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TL;DR: It's been a hectic three weeks. The main event has been the slow, tense, and ultimately successful integration of our new cat, Minnaloushe, who graduated from \"cat jail\" to a tentative peace with the other furballs. In between managing the cat drama, I got a memorial tattoo for Puck, poured a ton of work into decafclaw and other side projects, and fell down a rabbit hole of game streaming and retro classics.
When we last spoke, Minnaloushe was in \"cat jail\" in my office. Well, the big guy has been on a real journey. After a scuffle that put him back in solitary, he's slowly been earning his freedom. There have been many cycles of parole, supervised visits, and a lot of just hoping for the best.
\nThe good news is, we seem to have turned a corner. The cat jail gate has been retired, and we're now at a stage of uneasy but peaceful coexistence. They're even eating together without any bloodshed. It's a relief, honestly.
\nOf course, a free-roaming Minnaloushe means a new level of chaos. He's a menace who chews on arcade sticks, steals the rubber feet off my laptop stand, and generally causes adorable trouble. But he's also a big, goofy bear of a cat and I'm glad to have him out and about now.
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In the midst of all the cat drama, I got my second tattoo, a memorial for my old friend Puck, who we lost back in 2015. It was done by the talented Katy Bisby, and it came out beautifully. It’s a wonderful way to remember a very good boy.
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At some point, I should probably write more about workaday projects. I'm pretty quiet about those. But, it's been a productive few weeks on side projects: I've been banging away on decafclaw, my personal agent project, and byom-sync, the \"bring your own music\" playlist tool. The GitHub activity stream has been a blur of commits, PRs, and new issues.
For decafclaw, there's been a ton of work on improving the scheduling system, fixing bugs in the vault and skill loaders, and generally trying to make the whole system more robust. I even started to tackle the project skill's tendency to hallucinate tools.
For byom-sync, I've been focused on improving purchase link resolution, adding support for RSS feeds, and starting to spec out a \"shopping list\" feature.\nIt's been a lot, but it's satisfying to see these projects moving forward.
I finally caved and tried out GeForce NOW, and I have to say, it's pretty impressive. It's led me to rethink my whole living room gaming setup, a project that's been evolving for nearly a decade. The idea of a powerful PC tucked away in the basement, streaming games to any screen in the house via Moonlight and Sunshine, is very appealing.
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For those not familiar, Sunshine is a self-hosted, open-source replacement for NVIDIA's now-defunct GameStream, and Moonlight is the open-source client that lets you stream from it. The combination promises a high-performance, low-latency experience. Might just be the end of an era for my dedicated living room gaming PC.
\nA neighbor had a block party with a live brass band, which was a delightful surprise. Here's the playlist of a few songs I recognized - wish I'd taken notes! Also, this is me trying out my new mixtapes site as an embed:
\n\nI watched a raccoon have a full-on pool party in our backyard pond, and I'm not even mad.
\nI also bookmarked Tiago Forte's guide on \"How to Build a Second Brain\".
\nA few more interesting reads from the past few weeks: htmx ~ Working With AI: A Concrete Example, an essay on the pros and cons of AI in development, and how to avoid the \"Sorcerer's Apprentice\" problem; I love LLMs, I hate hype, a classic from geohot on the difference between genuine excitement and the hype cycle; and Memories Can’t Wait—or, How I Learned to Keep Worrying About the Web, a call to action from Jeffrey Zeldman on the importance of owning your own content.
\nI also bookmarked The Internet Doesn't Want Readers. It Wants Livestock., a wonderfully grumpy take on the state of the web.
\nOn the more technical side of things, I saved a link to Playwright on GitHub Actions: The setup that actually runs fast which has some great tips on speeding up CI, and a post about Firefox in WebAssembly, which is just cool.
\nAnd finally, a couple of interesting articles on the culture of coding: It's OK to Use Coding Assistance Tools To Revive The Projects You Never Were Going To Finish and The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway., both of which resonate with my own experiences.
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