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Jun 12
I unironically love love LOVE the UK tax service @HMRCgovuk. It just works, everything is simple, minimal stress.
I'm cursed to also deal with the IRS and regularly end up in tears attempting to do simple things like figure out what I owe and pay them money
Incredible contrast.
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Jun 12
Not unrelated, I'm on three separate embassy waiting lists to renounce my U.S. citizenship. And all the waiting lists are 9 months long đ¤ˇââď¸
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May 31
Saw War Horse at the National Theatre this weekend. Wild, gorgeous puppetry and stage design.
Very strong recommend: nationaltheatre.org.uk/produâŚ
The kind of production that makes you forget where you are. Came away sobbing, couldnât really get myself back into reality for a while
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May 31
Made me realise Iâve never learned much about the British in WWI. I know the basics of who fought who, when. But never heard first hand accounts of the trenches, chemical warfare, tanks vs machine guns. Wasnât on the curriculum.
Now starting on Robert Gravesâ Goodbye to All That
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Maggie Appleton retweeted
May 28
@mschoening and I are starting a podcast where we nerd out about human-AI collaboration and malleable software.
In this episode: is HTML actually better than Markdown? and an alternative to Software Factories...
Watch on YT: youtu.be/KB9lRdM5eO0?si=RZoFâŚ
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May 29
I'm getting this framed and hanging above my desk.
To be of use, by Marge Piercy
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May 29
I'm just a girl, standing in front of an agent, asking it why in the fđđk this diff is drowning in useEffects
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May 29
The only appropriate follow up is to invoke your bespoke skill that explains useEffect to your agent
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May 21
The kind of quality feedback I can only get on X about my writing
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May 21
Directionally correct, and a clever hack to expand the constraints of a CLI tool. But still only single player and working within CLI limitations.
Excited we're doing the larger vision of this in Ace. Multiplayer, docs as first-class primitives inside an agentic coding workspace
May 20
Introducing Roughdraft!
A new open source project designed to make collaboration with agents better.
The idea is to bring commenting and suggested changes to markdown (e.g. plan docs) in a nice interface.
Free, local, etc.
đ roughdraft.md đ
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May 21
Instead of leaving comments, you should just be able to directly edit the markdown. Remove one more layer of abstraction, have more control over the plan that guides the work
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May 20
Even after getting Claude to hint at the twist ending for me, I was still not prepared for the level of twist. Next level surprise at the end. A very good read!
May 16
Obsessed with âYesteryearâ. Well written, funny, a necessary critique of the tradwives.
I asked Claude for the gist of the twist ending before reading, because itâs labelled âthrillerâ and I am too soft to read anything truly horrifying.
But itâs not that kind of thrillerâŚ
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Maggie Appleton retweeted
May 19
Extremely high quality panel featuring @mattpocockuk, @Mappletons, @type__error at Beyond the Prompt.
"It's imperative that we keep caring [about code quality]" - Matt Pocock
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May 17
I guess it's a Hetzner, Hermes, Docker, and firewall wrangling kind of Sunday.
Dipped a toe into OpenClaw last week w/ KiloClaw (microVMs). Awful experience. No terminal access. All kinds of buggy and impossible to troubleshoot.
Hoping a VPS simplifies things. Hermes seems cool
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May 17
And boring but necessary domestic stuff like:
- meal planning (proactively pick recipes from a database, message us a plan on weekends, suggest new dishes based on X requirements)
- home improvement (how do we do Y, memory of outstanding tasks, research local contractors)
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May 17
Anyone else using Hermes or OpenClaw usefully in a way that doesn't require handing over any access to your accounts or much personal data?
We're too early in the hype cycle for me to take dumb risks on that level of access
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May 16
Obsessed with âYesteryearâ. Well written, funny, a necessary critique of the tradwives.
I asked Claude for the gist of the twist ending before reading, because itâs labelled âthrillerâ and I am too soft to read anything truly horrifying.
But itâs not that kind of thrillerâŚ
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May 16
Sort of ruined the end for myself. But knowing the rough shape of the end makes me appreciate the hints and subtle cues along the way of whatâs to come. Doesnât feel like Iâve ruined it at all. Makes me appreciate the story craft!
A book you could read twice and see new layers.
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May 16
Tangentially a very good use of agents! âLook up the twist ending. Donât tell me what it is. But help me understand the nature of it: what level of gore? Any murder? Any chance Iâll have trouble sleeping after?â
There was no way I was picking up a âthrillerâ without that filter
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