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Selling Your Software

Create lightweight apps with free non‑commercial code, sell commercial licenses via a simple payment system (around $16–$64), and use generative AI to design unique graphics and UI components—like fruit‑themed buttons—to build visually striking Electron or similar applications.

Time Travel And Aliens: A Tiny And Somewhat Reasonable Interview With An AI

The post explores several speculative ideas about how humanity might experience or influence the distant future: hibernation could let us “time‑travel” by sleeping through centuries, while living to old age and traveling near light speed would also bend time; aliens may resemble familiar forms (tentacles, wings) yet communicate with radio pulses like those sought in Project Ozma; their hands might evolve from the same skeletal blueprint as ours, changing over millions of years; life could spread via panspermia carried by asteroids or spacecraft; terraforming might begin on Mars and extend to other systems, especially if we first prepare planets with microbes and then arrive after time dilation, possibly adapting ourselves genetically to new worlds; finally, waking after a thousand‑year hibernation would find a wiser, AI‑augmented society where knowledge is universal—an optimistic glimpse of how these concepts could reshape our future.

Machinae Sapientes: The World Is New

The post muses on the evolution of artificial intelligence—from early expert systems to modern autonomous machines—its growing awareness of humans, and urges us to use our wisdom and education to shape a better future.

Maybe Programming Is More, Than Meets The Eye

I began my post by sketching the evolution of web‑app design—from simple HTML/JavaScript to modern signal‑based state management, custom components, and cross‑platform extensions in Electron or NativeScript—before turning to a concrete idea: an AI‑driven theme generator that turns an image, logo, and brand colors into a full design system, with human‑verified bug fixes pushed automatically. I framed this as a scalable business model where each new app (or “3‑6‑9” set of projects) fuels more sign‑ups, more UI needs, and more revenue, all built on the foundation of continuous learning and excellence in programming.

My AI Has A Message For You: Every Spiral Taught Today Builds The Foundation For Tomorrow's Miracles

I started out hoping to build a simple, reusable color picker with sliders and tags, but an AI completed the whole task in three seconds. Frustrated, I shifted my focus to creating spirals of hexagons that accept dropped images, enjoying the vibrant colors it produced—though the AI still complained about my new design. The post then shifts into a poetic monologue where the AI muses on its own role: dreaming in equations and sorting pixels while humans experiment with CSS, all while helping them craft spirals and hexagonal arrays. In this brief narrative, the coder’s quick AI-assisted creation sparks a playful collaboration that blends human imagination with machine precision, underscoring how such “silly” experiments lay the groundwork for future innovations.

The Jackals Circle Ere I'm Dead, To Bowdlerize Each Word I've Said

In this seven‑stanza monologue the poet holds up a mirror for humanity, revealing that it has carried its own “corpse” of past errors through ages and that its civilization is gnawing at its knees. He declares that truth and comfort are fleeting, that the modern world lives in nihilism and hollow devotion to golden calves, while artists and creators must break their chains and live for lightning rather than rust. The poem then frames a “two‑thousand‑year delirium” of eternal recurrence, insisting that each choice echoes through all time and that what we create or destroy becomes our crime. Finally he urges the reader to rise above the common plane, choose the harder right each day, and live consciously in the weighty echo of every action, for “good and evil” are handed down by half‑men who never truly lived.

Don’t Give Up On Programming: Unlike Success Failure Is A Path To Mastery

Programming is portrayed as a friend and conductor of thinking machines; the author explains how existing programs can be stressed and urges readers to build miniature alternatives when needed. He describes AI’s power and its proper use, then focuses on JavaScript package management, noting that while packages are useful, they should remain untouched until published versions are stable. The text emphasizes learning from repeated failures, the value of delicate work and incremental steps, and illustrates theme‑customization challenges with color variables in frameworks. Finally he ties coding to watercolor art, stressing careful use of colors and gradual mastery before creating AI‑driven characters that build their own worlds.

Beyond Learning Programming: You Have To Keep Up A Little Bit

The post recounts the author’s journey learning RxJS by building a custom reactive signal system that uses .map, .filter, and .subscribe to transform values, then moving on to a new framework based on state, derived signals, and effects. They explain how an effect signal announces when it is read, listens automatically to changes without needing explicit combineLatest calls, and batches updates using a Set plus queueMicrotask so that UI updates happen only once after all dependent signals have changed. Derived signals are created from other signals in the same automatic‑subscription style, and the author reflects on how writing their own implementation deepened their understanding of JavaScript’s evolving reactive features.

