Paul Lee

Everyone should have a little blog website thing. I'm reviewing the different static site generator options in their most modern and secure forms, and so cooked this guide to #Jekyll on updated Ruby, including deployment: modern-jekyll.ai.studio #ssg #frontend

Every videogame micro sub-genre and graphical style from every era deserves to be explored and innovated upon. (In college, a friend and I tried to spec out a 2.5D system in HTML 5... it wasn't practical using the IDE systems available at the time. Maybe today we could have done it.)

A Runner agent in Opencode uses skills to run a script, then analyzes output, documents results within the repository, and updates a file that triggers the Maker agent in Aider to modify the code. I finally have a reason to use tmux to manage multiple terminal sessions.

Decentralized finance isn't supposed to be abusive rich bros gaming the system to become tech overlords, nor lawless anarchists trying to loot and burn the system. It's ordinary people interacting with each other in emergent economies of value that can't be quantified by the system. #DeFi #crypto

Way more fun than hallucinating with an LLM.

I use Alacritty as my primary terminal app on both the Mac and the Chromebook, but the font family I was using had a different name on Debian than on MacOS, so I took the opportunity to select a different font and risk some time on customizations, because joy matters too.

just woke up from a dream where the wifi password was reborn-dragon-26 and Rand al’Thor was there

Spent too much time synchronizing my tools between Mac and Debian, where I've been learning the i3 window manager, which is perfect for the small screen. #Linux

I think of Brave as a good version of Old Microsoft and Kagi as a good version of Old Google.

A great thing about Python culture, which I haven't quite figured out yet, is playful humor enshrined within a rather rigid, formal structure. The Python community feels very institutional, but it feels like the best kind of institution. Google as a company, for instance, feels like a loose canon.

When I was 13 in 2002, I first learned to code by following the Inform Beginner's Guide. Always grate to Roger and Sonja for that. Used Gemini to make a similar guidebook for Python based on the text of the PDF. Then used #Opencode to build the 3 example in #Python.

I'm researching how caseworkers in human services or healthcare utilize informal notes.

Using #uv with #invoke in my #Pelican website to rebuild on every change and free up the localhost port if it was already in use when listening for changes, also closing the port before quitting the script.

I want to show my process of making the ultimate DM system for remote ttrpg exchanges with friends.

I bounced on Logseq for day task journaling. Now using the Todolist plugin on #TiddlyWiki, which has interstitial and task-based modes and allows me to take it anywhere, now that I finally figured out a comfortable way to run my local TiddlyWiki server.

I kind of like the idea of copy-paste LLM game scenarios, such as the one entered into @ifcomp.org. I've done this on my own and played AI Dungeon early on. But a bigger goal would be to use sophisticated LLM prompting and RAG to create a virtual GM for D&D, etc. I don't want pre-built agentic stuff

I vibe-coded a #TiddlyWiki using #Claude Code. It was the second time to do so, but this time it actually within about 10 minutes of effort.

My problem with #Obsidian is that I can't easily make meaningful or useful metadata, and my problem with #TiddlyWiki is that while I can do exactly that with fields, the effort involved in implementing a custom way to render them for each project is discouraging.

I’ve decided to swich to MacPorts to manage #Python versions on my laptop, with the exception of using `uv` where I need to manage project dependecies--my static blog published through Pelican, and a custom #Vim plugin that restarts #TiddlyWiki whenever I change a `.tid` file.

The discussion about the ethos of open source in regard to the WordPress drama in Lex and DHH's podcast got me dreaming again about the ideal New WordPress. I see how Rails encapsulates a lot of the hacker-builder energy that the old WordPress community thrived on.

Used Neovim to solve a problem faster than I could have without it. Probably will never compensate for all the time I’ve put in to trying to learn it. Oh well.

New “start slower” option in Dino Run. It’s part of core Chromium, not just Google Chrome, seen here in Brave. I love that this easter-egg is so deeply embedded in the experience of the Web.

Typing used to be my go-to skill untill I tried typing.io, which is addictively maddening and eye opening, despite its poor UI and text design.

I’m discovering Vue.js thanks to my SUNY class, and intrigued that it’s so easy and so hupertextual. It actually reminds me of TiddlyWiki, an entirely different kind of Node app. I think I can develop for Vue with transclusion techniques I learned from TW.

Oh my Goodness–ThePrimeagen just name dropped a specific scene from The Wheel of Time books on the Lex Fridman podcast! (At about 24:40.)

Reading @antfu.me antfu.me/posts/async-... I think... even technical communications people should understand and work with synchronicity, especially for external content in static sites...

Mindblown by ES6 after studying JavaScript seriously again for the first time in about 10 years. I just have to wait around a while, and the hard stuff I struggled through years ago is suddenly easier. const hardThings = () => abstraction;

I’m finally fluent enough in TiddlyWiki to use it comfortably for day to day practical purposes. Now, if only I had the motivation to do so. And if only I knew how to make a widget out of an element inside of an SVG... for my main project.