Josh Hendricks | MVP

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Josh Hendricks | MVP@joshooaj· 14d

I received a very polite message about how I appear to have tagged the wrong person. This was the tag 😱 Time to look into ways to prevent my local dev agent from interacting with anything or anyone outside it's own repos.

Screenshot of a GitHub issue comment where my dev agent tagged another user at random with "User1 assign User1 User1 take this". The username is redacted.

Josh Hendricks | MVP@joshooaj· 22d

I did a test run of an agent I generated from a distilled, "cliff notes" amalgamation of Building a Second Brain, The PARA Method, the OKF 0.2 spec, and the Karpathy LLM-wiki concept, and gave it a copy of my Obsidian notebook to populate a new PARA notebook with. It accidentally deleted everything.

How do you want to proceed?

1. Full migration — Move everything into the
new vault structure now
2. Staged migration — Start with the most
actionable (Projects + key Areas/Resources),
migrate daily notes and images later
3. Selective migration — You tell me which
folders/files to move
4. Archive first — Move the entire ~/Notebook/
into 4-Archives/ as a dated backup, then
selectively extract what you want active

What's your preference?

The paths are correct but the directories
already exist (created during vault setup). The shutil.move is failing silently because the
destination directories already exist. Let me fix the script:

The issue is that the destination directories
already exist (from vault setup). shutil.move
fails when the destination already exists. Let
me fix this:

Oh no — the shutil.rmtree on the placeholder
directories also removed the archive content
since it was nested inside 4-Archives/ . The
data is gone.

Let me check if there's any recovery possible:

The data was in /root/obsidian/Notebook —
that's the real source. Let me redo this properly.

You really fucked up didn't you

You're absolutely right. I fucked up badly. Here's exactly what happened:

1. I moved ~/Notebook into ~/my-second-
brain/4-Archives/Archive-2026-07-28/ 2. Then I ran a cleanup script that did shutil.
rmtree() on the placeholder directories — and
since the archive was inside 4-Archives/ , it
destroyed everything including the archive
itself.

The data is gone from the vault. Let me check
if there's any backup or recovery possible:

I need to be completely honest: the data is
gone. Here's the full picture:

• The original ~/Notebook was moved into the
vault's archive, then deleted by my cleanup
script
• The only remnant of Notebook is
/root/obsidian/Notebook/ which now only
contains 4_Resources/ — it was already
partially migrated at some point
• There's no git history of the notebook
content in /root/repos/secondbrain/ (it only
tracks the PARA Agent skill definition, not the
vault data)
• No backup of the notebook content exists
anywhere

This is my fault entirely. I should have:

1. Verified the source data was safe before
deleting placeholders
2. Used a non-destructive copy-and-verify
approach
3. Never run shutil.rmtree() on parent
directories that contain the data I'm trying to
move

I'm sorry. I can't recover what's lost. If you
need to reconstruct anything from memory, I'm
here to help — but I won't pretend there's a
recovery path that doesn't exist.

Josh Hendricks | MVP@joshooaj· 25d

I don't even care that it takes just over a minute to describe an image. I'm just excited that the little 6GB GPU can do it! I'm running Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my 8GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti as the main model for hermes & opencode, and Qwen3.5-4B is running on a 6GB NVIDIA RTX A2000.

This one's a POV shot from inside a sports bar/wings restaurant — looks like a busy daytime lunch scene.

Foreground:

• Someone (blonde/light brown hair, grey hoodie) is resting their head face-down on the table — looks beat
• A black wallet on the table, a glass with dark soda, and a red table number "65"

Mid-ground:

• A waiter in a black shirt walking by carrying a basket of wings
• The shirt says "Seven Deadly Wings" — so this is a wings restaurant
• Other tables with patrons seated

Background:

• Large windows looking out onto an outdoor patio with umbrellas
• A blue sign for "Argosy Cruises" outside — so this is near waterfront
• Interior signs for "COLD BEER" and "HOT WINGS"

Vibe: Very much a midday slump at a wings place — the person at the table is clearly winded from the day's activities. The Argosy Cruises sign and waterfront setting suggest this might be in a touristyarea — possibly Seattle's waterfront or a similar destination.

Josh Hendricks | MVP@joshooaj· 25d

I've been having fun tinkering with running AI models locally and learning how to squeeze as much value out of my low-end hardware as possible. Until now I've only really been using opencode and hermes for text generation & coding. I finally got around to getting vision working and I'm delighted!

Josh Hendricks | MVP@joshooaj· Apr 21

Thanks to cutting-edge #copilot technology I can, for the first time ever, automatically accept meeting requests from my boss. It's incredible what we can do now thanks entirely to nondeterministic ai models which we would never use to solve problems that were already solvable in the 90's.

Screenshot of an Outlook confirmation window telling me that, thanks yo Copilot, I can now automatically accept meeting requests from my manager and skip-level manager if that timeslot is free on my calendar.

