Added a category manager and category state section to the Exocortex Log app. Have now organized and cleaned up the categories in my ten year database and so we can get some views of the time spent in each category. We see that through September and October I was in a routine of work and slack with a bit of social a couple of times a week, until the end of November when I went away for social at a conference all weekend. I saw a demo there of a person using Shakespeare, and then when I got back started doing some vibe-coding, shown in in Red. A break from that to go away at the weekend to a long social party then finish it off and publish a few days ago, since when Vibe Coding has dropped off a little.

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Adding Category Summary - Exocortex Blog

Adding a category management page showing stats and allowing rename and merge of categoriesg

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I am quite keen to watch The War Between The Land And The Sea on iplayer. But we need to consider tactics. Will the folks sit and watch it with me at Xmas? If they would that'd perhaps be better than whatever drivel quiz shows and police car chase stuff they normally make me watch. If they won't I'll be be postponing it three weeks for no reason. 🤔 Might be nice to watch it in the new bedroom but that probably won't have a bed or a chair until the new year. #watching #doctorWho #onlyNotDoctorWho

Here's some things you'll notice the website doesn't do: * No cookie popups. We don't need to warn you about tracking, we just don't track. * No Tracking. I don't even look at the apache logs. I don't care what you do. * No service agreement checkbox. I'm not providing a service. Do what you want with the code but don't blame me. * No billing * No adverts * No paywall * No VPN barrier * No geoblocking * No subscription button (though RSS is provided) Websites don't have to be shit, the surveillance capitalists just enshitify them on purpose. View quoted note →

Why is it finally ready now after ten years of being a barely functional input-only android app? A few weeks ago I saw @Derek Ross giving a talk and demo of [Shakespear](

Shakespeare - Open Source AI Builder

Build custom apps with AI assistance using Shakespeare, an open-source development environment

), a Chrome app for vibe-coding. Explain the app you want, and the model you select will build it. Don't even need to be a dev they reckon. So I figured I'd give it a try. Start again from scratch, import the old data. In about a week of work this app has progressed far beyond the prototypes that spent more then ten years as half-running shoddy input-only systems that I couldn't be arsed to expand further. It went [pretty well](

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Vibe Coding - Exocortex Blog

A review of Shakespeare.diy for vibe coding

) to start with, something even a non-dev could do, then [ceased up](

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Fixing The Vibes - Exocortex Blog

Fixing the problems introduced by vibe coding

), unable to really understand the codebase it'd written until I spend a fairly long day manually cleaning up it's mess. So Shakespeare (and presumably all the other tools I haven't tried) seems okay for a non-dev to prototype a small app but currently the models are writing code so sloppy that they can't then later understand it themselves. Still needing a dev's guiding hand to keep it from repeating itself or creating complex unorganized unmanageable code. #vibeCoding #shakespeare View quoted note →

The thing about a life-logger, is you input sensitive data about your life, lifestyle and activities, so privacy and data-integrity are some of the most important issues. There can be no server, the data has to be yours and yours alone. Because you can’t tell what is happening to the data in a closed-source app, it must be completely free and open source. You can’t trust a corporate diary, they must sell to anyone offering enough money. So it is with my life log app, all data completely in your own device. No home server ever sees anything. There is no home server. Just the code. To achieve this Exocortex Log is a Progressive Web App. It downloads when you are online at the website and can be installed onto the homepage of your phone. It keeps all data on the local device using indexdb. This means you must be responsible for your own backups. Be sure to export and back up your data regularly. I have gaps in my ten year record where my phone was stolen and most recent backup was months prior. Once installed it will work offline, airplane mode, no internet, down in the tube station at midnight, anywhere. There's a blog on the website saying this and more:

