Month: 2026/09
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2026 September 29
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Building wideboi for Ultrawide and Ultrasmol Terminals
What started about ten days ago on a whim as an experiment in horizontally scrolling terminals across an ultrawide monitor turned into wideboi—a terminal multiplexer with animated cards, an embedded web UI for phones, a desktop app, and a headless control surface for AI coding agents. This really didn't need to get made, except that I wanted to make it. [ ... 2097 words ... ]
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2026 September 27
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Pragmatic Anthropomorphism, or: How to Talk to an Autocompleting Cricket
Arguing over whether LLMs "truly understand" or have an inner spark misses what's actually useful when sitting in front of one. Treating an AI as a competent collaborator isn't magical thinking or naive anthropomorphism—it's pragmatic navigation of a vast latent space. Sometimes you have to suspend disbelief, show some objective respect, and let the alien eat its own spilled guts in peace. [ ... 2320 words ... ]
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2026 September 21
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Wideboi, Feedspool, and 3D-printed hot dogs (Catching up: August 28 – September 21)
It's been nearly a month! I built a terminal multiplexer for ultrawide monitors on a whim, got trending topics working in my feed reader, shared a synthpop mixtape, 3D-printed an uncomfortable amount of hot dogs, and brokered a fragile peace treaty between the cats. [ ... 1058 words ... ]