Anthropic’s “Imagine with Claude” is a preview app builder: describe an app, it generates screens & fakes persistence as you click. It’s experimental, not for real apps, and only higher-tier Claude accounts can access it for now. Kinda cool. More deets and links: peterkaminski.wiki/imagine_with...

Hey, export your ChatGPT convos once in a while. I hadn't done mine in too long and ended up with a 190Mb `conversations.json` file, oof! I updated an existing Python JSON->MD export script to be able to handle the new reasoning and tool call messages ChatGPT uses: github.com/daugaard47/C...

Massive Wiki Wednesday is currently on an irregular schedule. Next meeting: July 30, 12:30 PM PDT / 19:30 UTC, us02web.zoom.us/j/8487694203... Main agenda: MarkPub 1.1.0, markpub-themes Add'l: MassiveWiki/MarkPub+ATProto, Excalidraw Smoke Signal (optional RSVP): smokesignal.events/did:plc:66wz...

Noodling UI designs for a potential personal project, a YouTube Music "Playlist Commander". Wouldn't play music, would be a power tool for managing playlists.

I keep fine-grained music playlists for different qualities in songs: "fast backing rhythm", "sounds happy, actually hurting", "3-4 time", etc. I knew I had a lot of playlists, but TIL I have **~500** of them. No wonder it's hard to find the right ones! Thinking about using AI to help. 🙂

Arweave still looking good for "eternal" publishing / public archive, because of one-time payment and design for data permanence. permaweb-journal.arweave.net/reference/st... (Design ≠ guarantee, of course.) And there's a Git forge, protocol.land , that uses Arweave for storage! Will explore more.

Need a handy calculator? Try my new "SimpleCalc by PK", it's free & open source . It runs in your web browser. Click a bookmark to toggle it on/off. It displays over your current web page. Apologies, it's a tiny bit technical to install. I'll make a video someday. codeberg.org/peterkaminsk...

Speaking of the collapse of societies, as one might, I rediscovered this reading list of ~65 books a friend and I assembled 1.5 years ago, when times were simpler. (Didn't seem that way at the time, but Events Have Transpired.) chronicles-of-change.collectivesensecommons.org

Claude 3.5 Sonnet w/ some simple custom tooling has been my go-to programming assistant (Node, React, Python) for a while now & it's been really great. I'm super excited to see 3.7 Sonnet & Claude Code drop. Thank you, Anthropic! www.anthropic.com/news/claude-... docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/agen...

Obsidian is now free for work. Bravo, @obsidian.md!

I set up Forgejo (a Git forge) for an org's internal use today. Stock docker-compose.yml plus Caddy for TLS. Pretty much Just Worked. One config change after setup: LANDING_PAGE to change the default home page. I've been following Gitea/Forgejo since the fork; Forgejo looks like it's got momentum.

Not an _amazing_, shot, but it's still pretty cool you can get a snapshot like this with a smartphone (Pixel 7 Pro). This was two days ago. Alaska Airlines AS714, a Boeing 737 Max 9, flying over San Diego from SEA to SJD at 37,000 ft, going 522 knots. Oh, and the Moon at approx 1,190,000,000 ft. :)

I have a mondegreen in Elton John's "Rocket Man". For "burning out his fuse UP HERE ALONE", I hear "AT PERIHELION" I keyphrase searched ChatGPT & got a lovely hallucination that "Fuse Up Here Alone" is a track by the band "At Perihelion" avail on streaming, w/ links to Spotify & the band's website!

Announcing Meridian v1.2.0! peterkaminski.github.io/meridian/mer... Meridian is a free, open source time zone converter in one HTML file. It instantly creates easy-to-copy time lists using standard time zone abbreviations. It's perfect for printing times for international events or global teams.

Macro underwater shot of the arm of a Fragile Rainbow Star (Astrometis sertulifera) at the Point Loma tide pools in Cabrillo National Monument. In real life, it was cute and attractive, not scary. :-) Camera: OM System TG-7.

