#AI Coding

• Cursor

  • #Updated CursorAI Project Rule Test with a list of current tests
  • #Filed
    • CursorAI/How To/Share Cursor Project Rules Across Repositories and Users
    • CursorAI/Forum/25/03/Scan for Project Rules in Subdirectories of .cursor rules
    • Person/codekiln/GitHub/cursor-ai-sdlc

• aider/Installation

  • #Filed GitHub/Issue For security reasons, default installation docs should not instruct users to divulge their API keys at the command line · Issue #3475 · Aider-AI/aider

#Agentic Systems

• Anthropic/Blog/24/12/Building Effective Agents

  • #Wordsmithing

    • Agentic Spectrum refers to the spread between Agentic Systems that are more deterministic and pre-specified AI Workflows, and those Agentic Systems where the AI is given freedom to "choose" the next best move or what to do next, AI Agents. It seems that this spectrum is mapped to the space between 0 and 1, from "non-agentic" workflows to "fully agentic" agents.
    • Poka-yoke when you bake something into a process or a technology that prevents a class of errors

      • ⁠⁠Poka-yoke your tools. Change the arguments so that it is harder to make mistakes.
        

• I don't think I quite understood before that GitHub/Pages/User Site was a thing; it's possible to have a domain like <username>.github.io

#Security

• smallstep/Blog/24/05/How to Handle Secrets on the Command Line

  • • tldr #Summary

      • TL;DR: Best practices for #CLI secrets: (1) Use credential files with proper permissions and disk encryption; (2) Use pipes to pass secrets directly between programs; (3) Avoid EnvVars environment variables when possible; (4) Never pass secrets directly in command arguments; (5) Consider using a keyring facility like Linux/keyring for in-memory storage; (6) For specific tools, use their built-in credential storage (like dotfile/.netrc for curl).

#MCP

• Person/David Ondrej/YouTube/25/03/Build Anything with MCP Agents

uv

• #Filed Diataxis/References
  • uv tool install
  • uv/tool

#AI/Coding

• #Filed
  • Cursor Project Rules
    • CursorAI/Article/25/02/Mastering Cursor Rules
      • This article mentioned that cursor project rules could be located in subfolders, which inspired a series of tests
      • Originally the tests were located at Person/codekiln/GitHub/cursor-project-rule-test
      • Tests
        • CursorAI/Project Rule/Test/Agent/✅/Find MDC/No Globs
        • CursorAI/Project Rule/Test/Agent/✅/Find MDC/in Subfolder
        • CursorAI/Project Rule/Test/Agent/❌/Follow @docs in MDC

#Investigation

• Bellingcat/Investigation Toolkit - techniques for trying to figure out if things are true using online investigation
  • via their page about #Logseq Logseq | Bellingcat's Online Investigation Toolkit

#PKM

• Logseq
  • #CEO
    • Person/Tienson Qin
  • Features
    • Logseq/Forum/24/12/This chart shows what makes Logseq unique
      • PKM Comparison Chart
  • Obsolescence and Community Love
    • Logseq/Reddit/25/03/Lost hope in logseq 193 ups, discussion of forking
  • Competitors
    • Siyuan - never heard of it before, but it's on the comparison chart above.

Wordsmithing

• Skeuomorphism when something is made to resemble the thing that people are already familiar with, e.g. the "desktop" on your computer

VSCode

• #Filed
  • Over the past couple days I have been keeping both VSCode and PyCharm open, simply because PyCharm enables me to work faster when it comes to running tests, going to a class (VSCode/How To/Go To Python Class by Name), copying python dotted paths (see also VSCode/How To/Copy the Python Dotted Class Path), and just seeing what files are in the VSCode/View/Files Explorer. I'm not satisfied with the UI and UX of VSCode. Ended up putting a bit of time into customizing it to try to improve its visibility.

  • VSCode/Q/How do I increase the readability of file explorer in the sidebar

    • VSCode/Q/Is there any way to toggle the visibility of gitignored items in the sidebar

      • This works VSCode/Extension/Toggle Exclude Git Ignore
        • VSCode/Command/Explorer/Toggle Git Ignore
    • Extensions
      • VSCode/Extension/indent-rainbow didn't install, but okay idea. for main editor.
      • VSCode/Extension/Material Icon Theme does help
    • Settings

      • • My Notes on VSCode settings

          • VSCode/Setting/Workbench/Tree/Indent

            • useful for increasing the depth of the file indent. it is not clear to me how to increase the folder indent.

