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miquongon Claude Code Emergent Behavior: When Skills Combine

https://vibeandscribe.xyz/posts/2026-01-07-emergent-behavior...

(year fixed below)

miquongon Exploring EXIF (2023)

If you're following along and can't/don't want to remember the SQL syntax, use the examples from the post for LLM text-to-SQL context:

  Q: Which photo has the highest number of faces?
  A: SELECT SourceFile
  FROM photos
  WHERE RegionType IS NOT ''
  ORDER BY length(RegionType) DESC
  LIMIT 1;
  
  Q: ...

You can also fetch and use the table schema with `sqlite3 exif.db .schema`

miquongon Why you can’t grow cool-climate plants in hot climates

The author has a highly amusing, off-beat Instagram feed: https://www.instagram.com/crime_pays_but_botany_doesnt

miquongon How to Delete Your 23andMe Data

I requested, but gave up and requested deletion after. I still haven’t received the requested data.

Still, I figure I have a few trillion backup copies… albeit in very raw format

miquongon Show HN: Defrag the Game

Microsoft has an elaborate VS Code demo app that uses this API. Click "Open Folder" to see the API in action): https://vscode.dev

miquongon Playing guitar tablatures in Rust

Tabs seem like they'd be great training material for LLMs and generative music. Does anyone know of projects attempting this?

Update: looks like some papers got into it last year:

Rock Guitar Tablature Generation via Natural Language Processing: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.05295

GTR-CTRL: Instrument and Genre Conditioning for Guitar-Focused Music Generation with Transformers: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.05393

miquongon Show HN: We relaunched the Official MTA App for NYC public transit

Just want to send my thanks. I’ve been a regular user since the early testflights and it’s been great seeing the iterations and improvements, particularly for me the scheduled-but-no-show ghost buses.

Congrats to the team!

miquongon Dive: A tool for exploring a Docker image, layer contents and more

Eventually, once zstd support gets fully supported, and tiny gzip compression windows are not a limitation, then compressing a full layer would almost certainly have a better ratio over several smaller layers

https://github.com/opencontainers/image-spec/issues/803

miquongon Dive: A tool for exploring a Docker image, layer contents and more

For image and layer manipulation, crane is awesome - as is the underlying go-containerregistry library.

It lets you add new layers, or edit any metadata (env vars, labels, entrypoint, etc) in existing images. You can also "flatten" an image with multiple layers into a single layer. Additionally you can "rebase" an image (re-apply your changes onto a new/updated base image). It does all this directly in the registry, so no docker needed (though it's still useful for creating the original image).

https://github.com/google/go-containerregistry/blob/main/cmd...

(updated: better link)

miquongon Shouldn't distant objects appear magnified?

The dimmest phones are larger than any others

miquongon Lindows 4.0 (2003)

Oops… it was WinLinux 2000[1] that came first for me and Lindows shortly after. Apparently the naming permutations worked for at least one person

[1] https://archive.org/details/win-linux-2000

miquongon Lindows 4.0 (2003)

Yeah it must have been later than I remember. Even if it was a bootleg beta I found, it would have been 2000 at the earliest.

miquongon Lindows 4.0 (2003)

Oh that was the holy grail. I also never got there… had to settle for the lower levels of Gentoo purity.

miquongon Lindows 4.0 (2003)

Never knew so many levels of parody and irony could be encapsulated in one flash animation!

miquongon Lindows 4.0 (2003)

Lindows was my first Linux distro c. 1999. It was my first year at college, majoring in Business Administration, living on campus with internet speeds above 56kbps for the first time. Trawling through the internet at that time, I stumbled on a (likely bootleg) Lindows installer somewhere and fell down the rabbit hole.

Looking back, I realize now I’d been a self-denying computer geek before then but for whatever reason Lindows, it’s wacky installer, dual boot support, and fortunate hardware compatibility gave me the right nudge at the right time to send me on a lifetime of hacking.

Almost 25 years later, most as a professional software engineer, I have a completely biased affection for this strange OS.

Thanks for sharing!

miquongon Recreation.gov

Exactly 6 months from today is last day of US Memorial Day holiday weekend. Lots of camping areas in the US require reservations within 6 months, making the today and the next few months the best days to get a reservation for popular summer US camping areas. Also note, recreation.gov is only for US Federal parks, many state and local parks will their own websites, apps or other systems for making reservations.