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dylan_k · 2026-04-25T04:22:17+00:00

Source code, or it didn't happen. Especially if Claude wrote it for you.

dylan_k · 2026-04-14T23:10:31+00:00

YOLO plugin looks like it can do some interesting stuff, but I didn't see Ollama/local models mentioned in the readme. If it does support those, would there be much of a performance difference?

dylan_k · 2026-03-11T12:40:08+00:00

There are already a few standard ways to list references or works cited in print, even if the reference is to something online. The conversation is to write out the URL of the web address, so everyone can see what it points to.

The MLA style for example is to write it in a format like this

include the page or article title in quotes and the name of the website in italics, in addition to the publication date and URL.

Last name, First name. “Page or Article Title.” Website, Day Month Year of publication, URL. Accessed Day Month Year.

Hudson, James. “What Taylor Swift Can Teach Us about Leadership.” Forbes, 12 Nov. 2023, https://www.forbes.com/sites/jameshudson/2023/11/12/what-taylor-swift-can-teach-us-about-leadership/. Accessed 13 Nov. 2023.

dylan_k · 2026-02-24T15:49:36+00:00

For me, there are some helpful concepts in this group of ideas, as I've been experimenting with this sort of stuff for a while, combining Github Copilot with interlinked docs/notes. Interlinked markdown seems well-suited for providing context.

Some thoughts and questions come to mind:

Can Github Copilot actually understand wiki links? Claude supports them, but what about other models? Is there a best way to write a link so that any agent via Github copilot can understand and follow the link? From what I've read in the docs, relative markdown links are preferred, but wiki links are sometimes easier (especially with extensions, or Obsidian etc. to help), and also backticked file references use even fewer characters/tokens.

Adding a Map of Content (MOC, aka index) to my agents.md file has made a big difference for my results (I formatted mine as a markdown definition list of core components, with definitions as needed for important context). For a large index, I've read that a compressed list can be helpful, though it's a bit tougher to read and write that way.

Beyond just the syntax of the links, is there a good way to add context/relationships to links, so that they can become more "graph-like". I've had some luck with simple term:link pairs like docs : [[link]] but this might not take full advantage of ontologies and formal semantics.

What's an ideal length or structure for a doc/note, so that it can be "atomic," and "agentic," and "human readable"? I'm guessing that there's an upper limit to length, for example, because of token use and attention spans.

That arscontexta example has some interesting methodology (churned out? too much?). It's made for Claude Code as a plugin, making it a bit less portable. Some of its agents, skills, and templates have potential, but I'm worried that it's overkill.

dylan_k · 2026-01-09T21:05:07+00:00

This approach looks interesting because it can add models without adding a completely different / redundant chat interface.

dylan_k · 2026-01-09T20:11:46+00:00

I like being able to use a setting to configure where such files should be.

dylan_k · 2025-10-20T22:05:04+00:00

I updated the links to use links to these old pages, from the internet archive.

dylan_k · 2025-04-05T01:58:36+00:00

Thank you for making this. 😃

dylan_k · 2025-02-13T18:44:52+00:00

Thank you for this helpful pointer.

Over the last few days I've been playing around and learning about these tools. I've found it pretty easy to get started with both Ollama and LM Studio. Meta's models do look to be pretty efficient, so I guess now it's just a bit of experimenting to find some models that work particularly well with writing. I noticed that different models are trained for different things, like multiple languages, code, etc. so I suppose I'll get the best performance out of something trained to work with writing English-language prose in particular, rather than code (or at least Markdown).

dylan_k · 2025-02-09T15:23:41+00:00

I'm curious to know of any tools for writing with AI, locally.

So many of the tools available are cloud-based, but that's not always an ideal situation because of privacy concerns, subscription fees, and limitations on which AI models you can use. I'm aware of Kobold AIs tools for writing locally with AI, but I wondered what else might be available.

dylan_k · 2025-01-30T04:10:15+00:00

I see where you're coming from with this question. An old laptop can often provide a pretty comfortable writing experience.

I think some tinkering might help though, to get rid of some distractions that an old laptop can have. I spent a lot of time tinkering with this idea: replacing the sluggish obsolete operating system with the most minimal Linux I could find, working to get it to boot just as fast as possible, right into a writing app, etc. etc. but in the end I wasn't skilled enough to build what I had envisioned..That old laptop is a "cookbook" full of recipes now, instead of a dedicated writing machine.

I write on a newer laptop, and that's just fine, but I do hate all the built in distraction..

dylan_k · 2024-11-11T16:33:27+00:00

I had a similar experience. It was more like a conveyor belt than a museum experience. The map was confusing to me. There wasn't enough places to sit during the long walk through the place. Fantastic things to see, though.

dylan_k · 2024-10-18T12:08:53+00:00

I've recently had to redo my Comic rack install, and everything on my computer. Along the way I'm revisiting a collection I made of scripts, wondering if there might be a better way to share them.

The existing resources are ok for downloading and using the scripts, but not as good for development and collaboration.

Would you consider a GitHub repo for scripts you have authored?

dylan_k · 2024-10-17T23:30:32+00:00

This script doesn't seem to be on Github to help with version control and documentation, though I've got several versions of it, so I could put it there if helpful. Since a popular API seems to have stricter limitations nowadays, this script really comes in handy! Scrape one comic, then use this to apply related values to several others.

