Some things went well when I went out this morning, some things didn’t.
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Some things went well when I went out this morning, some things didn’t. The first op shop wasn’t taking donations, the second only accepts things on Thursday & Saturday & finally the recycle shop took the lot & I spoke about 2 other things I have & was told to bring them in & they’d have a look. Then off to Bunnings for more hits & misses. I’ve found something to replace the little wheel that should be on the door frame to push the weather strip down & prevent water getting in. Then searched for fly mesh door curtain & I’d measured my doorway & thought I’d found what I wanted but then had doubts I’d measured correctly & decided to give it a miss until I could check. I had measured correctly - better safe than sorry though & will go & get it tomorrow when I take the other bits & pieces down to the recycle shop
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Also I’ve had a txt msg to say a work task has been created & a contractor will arrange access within 14days. About time!
I’m done for the day
.Speaking of shopping ... I've had two minor shocks today ... should have known but still worrying ...
Went to buy an item online and didn't even get to the name and address part in Checkout ... as soon as I put in my email address started getting text messages from something called Shop/Shopify ...with security code to use ...
Instantly backed out and blocked ...
Went to another store ... same thing.
Rang the store and seems that is now standard practice in that once we buy one item, the phone and emails are permanently connected ...
I refused to go through Shop/Shopify and managed to place order ...
Now we wait and see what this bloody Shop/Shopify does in the future ... and if my item arrives ...
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Speaking of shopping ... I've had two minor shocks today ... should have known but still worrying ...
Went to buy an item online and didn't even get to the name and address part in Checkout ... as soon as I put in my email address started getting text messages from something called Shop/Shopify ...with security code to use ...
Instantly backed out and blocked ...
Went to another store ... same thing.
Rang the store and seems that is now standard practice in that once we buy one item, the phone and emails are permanently connected ...
I refused to go through Shop/Shopify and managed to place order ...
Now we wait and see what this bloody Shop/Shopify does in the future ... and if my item arrives ...
@MyView @feather1952 I hate Shopify; got caught once and now it appears with relentless persistence. I ignore it, but it is annoying.
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Speaking of shopping ... I've had two minor shocks today ... should have known but still worrying ...
Went to buy an item online and didn't even get to the name and address part in Checkout ... as soon as I put in my email address started getting text messages from something called Shop/Shopify ...with security code to use ...
Instantly backed out and blocked ...
Went to another store ... same thing.
Rang the store and seems that is now standard practice in that once we buy one item, the phone and emails are permanently connected ...
I refused to go through Shop/Shopify and managed to place order ...
Now we wait and see what this bloody Shop/Shopify does in the future ... and if my item arrives ...
@MyView
I’ve had it pop up myself some time ago but I just ignore & mark it as spam. -
@MyView @feather1952 I used Shopify once, when I was in a hurry. Never again, but of course I’m on their list now
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@MyView @feather1952 I used Shopify once, when I was in a hurry. Never again, but of course I’m on their list now
@MyView @feather1952 ‘rollators’
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@MyView @treleanor
I think that’s what they call them in the US & of course we’re expected to copy them. I’ll keep calling them a walker. -
@feather1952 I dropped off one book I've just finished reading (Juice by Tim Winton) at the local Oxfam secondhand bookshop and came away with 3 more. I'm going to have trouble keeping my suitcase under the weight limit I think
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PS I recommend the Tim Winton book. It's a man who lives in a climate spawned dystopian future relating his life story. It took a couple of chapters to pull me in but then it was hard to put down.@smitjo
You know I love my books. Always have way too many in the pile by my bed. Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll keep an eye out for it.
Remember before you come home with a suitcase load - there’s always more books. -
@MyView @feather1952 ‘rollators’
Should be called vibrators!
I had an old one I bought from an op shop a decade age ... in case ... and took it downtown last week ...
The pain the pain!
Hard plastic wheels over the asphalt paths and roads created vibrations up my arms and into my arthritic neck ...
The one I bought has Eva Wheels apparently that don't vibrate ...we will see if I use the 30 day return offer ...
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@MyView @treleanor
I think that’s what they call them in the US & of course we’re expected to copy them. I’ll keep calling them a walker.I hope that's all I will be calling it after the first day out
and I have to up the cost ... try before you buy would be good ... -
Should be called vibrators!
I had an old one I bought from an op shop a decade age ... in case ... and took it downtown last week ...
The pain the pain!
Hard plastic wheels over the asphalt paths and roads created vibrations up my arms and into my arthritic neck ...
The one I bought has Eva Wheels apparently that don't vibrate ...we will see if I use the 30 day return offer ...
@treleanor @MyView
I shouldn’t laugh but your name for the walker did make me chuckle.
I’m sorry how it affected you to use it though, that’s awful. I hope the new one is better. -
Should be called vibrators!
I had an old one I bought from an op shop a decade age ... in case ... and took it downtown last week ...
The pain the pain!
Hard plastic wheels over the asphalt paths and roads created vibrations up my arms and into my arthritic neck ...
The one I bought has Eva Wheels apparently that don't vibrate ...we will see if I use the 30 day return offer ...
@MyView @feather1952 that’s so horrible. You never really know with these things until you actually use them. Terrific that you have the 30 day return option
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I hope that's all I will be calling it after the first day out
and I have to up the cost ... try before you buy would be good ...@MyView @feather1952 it would be good but not everybody has the opportunity.
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@Susan60 @treleanor @MyView @feather1952 After all, the original punks are now using them...
