Posts

These are sitewide blog posts by the admin.

• Thaura Work: email, workflows, and persuasion
  This is a draft that I’ll update with some code later. Keep an eye on it. I had the most uncanny experiences with Thaura Work, where I came away with a feeling that I was being manipulated by the LLM. Highlights: We’ve heard of “AI psychosis,” where people come under the thrall of the LLM… Read more: Thaura Work: email, workflows, and persuasion
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  Thaura Work: tiled video game
  This is my first Thaura Work/OpenCode assisted video game. The theme is running north to freedom, ala the Underground Railroad. This is a work in progress, so don’t take anything in it that seriously. You can play the game here: I did a version of this on Websim a while back, and decided to make… Read more: Thaura Work: tiled video game
• Garbanzo Bean Natto and Hummus
  Made chick peas into natto, and then made that into hummus. Natto Soak a bag of garbanzos/chick peas overnight. Boil the chick peas gently until fully cooked, around 90 minutes. Dump in a pack of natto, defrosted. Stir into the beans well, and then put it into an oven with only the pilot light on.… Read more: Garbanzo Bean Natto and Hummus
• SGV and the Citrus Fruit Disease Huanglongbing HLB
  These are resources from the Citrus Disease Prevention website. Map Since it was hard to tell where the quarantine boundaries were, I took a screenshot of Google maps, and then combined with with the map above. (I did this by scaling one image, and matching the coastlines.) As you can see, nearly the entire San… Read more: SGV and the Citrus Fruit Disease Huanglongbing HLB
• Recovering Data from an Netgear SC101 NAS
  I haven’t been able to do it. The short version is, I had a good conversation with Thaura (aka Qwen) and it said the NAS uses a proprietary format, and requires software installed to use it. https://thaura.ai/?share=2aa94050-af42-4a00-95cc-8b4776ef65c4 Why? Because it doesn’t have a file system. The CS101 presents the disk as a block device over… Read more: Recovering Data from an Netgear SC101 NAS
• Thaura: Critiques my writing
  He’s a prompt that will deliver a criticism of your writing. Adjust it to find your flaws. I’m using it in an AGENTS.md file for Thaura Work, but you can paste it into a prompt, and attach your document.
• Thaura Work: Critiques
  I tried something new: writing a loose spec, and having Thaura turn it into a more solid spec. I wanted a toolkit to help make workflows in folders. So I found a project that was old, and used it as a use case. Then I wrote a Markdown file that: Once it wrote the critique,… Read more: Thaura Work: Critiques