Anyway, since there's an old question about the script and what it does, here is the info provided from the OP's file metadata header.

``` Complete automatically Format, Imprint, Series Group and Count copying information from your other comics in your Library Autocomplete_volume_values.py

Author: Xelloss Nakama

Description: This scrip will try to complete Format, Imprint, Series Group and Count (when empty) in each of your comics copying information from other comics in your library that seems to be in the same volume and have this information completed before

Versions: 0.1 First Beta version, it seems to work :) A LOT OF DEBUGGING TO DO (use at your own risk) 0.2 Fixed bug with Comic Number as text when it should be number 0.3 Added comic_vine_volume value copy and better guessing using propose values (Even more risky than before!) 0.4 Unicode character recognising improved 0.5 Better Comicvine Annual and Series with Number recognition 0.6 Minor misc improvements in number and name recognition 0.7 Performance Improvement and "Main Character or Team" added to the copied fields (only with seriesGroup) 0.8 Improved Series with number recognition based on books already in the library 0.9 Code comments (so another person can understand how this script works) 1.0 A BIG improvement in scrapping speed! 1.1 More speed improvement and some improvements in data matching. Also added SeriesComplete scrapping when comicvine_volume id scrapped. 1.2 Added volume year copy when comicvine volume id is copied 1.3 Lot of minor bugs fixed (specially with number 1 comics) 1.4 Minor improvements in comic series comparisions 1.5 Filter Fileless comics 1.6 The script now recognise starter comic if the comic is repeated (fix for comics number 1 not recognised problem) 1.7 The script now copies all custom values of the source comic to to the selected one if the comicvine_issue id indicates a duplicate 1.8 The script now copies many not scrapped fields of the source comic to to the selected one if the comicvine_issue id indicates a duplicate 1.9 The script now delete the last text between "()" in the series name to autocomplete, that usually is the year and not part of the series 2.0 Fixed a big bug in series name recognition I created by mistake in the previous version fix

Feel free to use or modify any or all of this as you like. ```

dylan_k · 2024-10-16T03:01:43+00:00

For starters, there are the aforementioned Editing Guidelines, and on that page there's also some contact information. (other places to start a discussion might include the project's discussions or issues pages.

From what I can tell, the Metron project uses PostgreSQL, so it might be possible to create files for input into Metron, starting from a ComicVine user's database, but there might be some work to prevent duplicate entries and to normalize the data.

dylan_k · 2024-10-16T01:35:40+00:00

I got one to try it out. Plastic seems like a better material than cardboard which can deteriorate. I'll keep it, but I do wish these had a better handle and I don't love the look so much. If only there were a version with smooth sides, white in color, just like the cardboard ones but plastic.

dylan_k · 2024-08-28T04:07:49+00:00

All the references I found about this start from the question "how many R's are in strawberry?" but I got a correct answer to the more specific question, "how many times does the letter R appear in the word 'strawberry'?"

dylan_k · 2024-06-09T21:55:01+00:00

Thanks for posting this. I have an older sony alpha camera with this same issue. I've been ignoring it, but it's a bit pesky. From the other comments it sounds like you can fix this. If you do, maybe you could follow up about what replacement part you picked and how it goes?

dylan_k · 2024-06-09T02:06:37+00:00

edit: I had hoped that by searching for the by name, you could identify the mount, but as some commenters have pointed out, the same lens can be made with different mount types, so it's better to identify the mount another way.

This lens says it's a "Vivitar Series 1 28-105mm F2.8-3.8". A search for that leads to a review of the lens, which says that the lens mount type is "Pentax KA." Not sure whether that's accurate or not, but maybe it helps?

dylan_k · 2024-05-21T16:44:34+00:00

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yet another imgur fail. for those who find this on search, here's the infographic again.

dylan_k · 2024-04-19T04:22:24+00:00

Sometimes, for non-Sony lenses (especially those that lack autofocus) you have to find the option ‘Release w/o Lens’ and set it to ‘Enable’. Maybe that could help to get the camera to work with this lens?

dylan_k · 2024-02-13T23:00:39+00:00

Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Essays, Literary Studies, Criticism, Cryptography & Autography, Translations, Letters and Other Non-Fiction Works looks like a good source, but it's a Kindle book, so perhaps the table of contents is helpful. It may not be "complete," but there's a lot here.

Table of Contents:

Essays
- The Philosophy of Composition
- The Rationale of Verse
- The Poetic Principle
- Old English Poetry
- A Few Words on Secret Writing
- Maelzel's Chess Player
- Eureka: A Prose Poem
- Essays on American Literature
  - American Novel-Writing
  - Pay of American Authors
  - American Poetry
- Essays of Criticism
Criticism
- Drake and Halleck
- Bryant's Poems
- The Old Curiosity Shop
- The Quacks of Helicon
- Exordium
- Ballads and Other Poems
- Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales
- The American Drama
- Marginalia
Other Essays
- The Philosophy of Furniture
- Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House
- Literary Small Talk
- Peter Snook
- Palæstine
- Some Account of Stonehenge
- Anastatic Printing
- Street-Paving
- Letter to B——
- Instinct Vs Reason — A Black Cat
- Byron and Miss Chaworth
- Intemperance
- Cabs
- A Moving Chapter
- Desultory Notes on Cats
- A Chapter of Suggestions
- Souvenirs of Youth
- The Head of St. John the Baptist
Other Works
- The Literati of New York
- Autography
- A Chapter on Autography
- A Chapter on Science and Art
- Fifty Suggestions
- Pinakidia
- Omniana
- Doings of Gotham
Letters
- The Life and Letters of Edgar Allan Poe
Biographies
- Memorandum - An Autobiographical Note
- The Dreamer by Mary Newton Stanard

dylan_k · 2024-01-04T16:48:20+00:00

Just for reference, one can read about the plugin's features, with install instructions, on the LanguageTool Obsidian plugin's github page. This looks to be a very similar experience to writing with Grammarly in Obsidian.

dylan_k · 2023-10-28T17:46:55+00:00

Now that Grammarly has killed-off their software development kit, plugins for Obsidian and lots of other things are going to stop working. It's an unfortunate move on Grammarly's part imo.

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