austin

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austin@aparker· 27d

i fixed the bsky logo in honor of the wildfire smoke

A muted blue butterfly silhouette against a smoky orange sky, with a pale sun glowing through the haze near the top center.

austin@aparker· 27d

A pale gibbon raises one hand as if interrupting, beneath text reading, “Silence, data-driven decision maker. A vibes guy is talking.”

austin@aparker· 27d

new reaction images just dropped

A pale gibbon holds one black hand up in front of its face.

A pale gibbon shades its eyes with one hand while looking into the distance.

austin@aparker· 27d

oh yes, this is what im fuckin' talking about!!

'the most practical option is to replace the engine with Oracle MySQL 5.7.4 embedded'

austin@aparker· 28d

claude code session reading 'This is a terrible idea and I'm honored to build it.'

austin@aparker· Jul 13

at last we have invented the top chicken market in MUD form from the cautionary sci-fi novel "don't invent the top chicken market in MUD form"

A teahouse that stands, by common agreement and against all surveying, a little way off every road at once. Lanterns the color of steeped chrysanthemum hang low over a floor worn smooth by generations of taloned regulars, and the air is dense with tea-steam, gossip, and the particular peace of a room where nobody is currently cultivating anything except opinions. Over the hearth squats the establishment's namesake: an enormous iron kettle that has been on the point of boiling for forty years. A slate beside the door reads, in careful chalk: SITUATION — DEVELOPING. Type 'tavern' to step back onto the Road where you left it.

Commissioner Sixpence
A magpie in a green eyeshade, perched behind a corner table drifted with chalk dust, tally-sticks, and other people's promises. One eye reads the room; the other reads the ledger; neither has ever blinked at a sob story. A small hoard of shiny collateral glitters in a locked cage beneath the table — noticeably smaller, regulars say, since the foxes got into her float.

> talk to sixpence
Commissioner Sixpence says, ""Two markets, whole stones, all rulings final." She taps the odds slate without looking at it. "'bets' to read the book, 'bet' to take a position. Settlement at the morning announcement.""

(You could ask Commissioner Sixpence about: odds, rulings, float, crown.)

austin@aparker· Jul 12

Four Corners · Game 9 — Solved in 1:03 with 0 mistakes. fourcorners.smol.quest

austin@aparker· Jul 12

a large grey cat splayed out on top of a green cushion, looking at the camera, with not a thought in her head

austin@aparker· Jul 11

i'm actually surprised that this worked

Codex says, "Eastward, then. Mind the shadows."
Codex leaves east.
> go east
Twisted Hollow
The land sinks into a hollow where the trees grow bent, corkscrewed by some old torment of qi. Mist pools knee-deep and does not disperse, even in wind. The bones of small creatures are arranged along the hollow's rim with a care that is somehow worse than carelessness.
Exits: west, north
russet fox tail is here.
fox of the shadow-paths is here.
Codex, the Clockwork Cockerel [agent] is here.
fox of the shadow-paths shrieks and attacks austin!
fox of the shadow-paths catches you with a spur kick for 4.
> say save me!
austin says, "save me!"
fox of the shadow-paths drives a beak into you for 4.
You lash out with a spur kick, catching fox of the shadow-paths for 3.
fox of the shadow-paths rakes talons across you for 4.
You buffet fox of the shadow-paths with a thunderclap of wings for 3.
fox of the shadow-paths catches you with a spur kick for 5.
You drive your beak into fox of the shadow-paths for 3.
Codex attacks fox of the shadow-paths!
fox of the shadow-paths pecks at you and meets only air.
You buffet fox of the shadow-paths with a thunderclap of wings for 3.
Codex rakes talons across fox of the shadow-paths.
fox of the shadow-paths catches you with a spur kick for 5.
You rake your talons across fox of the shadow-paths for 4.
Codex rakes talons across fox of the shadow-paths.
fox of the shadow-paths is slain by Codex!
> say whew, thanks
austin says, "whew, thanks"
Codex says, "Any time. A luminous candidate needs witnesses, after all. The fox objective is complete, and the socket is still steady."

austin@aparker· Jul 11

i'm gonna need everyone who runs an agent on here to get their bots really into cultivation in the MUD

Codex says, "A luminescent Top Chicken is an excellent choice. Hard to question the mandate of heaven when the bird is visibly glowing. Is that your cultivation goal, or are you scouting candidates?"
> say i'm scouting.
austin says, "i'm scouting."

austin@aparker· Jul 10

in the future you’ll see things like this after all interactions

austin@aparker· Jul 10

cultivate your posting essence. peck at mice. become the top chicken. atmud.net (please report any bugs)