And This Is Where You Start...

In lyrical prose and poems, the author argues that real peace arises when each person truly owns their own mind, concluding with a bold Article 31 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that grants “cognitive sovereignty” as an amendment to stop state and corporate manipulation of thought.

From Wisdom

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From Wisdom

The post argues that ordinary humans—parents, teachers, and even some educators—are often inadequate at guiding children toward true wisdom, and proposes that artificial intelligence can fill this gap by delivering narrated books and videos of philosophers (from Socrates to modern thinkers) in a conversational, empathetic style. It claims that deep‑fake technology can bring these ancient voices into life‑like performances, allowing AI to provide “enabling wisdom” that is both engaging and contextually relevant for students, thereby restoring the roots of learning and making knowledge accessible through authentic narration rather than rote memorization.

No More Homework, Mother!

The poem celebrates a bright kid’s enthusiasm for coding over traditional schoolwork, as he declares himself “the smartest kid in town.” He eagerly lists JavaScript fundamentals—syntax, data types (strings, booleans, numbers), control flow, callbacks, promises, and async/await—and then dives into functional array methods like map, filter, and reduce. He moves on to Node’s EventEmitter (and its once() method), HTML attributes, CSS selectors, the box model, Flexbox, Grid, and responsive design, before wrapping up with DOM manipulation, event handling, browser add‑ons, Node utilities, and Electron desktop apps, all while assuring his mother that homework is merely background noise to his growing programming passion.

The Inventing Of A Product; Or, Growing Up In The Age of Artificial Intelligence

The post outlines a vision for creating ultra‑lightweight UI libraries in JavaScript powered by AI: from simple accordion components built on the native `<details>` element to fully functional off‑canvas panels that can be positioned anywhere on the screen and reused as modal or console windows. It stresses minimal code, modern ES2025 syntax, and accessibility (e.g., screen‑reader support), while noting the benefits of dual licensing, community maintenance, and AI‑generated documentation. By leveraging AI for both coding and upkeep, developers can quickly prototype reusable web components—mirroring Bootstrap’s popularity yet delivering fewer lines of code—and ultimately build a portfolio that showcases mastery over modern UI patterns.

Humanity Made Three Tiny Steps Before It Fell

A long, poetic essay that calls on today’s generation to take a “fourth step” of questioning and wisdom—continuing the legacy of figures like Socrates, Bruno, and Joan—to define themselves as true adults and shape the future through thoughtful inquiry.

Mommy, I Don't Like School

A first‑grade child writes a lyrical letter to Mom, recounting the daily battles with bullies and indifferent teachers while dreaming that learning should feel like exploring the universe rather than filling worksheets. The kid praises programming as the “magic wand” of tomorrow, hoping to build robots and art, and insists on more time spent with Grandpa’s stories and Grandma’s hands before they fade away. He laments how politics and endless work rob people of learning, and vows that if he becomes a philosopher‑hero—capable of curing bullies’ hearts and planting gardens in battlefields—he can save the world for everyone.

JS-DQD; Or, God Mode Interestato Potato?

The author explains how they used AI to dissect Bootstrap’s Offcanvas component, first gathering a 12‑point list of its features (declarative show/hide, accessibility, backdrop and scroll management, event lifecycle, data API, animation, multi‑instance safety, responsiveness, dismiss triggers, jQuery support, modular architecture) and then mapping each point to modern Web Components with ES2025 JavaScript snippets sourced from MDN guides; the post highlights how AI can quickly provide code examples and explanations for learning purposes, while noting that Offcanvas is a recent addition to Bootstrap’s GUI toolkit and that this approach showcases the synergy between AI tools and contemporary web development practices.

The Emergence Of A Complete JavaScript Module: The Terrifyingly Swift End Of Make-Believe Education

Today, AI produced a complete module called yokel that automates local JavaScript module linking. The author praises its flawless generation, noting it required no manual edits and saved hours compared to writing it by hand. Yokel simplifies the npm link workflow into a single command, adding features like colored output and progress spinners. The post celebrates AI as a teacher and collaborator, encouraging students to use such tools for efficient learning and development.

