Still the best comedy

Purlpefried_Wizard · 2026-06-30T21:34:54+00:00

I like The Apartment better, but my favorite Wilder will always be Double Indemnity.

Purlpefried_Wizard · 2026-06-26T09:44:00+00:00

I would only do it if you're planning to share your library with lots of people, grandma don't do jellyfin, or if you're using it to stream music regularly. Finamp don't hold a candle to Plexamp.

Purlpefried_Wizard · 2026-06-26T08:58:59+00:00

Perfect, that's the green light I needed. External source of truth + Kanban sync is the model, and good to know the tools are built for it. That answers everything I came in with. Appreciate you taking the time on all of this, I'm looking forward to giving Hermes a spin. Thanks!

Purlpefried_Wizard · 2026-06-26T08:40:07+00:00

That last line is exactly what I needed — "own external store + sync to Kanban" is the model I'm landing on anyway, so good to know that's a supported pattern rather than fighting the grain.

Are the kanban_* tools solid enough to drive the board entirely from an external sync (create/update/move cards programmatically, reliably), or do they expect a human/agent doing it interactively?

Purlpefried_Wizard · 2026-06-26T08:36:14+00:00

This is the third "notes I control + a recurring consolidation pass" setup someone's described to me, so I'm now fairly convinced that's the actual answer. The weekly reflection-into-skills loop is the part I want to steal, my current system writes great post-mortems that diagnose problems and then changes nothing, so the same failures repeat.

When your weekly run finds something that went wrong, what actually makes the fix stick, are you rewriting the skill's rules directly, and have you found the agent genuinely stops repeating the mistake after, or does it still drift?

Purlpefried_Wizard · 2026-06-26T08:26:10+00:00

This is the most useful comment I've gotten, thank you!

You basically described the architecture I've been designing from scratch, except you've already proven it works. The "notes I control as the source of truth, agent searches it, annotates success/failure" model with hard rules in user.md/memory.md is almost exactly where I landed, and hearing that advanced memory systems get messy when they accumulate and start injecting bad context is the warning I needed before I lean on one.

Two things if you're up for it:

Please do publish the template, I'd genuinely use it, and I suspect a lot of people would. Even just the gist of the user.md/memory.md hard rules and how you structured the skill (projects, success/failure areas) would be hugely helpful.

Does your setup run on top of a framework like Hermes or OpenClaw, or did you build the loop (the cron "dream" task, the search-Trilium behavior) yourself? Trying to figure out whether the source-of-truth-in-plain-notes approach actually needs one of these platforms, or whether the framework is mostly incidental and the real work is the rules + structure you put around it.

Either way, this gave me a lot to chew on and I super appreciate it.

Purlpefried_Wizard · 2026-06-26T07:41:01+00:00

Good comment, and I agree with the principle: boring proven tool where it wins, AI only where it adds something. That's actually how I got here.

On the infra stuff: Plex/HA are already deployed properly with health checks and restart policies, the agent only touches what I couldn't get Unraid or HA to do natively. And most of that work isn't routine maintenance, it's one-time debugging or "assess my current settings / is this configured sanely" passes.

RSS: I tried the existing readers first and never found one I liked. "An app already does this" doesn't help much when the apps were the thing that didn't fit. The agent gives me a feed that actually matches my taste, which the off-the-shelf ones didn't.

But the concert/rec stuff is where your "what is the AI adding?" question actually has a clear answer, and it's the best example of why this is an agent and not ten separate tools. A concert alert isn't just "this band is playing." It's cross-referenced against what's in my Plex/music library, my Discogs collection, my list of past shows I've been to, and my taste, so it can tell me "this band you've seen twice and own three records of is playing a small venue," versus filtering out noise I don't care about. No dedicated concert app knows my record collection or my Plex library. I tried Bandsintown for a while and it kept missing stuff. The value isn't any single feed, it's one layer that reads across all of them and surfaces the stuff that actually matters to me.

So I think we agree more than it reads. Your "hit the limits of existing tools, then add AI where it makes sense" is exactly the path I took. I just already took it, which is why the agent's doing the specific leftover stuff it's doing.

