Weeknotes waited.
Not for style alone,
but tools that let thought bend and start.
Building not a document,
but a workshop for the heart.
Everyone Vibe Codes Their Own Markdown Editor Eventually
Weeknotes delayed to a Monday morning yet again. This time around its because yesterday evening I was faced with a choice. Write my weeknotes, or continue to vibe-code my dream word processor app. I chose the vibe coding to make the most of my weekly session tokens.
There is a joke in my group chats is that everyone using coding tools will, eventually, vibe code their own custom Markdown editor. And I’m not exception. Whilst i am a diehard iA writer user there are things I wish it did, and had features that were more geared towards editing rather than pure lightweight text generation. Like.. in the Mac Version the tool doesn’t show a document outline at all?
I’m still working on getting basic things sorted like … you know safely saving and opening files and storing unsaved changes (you know, the basic things that the initial build of the app just blew right passed LOL).
BUT getting a head of myself, the first feature I added to celebrate the successful implementation of submenu logic in the sidebars was this information bar showing a graph and wordcounts in the document outline. Why don’t wordc ount screens do something like this out the box? I’ve always wanted a tool like this, and now I have one.
Lots more still to do. I want to implement binder like menu inspired by scrivener in the left hand toolbar that decomposes a single markdown document into cards using — line breaks as sections.
I also want a very comprehensive diff tool to compare changes between two documents, or a document and a pasted version. I want a workflow that allows me to paste in, or open suggested line edits from an LLM output and it interprets the specified prompt format and allows me to accept changes. I’d also like authorship tracking like iA writer does but much better than the functionality that it provides (another info pane like the one above but for authorship). I’d also like a tool/screen that decomposes the document like MindNode. Lots to do still! But I’m going to get the basics down, and then slowly add more and more features. Whatever is the most pressing.
I think judging an LLM on it’s writing outputs is a complete category error. It’s what they possible with language that is important.
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March 2026 | Photo 365
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Terminal Access
Eddie Rathke had a really great conversation on Wolf pod with the designers of the card game Hare to the Throne launching next month as part of Backerkit’s POCKETOPIA 2026 season.
It was really interesting hearing about the cost barriers involved into entry to TCGs and the designers thoughts on out the box balanced decks and the approach they took towards replicating the experience of a deck collecting rather than you know, collecting, collecting.
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/Blogger-Peer-Review/quotebacks@1/quoteback.jsWelcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.
Today I’m talking to Jori Kamp and Ernst de Brujin about their upcoming card game Hare to the Throne! We talk about competitive game design, big games v quick games, card games, collectible card games like Magic: The Gathering and Yu-Gi-Oh. Was a great conversation and do sign up for their Backerkit page to get notified when the campaign goes live! Every signup helps.
Dipping the Stacks
On the origin of our fascination with crystals
In this study, we adopted an experimental approach to investigate the factors underlying the nature of our ancestral fascination with crystals. We designed a series of experiments with enculturated chimpanzees, one of our two closest living nonhuman relatives, who share significant genetic and behavioral traits with humans. The experiments aimed to identify which physical properties of crystals might have attracted chimpanzees and hominins.
I asked what kind of music they listened to and if they were familiar with nettspend (a name new to me as well). I thought I was going to weird them out—a hulking man in his mid-30s, looming over them and posing this culturally sensitive question out of nowhere. Zoomers are notoriously skittish and need to be approached with caution in the wild, ideally with a handful of nutritional pellets and soothing rabbit noises.
Biodiversity collapse threatens UK security, intelligence chiefs warn | The Guardian
The hard-hitting report, which originally would have been published last autumn but for an intervention by Downing Street, is attributed only to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, but the Guardian understands that the joint intelligence committee, which oversees spy agencies MI5 and MI6, was responsible.
Discovery through incursion: To some, this might read a bit like a defense of so-called “discovery writing” (aka the awkward neologism “pantsing”), and it is, a little, but I think that discovery writing and pantsing imply that all, or most, of these incursions will work. That hasn’t been the case for me. In a lot of ways, fog of war world-building is about building your outlines through prose, character, and incursion rather than the other way around. The writing fills in the map, which I then use to update my world model, which I then use to write and revise better stories.
AI Agents Are Recruiting Humans To Observe The Offline World | NOEMA
When an agent hits this wall, it does what software always does: It calls an application programming interface (API), a mechanism that enables one system to communicate with another. Only now, the API is a human.
Reading
Still listening to Liturgies of the Wild: Myths That Make Us by Martin Shaw. I know several people who are just … refusing to read it because of his conversation to Christianity but I think that is just silly. I think this is one of the best books he’s ever written.
Speaking of Christianity, I’m absolutely burning though Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica. Like many of the ‘The Life’ books produced by the orthodox church. The book begins with a biography contextualising the life of the holy man, and then follows that up with the spiritual writing. Amazing book. This guy lived though both world wars, had run ins with the Nazi’s and Communists, got bombed in 1999 in Serbia.
Music
Hoavi – Architectonics (LP)
Discovered this Gamalan influenced dub album recently and it was the sound of the grey and cloudy days. On the surface this LP is Dubby electronica but it really shines with it’s exploration of polyrhythm and tonal resonance. Things evolve and progress whilst still staying inside the loop.
I feel like there should be a remix album where each track is 3-4hours long rather than minutes long. I would definitely listen to it. Mesmerizism takes time.
Remember Kids:
while we are continually absorbed in contemplating the weakness of our earthly nature, the springs of our anions will never flow free from the mire of timid, weak, and cowardly thoughts, such as: ‘I wonder whether people are noticing me or not! If I follow this course, will harm come to me? Dare I begin this work? Would it not be presumptuous? Is it right for any one as faulty as myself to speak on sublime spiritual subjects? Will not people think too well of me, if I make myself singular? Extremes are bad, even in virtue; sinful as I am I shall only fall the lower. Perhaps I shall fail and be a source of scandal to good people; such a person as I am has no need of peculiarities.
The Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila
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