RebelMonk

Not my OpenClaw, but I built a little stdlib-only python AI agent. Essentially the same thing only without the bloat and upgrade hell.

It's all mundane things.

Each morning I get: 1) A message with the weather and AQI for my current location. 2) A digest of version changes and any security issues on some bits I am interested in (e.g. WordPress + plugins that I manage for clients) 3) A feed of links that might be interesting in football news, to stop me browsing the web reading the football news. 4) Any carry-over items I've asked it to remind me of that morning. 5) If there are any, it lets me know about visa changes across the countries I tend to travel to.

At lunchtime, I get a language word of the day using an SM-2 schedule.

If I want it to remind me of something it sets a cron job and reminds me during the day. If I want a currency or unit conversion I do it there rather than in another app.

Essentially I have a few other tools like UptimeKuma and Freescout which send me Telegram messages, so it's just delivering info into a place I am already checking.

It doesn't have access my calendar or emails. It doesn't try to make me money. None of this is anything radical or solves anything that hasn't been solved before.

Somewhat misleadingly, not answered by monks. (also somewhat misleadingly, I am not a monk)

I tried to answer a few carefully, I got several in a row all on the topic of loneliness. Then I took a look at some of the answers people have given... and while some are beautifully crafted, others are not.

While there are obvious idiots everywhere, I think a greater risk might be that many well-intentioned people (myself included) are attempting to answer questions we are not qualified to answer, especially given the lack of context in the questions.

Been meaning to sign up to this after seeing it posted here before. Finally got around to it. First impressions are the amount of settings and options available are a little overwhelming if I wanted to suggest it to non-technical users. Have you considered / do you have any video tutorials on the different settings / getting the most out of Uruky?

I've spent the past few months working on little projects mostly coded via LLMs. Used it to build my own little AI agent in python attempting to keep it stdlib-only, and a little blog engine with MFA. Things I would never have previously been able to do as a sysadmin/infrastructure but not developer. The struggle I'm finding with it is how to go from good enough for me to good enough for production. After being stuck in QA/review hell trying to use LLMs to assess the code, I've started trying to unpick it myself. I can't help but feel that the time spent learning the vibe-coding approach wouldn't have been better spent just learning software development properly.

While that's been frustrating, most my fun has been on the non-tech side. To get a break from the computer last year, I ran the length of Japan (around 3,400 km). And now I've been helping my partner edit the videos and stick them on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50oQQThXWnc&list=PLVFWiVG-hZ...

Most my fun has been on the non-tech side. To get a break from the computer last year, I ran the length of Japan (around 3,447 km). And now I've been helping my partner edit the videos and stick them on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50oQQThXWnc&list=PLVFWiVG-hZ...

On the tech side: I've spent the past few months working on little projects mostly coded via LLMs. Used it to build my own little AI agent in python attempting to keep it stdlib-only, and a little blog engine with MFA. Things I would never have previously been able to do as a sysadmin/infrastructure but not developer. It's been an interesting learning experience, but have spent months not getting anything to a fit state to share with the world.

As someone living in Vietnam, I have a number of websites off limits. The one in this thread for one https://www.cam.ac.uk/ is an interesting one that I'm forbidden to see.

VPN is a necessity. I spend some of my day turning it on to see sites blocking Vietnam, and then some of it turning it off because of sites that are blocking the VPN.

Ahh, the joys of accessing sites “protected” by Cloudflare when living in Vietnam:

Sorry, you have been blocked You are unable to access patronview.com

My partner cycled 3400 km through Japan on a Brompton last autumn (I can't ride a bike so I ran instead). It turned out to be a great choice of bike for travelling around slowly on.

We had a couple of issues finding replacement tyres, but only two days out of 80 where we had any issues - and both were avoidable/our fault.

Here's a short showing off the bike if anyone's interested. (one day we'll make a full length video!)

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AJlo3Jbaxk0

If I ever learn to ride a bike... I'm pretty sure it will be on a folding one.

I was one of the lab rats for this - I signed up so I could get a copy of my brain scan.

I found it quite easy to move blocks around, more complex tasks with more fine control was a bit harder but possible with even a limited amount of time. The only time I struggled was when trying to do anything with the thumb while walking on a treadmill - which should be expected when controlling a device with your toes!