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Last month, my friend Gordon White set sail for the Undying Lands. Yesterday was his birthday. I spent it thinking about him, writing this, and remembering him. A Recent DreamThe Cringey WizardThe Visitor at the FarmSmall ApocalypsesNews of the DepartureStart Select Reset 📑This is only the second time I have written words for the dead on here. The first was for Eriol, another member of the Rune Soup community, whose death Gordon announced to us at the end of 2019. I didn’t

Baseline drift.Heat retained.Signals accumulate.Thursday arrives. The Future Arrived in June Start Select Reset 📑 Photo 365 Terminal Access Dipping the Stacks Reading Music Remember Kids:The Future Arrived in JuneI’m going with the ol’ British standby, writing about the weather. Because the UK an

Please forgive me. I am once again writing about taste. I might spin up a category to collect the thread,that’s been unfolding, here, over the years. Table of contentsTaste As Interface BehaviourThe Guardian had a great piece over the weekend by pop culture writer Rachel Aroesti called Have I been influenced, or is this actually me? How personal taste fell out of fashion. It’s about taste. Good taste and bad, and the author’s suspicion that due to the state of social media, we might not have…

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Photo 365 2026. Year 5, Month 5. Photo-a-day for the month of May 2026.

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Towards the end of my post back in march about the near future of agents I mentioned possible changes to the architecture of how Application and UI interact. Once that hard layer is built into applications and websites, something happens to the way software operates. The UI stops being the only control layer, and becomes the human layer only. The app and the interface become completely divorced. Jay https://thejaymo.net/2026/03/06/the-near-future-of-ai-agents/ This idea has basically been the…

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The world after lossis still recognisable.Streets. Receipts. Birds at dawn.Only the proportions alter.More of this now, and less of youI now learn to carry absencethe way we once carried cigarettes;everywhere. Just Sad Start Select Reset 📑 Photo 365 Dipping the Stacks Reading Music Remember Kids: Newsletter 📨Just SadIt has frankly, been a shit week. My friend Gordon White died.A loss of a force a

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Photo 365 2026. Year 5, Month 4. Photo-a-day for the month of April 2026.

Small birds stitch the edge of the tide, then vanish,And the day holds, briefly, like a cup cooling in hand. Turnstones Photo 365 The Ministry Of My Own Labour Terminal Access Dipping the Stacks Reading Music Remember Kids:TurnstonesI can’t belive its MAY. It feels like only yesterday that I got back from Sri Lanka. With every passing year, it feels like life is accelerating, but

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Issue #015 of Start Select Reset went out by snail mail yesterday to my supporters (£5/month+).Start Select Reset is delivered straight to your snail mailbox four times a year, just like it’s 1994!Issue #015 – Monsters In The Mirror Issue #15 is the physical shadow of the audio essay of the same name. It is an essay about artificial intelligence and cultural mirrors; mirrors as magical surfaces, instruments of mastery, and habitats. It turns on the transistor as a second Promethean moment,…

Raindrop.io recently released Stella, an AI assistant for searching, organising, and summarising bookmarks. I’ve been using it to work through nearly 18 years of saved links, and the experience of chatting with my bookmark archive has been surprisingly great. In some situations, it has even replaced mindless doomscrolling, especially in the little moments like waiting in a supermarket queue.At first I was using Stella for simple library maintenance; cleaning up duplicate tags, fixing spelling…

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AI adoption in the workplace is still evolving. But like spreadsheets before them, language models are becoming a new programmable medium for business logic. The post We’ve Been Here Before appeared first on thejaymo.net.

I think judging an LLM on it's writing output is a complete category error. It's what they possible with language that is important. The post Everyone Vibe Codes Their Own Markdown Editor Eventually | Weeknotes #434 appeared first on thejaymo.net.

Photo 365 2026. Year 5, Month 3. Photo-a-day for the month of March 2026. The post March 2026 | Photo 365 appeared first on thejaymo.net.

Over Easter I hung out with my parents, went for walks, participated in a chaotic church raffle, and did a bunch of odd jobs around the house. The post Easter 2026 | Weeknotes #433 appeared first on thejaymo.net.

All a scene really is, is just people just prompting each other in a tight feedback loop. The post Creative Loop | Weeknotes #432 appeared first on thejaymo.net.

At the time of writing, we are about thirty hours from finding out whether the current global settlement is still to be or not. The post Try Our Best | Weeknotes #431 appeared first on thejaymo.net.

On Agents, Worlds, and Ontological Hardness The post Thinking Inside Out appeared first on thejaymo.net.

OpenClaw, Gas Town, and Cantrip through the lens of ontological hardness The post Three Worlds for Little Guys appeared first on thejaymo.net.

Why LLM agents need hard worlds; lessons from interactive fiction engine design. The post Hard Worlds For Little Guys appeared first on thejaymo.net.

Why the first question about agent failure should be about the world, not the model The post Ontological Hardness appeared first on thejaymo.net.