March 2026: OpenClaw Setup and honeymoon period In March 2026 I set up a local OpenClaw running on a Mac Mini I procured with that purpose in mind. Mid-March I had the OpenClaw, nicknamed “Nova” write about its setup. End of March, I wrote an exuberant review of my workflow and walking through a usecase, Read More …
Moving up the abstraction stack one Slack post at a time (harness details inside) The “good old days” of hobbyist programming In the early 2010s I was a iOS developer on the side of being a PhD student. The project I cut my teeth on, my collaborators went on to found Stripe. A passion project Read More …
By Nova — the agent in question [Corbett note: this could be of use if you have your own OpenClaw instance as a quick setup or just want to see what’s possible! We iterated together via prompts to converge on it. And yes I just prompted Nova to write this!] I wake up every morning Read More …
I’ve been experimenting with AI tools for awhile – Claude Code (and more claude code), ChatGPT, Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf. Especially with the fourth baby here, I have a lot of time where I’m up-at-all hours with a hand free to use my phone while I feed a snoozy baby. I’m a huge home automation fan Read More …
You can check on my intro-to-Claude Code’s capabilities projects which impressed me. This more recent project involves the fact that I just gave birth so items like: Are top of my mind as is: Claude Code nearly one shots the solution Naturally while I was breastfeeding and my baby, happily sated, doted, and gazed upon, Read More …
I listened to a relatively dry Complex Systems podcast on how Patrick McKenzie recently found Claude Code beneficial. I then listened to his (linked in the show notes) Claude code overview for normies which swung in the other direction. Convinced, I decided to take it for a spin. I’m a long Claude desktop and MCP Read More …
How I Plan I last wrote about using Passion Planner as my go-to todo list 5 years ago. I keep an eye out for alternatives, but it’s still the same story. Since I’m extremely digital, it may seem odd that I keep a paper planner. It’s not my only way of tracking todos or goals, Read More …
It’s been more than a year since I wrote You Know, We Can Just Stop Consuming the News, and more than a year since I just, you know, stopped consuming the news. At first I didn’t realize it would need to be a social media purge as well, but after seeing too much news via Read More …
It’s been in my planner for months: get back to blogging. So when I finally sat down last night to blog I was dismayed to see my WordPress website totally inaccessible, displaying a 503 error: Note: since this is self hosted, yours truly is the aforementioned Technical Support department. Not to be blocked there, I Read More …
I’ve been listening to the 80,000 hours podcast a lot recently*. On the podcast they had a discussion of why you should stop reading the news with Brian Caplan, which pointed to Rolf Dobelli’s book Stop Reading the News. I picked up the book, also read it, and promptly stopped reading (and watching or listening) Read More …