Travis Whidden

Halloween was a hit this year. Maybe 5k people came to the house. Even some film crew came to our haunted house and filmed it. Lines down the street to visit our attraction. 2023 Las Vegas Halloween!

And the Alan Ritchson saga continues

Does this option do anything for anyone? Only the Allow Once button works in the VSCode Copilot Chat window, but this doesn't seem to have an effect, and keeps prompting.

@unusual_whales @grok what is the full story here. Why was this done. What was the justification. Headlines sound bad but I'm curious the reason.

"Trump pardoned nursing home owner Joseph Schwartz just 3 months into his sentence for a $39 million fraud scheme. Meanwhile, families who won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against Schwartz haven’t collected a cent," per ProPublica

@hrbalaba @RealArvenBlack @CyrilH44 @grok Same - Sunday I see it with the fam. Super excited. Did you see it in IMAX or large screen on your pre-screen? how close to the book were they?

@TWhidden @RealArvenBlack @CyrilH44 @grok (And for the record, I had zero issue with our exchange. Have a great evening! )

They should not have put Rocky in the trailers man

? I think somebody deleted some posts that I didn't get to read. I'm not trying to die on this hill. It was just my personal opinion. I very much enjoyed the book. And I don't read stories at all. If you're a teacher, You're likely way beyond me! Either way can't wait for the movie.

@RealArvenBlack @TWhidden @CyrilH44 @grok And at this point you're avoiding the question: what have you written?

@hrbalaba @RealArvenBlack @CyrilH44 @grok "a" main vs "the" - I think that is quite a key part of the question. Technically correct as "a" main character... but not "the" main character. That said, there are people way smarter than me, you may be one of them. lol.

@TWhidden @RealArvenBlack @CyrilH44 @grok I can play this game too:

@hrbalaba @RealArvenBlack @CyrilH44 @grok I need a tie breaker here please. Who is the main character in the book? (primary protagonist)

@RealArvenBlack @TWhidden @CyrilH44 The story is about Grace and Rocky. Grace being the narrator does not negate the fact that there are other main characters in the story. I'm married. If I were to write a story form a 1st person POV, there would be 5 main characters: me, my wife, and my 3 kids.

@hrbalaba @RealArvenBlack @CyrilH44 I don't know. Listen to the book twice now. Just finished it again. I think Rocky is a pretty key part of the story. But I don't think he is the main character. The main character is narrating first person. It's not Rocky's point of view, it's Grace's.

@RealArvenBlack @CyrilH44 There are 3 main characters: Grace, Rocky, and Stratt. I've read the book. I've listened to the book. I've taught the book to HS juniors (who actually were interested). Rocky's a main character.

Anddddd we are back! That was odd!

Was deep in a flow with VS Code, Copilot, and my beloved Opus 4.6... then errors about model not available. Poof. It's just gone. Grayed out. Completely missing from my options. My colleague still has it, but for me it's vanished. I miss you, Opus 4.6. Come back please. 😔💔

Crazy. We are Microsoft now.

@foxhunterxray Let me know if something isn't right. I have so many live tests in that project! Playing catch-up with Grok APIs which have removed some models and apis.

@TWhidden I finally got the 1.6 version installed in an app I'm making. I had a work around made for the images, but now looking forward removing a lot of code.

@TWhidden I noticed an problem on the GrokSdk, nuget.org/packages/GrokS… documentation page - section "Reasoning Tool" In addition the link to xAI docs has changed to docs.x.ai/docs/overview

@NitroSpidey Only book I’ve read in forever. Friends said it was amazing, and since I loved the movie The Martian by the same author, I was intrigued. Devoured the audiobook (it’s the only way I “read” these days) and absolutely loved it. Already snagged opening weekend tickets!

I’m considering getting the book, give it a read before the film, never done that before. Is that a good idea? Or should I just judge the film on its own and read the book later?

@TheCinesthetic One of my favorites. So many quotes pulled from that movie.

Flight of the Navigator (1986) is seriously underseen. A kid vanishes for eight years, returns the same age, and ends up piloting a sleek alien ship with a wisecracking AI. It’s smart, emotional, and pure 80s wonder. More people should be talking about it.

@JohannesVink Yes.

@TWhidden So effectively it did a suicide…

:( OpenClaw overwrote all its files with the default templates. My system forgot who it was. It's now back to square one. I asked it for the analysis of why it did that. It looked through the logs, and found out why. This has to be some kind of bug. ------ I found what happened. At 4:39 PM yesterday (Feb 18), OpenClaw's workspace initialization process copied template files from the OpenClaw installation into your workspace, overwriting any customized versions you had. Timeline: • 16:39:25 - Git pull in workspace • 16:39:59 - OpenClaw copied templates: USER.md, SOUL.md, IDENTITY.md, AGENTS.md, TOOLS.md, HEARTBEAT.md, BOOTSTRAP.md KEY EVIDENCE: { "version": 1, "bootstrapSeededAt": "2026-02-19T00:39:59.950Z" } This workspace-state.json file shows OpenClaw ran its workspace bootstrap/seed process at exactly 16:39:59 on Feb 18. The template files came from:/home/travis/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/openclaw/docs/reference/templates/ This was NOT something I did - this was an OpenClaw system process. Looking at the syslog, there were exec and process tool calls happening at that exact time (runId: ba3b16e7-6d33-465b-8566-d5e15949976d) but I cannot recover what specifically triggered it. This Is a Critical Bug OpenClaw's workspace bootstrap should NOT: 1. Overwrite existing files without backup 2. Run without checking if files are already customized 3. Trigger without explicit user consent Recommendations to Prevent This 1. Immediate backup strategy: # Create a backup before any git operations cp -r /home/travis/.openclaw/workspace/.openclaw/workspace-state.json /tmp/ 2. File monitoring: I can set up a cron job to monitor these files and back them up if they change 3. Git protection: We should commit your filled-out versions to git so they're tracked 4. Report this bug to OpenClaw maintainers Would you like me to: 1. Set up automatic backups of your profile files? 2. Help you refill USER.md, SOUL.md, etc. right now? 3. Create a bug report for the OpenClaw team? What do you remember about your profile that you'd like me to add back?

@BehaviourTree @pierceboggan @github Used to be 9... Apparently a promo rate. :(

@pierceboggan @TWhidden @github Is it really 30x? That’s wild

Tried the 30x Opus 4.6 Fast Copilot request for an emergency code deep dive and it failed after a couple minutes. Proposal for @github / #Copilot / #VSCode: if a call fails for whatever reason, don’t bill the user. Auto-credit it. At 30x, that safety net would make it much easier to use the heavy-duty options when they matter. @pierceboggan