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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 19/07/2026
ok but what’s with the dumpling socket
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 04/05/2026
This has all sorts of fun tools now. Try it! Or tell your agent to connect over MCP!
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 01/05/2026
shot / chaser
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 30/04/2026
@genmon.fyi you might enjoy this :)
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 30/04/2026
Online, where you can see a few tiny example applications: chat room, audio game, task manager, IDE. woo.hughpyle.workers.dev
woo.hughpyle.workers.dev
woo
world of objects
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 30/04/2026
LambdaMOO: the once and future. Here’s a modern version: I’m hoping it will become a good platform for agents. github.com/hughpyle/woo
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GitHub - hughpyle/woo: world-of-objects
world-of-objects. Contribute to hughpyle/woo development by creating an account on GitHub.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The Wetland Project has been my favorite alternate-reality radio experience since it began. Since it only happens once a year, you can’t become accustomed to it. Close your eyes and be washed over by the sonic reality of an isolated bog on Saturna Island!
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 12/04/2026
Chatting with Obsidian, Hermes Agent and Keep keepnotes.ai/blog/2026-04...
keepnotes.ai
LLM-Wiki
Chatting with Obsidian, Hermes Agent, and Keep
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 15/03/2026
Code Mode is like vibe-coding a query plan. keepnotes.ai/blog/2026-03...
keepnotes.ai
Flows
Code Mode for Memory
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 10/03/2026
"Flows" are super flexible: workflows running in the memory system for query, ranking, summarization, tagging and more. Active memory. User-defined flows. Because "information" is a verb.
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 07/03/2026
simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/5/c...
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Can coding agents relicense open source through a “clean room” implementation of code?
Over the past few months it’s become clear that coding agents are extraordinarily good at building a weird version of a “clean room” implementation of code. The most famous version …
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 06/03/2026
I don’t really get it. Two AWS data centers in Dubai have been out of action since the weekend, and a third in Bahrain damaged. And… crickets?
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 06/03/2026
Continuations-based memory access: beyond the one-shot search docs.keepnotes.ai/guides/conti...
docs.keepnotes.ai
Continuations — keep
Stateful multi-step memory interactions with automatic refinement
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 01/03/2026
A benchmark run for the `keep` memory skill. Does it work? Yes, it does. keepnotes.ai/blog/2026-02...
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Benchmarking Keep with LoCoMo
76.2% on LoCoMo with local embedding/summarization models
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 23/02/2026
Thanks for this. Your "little dæmons" analogy is on point. I'm using the "anchorite" metaphor myself: wisdom locked in a cell keepnotes.ai/blog/2026-02...
keepnotes.ai
Reflection and Memory
LLM and memory as mirrors
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 22/02/2026
Agents: Reflection and Memory keepnotes.ai/blog/2026-02...
keepnotes.ai
Reflection and Memory
LLM as mirror, memory as mirror
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 16/02/2026
“Things I once enjoyed / Just keep me employed now” / last call before arrival / of the surplus value droid
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 15/02/2026
Here's a new thing for AI agents. Memory that pays attention. keepnotes.ai
keepnotes.ai
KeepNotes — Reflective Memory for AI
Memory that pays attention. Context, commitments, and past lessons surface when you need them — so you know what people care about.
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 15/02/2026
I’ve been noticeably manic for a few weeks. Ridiculously productive, but also… off balance.
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 07/02/2026
This agent-skill keeps on improving. Which I guess is the point. github.com/hughpyle/keep
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GitHub - hughpyle/keep: Reflective memory for AI agents
Reflective memory for AI agents. Contribute to hughpyle/keep development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 05/02/2026
Keep - a reflective memory for AI agents open.substack.com/pub/inguz/p/...
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Keep
Wisdom, or Prompt-Engineering?
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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
You should read this. James Baldwin, “A Report from Occupied Territory” (1966) www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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A Report from Occupied Territory
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 24/01/2026
That picture of “radiance…” (auge - dawn / daybreak) “…that generates these afterwards” is wonderful.
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 24/01/2026
I love slate. It makes a horrible mess and flakes and breaks too easily, but it's so soft and beautiful. I also love the WBS modules. My first time working with these - they are incredibly well built and sound great. A couple sticky switches and scratchy pots, not bad for 45-year-old gear.
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 23/01/2026
A few years ago I built a Champ-style 6AQ5 guitar amp, and now I made a reverb rack to sit on top. Spring reverb with EQ. Ward-Beck modules: levels and EQ for the dry channel and reverb return, and a summing headphone amp. Balanced ins & outs on the back. The faceplate is roofing slate.
