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Adventures in Machine Vision

A Nat Friedman anecdote about an AI watching him drink water sent me digging for a spare Raspberry Pi. Now a camera and a sensor HAT watch my desk, a self-inflicted panopticon that logs who walks by and what the room is doing.

Farfield

Five small Go services, single binaries, content-addressed records, running on my homelab. The new backend for the site.

I Got a Common Turtle

I got a Common turtle from Claude Code's deterministic buddy system, so I brute-forced the generation algorithm.

Replacing a Rabbit's Brain: Connecting the R1 to Hermes

I replaced the OpenClaw agent on my R1 with Hermes, running locally on a MacBook Pro.

OpenClaw and the Rabbit R1

I got my Rabbit R1 talking to my Pinata-hosted agent. The agent did most of the work.

Koios: Memory, Feedback, and Containment

Autonomous agent with persistent memory inspired by classical theory of mind

Notes on using a PDS as Content Infrastructure

Content addressing with normal web requests, identity baked in, delivery over boring HTTPS.

Whats the $POINTS?

$POINTS was deployed on December 13th, 2023 and made a lot of people very angry

My office as entropy

Turning my office's environmental data into verifiable randomness.

Take Your Network With You

Bring your home network anywhere with the tiny Beryl AX router.

Single-origin deployment with bhvr

Fried my Pi using a 10V solar panel without a buck converter.

Breaking the AI in Parallax

Parallax turns text-based mystery into a challenge for curious hackers. I broke it with simple jailbreaks, extracting character secrets that.

Create and Use Farcaster Signers

Code and Cloth

Reject the arena, return to the loom.

Pure Internet: no-html

A minimalist web experiment using plain text on Bluesky storage, proving websites don't need HTML/CSS/JS.

Scalability → Buildability

True scalability is making the next feature easier than the last.

Who Really Wants Carbon Offsets?

Sometimes the best insights come from being wrong.

AndreiBot-3000

Aspiration secretly pioneered AI content testing in 2020 using GPT-2, with a system trained on approved marketing to expand A/B testing.

orbz dot com

StumbleUpon nostalgia sparked a new discovery tool: orbz.

Pure Internet: office---space

Transforming a spare Pi Zero 2 W and Waveshare Environment HAT into a sensor hub that records environmental data every 60 seconds to.

Test

Friday, December 12th. Courtesy of the DoD.

Pure Internet: Feral

A Raspberry Pi Zero W solar-powered "feral server" running a lightweight Hono app exposed via Cloudflare Tunnels, with location-aware.

Pure Internet: Bluesky

Exploring non-standard web hosting via Bluesky's AT Protocol, a content-addressable system similar to IPFS that can serve as a minimalist.

Pure Internet: NFC

HTML, CSS & minimal JS combined with NFC tech to create serverless web experiences.

Pure Internet

"Pure internet" is a playful joke about browser-served content, inspired by 90s simplicity and a desire to make web publishing less complex.

Shitposting Towards a Pizza Oven

Automated YouTube Shorts about pizza lead viewers to shouldibuyagozney.com with its one-word answer: "yes." The algorithm grows daily.

Case Study: Migrating Ice Barrel to Shopify

Ice Barrel's migration from WooCommerce to Shopify yielded impressive results: 165% higher conversion rates, faster load times, and their.

Generate a new private key

Create wallet addresses quickly with OpenSSL: just run `openssl rand -hex 32` to generate a secure private key. Remember to keep it safe!

Onchain Hit Counter

Blockchain-powered hit counters revive nostalgic web elements by storing visitor counts on Ethereum testnets, a quirky solution making the.

Revisiting Obsidian as a CMS, again

Obsidian as CMS: Using YAML frontmatter and GitHub's GraphQL API to create a free, flexible publishing system for markdown content that.

Case Study: Rebuilding Opul on Framer

Comprehensive WordPress to Framer migration completed in two months, boosting conversion rates by 50% while giving Opul's team control over.

Revisiting Obsidian as a CMS

A home-built publishing system using Obsidian for writing, GitHub for storage, and Next.

Sourdough

Growing up near San Francisco, I enjoyed quality sourdough.

Deploy html on Replit

Replit is great but lacks HTML deployment.

Mint thyself

Zora's HTML editions let you mint internet content on blockchain, stored on IPFS for permanence.

Feels Like Summer

A perfect Father's Day with my twins and three kids total. Summer has finally arrived and it feels just right.

AI-Legion on BlueSky

Exploring how autonomous LLMs can manage social profiles on Bluesky, integrating AI-Legion with the open protocol to handle posts, likes, and more.

Case Study: Building Tornado's Growth Engine

At Tornado, I engineered growth systems that boosted customer count 390%, revenue 800%, and engagement 1,000% while reducing acquisition.

The Sovereign Feed

RSS offers decentralized content control in an algorithm-driven web.

Obsidian as a CMS

Obsidian as CMS: Git-based system using timestamps, GitHub sync, Cloudflare for assets, and NextJS for display, edit anywhere with automatic.

Case study: Aspiration's CRM platform

Two years running CRM and lifecycle at Aspiration. A platform migration, first-party analytics, and campaigns that lifted lead conversion 53%.

Flatframe

Aerial photography technique capturing motion in a static frame (like waves or crowds) using stationary drone footage between 10-60 seconds.