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I'm not saying I used these. I'm not saying I didn't, either. git-repos-no-upstream.sh # finds git repos without an upstream, outputs list to stdout paste.sr.ht/~peterkamins... tar-repos.sh # tars repo directories, excludes venv and node_modules, reads list from stdin paste.sr.ht/~peterkamins...

In another part of my life, I'm a Midjourney maniac. I just started a separate account, @pixelthesia.ai, where I aim to share beautiful and unique pieces that spark joy. There's also a free email newsletter, with paid newsletters coming early next year: pixelthesia.ai

Thx to Chris Aldrich of boffosocko.com for turning me on to Kuru Toga mechanical pencils! I'm now the happy owner of a white Advance (turns twice as fast), a 3-pack of graphite leads (2B, B, HB), and a 7-pack of assorted colored leads. Also nice paper to write on: a Maruman Croquis S163 sketchpad.

A science fiction exploration of the idea of "Large Emotion Models", which would focus on understanding, processing, and generating subtle, complex, and dynamic emotional content and responses in high-dimensional emotional spaces. whtwnd.com/peterkaminsk...

Human-written prompt: "Write a short SF story about me in 2025 sending writing advice to myself in 1985 ... based on contemporary advice about changing LLM-generated language to sound more personal and less like marketese." (1985 Pete needed the advice!) Claude story: whtwnd.com/peterkaminsk...

This seems like a big deal. Meta AI proposes "Large Concept Models" to complement "Large Language Models". (i.e., reasoning in an embedding space of concepts rather than words) github.com/facebookrese... arxiv.org/abs/2412.08821 popularized article: www.marktechpost.com/2024/12/15/m...

The word "attention" is a neat little pivot point in the near history of AI, particularly the current crop of LLMs. Andrej Karpathy & Ksenia Se do a nice job of straightening out the history of "attention" in AI: x.com/karpathy/sta... www.turingpost.com/p/attention huggingface.co/posts/Ksenia...

A few of my (non-techie) AI friends & I are launching AI Coaching Forum next year. We've been prototyping internally, but next week we're going to have an open house: 5 free one-hour zoom calls with our coaches. Check out our home page to read more. Click the zoom links to RSVP. aicoaching.forum

Nice post by Ev Williams announcing Mozi, which helps connect you and your friends when you'll be in the same city at the same time. Bravo for apps that do something useful, important, and not trying to be all-encompassing. ev.medium.com/making-socia...

Midjourney's new collab storyboard / brainstorming / worldbuilding tool, Patchwork, is really cool & fun. Will be a great tool for creative teams (everybody riffing on the same canvas), or a total blast for friends into stuff like tabletop gaming or interactive fiction. patchwork.midjourney.com

Announcing Prisma Vault v1, a file/folder/tag template system to organize development of a fiction series. Public domain, ready to download and use to start an Obsidian vault. Comments/suggestions welcome. github.com/peterkaminsk...

"Repeat after me: there was no 'landslide'. There was no 'blowout'. There was no 'sweeping' mandate given to Trump by the electorate. The numbers don’t lie." My new Guardian op-ed on the new GOP election lie - and why it's important to rebut it! I brought (lots of) receipts:

We’re entering flu season with bird flu raging among US dairy cattle: ~third of CA herds infected. The danger is flu viruses have a trick: they can swap segments —one farmworker co-infected by human and avian flu— to cause pandemics. We may get lucky. I hope so. 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/o...

Cool Fata Morgana (superior mirage) effect today, looking from Point Loma Tidepools to Pilón de Azúcar & Coronado Centro islands (17mi, 27.4km). Regular, 2x mirage, 3x mirage. Also a wide view of all 4 Coronado Islands; the 2 small islands left of the littoral combat ship are Azúcar y Centro.

