Ultra (decent-artlu)

*if* you could rebuild collaborative software production, from first principles, how would you do it? start with good linting + formatting + unit tests red-green-refactor approach (slightly "adversarsial")? or allow dev to update tests as they go ("collaborative")? do you write evals for "good" unit tests, that can be judged by LLMs? are integration tests useful? regression tests? what if you have an agentic browser that can cycle through all user journeys if you can waterfall the development, tests are really powerful. if you need to be more agile, how can you write good tests before you discover details of what you're trying to accomplish? personally, I find unit tests fairly useless. Smoke tests are more efficient

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BFC: read 12-36 books a year AFC: read 0 books a year (my experience only, as a never-used-X-before-FC-eroooor)

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i been saying since time that PRs and code review are outdated for the agentic world when was the last time you confirmed the contents of a package version update? accepting PRs should become as brain-less as upgrading your OS version (because there's automated + manual layers of safety in the process)

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I'm free (at zon-zero cost) I cast via cli. There is never a sign in, just a signer's secret key, so IP- and account-based tracking activity are impossible I farchive my casts, and other people's replies. I browse via cli, web (e.g., timeline view), and Obsidian (e.g., graph view) I can delete my history on the network (I own it), while self-serving historical content behind an allowlist + x402 paywall my own CDN serves media attachments. Inasmuch as browsers respect headers and clients don't rewrite links, I can also delete images after sharing

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interesting free market failure: - nobody likes paying for news (newsrooms, newsletters, digests, podcasts/shows) - first thing almost everybody sets up their agent to do is "daily digest" to "monitor the situation" agentic micropayments for news appears to be a market where supply and demand don't meet but there's clearly value and demand maybe "news" can only exist as a loss-leader product offering that's financed by deeper pockets (platforms selling "pro" or "alpha" products, billionaire reputation greenwashing) competition on quality and entertainment value, rather than price

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it is becoming likely that I will vibe software three times or more: 1. in openclaw-inspired state of mind, where agents are unbounded by possibilities AND the threshold for getting a POC/MLP is flat/cheap 2. in controlled research environment, with evals + testing to refine what stage 1 produced 3. in tighter production, where we actually rebuild the logic flows (SPEC.md) rather than remove pieces of scaffolding from stage 2 Software eng used to have `dev` and `prod`, maybe with a `staging` that was really a substitute or fallback for catching mistakes earlier or later. it really should be different frameworks for `prototype` -> `research` -> `deploy` e.g., OpenClaw -> Mastra -> n8n

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I purchased several parasols (i.e., umbrellas with especially high UPF ratings) right after tariffs, when domestic warehouses were desperate to move stuck inventory Follow me for more Asian uncle tips: - no ice water, drink warm water only - dry your hair right after showering - stop jittering your leg, all your wealth will shake out

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