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  • Bringing Google Inbox's bundles back to Gmail
    Blog·

    TL;DR; A weekend project turned actively maintained fork of Inboxy; for people (and AI agents) who still miss Inbox. When Google Inbox was sunset in 2019, we lost the smartest thing about it: bundles; related email grouped together so your inbox felt organized by intent instead of chaos. I never stopped missing them. My inbox is where newsletters, receipts, CI noise, and real work collide, and these days I triage it together with my AI agents, and agents, like humans, work better on a structured inbox than on a firehose. Bundles based on my existing and sophisticated set of labels & rules are that structure. Inboxy, a brilliant open-source extension by Teresa Ou, brought bundles back to Gmail, but it moved into maintenance mode and stopped evolving. Rather than watch it drift out of date, I picked up the torch. On weekends, over the past months, I forked it, kept it working with Gmail's current UI, added the features I personally needed, and kept polishing until it felt right to ship it properly under a new name: Inbundly: Inboxy's spiritual continuation. It's live today on the Chrome Web Store and Firefox Add-ons, free and GPL-3.0. What Inbundly doesEmails sharing a Gmail label are automatically grouped into tidy, collapsible bundles that are easier to scan...

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  • My approach to global AI engineering hub via dotfiles
    Blog·

    I use several coding agents: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode... across personal and work laptops. The failure mode is familiar: each tool wants its own instruction file, the files drift, and a new machine means redoing the wiring. My fix was not to “sync ~/.claude through Dropbox/Drive”, but rather a small, curated hub in git, deployed with GNU Stow: Repo: benoror/dotfiles/stow/agents Published notes: notes.benoror.com/Agents/README Three layers Global personal defaults that travel with me: ~/.agents/AGENTS.md Project / Team: Committed repo AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md (facts and conventions for that codebase). Local override: gitignored CLAUDE.local.md when I need private exceptions. Global stays lean. Project files own architecture. I do not force personal quirks into team repos. One Stow packageUnder stow/agents/, Stow installs the hub and tool entrypoints in one shot: ~/.agents/AGENTS.md + RESOLVER.md (canonical + discovery playbook) ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md → @~/.agents/AGENTS.md ~/.codex/AGENTS.md (and OpenCode / generic paths) → hub symlinks Bootstrap on a new machine: $ cd ~/dotfiles $ make agents-install $ make agents-verify No fan-out shell scripts. Stow owns the links; Make owns install / restow / verify. Details: stow/agents/README.md Cursor is the exception: global User Rules (and Settings Sync) matter more than a...

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  • 🎮 Resurrecting a ~25-year-old GBA project
    Bluesky·

    🎮 Resurrecting a ~25-year-old GBA project Around 2003 teenage me shipped the last version of a GBA Arkanoid clone called @rkanoid to PDRoms.de, back when "homebrew distribution" meant a faithful curator, a personal site, and a forum thread on gbadev.org. Then it sat dormant for ~25 years...

  • I just added an experimental chatbot to benoror.com 🤖
    Bluesky·

    I just added an experimental chatbot to benoror.com 🤖 Spent the weekend playing with Google’s Gemma 4 model to feel it in the wild. It’s rough and a bit weird. Try it out. If it says something unhinged… that’s on me 🙂

  • Been experimenting this weekend with agentic workflows on top of Obsidian vaults... it's addictive
    Bluesky·

    Been experimenting this weekend with agentic workflows on top of Obsidian vaults... it's addictive AI agents that handle meetings, transcripts, follow-ups, recaps, and commits -- all via slash commands, right inside your vault. Works with Cursor, Claude Code, OpenCode, etc...

  • Prompt Engineering Cheatsheet
    Obsidian Notes·

    About Some prompts snippets I have found useful and [mostly] effective through my agentic coding workflows.

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  • The Son of Man: An [incomplete] AI short story I wrote in 2004
    Blog·

    I recently rediscovered a short story in my old files archive that I wrote, though never finished, around 2004, when I was a high school teenager. It’s a story about the advent of artificial intelligence. Re-reading this text in 2026 feels oddly early, perhaps even a bit haunting. While I remain an AI optimist, I liked the fact that the story doesn't necessarily try to predict the future; instead, it tries to understand something more fundamental: the origins of intelligence. That focus seems to have aged better than other blunt technological prophecies of the time. By the early 2000s, my love for Sci-Fi was already cemented by the likes of Isaac Asimov and generational films like The Matrix and Minority Report. I hadn't yet discovered contemporary authors like Dan Simmons, Iain M. Banks, Liu Cixin, or especially qntm, whose short story Lena later captivated me with its documentary, technical style and quiet speculative weight. In a rather ironic twist, I decided to use modern LLMs to slightly rework the prose and flow style of this old draft. Specifically, I "qntm-fied" it to make the reading more pleasurable, keeping the ideas intact but stripping away the teenage flourishes for something more clinical and precise. I’m keeping the original version as-is for posterity. You can also see the versioned iterations by ChatGPT & Gemini. The following is the iteration I liked the most, one I surely hope to finish...

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  • The greatest pastel color scheme of all-time
    Blog·

    I craved pastel-based colorchemes for my Arch Linux TUIs before the likes of Catppuccin

    (the proof is in the pudding)

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    In a recent spike of nostalgic-fueled excitement, I impulsively bought xoria256.com domain and planned for world domination afterwards. I still love Xoria256 but I am not that sure anymore.

  • Made AI-gen a Podcast a while ago
    Blog·

    Last year I was playing around with Google's NotebookLM and ended up creating a podcast episode by feeding it with Naval's content, pluse using other Gen AI tools for the assets (intro music, sfx, images...)

    Head over to /pop-podcast

  • Modularize a long/complex SQL query in Ruby
    Gists·
    def my_big_ish_report
    my_long_query = ```sql
    SELECT a,b,c FROM ... AS q_a
    JOIN (
    SELECT ... ' Sub-query 1
    WHERE client_id = 'foobar'
    ) sq_1 ON q_a.fkey_id = sq_1.id
    INNER JOIN (
    SELECT x,y,z FROM ... ' Sub-query 2
    JOIN (
    SELECT ... ' Sub-query 1 ' Sas as Sub-query 1 above ^
    WHERE client_id = 'foobar'
    )
    )
    ...etc...
    ```
    results = ActiveRecord::Execute::SQL(my_long_query)
    # ...
    ...
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