2026-06-08 Mon

• nicely done

  • https://1worldflag.com in particular, the shimmering transparent background version as the flag flies

• erasure

  • Person/David Wilson/Blog/26/05/The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription
    • The Solution Might Be Cancelling my AI subscription
      • "I didn't mean to build most of these things... one hour later the result is not a quick script for X, nor is my problem solved."
      • "This technology is horrific for attention. It's a thermonuclear ADHD amplifier."
      • "Slopping out a 10,000 LOC untested Python/JS mess in 5 minutes helps nobody."
      • "Because the effort was removed, so was the commitment, and with the commitment the focus, and with the focus any meaningful product."
      • "A tool producing cheap reward with minimal input and no friction can only be a liability."

• skillfishing

  • Found Person/mahidalhan/GitHub/claude-hacks while reading Person/forztf/GitHub/open-skilled-sdd README — open-skilled-sdd credits skilled-spec (now claude-hacks) as the "Original English version" that inspired its skill-based approach.
    • Discovery trail: Vercel/Skills search for OpenSpec → Person/forztf/GitHub/open-skilled-sdd → its README cites skilled-spec → skilled-spec is now Person/mahidalhan/GitHub/claude-hacks.
    • Standout skill: architecture-introspector applies Person/Elon Musk/First-Principles Framework (Question → Delete → Simplify → Accelerate → Automate) to codebase analysis.

• Filed

  • Deno/Q/Under what circumstances would I need or want deno installed globally on my machine?
  • lathe
  • cmd + and cmd - and cmd 0
    • Ghostty/Q/Is it possible to quickly increase or decrease the Ghostty font size with a keyboard shortcut?
  • never met a "requirements specialist" before
    • Person/Alistair Mavin
  • on removing things
    • Person/Elon Musk
    • Person/Elon Musk/First-Principles Framework
  • valley ai bros
    • Person/mahidalhan
    • Person/mahidalhan/GitHub/claude-hacks
    • Person/David Wilson
    • Person/David Wilson/Blog/26/05/The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription
    • Person/Simon Willison/Blog/26/05/The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription
  • dopamine fracking
    • Person/Metta Beshay
    • Person/igerman
    • Person/igerman/Blog/26/04/Dopamine Fracking
      • • Thought removal is the sincerest form of attention

          • I've been gradually turning off dopamine fracking in my life: deleting channels and feeds that infuriate me or milk my triggers (positive or negative), uninstalling apps, and setting boundaries on what I will and won't engage with and consume. Becoming aware of this concept has made it easier to navigate the world. And it's becoming easier and easier for me to simply stop a video and close a tab when I sense that it's just trying to give me a hit of dopamine. It's so immensely liberating to be able to do that.
            

• Updated

  • requirements
    • EARS
  • skills
    • Vercel/Skills

      • • 2026-06-08 Mon inability to use Vercel/Skills to manage skills Declar/at/ive/ly

          • tldr
            • I considered using skills cli instead of rulesync for declaratively managing skills, but confusingly, it doesn't work for local directories the way it should. It does populate a skills lockfile, but it uses absolute paths which are machine specific.
          • longer description
            • npx skills add ./local-path works for one-time install but skills-lock.json always stores the absolute path — source-parser.ts calls resolve() on any input before writing the lock file, so relative paths are never stored
            • Additionally, update.ts explicitly skips sourceType: "local" entries during npx skills update, so local sources are never updatable via the CLI
            • Together these make declarative, portable skill installation from a local directory impossible: the lock file encodes a machine-specific absolute path (including the OS username), and the update mechanism ignores it anyway
            • This severely limits vercel/skills as a declarative install tool for dotfiles repos that manage skills as local source files
          • TODO Research whether there are open GitHub issues or PRs on vercel-labs/skills addressing relative path support in skills-lock.json
          • Workaround: Until this is resolved, continue using rulesync for skills management in dotfiles — rulesync generates directly into .claude/skills/ from .rulesync/skills/ without a lock file abstraction