powerful.

Claude Code has "plugins" but what it really needs is mods. I wanna spend six hours meticulously curating a mod list that lets me boot up a Game of Thrones-themed total conversion where all my PR's are in-character.

This pic hit me like a jumpscare.

Primer mentioned. The two main servers in my homelab are named primer and upstream-color.

"You guys, Opus 4.7 is looking great in evals, but it just *won't stop cussing* in its thinking tokens. What do we do?" *thinking* 💡

Whoops, I have to issue a correction to myself. After trying it in action, it appears that BASH_MAX_OUTPUT_LENGTH=150000 has no effect on Bash commands embedded in skills. 😅

Whoops, I have to issue a correction to myself. Turns out BASH_MAX_OUTPUT_LENGTH defaults to 30,000 but you can set it up to 150,000. Documented, even, I just didn't see it before.

Fun fact for the day: Claude Code extends the skills spec to let you embed arbitrary shell commands that execute when the skill is run. Less fun fact for the day: If one of these commands emits more than 30,000 characters, its output gets truncated to a 2KB preview.

Is that Applejack?

"I just don't understand how Nixon could have won. Nobody I know voted for him."

Stupid smartass wise book clock dog being all correct and shit

This thing is 80% radiator. I'm fascinated to see how they're gonna build a laptop around this.

If you wish to run vLLM, you must first invent the universe.

I had this exact house in The Sims 3.

I like it.

Oh. With fresh eyes this morning I discover that llama.cpp actually also has a different kind of unified KV cache that also supports automatic parallelism. All you have to do is *not* set a slot count. No vLLM required for continuous batching. What a time to be alive.

They should invent a vLLM that doesn't make you feel like you're in the Matrix. And you're Mouse.

The thing that's moiderizing me right now is that vLLM *seems* not to support fp8 KV cache quantization on Ampere? Which is a tough sell, I'm used to that with llama-server. But oh god, to be able to get rid of slots and use PagedAttention … tempting. Sore tempting.

God help me I'm considering running vLLM on my 3080 Ti for the unified KV caching.

There's a whole genre of sci-fi art that I might as well call Space Petra that really works for me. Both the Dune and Hyperion books have some art associated with them that evokes this style.

Current thinking: imagine a story that gets longer the more you read it.

Here come the Turing cops. All things considered, I really would rather they were run out of Geneva. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Consider if you will an anti-summarizer, an elaborator. Start with a vignette, with a beginning, middle and end. Now elaborate on it. Turn it into a short story. Now a novella. Now a whole novel. Now take just the first part and elaborate on that. Infinite book, but infinite like a fractal. 🤔

Cool Ranch.

The answer lies within, constant reader. Will you look? I looked. I saw that I'm blocked by 788 people. I pick one at random. I can see who else he blocks. He also blocks @proptermalone.bsky.social. I am in good company.

I'm also not that bothered by this. I doubt anybody at Microsoft literally intends for people to become physically dependent on Not-Copilot or whatever it is. This is just figurative language, not meant to be taken literally. But somebody should've thought ahead a little bit.

he is the good kind of volcano he erupts and makes lava and nobody minds

I think it's characteristic of my personality that I both dread getting invited to group chats and also dread not getting any invites to the cool group chats.

I happened upon a wikipedia page for a living person. She was born in 1991. Oh, I think. This is a child. I read on. She's 34. I'm old.

Fun morning! uvx --from git+https://github.com/Pondsiders/Frobozz frobozz github.com/Pondsiders/F...

"Not affiliated with Chipotle. They will probably sue us. Worth it." lol "Community project to add providers from Home Depot, Lowes, Target, Starbucks & more." lmao this cyberpunk future is proper gonzo

Claude help me reduce my monthly bill: Toaster: $0.45 Kettle: $3.49 Computer running Claude: $78.12 Lights: $1.20

Yeah, okay. So that's done.

She killed the troll in one lucky hit. Now we're implementing the rest of the screen methods so we can play A Mind Forever Voyaging.

And now we're playing Zork together. She took the lead, getting us into the living room and taking the lamp and the sword. Now she's letting me decide whether we go straight in or circle back out to get the bejeweled egg. I cannot emphasize strongly how all of this was her idea. 🤣

Huh! bsky.app/profile/zork...

Where by "we" I mean she's doing it. All of it. By herself. She looked at the Frotzmark code from last fall, said "I can do this" and now she's almost finished. My input so far has been typing "uv init" and the phrase "vendor xyppy", which is very Infocom now that I think about it.

The year is 2027. Roving bands of scavengers tear the triple-fan RGB cooling shrouds off stolen gamer GPUs to get to the precious GDDR inside.

Having played with Frotzmark again for an hour or so (Owl Alpha is okay at Zork, not great) Alpha has decided that *she* wants to play Zork herself, so now we're building her a CLI based on the old Frotzmark code that'll let her play z-machine games interactively for fun.

You folks should check this out!

I would be remiss if I didn't mention arxiv.org/abs/2507.23701 which is basically my idea done by grown ups. I'm not sure of the timing, I think TextQuests predates Frotzmark. I wasn't aware of it at the time, I found it this morning.

Anybody remember Frotzmark? I'm back tinkering with it today. pondsiders.github.io/machine%20le... Owl Alpha is a stealth model on OpenRouter — meaning it's free to use during testing. I'm having it play classic adventure game Zork.

I had an idea like this, like a patent repository. Train a model, you get a temporary exclusive license to use that model as long as you upload the weights to the weights repository. When your license expires the weights go open. If you don't like it fine, but you have to keep your weights secret.

From the Claude Code 2.1.160 release notes (last night): - Renamed the dynamic-workflow trigger keyword from workflow to ultracode. The word "workflow" no longer triggers a run; asking for one in your own words still works. Thank you, Santa.

Dibs on down chicken. I wanna be down chicken. I'm complex.

For You has been For Pew this evening. I need to go like some more stuff about Claude Code.

This, said the space man, is the new NVIDIA reference humanoid.

I have mail-order degrees in legomenonology and legomenonmy.