Askmike

There is a lot of online debate about the extraordinary cyber capabilities of AI, and how we all ought to manage introducing them to the world. I believe all of these statements are true:

I've been running OpenClaw for almost two weeks now. The initial honeymoon phase you get when you blow life into your computer has somewhat worn off. Or maybe my expectations just keep rising? But now I'm dealing with the API usage bills from the AI labs

Like everyone I've been using AI prompts like ChatGPT and Claude for a while now to get things done quicker. And like most programmers I've spent a good deal of time using AI coding tools as well. First with Cursor and now with Claude Code in its TUI. (St

Before social media became what it is today I used to blog a lot. And I wasn't the only one, many people did. There was this idea of a decentralized and open web: everyone had their own little space on the web (with a selfhosted blog, or a platform like w

I've been building out a web app using Create React App, developing and deploying is a breeze. But now I need a server side rendering solution for my specific sitation. All the solutions around the web I have found are great, but they don't address the is

For a project I need to run geth 1.6 in a docker container on my Raspberry Pi that has raspbian jessie installed. I was looking online for such a docker image, but after some searching I gave up and just created my own docker image.

Now we've set up Prometheus we can very easily start logging interesting metrics from our nodejs app.

Prometheus is a great open source monitoring system by soundcloud. I personally use it on a single server to:

I just open sourced the globe behind the Realtime Bitcoin Globe. When I published the globe almost a year ago it was based on this awesome project by the Google Data Arts team. That project is great for plotting data in a very specific way (a barchart plo

Normally when I start working on a new webapp I end up using Jade as a template language, to get the templates working on the frontend I use a wonderful tool called templatizer which pre compiles all jade templates into plain javascript functions. I love