139 reps of lateral raises. Don’t think I’ve got any more reps left in me.

AI won’t make humans obsolete, because not everything can be reduced to a process, and there’s no one right way to do most things.

We’ve handed the keys to our emails, calendars, to-do lists, and private lives to services that know more about us than most people we love. Every step is tracked. Big Tech analyses the shit out of our data and they can infer an astonishing amount about us: from our favourite shoe brand to the political party we support. I’m not trying to give a sermon. I’m guilty of it too. AI holds the key to two very different futures. One is a dystopian age of surveillance, where every breath is counted, measured, and analysed. The other is a golden future where we run our own services, host our data on our own infrastructure, and decide who gets access. Self-hosting used to mean weeks of reading documentation, hitting walls in the terminal because commands were broken or gave completely different output, and wondering whether you needed to hire a networking engineer just to fix your setup. (It also meant pestering knowledgeable friends with endless questions. Big shoutout to @Gooyban , who has patiently endured a truly unreasonable amount of my pestering. Seriously, thank you!) Now, a few good prompts can get a self-hosted service running. When you don’t understand something, AI can explain it, troubleshoot it with you, or help build it. AI is a powerful tool. We can use it to hand even more of ourselves to Big Tech or we can use it to become more independent.

Non-aggression means you should not initiate aggression. It does not mean tolerating abuse. Too many self-described libertarians miss that distinction and mistake cowardice for non-aggression. GM

The more you work inside a corporation, the less obvious it becomes that anything should work at all. Everyone misunderstands each other. Things get lost in translation. Something breaks somewhere every day. The one person who knows how it works is on annual leave. But somehow, your package still shows up at your door more often than not.

The more you work inside a corporation, the less obvious it becomes that anything should work at all. Things get lost in translation. People misunderstand each other all the time. Something breaks somewhere every day. People fuck up here and there. But somehow, your package still shows up at your door more often than not.

Just shipped two new progress-tracking features in Rostam: • Track body measurements • Add progress photos to see your transformation

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GitHub - mktahmasbi99/Rostam: A simple log for grease-the-groove practice, exercise snacks, and accumulated daily movement.

A simple log for grease-the-groove practice, exercise snacks, and accumulated daily movement. - mktahmasbi99/Rostam

I named my exercise logging app Rostam, after the legendary hero of Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh (The Book of Kings).

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GitHub - mktahmasbi99/Rostam: A simple log for grease-the-groove practice, exercise snacks, and accumulated daily movement.

A simple log for grease-the-groove practice, exercise snacks, and accumulated daily movement. - mktahmasbi99/Rostam

We’re fortunate that the leaders of the open-source movement paved the way, making code as protected as speech. Thanks to them, we’re unstoppable.

We’d better stock up on the available local models before the powers that be declare them illegal.

The two greatest people of my lifetime are, hands down, Linus Torvalds and Satoshi Nakamoto.

I'm vibe-coding an exercise-tracking app called "MonsterSets". 😁 Will keep you posted. 😎

It back in 2015 when I first got interested in keeping fish and aquatic plants. It all started with this one betta fish. Then I thought: “Maybe I should get him a bigger bowl?” Then: “How about a plant?” (You can see both in the picture.) And somehow, that turned into a full-fledged aquarium at home and eventually another aquarium at the school where I taught English and German. After moving to Poland, I went years without keeping an aquarium. Then last year, I got one fish … yes, you guessed it: one small betta fish. 😄 And, once again, things escalated. That one betta now lives in a 25-liter planted aquarium with a whole cleanup crew of Amano shrimp and several kinds of snails. To my credit, I have kept the aquarium and the species small this time to make the maintenance easier and keep the costs low. Swipe to meet the crew. 🐟🦐🐌

I made this using traditional fretsaw woodworking over a decade ago. I haven’t cut wood since leaving Iran, about eight years ago. Last month, I finally bought a fretsaw again. I’ve been looking into where to find different kinds of wood that work well for this craft, and I’m ready to get back into it. Stay tuned for some Nostr & Bitcoin artwork. 🧡

25m 27s. That’s the longest I’ve had Codex working on a single command so far. Ran it on Sol - Medium to set up the PWA for my habit tracker.

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GitHub - mktahmasbi99/web-habit-tracker

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Astra made Terra the easy default for serious coding prompts. When the task deserves it, put Codex on Terra with High effort. It is cheap enough to use freely and the output quality is very good.

8 months ago, the Islamic regime cut off the internet and massacred tens of thousands of Iranians simply for demanding freedom, and the world let that happen. Never forget.

Enough of the “Emad from Gaza” bot spam. I’m vibe-coding a client-side muter that catches its usual name variations, with a review queue for false positives.

AI makes creation more accessible. That’s huge. But experience still compounds. If two people have the same AI tools, the one who has made 1,000 commits will almost always see things the first-time builder cannot yet see.

Astra burns through tokens quickly, so I’d reserve it for high-intensity work like complex planning. Terra is already excellent for coding and getting things done. Now that Astra is the flagship, models like Terra have become cheap enough that you can code for hours without worrying too much about running out of tokens.