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

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

The images are royalty-free and free. Do whatever you want with them. There is a link to the zipfile at the bottom of the page, which contains the asset library. Thanks for watching!

These images are free, MIT license - commercial use and modification permitted, attribution not required. Feel free to use them in whateverwhich way. The link to the zipfile at the bottom of the page contains all assets.

P.S.: you can use the following command to resize all images in a folder (but make a copy first!):

magick mogrify -resize 600x600! *.jpg

After months of delay, I am pleased to announce the implementation of email newsletters at Wasya.Co and Piousbox.com

The short answer is - I think it used to be much better. To be fair, doing marketing and obtaining new clients has always been difficult - arguably, it is more difficult than doing actual technology work. But in the past I think it was more rational and more usable.

So Vitalik, the guy who wrote the Ethereum protocol, recently posted this, which I feel I can comment on:

I'm not necessarily calling him a grifter - but analyzing his post falls squarely under the subject of analyzing grift.

I want to write first about my admiration of ducks, and swans by extension. They are the animals capable of flying (birds), and they also swim. They also walk on land. Ducks, and also swans, are therefore truly all-terrain, all-element animals: they've conquered earth, water and air. (And they're metabolic, living organisms so we'll grant them the command of "fire" in the sense of metabolic oxidation.)

You may be familiar with the saying, "duck typing". The idea is that if something walks like a duck, talks like a duck... then it may be a duck.

I've been in awe at some news I've been reading. Because they have been very powerfully written. It is like reading a good novel - which I no longer do, between reading news, documentation, and writing (which is to say, not reading), I no longer read what I know is fiction. Too bad though - some of the books in my past have been excellent. Take William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, my favorite american sci-fi authors so far.