All you need is templates and an LLM. #

I just overhauled the bash aliases I have configured for all the git commands I use most often. I was thinking wouldn‘t it be nice if it were easier to edit my dotfiles and wouldn‘t you know it, I found a bash function called dotedit I had created the last time I refactored my dotfiles, but then totally forgot I had written it. I need to remember to use dotedit! #

One of the odd things about LLMs is they can both get you out of a tangled mess, and cause you to fall into one, and often at the same time. #

Previously on the blog, notes and posts appeared in the order they were written. In the new blog I‘m trying something different. The notes always appear above the blog posts, and the links as usual appear at the bottom. I want to make "small thoughts" the first order of the day. #

I got a live version of the new blog deployed earlier and everything looks good. The big thing about the new site is it‘s a lot easier to navigate through all the content. You can easily filter on the content type you want to look at, or just read everything on the front page. The other major thing, for me at least, is to know it‘s on a much more solid foundation. I‘m going to give it another day before I switch over the DNS. #

I‘ve been knee deep in render optimisation the past few days, tough but I‘ve got things working pretty well now.

Also just added RSS feed generation. It was really quite straight forward to add, it plugged straight into the rendering system which uses fragments to make sure content only has to be rendered once, even if it appears on several pages, including the feeds.

That will be another blog post at some stage.

Possibly something to show in the next few days. #

This graph of inflation cycles since the 1970s from @lawrencelepard caught my eye. The obvious question is what is similar about the present moment and back then? We should really figure this out before all the folks around back then are RIP. Also wouldn't it be wild if the same pattern repeated itself further back into the past? #

I've switched back to working on my publishing software‘s cli after spending a while working on the server-side. It‘s amazing how quickly you can get your head back into code you have forgotten about with the help of LLMs. They can see through lines in the code instantly, and can summarise exactly how things work. It‘s really quite incredible. Hopefully will have some interesting progress to share soon regarding how the blog is rendered. #

Since I was previously posting about trillionaires, here's an angle from David Sachs that describes what wealth actually looks like practically speaking because it's not just a big pile of money.

We need better ways to more easily get a feel for what is normal and what is excessive in this realm. #

Yesterday's notes got rendered in to the site without issues :) #

Great new episode from Peter McCormack, talking with Fernando Nikolic about how they've both been building cool stuff with AI.

It's interesting seing how AI tools are empowering people to build their own custom software. People who wouldn't have previously interacted with Github repositories, environment variables or deployed code to hosting providers are starting to become software engineers.

I think content creation using these tools is well aligned with this trend. And you only need to understand a small subset of the commands to go from md file to published. #

Just added a blueprint to the config and a template in the template folder and now let‘s see if this works... #

Appears to have worked, a PR was created, the real proof it‘s operational will be if it gets rendered in tonight‘s build. #