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Daniel Liden @danliden.com · 17/01/2026

Claude Code trying to write elisp and counting parentheses

Daniel Liden @danliden.com · 26/10/2025

Playing around with #emacs org-mode tables. I ultimately want an easy system where I can use capture templates to easily log new rows of data to tables in particular buffers/files.

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Daniel Liden @danliden.com · 22/09/2025

MLflow has added an MCP server in the most recent release, MLflow 3.4.0. You can e.g. use natural language to find and diagnose failing agent traces w Clauded Desktop. This is a huge step toward making MLflow a tool usable by agents. Blog on setting this up coming soon. #mlflow #ai #agents

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Daniel Liden @danliden.com · 21/09/2025

Biggest improvements: dark mode toggle & much nicer code block formatting

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Daniel Liden @danliden.com · 13/04/2025

I find that most of the (many, many) resources on MCP published in the past weeks don't provide small, self-contained examples build on. I tried to do that here. Here's a post on making an MCP server with one tool and using it with Claude desktop. www.danliden.com/posts/202504...

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Daniel Liden @danliden.com · 09/03/2025

Registers are a great way for Emacs beginners to upgrade their experience! My latest blog post is a simple guide to using registers for navigation, and learning about some Emacs concepts (point, mark, registers) in the process. www.danliden.com/notes/202503...

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Daniel Liden @danliden.com · 21/02/2025

Now it can (1) look up lists of commands that seem relevant and (2) inspect their documentation for more details.

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Daniel Liden @danliden.com · 21/02/2025

And now the beginnings of using introspection tools to make new tools in a context-aware way.

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Daniel Liden @danliden.com · 21/02/2025

An easy but useful tool for getting started with gptel tool calling in emacs. `intern` is very useful when defining these tools—it converts a string to the symbol with the same name as the string, creating it if it doesn't exist. My first iteration failed because it was passing a string directly.

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Daniel Liden @danliden.com · 20/02/2025

Unreasonably excited by this

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Daniel Liden @danliden.com · 20/02/2025

I wanted to load my gptel directives from an org file instead of making them part of my config. This approach worked pretty well! Right now the org file is just top-level headings as the directive name, with the text under the heading as the system prompt.

Screenshot of Emacs elisp code showing a solution for loading GPT directives from an org file. The code defines a function 'load-gptel-prompts' that reads level 1 headings from an org file to create GPT prompts. The code is shown in a dark theme with syntax highlighting, demonstrating proper org-mode parsing and directive setting for the gptel package. File path '~/org/gptel-prompts.org' is visible at the bottom.

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Daniel Liden @danliden.com · 08/02/2025

From China Miéville's introduction to Thomas More's Utopia. Really wish there were more Utopian thinking in our contemporary politics—why don't we ever ask what the world would look like if a given policy agenda were taken to its conclusion, or pursued for decades instead of months?

What utopias are are new Rorschachs. We pour our concerns and ideas out, and then in dreaming we fold the paper to open it again and reveal startling patterns. We may pour with a degree of intent, but what we make is beyond precise planning. Our utopias are to be enjoyed and admired: they are made of our concerns and they tell us about our now, about our pre-utopian selves. They are to be interpreted. And so are those of our enemies.

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Daniel Liden @danliden.com · 25/01/2025

From Ghost Ranch, New Mexico in November.

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Daniel Liden @danliden.com · 23/01/2025

"This is a frequent misunderstanding by Org users" including me. Spent some time converting scheduled items to plain timestamps so meetings from earlier in the week would stop appearing on my agenda.

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Daniel Liden @danliden.com · 13/01/2025

Love reading used books. And I agree with the vigorous agreement implied by this annotation.

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Daniel Liden @danliden.com · 11/01/2025

"...we rejoice in the mere suspicion of transcendence" I've found myself returning to this book a lot over the last few months. I don't completely follow or agree with all parts of the argument but I love the language, style, and many well-used excerpts and references.

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Daniel Liden @danliden.com · 04/01/2025

Always interesting to hear why Claude thought it had a hard time with a task (even if doesn't meaningfully reflect the actual processes on which it is conducting a post-mortem).

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Daniel Liden @danliden.com · 04/01/2025

gptel (emacs package) uses text properties to identify LLM response text. This is my first time learning about text properties! They belong to individual characters and are preserved when text is killed/yanked. text properties: www.gnu.org/software/ema... gptel: github.com/karthink/gptel

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Daniel Liden @danliden.com · 20/12/2024

Using MLflow tracing to explore the new Gemini thinking model. The markdown rendering of inputs/outputs makes it really easy to browse through the model's reasoning steps. Code to try it out: gist.github.com/djliden/dd58...

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Daniel Liden @danliden.com · 20/12/2024

Very impressed with the speed and capability of the Gemini 2 Flash Thinking model, and it's interesting to read the reasoning steps!

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Daniel Liden @danliden.com · 15/11/2024

Must have been standing right next to you!

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