          • VSCode/Setting/Workbench/Tree: Render Indent Guides

            • you can change it so they are always on
      • VSCode/Setting/Workbench/Tree: Render Indent Guides changed to always
  • Other Settings

    • VSCode/Setting/Editor/Font/Size increased it to 14
    • VSCode/Setting/Editor/Font/Family
      • changed to 'Robotization Mono', 'Noto Sans Mono', 'IBM Plex Mono', 'Kawkab Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', Cousine, 'ST1X Two Math For Robot0 Mono', 'Symbola For Robot0 Mono', 'Source Han Sans', Menlo, Monaco, 'Courier New', monospace
    • VSCode/Setting/Accessibility/Dim Unfocused/Enabled and VSCode/Setting/Accessibility/Dim Unfocused/Opacity - I turned on and set unfocused opacity to 0.75 to try it out. it does make it slightly easier to see where the focus is, at the expense of making it easier to read the places where the focus is not. I turned it off because I don't want to change my focus in order to read things.
    • VSCode/Setting/Workbench/Color Theme
    • VSCode/Setting/Window/Auto Detect/Color Scheme
    • VSCode/Setting/Workbench/Color Theme/Light
      • I set this to VSCode/Theme/Laravel PyCharm Theme by kiwi0fruit
  • VSCode/Theme/vscodethemes.com useful for finding different themes

    • I do wish there was a way to sort by average contrast ratio or accessibility compliance level
    • VSCode Light Themes
      • VSCode/Theme/Laravel PyCharm Theme by kiwi0fruit
      • LinkedIn Learning Theme by LinkedIn Learning | VS Code Themes
        • Accessible light and dark variant theme for VS Code.
    • #Discovered tinte.railly.dev, a theme editor for VSCode, shadcn, etc. created by Person/Railly Hugo
    • VSCode/Theme/WCAG/AA
      • In general, searching for keywords related to WCAG helps with finding accessible themes
      • exastone/exa-theme: exa-theme • theme pack for vscode
        • I like the darker themes, but the light one is so blue
  • #TIL VSCode/Quirk/Customized Keyboard Shortcuts Remain After Uninstalling Extensions

    • I created custom shortcuts to show and hide .gitignore'd files here Hide Git Ignored - Visual Studio Marketplace - then I uninstalled it. The keyboard shortcuts remained. This was astonishing to me, but I suppose it might make sense; if I re-installed it, the keyboard shortcuts would remain.

• Typography

  • Font/Robotization Mono

AI Coding

• AI/LLM/Tool/Repo Summarizer #Filed

  • Repomix/Config
    • added some documentation on repomix config
  • Repomix/--compress

    • • My Notes

        • Uses Tree-Sitter to "compress" code by reducing it to function signatures
        • potentially #Cool - though I can imagine how this might confuse an engineer that didn't understand the implication of how this feature would impact what the AI "understands" about the context from the generated repomix file.
        • Reminds me of a QodoAI demo I saw in a webinar where they discussed a similar Embedding Chunking strategy. Theirs was bit more intelligent, I think, and could create a chunk for each class's method which was a tiny, compressed version of the class with attributes and referenced function signatures with commented out method bodies. I think they used multi-layered chunking to ensure AI could get the "gist" of the code when a single chunk was returned from a Vector DB

Coding Language Tools

• JSON5

  • • About

      • extension to json that aims to be easier to write and maintain by hand (e.g. for config files).
      • superset of json; valid JSON files will always be valid JSON5 files
        • a subset of ES5; valid JSON5 files will always be valid ES5
        • expands its syntax to include some productions from ECMAScript 5.1 (ES5).

      • My Notes

        • allows
          • Code/Comment (both single-line and multi-line)
          • Trailing commas in objects and arrays
          • Unquoted property names
          • More relaxed string syntax

LangChain ecosystem

• Webinar with Person/Harrison Chase of LangChain and Person/Itamar Friedman of QodoAI 2025-03-11 Tue 12PM EDT - Webinar: From Code Completion to Multi-Agent Coding Workflows

Microsoft ecosystem

• o365/pptx/How To/Embed MS Stream in PowerPoint

AI Coding

• AI/Coding/Technique/Phased Planning/ai-coding dir #Updated
  • #Filed
    • AI/LLM/Technique/AI Interviewer
      • #Idea AI/Coding/Technique/Project Onboarding Interview
    • #Idea AI Technique - Link in a Personal Knowledge Base
    • #Idea AI/Coding/Technique/Knowledge Base

