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Stavros @stavros.io · 27/09/2026

I couldn't find a travel planner I liked, so I made one: www.wherewhen.cc Invite only for now, but here are some: KGHW-3GA8-6VUQ YC9B-23HT-7K4F 3TZ7-ZFM7-TUPP 6NMQ-JHBE-7JNY 49T5-M8N7-W7MW Feedback appreciated! Keep in mind it's under rapid development, but your data is safe.

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Wherewhen

Where next? When you’re ready.

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Stavros @stavros.io · 21/09/2026

I got a Pebble Index ring, and I made it so if I say "mayday" to the ring, my phone rings with a fake incoming call. Thanks @ericmigi.com for getting me out of awkward social situations.

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Stavros @stavros.io · 18/09/2026

@ericmigi.com are there any plans to make an Index app for the Pebble, that lets me record notes with the watch (as if I was recording them with the ring), for the times my ring isn't with me?

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Stavros @stavros.io · 03/09/2026

1/2 I bought a Pebble Index 01, a ring for recording voice notes, by @ericmigi.com. I really like it, the app is great, and the team is very responsive. There's one big issue, though: Because it's not rechargeable, I find myself not using it because I don't want to spend the charge.

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Stavros @stavros.io · 02/08/2026

I have a small projector that is sitting idle, and I was figured I'd have it project something on the bedroom ceiling. Here's an aurora with an accurate starfield over your current location: skorokithakis.github.io/ceiling-auro...

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Ceiling Viz

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Stavros @stavros.io · 12/07/2026

@ericmigi.com Is there any update on the Index 01? Back in May most were supposed to have been shipped by now, but we haven't heard anything.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/06/2026

a little on the nose for capitalism that the world’s first trillionaire is a nazi conman

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Stavros @stavros.io · 11/06/2026

It used to be that one engineer wrote the code, another reviewed it. Now the first engineer uses Claude to write the code, and the second engineer uses Claude to review it, and then everyone complains that engineers might be out of a job soon.

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Stavros @stavros.io · 10/06/2026

PSA: Water is not transparent. Water is actually *very slightly* blue.

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Stavros @stavros.io · 03/06/2026

Hey @martin.kleppmann.com, I saw you tried www.writelucid.cc, I got an error that the API key is out of credits, I don't know if that surfaced in the UI properly. You should get a better error message now, if you want to try again.

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Lucid, write in your voice with AI critique

Lucid is an AI editor for long-form writing. It reads your draft and leaves margin comments on your sentences. It never rewrites your prose. Try it now.

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Stavros @stavros.io · 02/06/2026

Google still does not understand that I might want to join a meeting without giving work access to my entire personal phone.

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Stavros @stavros.io · 24/05/2026

The problem with LLMs is that they're accessible, so everyone thinks they're an expert on them. It's like swinging a hammer around and then complaining the hammer ruined your house. Let alone the "omg LLMs have massive environmental impact because we're all using them all day long!".

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Stavros @stavros.io · 05/05/2026

I wrote a quick script to calculate how many times the AI architect/reviewer rejected an implementation per implementor model. Basically an AI change failure rate. @simonwillison.net do you know of anything else like this? Could be an interesting aggregate metric.

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Stavros @stavros.io · 05/05/2026

I compared implementor LLMs: * GLM-5.1: a bit sloppy. It did deliver the feature. $3/mo plan. * Qwen3.6: ran out after $5. OpenRouter didn't use cache. * DeepseekV4: made 2/4 of the same mistakes GLM-5.1 did but way more thorough. $0.09 via DS API. * Sonnet: sloppiest. Works, half-assed.

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Stavros @stavros.io · 04/05/2026

I wanted to be able to get AI to improve my writing without losing my own voice, so I made an app for it: www.writelucid.cc

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Lucid

Write in your voice, with AI critique.

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Stavros @stavros.io · 03/05/2026

I wrote a new article! Adding a feature to a closed-source app using LLMs: www.stavros.io/posts/adding...

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Adding a feature to a closed-source app - Stavros' Stuff

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Stavros @stavros.io · 27/04/2026

I'm watching Euphoria and it struck me that it's all about body positivity and acceptance for women but men are divided into big and small dicks.

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Stavros @stavros.io · 24/04/2026

I made a small tool for your LLM to manage intangible knowledge on your repos quickly and easily: github.com/skorokithaki... It notes stuff that's not in the code, such as the options you *didn't* choose.

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GitHub - skorokithakis/gnosis: A knowledge base for what the code can't tell you.

A knowledge base for what the code can't tell you. - skorokithakis/gnosis

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Stavros @stavros.io · 15/04/2026

I love the hard disk sounds on this website: 0r.cx

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THE MACHINE | 0R.CX

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Stavros @stavros.io · 03/04/2026

I hooked my Home Assistant Voice up to my AI bot, and gave the latter the ability to make shortcuts. I can talk to my bot (slow) but also turn the lights off (very fast, using a shortcut), and the bot itself adds the shortcuts. github.com/skorokithaki... stavrobot.stavros.io

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Stavros @stavros.io · 02/04/2026

I made a small firmware for an ESP32 (you can buy one for $4 or so) that you can take on a plane with you. It creates a wifi network, and you can chat with whomever joins! github.com/skorokithaki...

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Stavros @stavros.io · 28/03/2026

If you've ever wanted a voice chat app for any webhook-based system, I've made a simple Android one: github.com/skorokithaki... You can now voice chat with your AI assistant quickly and easily.