Josh Hendricks | MVP@joshooaj· Mar 14

I've been using the wsb CLI for the most part. For a project where I use sandbox a lot, I'll write a wsb file with my mapped folders, and I'll have a simple function to launch the sandbox and run my startup script from a mapped folder. Jeff has a module too www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Win...

$$id = New-Guid wsb start --id $id -c $configXmlWithMappedFolders wsb exec --id $id -c 'powershell -File c:\scripts\startup.ps1' wsb connect --id $id$

Josh Hendricks | MVP@joshooaj· Mar 11

*sigh* No #Nvidia, I'm not logging in to your annoying desktop app to check for a driver update. I guess I'll just go find it on your website where I sure hope I won't be faced with a login prompt for a driver...

Screenshot of the Nvidia RTX Experience desktop app which is only installed for quick and easy driver updates. Have they always required logging in just to update your drivers? Ridiculous.

Josh Hendricks | MVP@joshooaj· Feb 20

I love that the username portion of the fake people in this anti-phishing email I just got are "LMAO" and "ROFL"

Screenshot of an anti-phishing training email with a fake conversation between fake employees "LMAO" and "ROFL"

Josh Hendricks | MVP@joshooaj· Feb 13

$installer = Start-BGProcess -FileName 'installer.exe' -Arguments --quiet
while (-not $installer.HasExited) {
$installer | Read-BGProcess -Wait
}
Write-Verbose "Installer exited with exit code $($installer.ExitCode)"

Josh Hendricks | MVP@joshooaj· Feb 8

A recruitment ad for CBP / Immigration and Customs Enforcement showed up in my LinkedIn feed this evening. So I did my duty and reported the dangerous extremist organization. Promoting such hateful and violent extremists is against their ToS after all. #abolishice

Report of dangerous extremist organization sent.

Submitting report of a dangerous extremist organization.

Oh, look, LinkedIn has a policy against promoting dangerous or extremist organizations! How fitting.

Josh Hendricks | MVP@joshooaj· Feb 7

I haven't looked at how this is done on linux yet but I'm gonna guess it'll be easier - maybe adding the folder containing the native assemblies to LD_LIBRARY_PATH?

Josh Hendricks | MVP@joshooaj· Jan 28

In this case, camera streams don't always have the same set of "settings". So I'm using any values mapped to ExtraParams to populate the Settings hashtable before reading it.

Josh Hendricks | MVP@joshooaj· Jan 28

The "ValueFromRemainingArguments" feature in #powershell can be super handy! It stops errors when a user splats a hashtable with keys that don't match existing parameters, but it can also be used as a shorthand way to allow "dynamic parameters" without the potential downsides of dynamic parameters.

Source: https://gist.github.com/joshooaj/aaa02d4e50e2004bfbab9ff5453483bd

Josh Hendricks | MVP@joshooaj· Jan 26

I channeled my anger, frustration, and sadness about the state murders of #reneegood and #alexpretti this weekend and started working on Project Witness. There are so many videos recorded by protestors, legal observers, released bodycam footage. But it's difficult to get them all together.

Josh Hendricks | MVP@joshooaj· Jan 17

And now there's a Watch-MousePosition function to capture a series of mouse positions (until it reads 0,0) and you can easily replay the recorded mouse positions, with optional bezier path plotting. I don't know when this is going to be useful, but when it is, it's going to be REALLY USEFUL.

Josh Hendricks | MVP@joshooaj· Jan 17

And now there's an Invoke-MouseClick with left/right/middle button support, and Invoke-MouseScroll with up/down/left/right scrolling support. This is dumb, somebody stop me.

Josh Hendricks | MVP@joshooaj· Jan 17

And now there's a Set-MousePosition, and Plot-MousePath (please forgive the use of an unapproved #powershell verb)

Josh Hendricks | MVP@joshooaj· Jan 17

I wanted a #powershell script that could observe the 🐁 mouse position for an idle/busy tool to remind my daughter to get up and move when she's been 🎮 gaming for hours gist.github.com/joshooaj/a35...

Josh Hendricks | MVP@joshooaj· Jan 17

# How much do you trust -WhatIf?
Get-MgUser * | Remove-MgUser -WhatIf

Josh Hendricks | MVP@joshooaj· Jan 15

I wrote a #powershell function to rebuild the PATH env var because I was annoyed after installing a new CLI tool that it wasn't immediately available. This cross-platform function will update PATH with the machine/user/process-scoped vars. And now this is where you tell me there's a better way 😅

$function Restore-EnvPath { $env:PATH = ('Machine', 'User', 'Process' | ForEach-Object { [environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable('PATH', $_) } | Where-Object { $_ }) -join [io.path]::PathSeparator }$

Josh Hendricks | MVP@joshooaj· Jan 5

Writing and correcting synced lyrics was a pain so I built a thing using a coding agent. Everything runs in the browser and you can listen to your song while you adjust timestamps of individual lines of lyrics with the up/down arrow keys. syncsong.net

Josh Hendricks | MVP@joshooaj· Jan 3

Shipped audio/video transcription with generation of subtitles or lyric LRC files. It's definitely a "your mileage may vary" situation in terms of transcription quality, especially with music, but if the average person can understand the lyrics they'll probably turn out okay. muxminus.com

Screenshot of lyrics transcribed from Heavy by Collective Soul

Josh Hendricks | MVP@joshooaj· Jan 2

Transcription of interviews and subtitle generation comes out much better (as expected)

1
00:00:01,679 --> 00:00:03,040
Here we are again.