Knowledge

• Disambiguation

  • #Filed Knowledge/Concept/Knowledge Base vs Knowledge Garden to distinguish Knowledge Gardens from Knowledge Bases

LangChain Ecosystem

• langgraph/Studio/How to/Start from a subsequent node with pre-built state

AI Coding

• AI/Coding/Technique/Phased Planning/ai-coding dir #Updated
  • Expanded the introductory section with a description of the files in the directory and some examples of various ticket folders
  • Thinking that it might make sense to add these, but haven't recorded this anywhere else yet:
    • a plan and a checklist file for each stage in sub-folders to increase focus
    • a CURRENT STAGE file to store the state of which sub-task we're working on
    • subfolders for issues from other repos
• CursorAI/Security/How To/Exclude Secrets from Indexing
  • CursorAI/Forum/24/12/Questions on .gitignore, .cursorignore, .cursorban
• Expense of Claude 3.7 Sonnet
  • Is using claude-sonnet-3.7 more expensive than normal? : r/cursor
    • Yes, it's fairly expensive. I'm using IDE/Cline extension in Windsurf and have spent $1.30 with 5 minutes. If you use it for a full day you could easily spend between 50 and 100 dollars.

LangChain Ecosystem

• #Filed
  • langgraph/How To/See configuration for LangGraph run in LangSmith
  • langgraph/How To/Use add_conditional_edges to route in graph
  • langgraph/Docs/Companies using LangGraph
  • langgraph/Template
  • langgraph/EnvVars
    • #TIL that Langgraph has DataDog support through EnvVars
  • LangChain/GitHub/langchain-mcp-adapters is a GitHub/Repo that provides an MCP adapter for langgraph and LangChain
  • langgraph/Tip/Use langgraph-cli rather than studio so you can grep your logs

• Person/Sergei Smagin/Blog/19/11/Cross-Site Requests

• What’s the best window manager? : r/macapps
  • 31 upvotes for MacOS/Tiling/App/Rectangle, which is what I currently use, but it doesn't have all the features I want. I really could benefit from learning more of the keyshorts, though. Unbelievably, even though it has many features I don't use, it doesn't have the features I want. I'd really like to have more of a window manager like awesomeWM when I was in linux. I'd love to be able to snap and pin tiny applications to a small dedicated section of the screen. I think I can do that with BentoBox.
  • 30 upvotes Mac/Tiling/App/Swish

    • • My Notes

        • #Price $16
        • Very based on Trackpad/Gestures
  • 3 upvotes for Mac/Tiling/App/BentoBox

    • • My Notes

        • #Price - $9 right now, $20 once they are at v1.0
        • #Cool - let's you pick your layouts to snap to
          • https://assets.bentoboxapp.com/bentobox-demo.mp4

#AI

• AI Knowledge Gardening #Filed

  • • My Notes on AI Knowledge Gardening

      • Using AI tools to help with Knowledge Gardening tasks is going to become an important part of how my personal AI agents are able to draw on my experience and bring into AI/Context. I've started cultivating a toolset to help AI maintain my knowledge garden. In time, I hope to add a AI Deep Research tool to CICD to do slow iterations of research on topics. Hopefully it will only become the good version of Norbot.
  • Norbot

    • Norbot

      • The Norbots (Nifty Odd-Jobbing Robots) are the secondary antagonists in Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl.
      • mechanical-looking gnome made from clay
      • The green Norbot is Wallace's latest invention that was invented as a smart gnome.
      • intended as a well-meaning garden device
      • Feathers McGraw hacked his code to be malicious
        • Norbot created an army of evil blue Norbots
          • thieved residents of Wigan in disguise as home improvement
          • used stolen house parts and equipment to create a submarine to help Feathers' escape

      • My Notes

        • well-timed critique of AI/Issue/Alignment, AI/Security and the Irrational Exuberance of Techno-Optimism
        • hilarious commentary on the Aesthetics of GenAI; the hedges that Norbot creates are all square and even. Also, while constructing them, Norbot dangerously and obliviously comes close to injuring Grommit and others while working so rapidly.
        • re-tells Person/Johann Goethe/Poem/The Sorcerer's Apprentice

  • CursorAI/Project Rule/diataxis-how-to.mdc

    • • Summary of diataxis-how-to.mdc

        • This cursor rule specifies how CursorAI/Agent can to author a Diataxis-style How To guide and add it to the Knowledge Garden.
        • Use Case: If you are about to ask CursorAI/Chat for the answer to a particular question, instead, ask Cursor to research a question and create a How-To guide for it. This way the answer will be in the knowledge base for easy reference in the future.

