Fifteen years of cloud infrastructure abstracted away the machine. Functions, not file systems. Stateless, ephemeral, and billed by the invocation. That model was right for web requests. It was never designed for agents.

Agents need computers, not compute

Apple ran out of Mac Minis. AI agents are why.

Hypothesis: AI tools compound faster for solo builders than teams can restructure to match.

Proof of Work vs Proof of War https://xcancel.com/KobeissiLetter/status/2032977830234214487?s=20

I've been meaning to sort out my homelab Proxmox cluster for over a year. Better disk config, mounts, cross-machine backup, etc. I YOLO'd Claude code onto the primary host and knocked it out in 90 minutes.

The Lane Motor Museum in Nashville is spectacular.

Flora v0.2.0 released. Now with more Loom'ness.

GitHub

Release v0.2.0 · shawnyeager/flora-extension

Webcam bubble sizing The webcam overlay is now resizable and freely draggable. Three size presets — hover the bubble to reveal S / M / L control...

Not even a dunk, I genuinely forgot about Ethereum.

The Commonwealth is cooked.

Reclaim The Net

Canada's Bill C-22 Mandates Mass Metadata Surveillance of Canadians

The government insists it isn't surveilling ordinary Canadians; it's just requiring every company to store their location data, device in...

Weekend soundtrack sorted.

Apple Music - Web Player

Grace Under Pressure (Super Deluxe) by Rush on Apple Music

Album · 2026 · 37 Songs

In my mind, it's the Straight of Vermouth.

Flora—the screen recorder I started building yesterday—now has a proper release. Chrome extension. Record your screen, upload to your Blossom server, publish a note with NIP-07. Pick your own servers and relays. Very early. Lots to do. Grab the zip from releases and load it as an unpacked extension—no build tools needed.

GitHub

GitHub - shawnyeager/flora-extension: Record your screen, share anywhere. Stored on Blossom, publish to Nostr.

Record your screen, share anywhere. Stored on Blossom, publish to Nostr. - shawnyeager/flora-extension

PRs and contributions of all kinds welcome.

Testing a post from Flora, the Chromium extension formerly, briefly known as Bloom.

I will squeeze out every token.

Europe gets a win. https://xcancel.com/ProtonPrivacy/status/2032131005671186753

This is not The Onion. California is addicted to losing.

The Mouse is back.

Apple Music - Web Player

Look How Far... by Modest Mouse on Apple Music

Song · 2026 · Duration 1:55

Can I build a nostr-based Loom? Let's find out.