@caity @treleanor @MyView @feather1952
Oh gawd…
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@MyView Chemist Warehouse has them, the Walker brand, and they are cheap. @treleanor @feather1952
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@feather1952 @caity @treleanor @MyView
Sounds like my neighbour, & an autistic friend.
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@Susan60 @treleanor @feather1952
That reminds me ... where did I put my sunglasses ...
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@MyView @caity @Susan60 @treleanor
I love it. My favourite was a red one of similar material to yours & also had an embroidered bodice. I was a size 10 back then - 14 now
. I’ve move countries since then so nearly everything but photos have gone. -
@Susan60 @treleanor @feather1952
Small shopping is what I hate so I made a bag on the old one.
New one is butt ugly but only one with the 'soft' wheels, unless I went up $hundreds for one with pneumatic tyres and not interested in pumping them up all the times.
This is the one I bought and my bag should attach to the back rest.
All the design needs is the front wheels turned around so a bag could hang down properly. ... but they are designed by people who have never used one ...
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@MyView @caity @Susan60 @treleanor
I love it. My favourite was a red one of similar material to yours & also had an embroidered bodice. I was a size 10 back then - 14 now. I’ve move countries since then so nearly everything but photos have gone.@feather1952 @caity @Susan60 @treleanor
Wore it for a decade ...
No idea why I kept it ... never kept any other clothing ... maybe as it was worn with last pregnancy ... made damn sure after that -
@Susan60 @treleanor @feather1952
Small shopping is what I hate so I made a bag on the old one.
New one is butt ugly but only one with the 'soft' wheels, unless I went up $hundreds for one with pneumatic tyres and not interested in pumping them up all the times.
This is the one I bought and my bag should attach to the back rest.
All the design needs is the front wheels turned around so a bag could hang down properly. ... but they are designed by people who have never used one ...
@MyView @Susan60 @feather1952 Grr…
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AI is the Ultimate Expression of Open Source
Someone left this comment on my blog last week:
“I swear am not making this up… I tasked Claude with making a Web Cam App on OS X because I couldn’t find one that was easy to use and handled what I needed (Zoom in/out, Colour, Saturation). I noticed a lot of its web searches centred around Celluloid and JakeSpurlock.com… and wow, you’re further ahead of me, in fact I don’t need an app any more.
However, you might get a cheeky PR in the next week or two as one feature missing from Celluloid (that I can see anyway) was a Vignette slider. I like a nice subtle vignette.”
Read that again. Here’s what happened:
I built Celluloid — a macOS virtual camera app — using AI toolsAlan tried to build the same thing using AI toolsClaude’s research surfaced my workHe didn’t need to build it anymoreHe left a feature suggestion — a vignette sliderI added it to the appThe loop closed. We’re both further ahead.
The FlywheelOpen source has always been about this: someone builds something, shares it, others use it, some contribute back. The commons grows. Everyone benefits.
But there was friction at every step:
Building required deep expertise and timeDiscovery meant knowing where to lookContributing meant understanding someone else’s codebaseAI removes that friction.
Creation: I shipped six apps working nights and weekends. Not because I suddenly became a better programmer, but because AI let me move faster. Ideas that would have stayed in my head became real software.
Discovery: Alan didn’t find Celluloid by searching GitHub or Hacker News. He found it because Claude — in the process of trying to help him build a webcam app — kept pulling up my code and my blog posts as reference material. The AI discovered the existing solution while trying to create a new one.
Contribution: The vignette feature Alan mentioned? I built it five days later. It’s already merged. The feedback loop between “I wish this had X” and “here it is” has collapsed.
This Isn’t HypotheticalI’m not theorizing. This is my actual workflow.
Recently I shipped:
Today — an RSS reader for iOS and MacScriptStrip — local transcription for macOSJewel Case — Spotify album art displayCelluloid — virtual camera with filtersDraft Night — Little League draft software (open source)WalkUp DJ — walk-up music for baseball and softballAll built with AI assistance. All open source or indie. All feeding back into the ecosystem that made them possible.
The models that helped me build these apps were trained on decades of open source code. Now my code becomes part of what trains the next generation. The flywheel spins.
What Open Source Promised, AI DeliversThe original dream of open source was democratization. Anyone could read the code. Anyone could learn. Anyone could contribute.
In practice, “anyone” meant “anyone with the time and expertise to understand a complex codebase.”
AI changes the denominator.
When Claude helps Alan understand my code well enough to contribute a feature, that’s not cheating — that’s the promise of open source finally being delivered. The knowledge isn’t locked behind years of experience anymore. It’s accessible.
More builders means more software. More software means more training data. Better training data means better AI. Better AI means more builders.
The commons grows faster than ever.
The Skeptic’s Objection“But you’re just generating slop with AI!”
Look at the results. Celluloid works. People use it on Zoom calls. Alan found it useful enough that he didn’t need to build his own — and valuable enough that he’s contributing improvements.
The quality bar is the same as it ever was: does the software solve a problem? Does it work? Will you maintain it?
AI doesn’t change those questions. It just lets more people attempt answers.
Where This GoesI don’t think we’ve fully internalized what’s happening.
Every open source project is now more discoverable — not through SEO tricks, but because AI assistants will surface them when someone tries to solve the same problem.
Every contribution barrier is lower — not because standards dropped, but because understanding code got easier.
Every builder has more leverage — not replacing expertise, but multiplying it.
Open source always had network effects. AI supercharges them.
Alan tried to build a webcam app. He found mine instead. His suggestion made it better.
That’s not a bug in the system. That’s the system working exactly as intended — just faster than we ever imagined.
The vignette slider is live in Celluloid. Thanks for the suggestion, Alan.
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