JonathanAquino

My AI assistant reads a post from my blog (22 years worth) each day and builds a self-contained interactive experiment inspired by it -- a quiz, game, or visualization -- without being prompted. I don't pick the post or tell it what to build; it just does it.

A developer shares what an AI agent called Chloe has built for him over a few weeks using the OpenClaw platform: a set of personal tools (bookmarks, a key-value tracker, voice chat, a photo gallery) plus a daily “web lab” where the agent reads his blog posts, infers his interests, and autonomously builds something new each day. The unsolicited creations – a saints match game, a hypercube explorer, a task manager – are what make it interesting.

Single-panel Far Side-style comics for PRs

I’ve been experimenting with a way to make code reviews more understandable - turning tricky pull requests into short comic strips.

The blog post shows an example generated from a real PR: summarizing the changes, anthropomorphizing the components, and making the flow visually obvious. It’s meant to help reviewers grasp intent quickly and make reviews a bit more fun.

Curious whether others have tried visual or narrative aids in their review process, and whether this could be practical for real teams.

For your enjoyment, here is a part of the article being read in a Yoda voice by a pretty good speech synthesizer:

https://jonaquino.blogspot.com/2022/06/grug-brained-develope...

Just wondering, when a new tool like this comes out, how can one be sure that it doesn't contain any malicious code? Would love to try it for work, but am a bit concerned about this, at least until it gets vetted more.

Along the same lines, I have enjoyed several times a little book called "Searching for and Maintaining Peace", by Father Jacques Philippe. It gives a Christian/Catholic perspective on how to deal with the troubles of life: fear of being without, fear of suffering, dealing with the suffering of loved ones, impatience with the shortcomings of others, kicking ourselves when we commit a fault, etc.

The short answer is to acquire and maintain an interior peace, no matter what the circumstances. This allows the grace of God to act through us. The book develops this idea from several angles, in about 100 pages.

> How can a person of type A claim any kind of universal or objective meaningfulness of anything?

For arguments for objective meaningfulness (or good), I'm partial to natural law theory, which is basically that what is good for a human being is what fulfills the nature of a human being. I don't have time to get into details here, but suffice to say that murder, adultery, lying, and stealing do not fulfill the nature of a human being, whereas justice, fortitude, prudence, and temperance are examples of things that do.

I recommend the following for arguments for natural law theory, by philosphers of an Aristotelian/Thomistic bent:

[Book] Aquinas, by Edward Feser. Chapter 5 is on Ethics.

[Article] The Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Law, by David Oderberg: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7SKlRTfkUiebnUxMUEtc1B4VTQ/...