        • #Examples of pages created with this Cursor Project Rule

          • Diataxis/How To/Create a How To
          • uv/How To/Add a Package to pyproject.toml

#CLI Craftsmanship

• uv/How To/Add a Package to pyproject.toml #Filed

#Documentation

• #Filed

  • Diataxis/How To
  • Diataxis/How To/Create a How To
  • Ubuntu/Blog/24/12/Docs dev and design for technical authors

    • • A merciless kind of light - #Quote from Person/Daniele Procida

        • Everyone knows the experience of having a fine idea, that when it has to be spelled out in words, suddenly looks a bit less splendid.
          

        • This is what documentation does. Documentation is a clear and merciless kind of light. Under its harsh scrutiny, many aspects of a product can look ugly, or clunky, or disjointed.
          

#Logseq

• Logseq/Slideshow/How To/Create a Logseq Slideshow #Filed

  • • Logseq/Slideshow/How To/Create a Logseq Slideshow

      • ... you can present a page/note as a slide. Click on “Presentation” in page settings, and press f to present in full screen. Below is the demo.
        

      • 
      • Here is page used to demo. You can try it yourself.

People

• #Filed

  • Coders

    • Person/Daniele Procida

      • • #My Notes from https://vurt.eu/

          • Creator of the Diataxis documentation framework
          • Very knowledgeable about #Hiring and managing teams at #Canonical, the company behind #Ubuntu
    • Person/Rajashekar Chintalapati

      • • My Notes

          • I learned from him how to do Logseq Slideshows in Person/Rajashekar Chintalapati/Blog/22/01/How to publish Logseq notes. Unfortunately, it seems his Knowledge Garden is a bit sparse
          • Learned from his github profile the #Term Prokopton, a Greek word that means "practicing Stoic"
          • Has been working at Walmart since 2013. Uses Python and is interested in AI/ML
    • Person/Viznut

      • • My Notes

          • creator of the beautiful Font/unscii
          • culturally adjacent to Person/Devine Lu Linvega and Perma/Computing; see also his essay Person/Viznut/Article/future
  • Person/Johann Goethe

#Knowledge Gardening

• #Wordsmithing

  • #Filed
    • AI Knowledge Gardening
    • CursorAI Project Rule GitHub Link
    • CursorAI Project Rule Local Link
    • CLI Craftsmanship
    • Knowledge Gardening
    • Package Management
    • Stoic

#Typography

• Font/nerdfonts Nerd Fonts - Iconic font aggregator, glyphs/icons collection, & fonts patcher

#Unicode

• #Filed
  • Font/unscii
  • Semigraphics/Sextant Character
  • Semigraphics/Sextant Characters/Py Grid Utility

  • Unicode/Block/Symbols for Legacy Computing

    • • My Notes

        • 🬀🬁🬂🬃🬄🬅🬆🬇🬈🬉🬊🬋🬌🬍🬎🬏🬐🬑🬒🬓🬔🬕🬖🬗🬘🬙🬚🬛🬜🬝🬞🬟🬠🬡🬢🬣🬤🬥🬦🬧🬨🬩🬪🬫🬬🬭🬮🬯🬰🬱🬲🬳🬴🬵🬶🬷🬸🬹🬺🬻🬼🬽🬾🬿🭀🭁🭂🭃🭄🭅🭆🭇🭈🭉🭊🭋🭌🭍🭎🭏🭐🭑🭒🭓🭔🭕🭖🭗🭘🭙🭚🭛🭜🭝🭞🭟🭠🭡🭢🭣🭤🭥🭦🭧🭨🭩🭪🭫🭬🭭🭮🭯🭰🭱🭲🭳🭴🭵🭶🭷🭸🭹🭺🭻🭼🭽🭾🭿🮀🮁🮂🮃🮄🮅🮆🮇🮈🮉🮊🮋🮌🮍🮎🮏🮐🮑🮒🮓🮔🮕🮖🮗🮘🮙🮚🮛🮜🮝🮞🮟🮠🮡🮢🮣🮤🮥🮦🮧🮨🮩🮪🮫🮬🮭🮮🮯🮰🮱🮲🮳🮴🮵🮶🮷🮸🮹🮺🮻🮼🮽🮾🮿🯀🯁🯂🯃🯄🯅🯆🯇🯈🯉🯊🯰🯱🯲🯳🯴🯵🯶🯷🯸🯹
        • used for Semigraphics/Sextant Characters
  • Unicode/Block/Symbols for Legacy Computing/Ref