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You see a detective on the TV and he’s interviewing all the suspects asking them what they were doing on the night of the murder a month ago last Tuesday night. And on the TV, the suspects all know. Right away. If you asked me ten years ago though, I’d have had barely any clue. If you’re lucky it’d have been something planned in my calendar but mostly, dunno. Watching TV maybe? No idea what show. Was that a night I was in the pub? As we all get older this problem increases I’m told. Eventually full on senility sets in. But what if you have already built the habit to record what you’re doing? To be able to look back and revise and review how you spent your days? An external aid as a crutch to your own forgetful brain’s cortex? So I started this Exocortex Log over a decade ago and now I can answer: Ten years ago on Tuesday I was having dinner with the guitarist from my band and his girlfriend and they burned the pudding. The app has been half finished and barely able to even record let alone review for most of that time, but now it’s ready enough that someone else might use it too if they want. ## Try it Try it out:

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A life logger

Accept a month of demo test data, add a few events for what you’ve done so far today, look at the summary and stats tools. No install needed, the app lives on a web page. If you decide to start logging what you’re doing, clear the DB and start again. Maybe install it for offline use then. Maybe set a reoccurring alarm to get you into the habit of doing it. See if you find it a useful memory aid after a few weeks. And next time a detective asks you what you were doing a month last Tuesday, maybe you’ll be able to answer! #lifeLog #app #memoryAid

Working on a website for a while until you look at it in chrome and it's horrible and you remember your dark mode plugin has been messing with it to make it look sane and dark. 😆 Gotta remember to turn these things off for the sites you're developing.

So the temporary placeholder name "Your Party" is made permanent. None of the options on the shortlist were good. Most of them just as grammatically inconvenient as the dumb placeholder name. The people who decide on the short-list, who can be a member, whose votes counts and what the options are, have quite a lot of power. Zara Sultana boycotted day one over who sets the rules and who can be involved. If Your Party have a governing body with power to override conference they end up like the Labour party and just are easily taken over and usurped by a cabal of thatcherite neoliberal capitalists. They did allow the dual membership system and a wider governance, so Zara won on who gets to be a member and who gets to be in charge. Which is probably good. Coz as the terrible name shows, if you put the idiots in charge you'll get idiocy not good collective decision making. For now the membership appear to have won, and I hear are they are all very excited and fierce and canny and not likely to let the old guard just set up another dictatorship from the top. They currently have half the membership count of the greens, less than a quarter that claimed by Reform. Lets hope they can get some attention towards something other than how billionaires think the country should be run and focus on the people. Here's hoping they can inflate that number by draining the Labour party and Reform members who just want change really rather than actually liking anything said by Farage. #yourParty #ukpol

Huh, I see that Zip Car UK is closing down, which would be a right pain if I hadn't bought a car last year. That's a lot of parking spaces about to be freed up I suppose. And a lot of easy-rental cars lying around the city disappearing. Guess they just weren't making enough money? #zipCar #uk

conference is over now. I likely wouldn't have come for just a bitcoin thing, but I am very interested in redecentralizing the web, so it's attachment to the nostr day pulled me in. Everyone I met was friendly and interesting and seems much more interested in making a better money system than in making money for themselves. Our government and bank money systems are dysfunctional in all kinds of ways which are often less visible than they should be too people using them, especially to those in Europe and America who benefit from the way those systems exploit the global south. I'm not convinced that fixing that would end wars and fix broken government as some seem to think, but I am sure our money is the source of many problems. There are many bright, well meaning, and intelligent people building to improve bitcoin in fascinating ways with the hope of having a parallel system to transition to. With lots of work still to be done. Can it work? I'm sure I don't know, and I'm sure even if it's a better system it'll come with it's own unfairness and cruelty. Money will continue to be a source of suck and worry. I'm told that the bigger conferences are often full of shitcoin scammers and suit wearing banksters who are in fact all in it too get rich and rip people off, but I found none of that here. Here there is a real community of people trying to make the world a better place and improve the lives of their neighbours and governance of their countries. And in the end building community is the most radical and effective way to change the world regardless of the problems of it's money system. I had a great time. Thanks to those organising it and welcome new followers. I mostly don't talk about bitcoin very much because money isn't really very interesting and I'm fast from expert on it. #bitfest #bitcoin