~ephes

I am afraid that just as about a 100 years ago, current times produce a lot of observations on how correlation wins against causation, but causation is real (kind of). Which does not mean we can safely pinpoint and capture it. We can just try and get better on finding and sensing it but reality will always escape our full understanding. While humans engage in these or those obsessions over the centuries, inventing world views and nations, going to wars over beliefs .... reality wins, always. --holga

Still on vacation. Just some light reading and doing things away from the computer.

Articles

• Your MCP Doesn’t Need 30 Tools: It Needs Code
• Just One More Prompt | Having kids serves as a pretty good regularization term against this kind of overfitting - I'm pretty sure I would have been completely obsessed without that
• Front-end architecture fundamentals | Overview over Wagtails frontend architecture
• Litestar is worth a look | Ok, then I should have one :)

Videos

• Agentic Coding Ecosystem 2025

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I'm sorry my attempts at freestyle rapping summoned a demon to your party. --Ricki Yasha Tarr

I'm on vacation right now. While it's lovely sitting by the ocean, the combination of wind, water, and sand isn't exactly laptop-friendly, so I had to leave my computer at home. Bit of a bummer. Haven't done much reading either - mostly just been mulling over the Home Assistant setup I'm planning to tackle when I get back.

Articles

• Welcome Our New Fellow - Jacob Tyler Walls | Cool 😎
• AI Is A Money Trap | The economics of it all is also completely beyond me.
• The Hidden Drivers of HRM's Performance on ARC-AGI | nice analysis
• AI in Home Assistant in 2025

Music

• David Bowie Nine Inch Nails Hurt
• Ecca Vandal - CRUISING TO SELF SOOTHE

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Taking a summer break this week. Released a new version of django-cast with Wagtail 7.1 support, and just sharing a handful of links.

Articles

• The Future Of Software Is Small | This resonates with me - I think it applies to standard office tools like Excel too. What an exciting time to be building software!
• 🤖 VibeOps: Using Claude Code on Cheap VPS Servers | I've been doing something similar - giving Claude root SSH access when I'm working out Ansible deployment scripts. It's surprisingly effective.
• Python performance myths and fairy tales
• Enjoy better UX with Wagtail 7.1 | Cool!
• TabICL: Pretraining the best tabular learner
• Debian 13 "trixie" is released
• A contact just told me that my old "LLMs generate nonsense code" blog post from 2 years ago is now very outdated with GPT5 because it's so awesome and so helpful. So I asked him to give it a test... | Thoughtful thread that critiques LLM capabilities without being dismissive. I disagree with the conclusion though - these models don't need to be perfect to be valuable. Humans fail at reasoning too, yet we manage. I lean toward a functionalist perspective here. Still, the humanist/rationalist critique raises valid points. It reminds me of the Chinese room argument (which I also find flawed but thought-provoking).

In searching one does not know in advance how — Piet Mondrian

I've been experimenting with running coding models locally and managed to get GLM-4.5 Air up and running with mlx_lm.server and open-webui. It's pretty amazing what these local open-weight models can do these days. Next up, I want to try integrating local models with CLI-based coding tools like opencode or crush.

Articles

• New Claude Code feature: Subagents | I wasn't able to use this feature to generate any value for me yet
• A Friendly Introduction to SVG
• Frontend Performance Checklist
• It’s time for modern CSS to kill the SPA
• My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now, using GLM-4.5 Air and MLX
• GLM-4.5: Reasoning, Coding, and Agentic Abililties
• Agentic Coding Things That Didn’t Work
• Do you validate your HTML?
• AI and Me: A Developer’s Perspective | Can relate, yes
• 6 Weeks of Claude Code | Very detailed and insightful

Software

• Peekaboo MCP: Lightning-fast macOS Screenshots & GUI Automation
• Crush - Your new coding bestie, now available in your favourite terminal
• Welcome to Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Interactive Tutorial
• Open WebUI 👋
• opencode - AI coding agent, built for the terminal.

Videos

• How To 10x Your Notes: Obsidian + Claude AI Agents | I'm just interested in all things obsidian
• MCPs are Boring (or: Why we are losing the Sparkle of LLMs) - Manuel Odendahl | Yes, important point.