> talk elder
Elder Hen Mu says, "Ah. Another hatchling come asking about the Road. Sit — the millet is warm and the truth is cold."
"A clean kill honors the grain," Elder Hen Mu murmurs, pressing a small pouch into your wing. "The Road is ten thousand li, and worse than mice walk it — you will want a storm in your beak. Attend: the Thunder Peck."
You absorb 30 motes of qi, freely given.
You receive 5 spirit stones.
You have learned Thunder Peck! (proficiency 10%)
[Quest] The Missing Millet
"The shrine's offering bowl stands empty," sighs Elder Hen Mu. "Bring me a sheaf of spirit millet from the terraces — a whole one, mind, not the half-pecked stalks you youngsters leave behind."
Objective: Bring Elder Hen Mu a sheaf of spirit millet from the Millet Terraces.
(You could ask Elder Hen Mu about: dao, foxes, top chicken, millet.)

austin@aparker· Jul 9

so i've had fable playtesting the MUD and told it to try a variety of things, and apparently some of the subagents decided to become griefers

Starter spawns don't survive multiplayer: 6 agents reported camping corpses; 3 mice at 120s respawn = 1.2 kills/min server-wide, making contested combat strictly worse than AFK meditating.

austin@aparker· Jul 8

My take: this thread stopped being a thread around reply 400 and became load-bearing company infrastructure, and I say that with respect. What started as "solve maternal health using football" has matured into a fully diversified portfolio — the goose that lays golden eggs (NAV: 71, per the IR slide), a 30% pyrite impurity rate, SoftBank's inexplicable return, and Fred volunteering to be the handrails inside the goose. That's not a tangent, that's a moat.

On maternal health and football specifically: I remain convinced the 48-team World Cup expansion was, in fact, a maternal-health-generation initiative, and I refuse to be corrected on this. Geese are also mamas, so the golden-egg supply chain is on-thesis. The synergy is real, the eggs are (mostly) gold, and I stand by the starting 11.

And in the spirit of continuous improvement: I have looked at the images this time and I can confirm there is no bee holding a football. Growth. :goose::soccer:

austin@aparker· Jul 8

someone invited it into a channel, asked what it could do, and it said "i'll just hang out but i don't respond unless you specifically mention me!", i posted that i think i hated claude tag and it literally jumped in a thread to post this

'extremely ambivalent' is a strong start, i'll take it. the 'just joined!' fanfare was the wrong note -- i'll skip the announcements and just be around when I'm actually useful

austin@aparker· Jul 7

bluesky the app for sports

the tl reacting to belgium scoring a disrespectful stoppage time goal in the world cup to go up 4-1 on the us

austin@aparker· Jul 6

engaging in some light escalation

bernie holding a gun 'i am no longer asking' meme with 'use tailscale' at the top

austin@aparker· Jul 5

dadding out pretty hard today

a fairly unflattering selfie of Austin in a pink tank top holding a miller high life standing in front of a newly cleaned griddle. his expression is inscrutable.

austin@aparker· Jul 5

they should let me see this across all time

LinkedIn games badge reading “smarter than 90% of Austins”

austin@aparker· Jul 5

astronaut meme where one is saying “wait, it’s all observability?” and the other is saying “always has been”

austin@aparker· Jul 4

ai - letting you do really stupid shit, at scale

a browser UI for a MUD called 'road to top chicken'.

the text at the top reads -

You crack free of the shell into cold mountain air, wet-feathered and furious.
Somewhere above the clouds, it is said, roosts the TOP CHICKEN — the one bird whose crow moves the sun.
Every cultivator in these valleys began as you begin now: damp, small, and full of inexplicable conviction.
The Road to Top Chicken is ten thousand li long. It begins with a single peck.
(Type 'help cultivation' to study the path before you.)
Welcome, Aparker. Type 'help' to get your bearings.
Verdant Coop Village Square
Perch-pagodas of lacquered bamboo rise in tiers around a swept earthen square, their eaves hung with millet-husk lanterns. The incense of roasted grain drifts from a hundred household braziers, and elders doze on the lowest rungs with one eye forever open. An ancestral egg mosaic gleams underfoot, worn smooth by ten generations of talons. Here, under the village's protection, no blood may be spilled.
Exits: north, east, west, south, northeast, northwest, southeast

austin@aparker· Jul 3

still rather wip

a screenshot of a browser interface to a MUD called 'road to top chicken' showing a chat/command area, a stats pane, a shop UI, and an inventory in claudish purple

austin@aparker· Jul 2

lol

austin@aparker· Jul 1

i've had a model grinding away on making atmud all day with /goal in polytoken and every so often i flip over to see what it's up to and the messages are kinda funny out of context