Hello, my imaginary friends

A short one: Simon went into the London office for the first time in a couple of months, prompted by his newer client being on-site. The main person he'd hoped to meet had to cancel due to personal circumstances, but he met several other colleagues face-to-face for the first time. He's weighing an in-person visit to the client site as an alternative next step.

Sm2n 2026-09-02 #audio365 (245/365) A quieter day: a stakeholder meeting got postponed, but Simon still sent the slide deck so the update counts as delivered. He experimented with a local transcription tool ("hear") on his Mac to batch-transcribe four months of backlog voice memos. He used Claude/Obsidian to build an ad-hoc topic-summary lookup and is considering turning it into a skill that scans...

Simon debates the "refresh task" skill's checkbox-scanning logic with Claude: Claude wanted to re-scan every file for thoroughness, Simon argued for just scanning the open tasks list for efficiency. Simon's approach won, with an accepted blind spot (tasks checked off before their first scan get missed). He reflects on how natural it felt to hash this out like he would with a human developer.

A productive day with Claude: built a title-generator skill for his audio diary, migrated his to-do-list skill to his work computer (Claude self-diagnosed and fixed a memory error), and built a new RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Decisions) log skill in Obsidian through conversation with Claude, including a review pass that caught missing assumptions. Also turned his transcript-formatting workfl...

Sm2n 2026-08-31 #audio365 (242/365) tea and Todoist

Sm2n 2026-08-29 #audio365 (241/365) I created my first Skill.md !

Sm2n 2026-08-28 #audio365 (240/365) I was missing mcpServers {}

Sm2n 2026-08-27 #audio365 (239/365) that’s why you’re supposed to put the milk in first?

Sm2n 2026-08-26 #audio365 (238/365) enjoying a silent walk, imagining my perfect AI operating system

Sm2n 2026-08-25 #audio365 (237/365) why must the show go on?

Sm2n 2026-08-24 #audio365 (236/365) emergency speech prep

Sm2n 2026-08-24 #audio365 (235/365) hitting token and context limits

Sm2n 2026-08-22 #audio365 (234/365) I've now got Claude integrated to my Obsidian by following the instructions in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PiRCPnQmgk using MCP… so still using the free version of both Claude and Obsidian, and keeping my files off the cloud

Sm2n 2026-08-21 #audio365 (233/365) the best time of day to learn AI

Sm2n 2026-08-20 #audio365 (232/365) checkbox thoughts @topgold

Sm2n 2026-08-19 #audio365 (231/365) work was OK, though

Sm2n 2026-08-19 #audio365 (230/365) it was the wrong kind of speech for at least one person

Sm2n 2026-08-18 #audio365 (229/365) Claude and Obsidian in action, inspired by @topgold

Sm2n 2026-08-17 #audio365 (228/365) I’ve waited a year for this tea

Sm2n 2026-08-17 #audio365 (227/365) speech prep for tomorrow

Sm2n 2026-08-14 #audio365 (226/365) early memories of the World Wide Web @topgold

Sm2n 2026-08-13 #audio365 (225/365) epiphanal moment with AI

Sm2n 2026-08-13 #audio365 (224/365) some good progress at work today using AI and not using AI

Sm2n 2026-08-11 #audio365 (223/365) I keep seeing different versions of the same AI-generated video adverts

Sm2n 2026-08-10 #audio365 (222/365) when @omaniblog has coffee with Joseph Feller of University College Cork