And Adam - A Short Story

The screeching bray of giraffes in the distance jolts me awake. 

"Long necked bastards," I mutter under my breath. 

Always when I wake, I need to spit. I raise myself out of our nestbed, careful to avoid waking Adam, and make enough distance so he won't hear my spitting.

Actually, there’s a particular bush I’ve been spitting behind for the last 4 days. I have the sense that if I keep spitting here in that same spot, something will grow there. I have to see this hypothesis through of course. And I guess it’s important to note, whatever rises out of the spot would basically be my spit child.

Tragedy of the Common Mold

Slime molds are a class of simple microorganisms with a surprising amount of intelligence given their lack of brain. Famously, they are excellent at optimizing transport networks, and they also showcase rudimentary memory and communication abilities.

Unknown slime mold I found on a log

Scratch Paper: Minimal Mobile Notes App

Scratch Paper is my free re-imagined notes app with only a single page of notes.

As soon as you open it up, you're instantly typing. It is a humble piece of scratch paper for the digital age, letting you jot things down quickly and then getting out of your way.

Perfect for grocery lists, to-do reminders, or scribbling down a rough thought for later refinement. Scratch Paper has only the features it needs and nothing more.

Scratch Paper is the successor to the Android App called Jot which I released in 2018.  I rewrote it in react native for cross platform availability, and with some important quality of life improvements. 

Links

Apple Store 

Google Play Store

Github Project

 

Contact

abraham.r.m[at]gmail.com

Open Interpreter on Termux: the Best Mobile ChatGPT Client

Well it turns out that the best ChatGPT mobile app is... The terminal shell. I'll explain.

Running in the Big Bowl

 

Walking around after midnight in a bored fugue, I found myself at the local skatepark. It was dark, empty, and utterly quiet.

Some Paintings

Recycling cardboard boxes is cool, although even better is to cut them into squares and use them to paint on. That's reuse!

It's less intimidating as a complete amateur painter (like myself) to paint playfully on a throwaway piece of cardboard, as opposed to defacing a pristine canvas... Plus it gives a fun rough and rugged effect, with the pattern of the cardboard and the occasional packing label just barely peaking through.

Over the last ~year I did a few paintings like this with acrylic paint on cardboard cuttings, and it was super fun — something I'm going to do more often. Take a look if you want!

The Rise of AI (Blogging has never been easier)

You: 

Write a SEO blog post for me the rise of AI that is about 500 words and will ensure that I'll get a lot of readers on my blog.

ChatGPT: 

As a large language model, I cannot write a blog post that is guaranteed to get you a lot of new readers. Success in attracting readers depends on various factors including promotion, competition, and audience preferences. Nonetheless, I'll write a blog post with content optimized for relevance and engagement.