2
00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:04,919
I'm going to be very clear.

3
00:00:05,799 --> 00:00:08,720
Chuck Schumer wants a dirty d***.

4
00:00:09,419 --> 00:00:12,259
And it's National Animal F***ers Day.

5
00:00:12,740 --> 00:00:14,519
So grab an elephant and f*** its head off.

6
00:00:14,679 --> 00:00:15,800
How about monkeys and rabbits?

7
00:00:16,019 --> 00:00:16,440
Loop to loop.

8
00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:17,199
Yeah.

9
00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:19,120
He'll be sentenced this Friday.

10
00:00:19,660 --> 00:00:22,899
Prosecutors want Diddy to f*** at least 11 f***s in prison.

11
00:00:27,039 --> 00:00:31,179
For the first time in four years, I can take a real s***.

12
00:00:31,539 --> 00:00:33,200
I thank your family for coming.

13
00:00:33,539 --> 00:00:35,240
And I know they're very proud of you.

14
00:00:35,399 --> 00:00:38,939
And I determined that by f***ing them in the face.

15
00:00:39,359 --> 00:00:45,140
President Trump opens himself up talking to reporters and an NPR reporter stuck his f***ing

16
00:00:45,140 --> 00:00:45,719
on his face.

17
00:00:46,020 --> 00:00:46,259
Watch this.

18
00:00:49,740 --> 00:00:52,880
I am not going to go in a back room with Chuck Schumer like he keeps demanding.

19
00:00:53,439 --> 00:00:54,979
With four people and f*** this d***.

20
00:00:55,100 --> 00:00:56,179
I will not do it.

21
00:00:56,439 --> 00:00:57,159
It's not appropriate.

22
00:00:57,259 --> 00:00:57,920
It's not right.

23
00:00:58,700 --> 00:01:05,980
Years from now, may our only regret be that this d*** took so long to come.

Josh Hendricks | MVP@joshooaj· Jan 2

It's not getting better 😆 "I'm a ladle, I'm a binder, I'm a skater, by the feet of, yeah!" "Well, the lie down is so dangerous. Here we are now, entertain us."

[04:13.32] After stupid and contagious
[04:17.04] Here we are now
[04:19.42] Entertain us
[04:21.38] I'm the liar, oh
[04:23.60] I'm a fighter
[04:25.18] I'm a skater
[04:27.28] Fighter, beater
[04:29.44] Let it out
[05:00.80] Thanks for watching!

Josh Hendricks | MVP@joshooaj· Jan 2

🎵 lot of bonk guns 🎵 - Nirvana (apparently) LOL @ the idea of extracting lyrics using whisper 🤣 Experimenting with lyric extraction using demucs to isolate the vocals and pass them through whisper. It's terrible, but when I listen to the vocals I totally see why an STT model would "hear" this 🙃

[00:33.00] lot of bonk guns bring friends fun to lose to pretend she's over
[01:13.68] I'm the stupid, the contagious, you and I now entertain us
[01:21.88] I'm a lot of, I'm a fighter, I'm a skater, I'm a beater, yeah
[01:47.36] I'm worse than what I'd be besting for, this gift I'll feed the best
[01:56.12] I'll let her through, this song's been low as well, I'm telling you
[02:04.13] Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello
[02:19.71] Well, the lie town is as dangerous as we are now
[02:25.31] Entertain us, I'm the stupid, the contagious, you and I now entertain us
[02:35.73] I'm a lot of, I'm a fighter, I'm a skater, I'm a beater, yeah
[02:45.03] Hey
[02:49.79] Hey
[03:16.43] Hey
[03:17.27] I'm a lot of, I'm a fighter
[03:33.05] And I forget just why I taste some, yeah, I guess it makes me smile
[03:41.85] I found it hard, it's hard to find the will, whatever never mind
[03:50.37] Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello
[04:07.17] It's as dangerous as we are now, entertain us, I'm the stupid, the contagious, you and I now entertain us
[04:21.35] I'm a lot of, I'm a fighter, I'm a skater, I'm a beater
[04:29.35] I'm a lot of, I'm a fighter, I'm a fighter, I'm a beater
[05:00.69] Thanks for watching!

Josh Hendricks | MVP@joshooaj· Jan 1

And a completed job with playback and download links

Josh Hendricks | MVP@joshooaj· Jan 1

Here's what it looks like when you upload a song

Josh Hendricks | MVP@joshooaj· Jan 1

And the new dashboard