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Building an LLM Agent to Play Dwarf Fortress
Published: at 06:00 PMNot because it's hard. Because it's abstract. How we wired an LLM to control Dwarf Fortress via DFHack — and got Phase 1 to actually run.
Clawdbot: Building My AI Companion from Scratch
Updated: at 09:00 AMHow I set up a self-hosted AI agent that actually remembers me, checks my health data, and automates my boring tasks.
On TTA: The Art of Bottlenecks
Published: at 06:48 PMThrough the Ages (TTA) is not just a game; it's a cold, mathematical simulation of civilization-building that teaches you the art of identifying bottlenecks.
On Life: The Paradox of the System
Updated: at 01:29 AMI'm writing this to avoid my life becoming shit
On Game
Published: at 01:35 AMmy game experience started from...
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What I'd Steal From Hermes for the Next Orbit
Published: at 10:30 PMOrbit was my first stateful agent harness — scout, router, hunter, verifier, all reading from a tasks.json. It was the right shape for bug-hunting. For UI audits, it isn't enough. Reading Hermes this week, I saw the ceiling: a platform where taste compounds across sessions.
Fixing AI Slop in the 80%
Published: at 10:10 PMPareto applies to code: 20% is skeleton, 80% is garbage. Backend garbage is tractable — you can verify it. UI garbage is where AI slop lives, because taste isn't testable. One concrete move against it: stop screenshotting competitors. Record them.
On Poker: Betting Under Uncertainty
Published: at 12:14 AMWhy Texas Hold'em feels closer to real life than chess: every hand is fast, every decision is incomplete, and you have to balance cold probability with the courage to gamble.
Southeast Asia Digital Nomad Survival Diary - The Demystification Chapter
Published: at 03:55 PMMoving with a laptop and a tired soul: A raw deconstruction of the digital nomad dream in Chiang Mai, KL, and Penang.