Jon Aquino's Mental Garden

For future reference - Claude suggested these sources of beauty for me:  A photo of a beautiful landscape. A piece of classical art. Archite...

I'm getting Claude Code to file my taxes using an online tax return tool. It's so great. The magic that lets this happen is the Clau...

 This is so devious. Will Save Settings or Accept All accept all the settings you have chosen?

 I have been blogging since 2004. In that time I have written about productivity systems, programming, jigsaw puzzles, faith, and whatever e...

There is a podcast that skims Hacker News for you. It is called the Hacker News Highlights Podcast, and I love it. The premise is simple: an...

PSA: Even if you run everything on a Mac Mini or Mac Studio, only inbound traffic is locked down - outbound traffic (email and website commu...

I've been running OpenClaw for a few weeks. Here's what my agent Chloe and I have built. Things I asked for: Photo Gallery.  My agen...

The OpenClaw creator on Lex Fridman podcast ( 1:41:15 ): Opus is like the coworker that is a little silly sometimes, but he’s really funny ...

My first attempt at generating comic strips for PRs got mixed reactions on Hacker News . Fair criticism: the multi-panel comics were hard t...

I really enjoy using OpenClaw but I am scared that prompt injection attacks will exfiltrate sensitive personal information that it knows abo...

  In Codex, Theo recommends using High and Medium over Extra High: ( YouTube ): 5.3 on extra high did slightly better, but I hope this help...

  The OpenClaw creator on how he still uses Claude Code but he finds OpenAI GPT Codex better for coding ( YouTube 45:49 ): But the real chan...

 Trying to think of uses for OpenClaw. I’m trying not to divulge sensitive personal information to it for fear of prompt injection exfiltrat...

I'm using Claude.ai as a frontend for Todoist via MCP. It's the best to-do setup I've had. My daily prompt: "What is the cu...

I've settled on Claude as my subscription AI of choice. I use Claude Code for programming so I'm pretty familiar with it. I was usin...

 I love how you can change the Omarchy screensaver by editing a text file. The text file: For reference, the Omarchy font (used here as well...

I just finished migrating YubNub from Ubuntu 12.04 (yes, from 2012!) to Ubuntu 24.04. The site is now running on modern infrastructure with...

 Here's a handy cheatsheet i generated in Gemini Nano Banana for Omarchy window management.

I'm really liking this Linux desktop (Omarchy distro). I'm new to Linux desktops so I use Claude Code to make the changes I need. i ...

Here's how to generate a cool The Far Side-like comic panel that you can put at the top of your Github PRs. 1. In Claude Code: Plan a 1-...

  In this picture it is on the Zellij multiplexer in an Alacritty window.

 

Paste this into Claude Code or Cursor: “Review PR 13968 (this branch). Plan a comic strip to help code reviewers to understand what is going...

Cursor, iTerm2, and Edge/Arc/Zen were taking up a lot of memory on my MacBook, so I am going on a bit of a memory diet and switching to ligh...

Here I am going to build a list of things I love using my command-line AI tool for - I use Amazon Q Developer CLI: Resolving merge conflicts...

Here are some of my favorite apps and tech: SimpleLogin – Privacy tool for creating email aliases to protect your inbox. 1Passw...

Cost Claude Code:  $20/$100/$200 with various usage limits Q CLI: $20/month with seemingly no usage limits Saving past chats Claude Code: Au...

    ChatGPT Best-in-class image generation Vibe coding often has errors and i fails to fix them Sora video generation (video only) Conversa...

 ChatGPT (paid) advantages: Better image generation than Gemini Audio chat is more personable than Gemini, less stiff/businesslike/terse Unl...

 I have been trying out Zen Browser for a few days and am quite liking it as a replacement for Arc Browser for which support seems to be get...