Malcolm Bastien

@malcolm
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Agile Coach from #Toronto. Sharing observations and insights about teams and management. Video gamer. #Kanban #Agile #DDD #WardleyMapping #Twitch #pkm
Bloghttps://malcolmbastien.com
It's pretty confusing how Ollama orders its models. Note the time stamps and how the page is set to filter by "newest"

I think this is a pretty interesting use case for MCP.

I want my AI systems to have more access to my Obsidian notes, but I want to be careful that they can't go off the rails unexpectedly with permissions to delete whatever they want

The Task Genius plugin comes bundled with an MCP server, which I can use to let them interact with my tasks, but not my notes as a whole.

I had an idea yesterday that if I think of my #Obsidian vault as a reflection of what I know (aka my "External brain"), then I could use AI to create a topic map that audits my knowledge gaps.

This can help me identify specific areas to study to fill those gaps. I can then turn this topic map into a plan by either pasting the formatted output back into Obsidian or writing to it directly, complete with tasks and links to notes.

I'm not a big Bluesky fan, but I'm super jealous about how they got Owen D. Pomery to do some beautiful art for their app's splash screen: https://bsky.app/profile/odpomery.bsky.social/post/3mejeouofo22h

It's not a particularly fast system, but my #OpenClaw job application skill is working.

I just give it a URL, and it navigates from page to page to the best of its ability, filling out forms and taking screenshots of everything it enters.

My #OpenClaw now has a browser, also running in Docker, which can access and interact with websites.

It saved a snapshot of the site, but it can also download files, which is exciting.

My first #OpenClaw use case: A skill to organize and rename all my Jellyfin folders and filenames.

An early-morning experiment: I was thinking about the idea that "there's always a bottleneck," and the bottleneck just moves around. With AI coding agents, that bottleneck will shift elsewhere in the value stream.

This is just a quick AI slop prototype, and to simplify things, I'm just presenting changes along a single linear dimension.

I really liked the site's design, but something about having all the elements contained in "cards" always bothered me a bit.

They nicely contained and provided a strong white contrast to highlight the content, but they were also repetitive and a bit distracting.

So yesterday I spent some time and tried fixed that.

https://www.malcolmbastien.com/

Over the last two days, I've built a fuller UI around the graph view. It now has a "Modeller" view for building groups and a "Graph" view for displaying the network of groups and nodes.

https://squadview.vercel.app/