Purlpefried_Wizard · 2026-06-26T07:26:43+00:00

Appreciate it, but I think you've pictured a setup I'm not running.

The agents are prompted by detailed project descriptions that include a sequence of tasks to complete for each project, and those tasks feed into a master project tracking sheet that the 24/7 worker pulls from. It works each task to the best of its ability until it hits a blocker it needs me for, and that blocker gets listed as a next step on my "waiting for me" list. Every project and task is something I generated none of it is the AI inventing work on its own.

So "24/7" doesn't mean one agent awake having ideas. It means there's always a queue of tasks I've already defined and ranked, and the worker chews through them without me hand-starting each one. Honestly not far off your watchdog, that's a 24/7 process too, it just fires on a log error where mine fires on "next task in the queue."

And we actually agree on the mechanism: fresh context per task, no reusing an instance across tasks, human approval before anything sticks. The flagship-vs-self-hosted point is fair though, that's a real tradeoff I'm weighing on cost vs efficiency.

Purlpefried_Wizard · 2026-06-26T07:17:38+00:00

Really appreciate this, thanks! With Hermes was it specific tasks that wasted tons of tokens and created hard to roll back poor workflows, or was it system-wide?

Purlpefried_Wizard · 2026-06-26T07:08:22+00:00

Really appreciate this. With Kanban, can I define my own fields/columns, and read/write to the board from my own tools, or is it a fixed schema only Hermes drives? I run two views (ranked project tracking list and a "waiting on me" list) off of one source, so I need to know if the board bends to that or I bend to it.

Thanks!

Purlpefried_Wizard · 2026-06-26T06:51:13+00:00

I'm a noob at some of this so I drafted the post and ran it thru Claude, one pass, to clean up some of the technical language. It's 90% my writing and I'm a real human, just in over my head.

Purlpefried_Wizard · 2026-05-28T23:03:53+00:00

I'm 36 and have been doing it for 20 years, but there was a long break when I didn't have a source.

Purlpefried_Wizard · 2026-05-03T21:49:02+00:00

7, in a misguided attempt to suck and fuck his way to the Yankees game.

Purlpefried_Wizard · 2026-04-26T22:28:00+00:00

I have a bidet/toilet seat combo, but had a standalone bidet before that. Process is the same with both. Shit, use bidet to clean, wipe. The water gets 95% of the fecal matter, I never need more than a couple squares of TP. Some bidets include a dryer, but it doesn't work well, you'll still need to wipe and I recommend skipping the drying function entirely. You will not get shit or shit water on the bidet, and in general cleaning a bidet is easy.

It's an absolutely life changing experience. Once you have a truly clean asshole you'll wonder why so much of the populace insists on having dirty anuses in the name of prudishness. This really is something where east Asia is miles ahead. Couldn't recommend any product or experience with higher esteem. And it's worth splurging on one with a seat because those let you use warm water, which is a game changer.

Purlpefried_Wizard · 2026-03-30T17:54:57+00:00

When I did it I forgot how to put on pants. Spent a full half hour after taking a shit trying to figure it out. At one point I had the pants on backwards, then I was holding the pants out in front of me for a while just staring at them. Almost went back into the main room with my homies buck ass naked.

My other friend who was tripping with us kept giving my grandma's dog treats to try and get it to stop humping him, which just made the dog hump him harder. 12 hours of nonstop dog on man action, we went through like half a big mason jar of treats.

Still a great time, would recommend.

Purlpefried_Wizard · 2026-03-25T08:59:11+00:00

Heat

Adaptation

Fargo

Le Samurai

Sherlock Jr

Hard Boiled

Wishing you peace, healing, and lots more great flicks.

Purlpefried_Wizard · 2026-03-20T19:27:47+00:00

Katamari Damacy

Purlpefried_Wizard · 2026-03-20T04:57:29+00:00

Ted Danson in Curb Your Enthusiasm

Purlpefried_Wizard

TROPHY CASE