Daily Journal 📓 October 2026

Shorter dated entries, links, and microblogs, plus GitHub & Tangled stars.

“There’s your own private garden of code, which you can grow infinitely in all directions with the help of AI, but you never have to leave the garden and go to the bazaar to trade with people.” Fernando Borretti, No Man is an Island

via @joao.omg.lol

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“news will be intermediated by AI, whether we like it or not, and maps the information ecosystem in three layers: consumption, synthesis and creation.”

Report: The Three-Layer Cake: Public-Interest information in an AI-intermediated age, via @ginaskchua.bsky.social

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I need to turn SVGs into transparent PNGs on MacOS. brew install librsvg is one path. rsvg-convert -h 32 icon.svg > icon-32.png is an example of converting. Please shill me other tools.

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“A unified interface for issues, pull requests, notifications, checks and webhooks across 12 forges” forges link is a single TypeScript library that handles API connections across git forges.

via @danielroe.dev

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⭐️ cyborg-garden/anti-slop-core anti-slop core — the versioned floor for escaping AI-slop writing and building earned voices (genericised public edition)

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⭐️ unpingable/absd ABSD, an experimental operating system in Rust: kernel, userspace, file server, SSH server, manual and tests, assembled per source release from the development repositories. Runs under QEMU; technical preview, not production.

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⭐️ Altor-lab/altor-vec Client-side vector search powered by HNSW. 54KB gzipped WASM. Sub-millisecond latency.

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⭐️ xerj-org/xerj Local-first search engine and MCP server for AI agents. One Rust binary indexes code, docs, logs, JSONL/CSV and PDFs for BM25 full-text, vector and hybrid search, code search without grep, agent memory and RAG. Elasticsearch-compatible API; Corpus Hub serves hundreds of reference memory corpora.

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Digging into Connectome “open-source infrastructure for AI agents that continue over time. An agent can carry a history from one conversation into another, keep working on a project across days or months, and remain part of a shared world”

via LeNooby09

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I’ve never found a digital recipe management app that has worked for me & like the author of the post I have lots of physical cookbooks.

I just can’t see myself paying for a proprietary subscription app like Paprika.

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⭐️ rxappdev/MouseTiler The fastest, simplest tiler for KDE Plasma 6+ that gives you full freedom at your fingertip. No need to remember dozens of keyboard shortcuts or be limited by a fixed tile layout.

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⭐️ superlinked/sie Open-source inference server and production cluster for all the models your agent needs.

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⭐️ Saffsanity/sill Any window from your Mac, live on your iPhone or iPad. Touch, Apple Pencil, trackpad and keys. Free, open source, no servers.

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⭐️ kiruna-labs/petal Petal: low-latency, multi-window screensharing for macOS and Windows. Every shared window becomes a real native window on every participant’s desktop.

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Petal: low-latency, multi-window screensharing for macOS and Windows. Every shared window becomes a real native window on every participant’s desktop.

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Wasm, aka Web Assembly, is not, in fact SHOUTY CASED WASM. They still have to put it on the home page:

“WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine.”

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“The credit for coming up with the research is now shared across the entire field because the machines exploit all of our ideas at once. And in their thinking, mulling, and regurgitating they even forget where the ideas they used came from.” via @ccanonne.github.io

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Kata Tracker is a local-first issue tracker. Agent-friendly CLI and a basic TUI for people. via @ngerakines.me

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⭐️ kenn-io/kata Local-first issue tracking for AI-assisted software work, with an agent-friendly CLI and human-facing TUI

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Anthropic released a blog post, Redesigning source control, on outgrowing git for version control of their monorepo and designing their replacement, Scion. And stats like “as of September, we merged over 30,000 (commits) per day.”

Article with highlights from me on my site.

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André Staltz @staltz.com wrote about Time Till Open Source Alternative four years ago. Now, the time is zero because of coding agents.

He see three main themes for software: demonetization, remixable & personalization, software as content.

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First run of Mistral3 8B Q4 model on Steam Machine — ~700 tok/s prompt processing and ~43 tok/s token generation using llama.cpp.

Going to put llama-swap on there to try out a couple of different models…which is written by my old friend Benson @mostlygeek.bsky.social!


I got a Steam Machine. It’s called Hearth and you can read some initial notes on the install. I’ve been hanging out on the desktop and don’t even have any games installed yet.

oh, btw…


Great article by Oana Olteanu “Against Usefulness” that centers @folkcomputer.bsky.social while describing “the stage before useful, who works on it, and who pays for it, so that the next generation of useful companies has something to stand on”

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