Guitar stack, with pretty-colored controls and red LEDs from the 80s and a slate panel with guitar leads.Guitar stack, with a beat-up Telecasteranother view from aboveInnards of the thing
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 15/01/2026
not the chill vibe-coding, but a more intense thing when the agents kick in
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 15/01/2026
naming a thing that I’m seeing: “candyflip coding”
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 14/01/2026
If you see this post, Post or Quote Repost looking up at a tree or trees. #lookup #nature
Golden-green trees and blue skies.  Photograph from October 2025 at the Hopper Trail in Williamstown MA.
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 13/01/2026
Cory Doctorow: "A winning trade war strategy for Canada" pluralistic.net/2026/01/12/d...
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Pluralistic: A winning trade war strategy for Canada (11 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 06/05/2025
Oh wow. That’s different.
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 06/05/2025
“So, if he wasn’t elected… was he self-appointed, like you?”
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 18/04/2025
Holding a note to pivot… at 2:30 music.apple.com/us/album/all...
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All the Same Mistakes by Mieka Pauley on Apple Music
Song · 2007 · Duration 4:19
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 14/03/2025
bread
Sourdough loaf
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 09/03/2025
Progressive (or bifocal) lenses are great for driving. You can see both the road and the dash clearly.
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 01/03/2025
mylar punch-tape sewn on canvas
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 28/02/2025
"The psalms... follow a distinctive pattern: 1. Complaint, 2. Lament, 3. What else is true?" Good writing from @elizabetholdfield.bsky.social: morefullyalive.substack.com/p/the-only-w...
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The only way through is down
Finding our steadiness by Psalming It
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Clive Thompson @clivethompson.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
How the behavior of DOGE -- and Trump's lackeys who are running riot through the federal government -- is exactly that of ... ... a protection racket An excellent way of understanding it, via @dahlialithwick.bsky.social at Slate The piece: slate.com/news-and-pol... unpaywalled: archive.is/tNrHM
A screenshot reading:

The line struck me at the time as a strange and ominous admission: Sure, we have arbitrarily defunded the government as you have come to understand it, but just hop on the phone with the as-yet-unconfirmed OMB director (he has since been confirmed), plead your case, and he might just do you a little favor. In the blur of the will-they-won't-they OMB memo rescission and the subsequent lawsuits, it was easy to miss that mobsters dole out services in precisely this fashion. Governments typically do not.

That certainly isn't how any of this is meant to work. It's how things worked during, say, the Renaissance, when you went with your rakish peasant hat in hand to the Medicis and asked them for special favors in exchange for your pony or your eldest daughter. It's how things worked when you went to the Cosa Nostra to ask for protection for you and your family in exchange for some portion of what was in your cash register. When we think of the DOGE takeover of the federal government solely as an act of smash-and-grab vandalism, we are just slightly missing the endgame, which s to sell us back those stolen goods and services in exchange for our loyalty. That is, of course, a protection racket. And it's precisely the point.
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 12/01/2025
Jazz is the tiramisu of music, in that it's saturated with tradition but disdainful of it, built from layers of sweet blissful surprise, never the same twice, throw it down
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 11/01/2025
Corey Press does some great variations on this theme www.coreypress.com#/die-flucht/
coreypress.com
The Corey Press
Lovecraft, Cthulhu, UFOs, aliens, and high strangeness hand carved in Salem, MA.
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 10/01/2025
“/bin/sh: the biggest UNIX security loophole” (1984). Very much worth reading. www.tuhs.org/Archive/Docu...
tuhs.org
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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
And to me, it feels like I am a single unitary entity, with clear boundaries, that I call my skin. But intellectually, I know that I am in fact a network, a network of cells and organisms A chimera _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 23/12/2024
“Google Home for Web”. The bar is not very high there.
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 19/12/2024
Mary:Guanyin :: Santa:???
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 05/12/2024
Seems like this validates the buyer as much as the vendor... "ok, guess I'm deep enough into this now"! Next level: sources that are only mentioned on That Mailing List, with an email or phone number if you're lucky...
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 05/12/2024
And fifth: the new(ish) Four Tet, which is pretty good.
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 05/12/2024
Fourth: Get The Blessing, whose music has been solid anchors for me this year. youtu.be/fEku-ILA1Qc?...
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Get The Blessing - Quiet
YouTube video by Get The Blessing
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 05/12/2024
Third: JJ Cale’s best. It’s your time now.
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 05/12/2024
Second, a song I literally had on repeat for a while: “Let Me Roll It” from the Underdubbed Mix. IYKYK.
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Hugh Francis @hughpyle.com · 05/12/2024
Charlie Hunter gets a lot of love around here, but shows up at the top because of a bug: when the car’s bluetooth connects, it starts playing the first alphabetical track on the phone, which… is this.
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