Ali Abbas

This image & generous description very accurately describe what it's like to be me watching CLINE eat up my API credits while it helps me to clean up my #digitalgarden #ai

@bmann.ca you should chat with Zander!
www.linkedin.com/in/zmfraser/

I am in @itseieio.bsky.social ‘s essay!

I love this question! In my experience - no. Once it is managed it generally becomes an ingrained piece of habit, culture, instinct etc. At which point the measurement may end up being a friction point that would be best left to the wayside.

It was at that moment I went "I think this game was made with love!"

To whomever was filling entire boards with matching white pieces. You put up a noble fight but I have to say it felt good wiping the board clear.

Chuckled when my rook gained the title "self-hating" after clearing numerous rooks.

YouTube video by KRAZAM The Decisionmaker

"Where were YOU when our SaaS spend was going to leave us ASS OUT?"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf-_...

YouTube video by MBT364 What Doth Life?

You pulled an Xavier youtu.be/Ye_iob2MwGw?...

A stack of lego bricks is just as good as a GPU prop as the fancy thing you can buy on Amazon for 10 bucks.

Fair enough! Apologies if I was coming off crass about it, hearing Merlin's name dragged through the mud is... upsetting to me. 😅

A book series that instead does the Merlin archetype some justice IMO is The Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell

The rich traditions of real world grimoires and works which are and were actively contributed to by artists, philosophers, and minds such as Isaac Newton. Which she distilled and watered down in order to make a pretty penny while contributing nothing back to the culture she land-grabbed from

What gets measured gets managed

Whenever listening to someone in the tech world talk about the inevitable dominance of some tech or product, it's helpful to remember that 5 years ago every single one of them said that we were on the verge of everyone wearing VR headsets for work and play.

Risky Autonomy vs. Walled Gardens Issue #12: A story about tensions, EigenLayer guest talk, and sci-fi contest extension

Great pieces about the tension between freedom and safety by @isthisa.com in the latest issue of Protocolized 💫

open.substack.com/pub/protocol...

Problem statement: searching my AI chat history is as essential today as seeing my search history

Current solution: #Readwise highlighter for web, syncing to #Obsidian via plugin

New Problem: tagging and organizing for optimal human and AI retrieval

With #Gemini2.5 packaged in with my Google Workspace subscription, continuing to pay for #Claude on anything but an API basis really isn’t mathing.

Hot Girl Walk A walk around the block makes all the girls hot.

““Hot Girl” is a mentality, you cannot buy it, it’s already within you.”

open.substack.com/pub/simplyal...

✅#paperless-ngx set up with docker compose
✅SSL set up for iphone access on local network
✅test receipts scanned
✅back-up script triggered by duplicati

I think it's now safe to plug in the papershredder?

have you played around at all with @obsidian.md ? I think selective publishing to public spaces can be handled in YAML frontmatter with certain community plugins

YouTube video by Krkwd Liber Indigo - Metaphysical Prisoners of the Desktop

Let's agree to throw out the modern desktop as it's been envisioned by large corporations and take some more hints from #krkwd on what the real limits of interface experience could actually be www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGpB...

You know what would be really smart? If it knew that my console was on HDMI-1 and set itself to the "Game" preset automatically. They instead went with making the preset change nested within 3 menus. #UXFail

Despite the messy office however I now
- feel a little more comfortable with docker-compose
- went down the rabbit hole of learning about SSL
- have a firmer list of toys I want to install when I inevitably get to building my #homelab

I like to tell myself that feeding my digital curiosity is in fact productive, but when the task of cleaning up my office leads me to a deep study of self-hosted paperless document hosting (shout out to #paperless-ngx) while the office is still a mess