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So much fun to resuscitate this thing with replacement batteries and charger

Hang gliders out today at Fort Funston

This settles which agent I'll be deploying on the new Mac Mini. Thanks @NousResearch!

1 day, 1.5 hours from SF. Bodega Bay, Estero Americano Coast Preserve, Dillon Beach. Food heaven. All dog friendly 🐶

@DanielMiessler @trq212 With markddown and markdown presentation tools we are close to one file for creating, reading, and sharing in text or presentation formats. That doesn't necessarily get you interactive html, but how many people want to click around compared to just being told a story

This is really cool thinking from @trq212 here, but I think I disagree with the solution. He makes a great point about Markdown being more difficult to share and communicate ideas with, because formatting and visuals can make things super easy to understand. My problem with the approach is that, by trading editabilty for readability, we’re separating we humans even further from the creation process. I value Markdown because I value text. And I value text because I see it as one step away from thought. I believe thinking is the one thing we should be careful not to outsource, and I worry what this idea smuggles in is a major step toward making our creations opaque to humans. Not just AI's creations, but ours as well. The reason I value Paul Graham so much is because of the idea compression work that goes into writing super clean prose. It's difficult to write clearly because it requires thinking clearly. Text makes your ideas naked, and I like that. - What is the problem, exactly? - What should we do to solve it? - Why is our solution better than alternatives? I love the challenge of crystalizing this kind of critical stuff in pure text before any technology is involved. If we're not writing that text ourselves, and then editing it, it starts to feel a lot like bringing a strong robot to the gym. I worry that if we vibe-think to AI and have it spit out amazing HTML, we're instantly disconnected from the idea. Like where did the idea go? It started as vibes and got put through a woodchipper and turned into someone else's HTML. Can I see it in 4 simple bullets? Can I stare at it? Can I grapple with it. Can I tweak it? It's an idea. I need to be able to wrestle with it. Of course we can ask the AI to summarize its brilliant HTML document into four bullets, but we'll have lost through compression and expansion some percentage of the original. Maybe I'm being overly emotional here. I just feel like if you didn't put the hard thinking and writing work into the original idea, and then maintain it in a format that's easy for humans to read and edit, then you have somehow surrendered something Holy to the machines. I say this as a total AI maximalist. But I get the point he's making, and I think it's super valid. It's hard to explain or convince people of things with a giant text file. Formatting massively helps. Images massively help. Even an interface or a video or something. So we're synched on that. I just think it might be better to come at the output we both want in a different way. - MARKDOWN: Easy for humans to write, hard for humans to read. - HTML: Hard for humans to write, easy for humans to read. Maybe the solution isn't moving the first step to HTML where it becomes more opaque to both agents and humans (plus the versioning issues Thariq talked about). Maybe the solution is something crazy like document pairing: like you have the thought file and you have the presentation file(s). The proposal is to ask AI to just write HTML, right? Well why not just have a separate but linked file for that? One is for crystal-clear human creation and sync between human and AI. Simplicity, clarity, precision, and human editability. And then AI can produce whatever from that. Images, diagrams, videos, or whatever. And if you want, yes, a full HTML file that contains all of them. And that can be what you use to present or share the idea with audiences. (Plus there's the fact that some file formats are literally directories, which could be shared with lots of related content, and then there's also things like .mdx that allow for richer content in Markdown, etc.) I hate the idea of multiple files, but I think it's far preferable to losing the transparent, editable connection to the idea that you get with text. Plus, the better and cheaper AI gets, the more trivial it will be to have the core thought file plus n-number of associated versions or formats that are useful for different audiences. Basically I think it's much easier for AI to make a rich and shareable version of clean, editable thought, in the form of text, than it is for humans to stay connected with ideas as opaque HTML. And I think the human thought-to-text connection is the most important thing to preserve. Still thinking it through, however, and massive thanks to @trq212 for the push for all of us to evolve on this.

Natural landscaping #SF

Turns out you can have a macbook that still functions but it's a little too old for openclaw. Mac mini now ordered

San Francisco stoplight 🚦

while I often like to be an early adopter, I'm comfortable being a late adopter of acronyms, including never

Download images from a Google Doc - the double-click and Shift hack _ Double-click the image. This usually triggers the crop tool _ Hold Shift and right-click _ Browser-based standard Save Image As... option should appear

exactly why you can love MacBooks and not iPhones

Quake

This is the episode that has me reformatting an old MacBook

#English is the new programming language. #Markdown is the new code. Amazing what one can accomplish with clean and simple text. Twitter/X trained us well

With all of the Delve mayhem going on, this calm approach seems especially relevant

If #markdown is the new code, is it time for a new GitHub?

Who makes a brand matching engine so you can compare lists like this within or beyond your social network

Minimalist advertising continued. @vercel using logo bug only.

Admirable simplicity. Curious about the impact

Station wagons have so much nostalgia. Found this one yesterday in Berkeley