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• Thaura: Writing with an LLM
  More and more people are using LLMs to write their documents: lawyers are using LLMs to write arguments full of bogus references; college students are submitting papers that make false claims. LLMs are amazing, but they also hallucinate. People who skip the thinking get burned. I don’t use the LLM to write my documents; I… Read more: Thaura: Writing with an LLM
• Obsidian Notes
  I’m using Obsidian, a lot, to read and edit Markdown files, partly for all this LLM practice. This is a document of tips and troubleshooting. Symptoms: tried to open a vault in a folder that has restricted permissions. The vault starts to open, but you get an “EACCESS permission denied” error. You cannot remove it… Read more: Obsidian Notes
• Thaura Work: a plugin architecture for a PHP program
  One of the code management techniques I tried with KRUpload was to break the application into a core app, and plugins. I don’t have stats about how that went, but it seemed to help. Here’s a du of the extensions directory: The core app is mostly in these directories: While each plugin’s code size isn’t… Read more: Thaura Work: a plugin architecture for a PHP program
• Learning Elm: pipe tricks
  https://github.com/elm/compiler/tree/main/hints I found much of the content for this article at: https://sporto.gitbooks.io/elm-tutorial/content/en/01-foundations/02-functions.html Here’s now to create a learning environment where you can edit a file full of Elm code, and play with the code. Add the “.” directory to elm.json. This will tell Elm to search for modules in there: Next up, make the file… Read more: Learning Elm: pipe tricks
• Thaura Work: checking in
  Just a social update. I spent a lot of time playing in OpenCode and Thaura. OC has these free models (basically promoting the big silicon companies): Ling, Muse Spark, Nemotron, MiMo. It’s nice getting a feel for them. Thaura uses GLM-4.5. I started working a little more on KRUpload, an old web-based file uploader program… Read more: Thaura Work: checking in
• Learning Elm
  I was having a hard time with the main tutorial, so I’m winding a different path through the language. 8/29: After doing the basics, I started hitting walls, and found the tutorial going all over the place, so I decided to dig through the Elm core libraries, and just try running commands: https://package.elm-lang.org/packages/elm/core/latest/ Typing things… Read more: Learning Elm
• Thaura Work: byte-miser and WordPress framework
  I was hitting some context token size limits when I was telling Work to write code from a spec, and letting the LLM write the docs and spec. The code was working, but it was pretty big. So I decided to get into byte-miser mode and look for a solution. This code was in PHP… Read more: Thaura Work: byte-miser and WordPress framework