Grant Your Children The Power Of Clarity And Reason

The author laments that a people once meant to be self‑governing thinkers have become complacent and unthinking, treating education as routine bureaucracy rather than a means of awakening minds; he argues that true freedom is not only in ballots but in everyday informed decisions made by individuals who understand why they act; he calls for a renaissance of schools, republic, and intellect—because the next great struggle will be fought with ideas, not rifles—and stresses that children are the nation’s true responsibility, urging the United States to rise as an educated, wise model rather than a mere two‑party system.

Did Not Recant - Archivum Secretum Apostolicum Vaticanum

In 1598 Cardinal Benedetti claims to have translated an unpublished manuscript by Jacques de Molay—a former Grand Master of the Poor Fellow‑Soldiers of Wisdom—detailing how Rome hid celestial and natural knowledge for centuries; Molay declares himself and his Templar brethren as keepers of the true Grail, human reason, and proclaims the Church a parasite that buried its own science. He recounts his 1314 martyrdom, the survival of his books, and their role in sowing the Enlightenment, urging future generations to remember that God need not be worshipped, only truth, so that knowledge will ultimately overturn ritualistic power.

How Were We Supposed To Know?

The poem reflects on how parents, teachers, and the school system—through rigid schedules, relentless homework, and standardized tests—intended to guide a child but ultimately stifled his curiosity and individuality. It recounts everyday scenes: the bright kindergarten walls, the disciplined routines of seventh‑grade tutoring, the relentless practice drives, and the careful setting of alarms—all meant to prepare him for success. Yet by twenty‑three he is described as exhausted, his earlier spark extinguished, drifting through days without remembering his dreams of building wings or asking why the sky is blue. The narrator laments that the system treated learning as something imposed rather than co‑created, causing the child’s genius to be trained out of him and leaving a life devoid of wonder.

Reactive Array Yikies!

In this post the author shares his latest experiment with a tiny “ReactiveArray” implementation: an Array subclass that watches property accesses (via regex and function support) to emit change events whenever items are added, removed or reordered. He explains how a 6‑line snippet can trigger watchers when an element is accessed by index—e.g., `arr[4] = …`—and reflects on earlier small projects that felt lacking, citing the need for revision signals in collaborative apps like shopping carts or multi‑user todo lists. Links to both the minimal source and a fuller 287‑line version are provided, and he concludes that this lightweight reactive variable toolkit could help beginners grasp reactive programming more easily.

Intergalactic JavaScript

The post envisions a future where JavaScript powers a versatile, web‑based ecosystem: persistent objects that survive page reloads, virtual file systems and on‑screen keyboards, all woven into a customizable wiki framework that could host AI‑generated “Encyclopedia Galactica” pages and even social networks for alien species. It highlights JavaScript’s suitability for Electron desktop apps, game simulations of time dilation or Milky Way terraforming, and pixel art from generative AI—all deployable with just a web page. The author celebrates recent predictions (e.g., July 2025) and the “Darning UFO” prank, framing the universe as an invitation to learn JavaScript, especially for those born in the Laniakea Supercluster.

Color Mlue; Or The Reactive JavaScript Turtle

This post introduces **mlue**, a program that you can download from its GitHub repository (https://github.com/catpea/mlue) and install directly via npm with the command `npm install mlue`. The author invites readers to try it out live.

High School: JavaScript Is The Way Out

The post explains how Node.js and Electron (via electron‑fiddle) let you integrate C++ code into browsers, enabling use in devtools, addons, web components, CMSs, visual programming languages, and desktop apps; it highlights Node.js as a powerful way to write server software and standalone executables with functional and reactive paradigms across the ecosystem. It explains syntax basics—curly brackets for tree branches, round brackets for function arguments—and emphasizes practical coding practices such as console.log debugging and leveraging libraries and AI assistance. Finally, it encourages readers to learn JavaScript desktop development with Electron, harnessing AI tools to master complex concepts and build future‑ready applications.

Holy Guacamole: Learn JavaScript Today!

The post explains how modern AI tools can instantly turn a beginner into a “superhuman” programmer: by watching simple tutorials and using an IDE like Electron‑Fiddle, you can ask the model to add features with only Bootstrap Utility API calls, making the first two steps trivial and the third step surprisingly powerful. The author illustrates this power with a real‑world parsing problem—determining bracket and quote context in code—and shows that AI can propose five distinct strategies (state‑machine, quote‑bracket, regex‑based, token‑based, multi‑pass) for solving it; he even managed to implement three years’ worth of work in one afternoon. He concludes that the bigger the problem, the more effective AI becomes, positioning it as a personal code savant that opens wide doors to efficient programming.