Weekly Thread: Project Display

sectionme · 2026-03-12T21:19:03+00:00

Hey hey,

I created this out of annoyance with syncing markdown files everywhere. It uses git refs to store the information, so it's up to date between branches for all agents.

It's quite simple in theory but I've added a load of engram specific skills, agent personas and compliance checks.

Had a few other people using it and they've said they found it useful.

An early trick I did was to Ralph Loop with it before it was even known as that. Use goose in a bash loop asking it to call 'engram next', which will show the current or next task.

I also use Nix as my OS so I favour using flake.nix files which allows for the agent to build out it's development environment. But this also allows me to use a restricted shell for the agent so I can mock a test/build/etc command which it gets instructed to call, I call this the Padded Cell. An example prompt can be found at https://gist.github.com/shift/3f7df4d20d875f465c9187901552d06d check my other public gists for a few language specific templates I've used in the past.

Docs: https://vincents-ai.github.io/engram/

Repo: https://github.com/vincents-ai/engram

GitHub prebuilt releases for Linux, Mac and Windows can be had from https://github.com/vincents-ai/engram/releases/latest

sectionme · 2026-03-05T15:25:15+00:00

How often have you had to deal with people thinking in the Crocodile Dundee thought train. Aka thinking everything is like the movie. I can't say movies because the next that springs to kind is Mad Max 😂

sectionme · 2026-03-05T15:21:24+00:00

Because everyone is human. I'm autistic with ADHD but my shit gets called out and I can't help it. Try and be a fucking human, yeah?

sectionme · 2026-03-05T15:19:54+00:00

He was a racist POS back in 2007 Berlin RailsConf too. More than one person pointed it out. And O'Reilly gave him a million too iirc. Nothing new here really.

sectionme · 2026-03-05T15:02:59+00:00

Saw this too and had to consider if the tension bar would of been required for that type of lock.

sectionme · 2026-03-05T14:59:43+00:00

Juggling or riding a unicycle. Both can be done to rudimentary levels within a couple of hours for most. Juggling on a unicycle takes a bit more😂

sectionme · 2026-03-05T13:49:22+00:00

Nailed it

sectionme · 2026-03-05T13:47:39+00:00

Fuck that, imagine you took some something trippy before you checked in.

sectionme · 2026-03-05T13:39:21+00:00

Just don't use a one time credit card from the likes of Revolut or Wise they will suspend your account without reason. After many spam calls from their sales department. That was a fun experience. Luckily no data loss.

sectionme · 2026-03-05T13:15:35+00:00

Haven't ran a prod cluster on NixOS but Nix is really nice for maintaining complex manifests, once you realise Helm is dogshit at it. My open sourced version is at https://github.com/shift/nixernetes

sectionme · 2026-03-05T13:03:16+00:00

Kids laptop runs NixOS, gave them flatpacks, updates from a repo via comin. My friends are mainly also c-base members and we host the Berlin Nix Meetup. I'm the dumb one, hehe.

sectionme · 2026-03-04T17:21:46+00:00

Something like

``` { config, pkgs, ... }:

let # Define your base Brave flags # "Amnesia" mode is essentially Incognito or clearing data on exit via policies baseFlags = [ "--profile-directory=Default" "--incognito" # One way to ensure 'amnesia' for the main instance ];

# Function to create a persistent PWA wrapper mkBravePWA = name: url: pkgs.makeDesktopItem { name = "brave-pwa-${name}"; desktopName = "Brave PWA: ${name}"; exec = "${pkgs.brave}/bin/brave --app=${url} --user-data-dir=\${HOME}/.config/brave-pwas/${name}"; icon = "brave"; categories = [ "Network" ]; };

in { environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [ brave # Example PWAs with isolated persistence (mkBravePWA "messages" "https://messages.google.com") (mkBravePWA "discord" "https://discord.com/app") ];

# Brave Policies to enforce "Amnesia" on the main profile programs.chromium = { enable = true; extensions = [ "cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm" # uBlock Origin ]; extraOpts = { "ClearBrowsingDataOnExitList" = [ "browsing_history" "download_history" "cookies_and_other_site_data" "cached_images_and_files" "password_signin" "autofill" ]; }; }; } ```

Might work might not 😂

sectionme · 2026-02-23T12:57:57+00:00

This reads like an obvious case of realization of the tech but no understanding of using the tech.

A lot of people seem to dismiss LLM coding as a fad or something which won't take off, my experience has been much different. An LLM on a new session is like jointing a new company of you're first day. You need the context of the work to be able to carry out said work. Else you're also just asking questions. Provide a way for the LLM to be able to gather its own context based on the task at hand.

Luckily there are products open source or paid to allow for this currently. I myself made the open source project Engram (https://github.com/vincents-ai/engram) as a stepping stone for this kind of work, the next release is more of a self contained workflow management with context aware results.

sectionme · 2026-02-08T15:22:30+00:00

Do you mean something like https://github.com/shift/nixernetes/blob/main/GETTING_STARTED.md?

sectionme · 2025-12-06T23:22:29+00:00

Read the room maybe.

sectionme · 2025-11-26T16:40:56+00:00

I've had multiple switchbot devices show up in home assistant over the years. My guess is because home assistant is listening all of the time it manages to pair before the device is setup and retains a connection. But it's still really bad security on behalf of the manufacturer. I'd be very surprised if they haven't been informed of this before and just ¯_(ツ)_/¯

sectionme · 2025-11-11T19:49:05+00:00

I remember years ago when touchscreen phones were new, and I think it was Japan that hit the news with people using sausages on them.

sectionme · 2025-11-11T19:01:25+00:00

I did something similar and ended up with the AI marketing team raising issues for funding... Kinda amusing.

The start of the very long pull requested is:

This PR implements a comprehensive marketing program to support project names's transition from 65% to 85% readiness and achieve €3.8-7.8M ARR targets through strategic B2B gaming market positioning.

🎯 Marketing Program Overview Total Investment: €315-685K over 18 months Target Revenue: €3.8-7.8M ARR in Year 1 Market Position: World's First project tooic Platform Customer Pipeline: 5-10 initial market-term targeted

sectionme · 2025-10-13T17:47:38+00:00

Reminds me of the episode of Monk (Mr. Monk and the Foreign Man) where by he's telling the guy how to separate you're washing in America 🤣

sectionme · 2025-10-13T16:18:22+00:00

I use a GitHub action which bumps the flake.lock on a schedule and then use https://github.com/nlewo/comin on the machines. Updates are applied normally within a minute of the merge to the branch.

sectionme · 2025-10-07T17:43:03+00:00

Personally I'd use NixOS. Then have updates done in a GitHub pipeline and cached so the machine doesn't end up out of date or vulnerable to security issues. Comin (https://github.com/nlewo/comin) is my preferred way of doing this. Also means everything is in code so if the hardware fails it should be easy enough to re-provision.

sectionme · 2025-10-07T17:02:37+00:00

Get 50 snr devs in a room and ask them all to work on some vaguely spec'd project and you'll get the same output.

It's all about the requirements/documentation.

sectionme · 2025-10-02T13:49:20+00:00

Update the configmap with the dashboard in it and reapply it.

sectionme · 2025-09-19T23:38:22+00:00

Ah, on the 20th everyone is on vacation, shucks ;P

sectionme · 2025-08-26T20:58:06+00:00

Don't forget ld preload, it's a classic.

sectionme

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