...2 years ago Miles Mathis said:

I couldn't make the diagrams I wanted of Ammonia with Gimp and don't have Photoshop anymore

Well, the free and open replacement for Photoshop is Krita, not Gimp. Gimp has always been an ugly, irrational abomination. It never worked and it drove its users to depression. I tried using it once.

Well, overnight the site went down, so I'm back at the drawing board to see (1) what is the specific bottleneck and (2 how to fix it.

I asked GPT what are the memory requirements for (1) mysql and (2) a drupal site, the two memory-intensive things I'm running in this system. It said, I should be okay with 4Gb of RAM. As I expected.

I adjusted mysql config but it didn't help: https://github.com/wasya-co/docker_drupal/blob/0.0.0/docker-compose.yml-template#L36 

I have the fortune and the misfortune of having to scale my Drupal site immediately. It's getting more traffic than I can currently accommodate - and so the next scaling steps have to be taken.

Copy-pasting doesn't work inside screen on aws? Same here.

And I'm too tired of these companies putting sticks in my wheels. They obviously do it on purpose to decrease my (and your) productivity. Somehow, other cloud providers allow copy-pasting just fine, somehow.

Anyway, the trick is to click CMD-F (search) and then you can drag across screen text to copy it. 

Anyway, the trick is to click CMD-F (search) and then you can drag across screen text to copy it. 

Hey bro,

I'll write english - hope that's okay.
 

Me and several other people would like drupal's vote_up_down to be ported to drupal 10. It's not that difficult, it's been done, here is my branch: https://github.com/wasya-co/vote_up_down

I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that my website(s) are bringing in traffic, the load is spiking. No thanks to google - I am still on their terrorist list or whatever, so even when I'm directly in front of their faces they don't see me. But my sites are gaining popularity anyway.

The News Production Studio is live. The functionality is sufficient for generating well-illustrated one-minute news summaries. The length of videos isn't actually limited. Video illustrations are procured or generated before-hand, paying attention to the aspect ratio. Obviously I didn't want to implement a full vide-editing suite in the browser...

This tool actually uses very little AI. With that being said, it is well-positioned to be plugged into agentic workflows, since every step is either already automated or is positioned to be driven agentically.

Clearly, application prototyping uses a different set of technologies than production-grade development.

FYI... I recommend doing two things on the new phone:

1. prevent automatic updates. go to settings, search for "download", "download over wifi" -> swich to never. In developer settings (tap build number 7 times) you can also turn off "update on system restart".

2. granularly deny notifications. In settings, search for "manage notification categories for each app" and turn it on. Then you can long-press each notification and decide which ones you don't want, for example, you can keep message chat notifications and deny "promotions" and "other".
 

In this quick tutorial we'll set up python on a mac os x in order to run ansble from the current folder.

The trading platform, currently code named Irowor, makes decisions and takes action automatically. It's not AI-enabled, it's pretty straightforward with hard-coded rules. As I finish writing that system, the structure of the trading bot will be reused for agentic AI. Because an agentic system has to make observations, decisions, and then take actions. This is like watching the market, following a strategy, and placing trades.

In the process of building an agentic AI system, I will first build the "agentic" and "system" part, touching very little on AI. There are several reasons for this. Auditability is one of them. I want to know exactly what is happening and why. I think AI is mostly unnecessary for both (1) action-taking and (2) decision-making for me at this point.

Customers do not always buy as soon as they find a product on a company’s website or elsewhere. When it comes to complex and expensive products, consumers take the time to compare and study. For this reason, companies try not to be intrusive and help users go through all stages of decision making step by step.

This scale is used in colleges, where the best grade a student can receive is an A (5), and the student can also receive a B (4), C (3), D (2) or an F (1). Actually it is not clear what these letters (nubmers) mean, so a clarification is in order. Some poeople and institutions will mean different things when they grade something a B. At WasyaCo this grading scale has the following meaning.

You can think of a software system as a sort of an animal. Muscles, skeleton and the rest of the structure go a long way, long before intelligence in an animal becomes useful or desirable. Automation is the muscles and bones. AI is the high-level brain. I'd take an ox or a mule over a monkey, for labor, most of the time. So let's develop the structure first - the muscles and bones...

Weaponized smile

I guess it's a thing. Weaponization obviously comes from the autists (see /r/wallstreetbets, or better don't). They weaponize everything - their own autism, chicken tenders, you name it. We are going to be weaponizing appearances, for the purpose of achieving concrete goals. One of the elements of appearances is the smile, and its weaponization is important.

Weaponization of your smile may take up to 2% of your overall continuous effort.

• 20260309 updated kyle-contractor.city.ad bigly: it now has all the relevant info instead of placeholders. Still some way to go, but it's looking much better now.

Here it is:

I haven't touched it in a while... but since I needed the screenshot for a page about the trading platform, I figured I may as well share it here separately, since I have so few screenshots of my UI's.

Hello and welcome!

The page on Irowor, our in-house trading platform, just got an update! 

And here are some screenshots of the UI WIP:

We upgraded ruby to 3.4.x and rails to 8.x.x and found this new error in our specs:

Upon further looking at it, what was causing it was some internal calls to warden and devise. This command would fail in byebug, or in rspec:

Subject: Your data was stolen. Find out how to regain access

Body: 

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Hasta ahora este mes no ha habido muchas actualizaciones, pero aquí están:

So far this month there haven't been many updates, but here they are: