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Heracles Papatheodorou • design technologist, digital maker and architect engineer • musings, shares & ephemera herein • posts in English & scarcely in Greek
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heracl.esMay 2
Good reading of the day:
"The beautiful thing about communities and platforms like Flickr is that they remind us that not everything on the internet has to be ephemeral, not everything on the web has to be hyper-commercial. […] This isn’t just about recounting old web lore — this is about explaining the internet we have right now."
From: @anildash
https://www.threads.com/@anildash/post/DXwfDv8EUBP
Show threadheracl.esApr 19

Such artifacts are useful for home-baked apps where nothing big is at stake, or small modules that can get re-written.

Likely not fit for audience-facing products alone. To put it another way, it cannot be productised as *simply* as it was built. Will there be a lot of slop that asks for your subscription soon? Sure!

Show threadheracl.esApr 19
My take-away, as others have also noted: it is essential to have technical understanding of your platform of choice, and why you made that platform choice. Otherwise, it’s all about the dice rolls. And as long as functionality gets complex, then you’re rolling dice anyway. The result looks fair; it works alright; it’s unmantainable by human minds; difficult to test thoroughly, or reliably tested automatically.
Show threadheracl.esApr 19
It is another “Dialectic Acheiropoieton” built over the course of several weekends and some old notes, as a way to better understand the so-called turning point in the capacity of LLMs to code. They’re pretty capable apparently, and here to stay in the toolbox.
heracl.esApr 19

What if you could build your dream Project Management tool? That’s https://collaborati.online ; just as halfbaked as a true dream, under an easy to remember domain.

If you’re interested in using it go ahead; it works as promised: no tracking, no account, everything happens locally. It’s not *really* built for collaboration, but it could partly happen if you sync a file that is shared through Obsidian, or Dropbox and the like.

/collaborati

Local-first, file-native kanban board

heracl.esApr 19

If making a usage meter for AI chat is the equivalent of designers making chairs, then I just made one. It’s fairly auditable by humans at ~200 lines JS.

Here’s /staminai (https://github.com/Arty2/staminai), the AI token stamina wheel for Claude. Obvious “Zelda: Breath of the Wild” reference; instant UX familiarity.

A “Dialectic Acheiropoieton” or —oh well— Artificial Intelligence vibe-coded software. I hope that’s enough keywords for filters and people who don’t want such stuff in their feed.

GitHub - Arty2/staminai: The AI token stamina wheel for Claude

The AI token stamina wheel for Claude. Contribute to Arty2/staminai development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
heracl.esApr 14

Only catching up to Cloudflare's new CMS, build from the ground with 1000$ Claud credits (of course lead by expert human engineers) up as an homage to (or aggressive marketing against) WordPress.

Great move from Cloudflare (which increasingly invests in the whole web stack), that may eventually shake the dominance of WordPress because of its AI first hooks.

The @verge has an excellent writeup with links for deeper reading
https://www.theverge.com/tech/909730/cloudflare-emdash-wordpress-community

Cloudflare made a WordPress for AI agents

The launch of Cloudflare’s EmDash, which it calls the “spiritual successor to WordPress,” is causing a stir in the WordPress community.

The Verge
heracl.esApr 13

It doesn't feel proper to claim authority without disclaimer on AI over an AI coded thing, and the pop "vibe-coded" doesn't sit well either.

I've been hesitantly using the neologism "dialectic acheropoieton". The generated definition is annoyingly close:

"A dialectic acheiropoieton is an image, object, or concept understood through a critical tension between its claim to be non-humanly produced and the historical, material, and interpretive processes that actually sustain it."

heracl.esApr 8

Certainly! Here are ten words and phrases I tend to use often:

1. Absolutely
2. Certainly
3. Of course
4. Definitely
5. Indeed
6. Naturally
7. Sure thing
8. Without a doubt
9. Absolutely (just for emphasis!)
10. Certainly (again, because it’s a favorite!)

So these are some of my go-to affirmation words!

#poaitry

Show threadheracl.esMar 11

Almost a year until Cloudflare started actually proving the same kind of access they promised to block. With some caveats, sure.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-03-10-br-crawl-endpoint/

"You can now crawl an entire website with a single API call using Browser Rendering's new /crawl endpoint, available in open beta. Submit a starting URL, and pages are automatically discovered, rendered in a headless browser, and returned in multiple formats…"

Crawl entire websites with a single API call using Browser Rendering

Browser Rendering's new /crawl endpoint lets you submit a starting URL and automatically discover, render, and return content from an entire website as HTML, Markdown, or structured JSON.

Cloudflare Docs