Fun use of an AI agent: take a quick video of books in a book exchange and ask the agent to extract the titles and recommended a book based on your interests. Thanks Hermes Agent!

Looks cool. I use Hermes Agent currently and love it, but it’s fun to try other tooling too, and openwork isn’t something I’d heard of before. Thanks!

Golden hour

GM!

Learning to sail has been super fun.

After seeing that what3words has put stuff behind a subscription paywall I’ve now switched over to using the open source Plus Codes. https://github.com/google/open-location-code Plus Codes are built in to Google Maps, Organic Maps, CoMaps. Open source for the win.

Neat. Would love to see integration with Organic Maps or CoMaps.

I enjoyed the recent paper on the Bitcoin power law. So much so that I updated my Priced In UK Cost of Living explorer to include the Bitcoin power law as a denominator option. This smooths out the volatility, particularly in the early days of Bitcoin. Paper: https://zenodo.org/records/19387099 Priced In Web App: https://www.nickjstevens.com/priced-in/index.html Blog post: https://www.nickjstevens.com/blog/bitcoin-power-law-priced-in/

#RUNSTR #Walking

New blog post: covering the rationale behind my UK cost of living web app. https://www.nickjstevens.com/blog/uk-cost-of-living-explorer-priced-in/