Human-written prompt: Outline an SF story set in 2125 with AI autonomously doing primary research to avoid succumbing to model collapse ... include an ironically humorous take that a large percentage of human-performed basic research was wrong... Claude short story: whtwnd.com/peterkaminsk...

TIL abt Lumatone. Some alt tuning fun: microtonal Little Blue www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jkY... JI howto www.youtube.com/watch?v=eATw... 41-EDO www.youtube.com/shorts/f1FLM... Jordan Rudess ofc www.youtube.com/shorts/EJ6gt... www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k7G... 31-EDO www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlZv...

Tomorrow is a fabricated holiday designed to erase our past in order to sell a kumbaya fantasy of harmony. It’s the story of how America is great, regardless of who had to pay what costs. As we enter this “celebration,” let’s learn about the past. Watch this: youtu.be/ptheAF7OqMw?...

Did you know there’s a site to search for starter packs of people to follow? Built by @mubashariqbal.com blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

#HelloBluesky Smoke Signal is an event and RSVP management site built on top of #atprotocol! You can log in with OAuth, create and RSVP to events, discover new communities, and grow your own; best of all, you own your data! smokesignal.events

Long Now has published the inaugural issue of their new annual print journal, "Pace Layers". 282 pages, $25, or free for new members until the end of 02024. longnow.org/ideas/pace-l... There aren't many things I want on paper, but this might be one of them.

Have you ever wanted to use content-addressing primitives like CIDs or something IPLD/CBOR-like but you found the optionality in IPFS a little unwieldy and expensive to implement? Or, you know, interested in ATProto? We've stared drafting a little thing for you: dasl.ing

Here's a Python script to download a bsky thread, because it was easier to ask GPT-4o to write one than to find a proper tool. Didn't make it nice at all. Let me know if you know of something better &/or remind me to make something less obtuse (like a web tool) someday. paste.sr.ht/~peterkamins...

Okay. I'm back. I did it again. www.intothebluesky.lol

Wrote about how Bluesky is booming because it's giving users precisely what the tech giants are taking away www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/blueskys-s...

Is your Following feed overcrowded? Do you wish you could check in on one little world at a time? Not only does Bluesky have purpose-built feeds and lists for this, but you can convert any starter pack to a list using @wandrme.paxex.aero's terrific tool. Then you can pin it for easy access!

J & I love time travel movies, and we just finished Aporia (2023) on Hulu. It's all set in the present, in a way that makes sense. It's on the order of good Star Trek / Black Mirror / Twilight Zone time travel episode. It's a little uneven but has a great premise and ultimately we really liked it.

For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free Another world is possible if we fight for it www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...

In our private Midjourney room today, D prompted w/ some "Ocean Eyes" lyrics. Reminded me to find this great Logic Pro X breakdown that shows how the track was produced. Lots of cool details & a reminder that part of "professional" is just doing it over and over 'til it's great. youtu.be/QD2Zad7i1KM

Today's bsky "Rip Van Winkle" moment for me: the Home+ feed by @memgraph.com est mort. Pining for the fjords. A rendu son dernier JSON. Requiescat In Pace Digitali. Memgraph generously offers a way to make your own custom version, github.com/memgraph/bluej - but that's out of scope for a while.

We had a nice clear sky in San Diego and got a good view of the SpaceX Falcon 9 that took off from Vandenberg. I wasn't really set up for photography, but here's a smartphone pic to prove it happened. 🙂 First stage engine was bright & lit up the contrail nicely. First stage reentry was very bright.

Hello all! Looks like it's been a couple of years that I haven't been doing the socials. I'm going to try posting on Bluesky and Mastodon more. We'll see how it goes!

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Ai Weiwei, dissident artist & iconoclast on art & AI: "Art that can be easily copied by AI is ‘meaningless’, says Ai Weiwei" (article) www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... "Take in a sunset, a snowstorm or a baby’s cry, and see why AI is no threat to art" (op-ed) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...