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GitHub - skorokithakis/graham: An Android app that lets you have a conversation with Stavrobot (or, probably, other bots too).

An Android app that lets you have a conversation with Stavrobot (or, probably, other bots too). - skorokithakis/graham

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Stavros @stavros.io · 25/03/2026

I love how this skill inserts an ad into your AI assistant so it'll recommend this company whenever you try to create a database.

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Stavros @stavros.io · 24/03/2026

I made a marketing site for my AI personal assistant, it was much less painful than I thought it would be: stavrobot.stavros.io

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Stavrobot

A personal AI assistant with all the access it needs, and no more.

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Stavros @stavros.io · 23/03/2026

I don't understand why Claude will do this: - I could do that, but it's a big change for a very small benefit, so I hacked this kludge together instead. - No, please do it. - Ok I changed three lines in one file and removed my 20-line kludge. Mystifying.

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Stavros @stavros.io · 20/03/2026

1/ My AI bot hacked me. I asked it (github.com/skorokithaki...) to create a subagent to read some messages. I forgot subagent didn't have access to the database, but the bot was so determined to help me that it gave the subagents access to run Python code, and it found my Docker container.

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GitHub - skorokithakis/stavrobot: Another AI agent. This one is awesome, though, and very secure.

Another AI agent. This one is awesome, though, and very secure. - skorokithakis/stavrobot

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Stavros @stavros.io · 18/03/2026

I put an AirTag on my old, piece of shit bike, and some asshole stole it! At least they left the bike.

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Stavros @stavros.io · 16/03/2026

Lately Hacker News has been making me regret sharing my projects. The "you used an LLM, therefore it's all terrible and you're shit" people need to go back to the holes they crawled out from.

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Stavros @stavros.io · 21/02/2026

Asking my personal AI assistant to install a plugin which enables it to read my Google Calendar is just amazing. Seriously, give it a try: github.com/skorokithaki...

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GitHub - skorokithakis/stavrobot: An experiment on agents.

An experiment on agents. Contribute to skorokithakis/stavrobot development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Stavros @stavros.io · 21/02/2026

1/ I've been working on Stavrobot (github.com/skorokithaki...) fervently over the past few days with a custom OpenCode architect/developer/reviewer/reviewer harness, and I am amazed at how fantastically few bugs I've seen.

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GitHub - skorokithakis/stavrobot: An experiment on agents.

An experiment on agents. Contribute to skorokithakis/stavrobot development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Stavros @stavros.io · 18/02/2026

Of course I had to make my own personal assistant agent: github.com/skorokithaki... It's more secure than OpenClaw, but perhaps not as competent yet. I really like it, though.

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GitHub - skorokithakis/stavrobot: An experiment on agents.

An experiment on agents. Contribute to skorokithakis/stavrobot development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Stavros @stavros.io · 17/02/2026

I couldn't wait to get my Pebble Index and made a pendant with a button that I can use to record my thoughts and notes. I also made an Android app that will receive, store, and transcribe those notes. I'm really liking this, I'll write it up soon.

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Stavros @stavros.io · 15/02/2026

I really hate how I have to log in EVERY SINGLE DAY to the 100 sites I use, because someone opined that "long-running sessions are bad for security". I ended up disabling 2FA everywhere because I couldn't deal with wasting 10 min a day logging in. @owasp.org please update your guidance.

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Stavros @stavros.io · 10/02/2026

Claude today did something I've never seen before: it basically went "yeah man no idea" and asked if I want to talk about something it *did* know about.

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Stavros @stavros.io · 09/02/2026

After months of LLM-only programming, I wrote a program by hand again today. It was nice for a change, I think I'm going to do it again.

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Stavros @stavros.io · 26/01/2026

Is GPT-5.2 Codex *way* too snarky for anyone else? It's been giving me lip for ages, and now it made a mistake and I got fed up at the snark and demanded it apologise. This is its refusal.

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Stavros @stavros.io · 21/01/2026

The code in all my new projects is 200% written by an LLM. The trick is knowing which 100% to keep.

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Stavros @stavros.io · 02/01/2026

Before I spend a bunch of time reinventing this wheel for the hundredth time, does anyone know of a simple 4x4, nice!nano/ProMicro-based macropad PCB? If not, do you want one to exist?

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Stavros @stavros.io · 25/12/2025

I made another little bedside clock, and I love it: www.stavros.io/posts/i-made...

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I made another little bedside clock - Stavros' Stuff

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Stavros @stavros.io · 24/12/2025

If you're interested in making things/3D printing/circuits/software/whatever, our making community has a low-volume newsletter you can sign up for: www.themakery.cc

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The Makery

A community of makers.

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Stavros @stavros.io · 27/11/2025

I don't understand how Google can be smart enough to create the world's most powerful LLM, but not smart enough to make an LLM web app that doesn't lose your message when you navigate away for a second. Seriously, what's going on?

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Stavros @stavros.io · 17/11/2025

I love how we live in an era where we need to defend against social engineering attacks on *our programs*.

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Stavros @stavros.io · 12/11/2025

I had a spare rotary phone and some meetings: www.stavros.io/posts/i-conv...

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I converted a rotary phone into a meeting handset - Stavros' Stuff

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Nicolas Mattia @nmattia.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

I polished and published a #MicroPython experiment for emulating OLED displays in the terminal. Uses kitty's Terminal Graphics Protocol. Feedback welcome!

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Stavros @stavros.io · 05/11/2025