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Connecting a REPL / editor

maiden-repl (CLI): build/maiden-repl/maiden-repl — defaults to ws4://127.0.0.1:5555/ (matron) and :5556/ (sclang). Tab cycles pages (matron ⇄ sc); Shift+Tab also switches. The matron page takes raw Lua; the sc page takes SuperCollider (it sends sclang’s ESC evaluate delimiter for you).

maiden web app: separate Go binary/release; serves the editor on :5000 and connects out to 5555/5556.

Loading scripts and driving params from the REPL

On the matron page (raw Lua):

The virtual OS museum: https://virtualosmuseum.org/ #history #computing

• Installs a virtual machine that can be booted to various historical operating systems

Running WordPress Locally with WP-CLI

• Quick reference for setting up a local WordPress instance and importing a database dump using WP-CLI.

• Create a Site in Local

  • Click + → name your site → “Preferred” setup → set credentials → Create Site

  • Local provisions WordPress automatically

• Import a Database Dump

  • Right-click the site → Open Site Shell

  • Reset the database first (fresh installs already have tables):

    • wp db reset --yes
      

  • Then import:

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1. Whenever possible, use open models. If not possible, appropriate the capabilities of the proprietary model by training your model with it.

• Fine-tuned open models match or exceed GPT-4¹

• LoRA and RAG enable corpus-grounded, domain-adapted analysis²

• Distillation via synthetic data legitimately transfers proprietary capabilities³

• Smaller models sometimes outperform their teacher model⁴

• Proprietary models in research require explicit justification⁵

2. Whenever possible, use your own, sustainable infrastructure.

• Local hosting preserves data, technological, and infrastructural sovereignty⁶

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Here’s a list of software I use in my research, and a brief description of how and why.

Zotero¹ for reference and literature note management

• There’s a lot to say about Zotero – and having trained its use for students, librarians and researchers for more than ten years, I have said a lot about it, but simply put, nothing else comes even close:

  • It’s open source, so nobody will keep your notes hostage[note: The importance for open source for tools like this cannot be underestimated. See Digital Enclosures.]

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‘Co-crafting code: Changing nature of work at the intersection of programmers and artificial intelligence’ is my ongoing research project, funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation (2025–2027).

What I’m Studying

• How do software developers work with AI coding assistants, and how is that changing what it means to be a programmer?

• I’m doing ethnographic fieldwork in two very different settings:

  • Moodle – a large, globally distributed open-source project with over a thousand contributors

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Also known as: vendor lock-in.

But also, on a historical scale, the closing of commons and frontiers in the digital domain.

There is another conjuncture or momentum of enclosures happening right now (in 2026), which Anil Dash describes well in his post titled ‘Endgame for the open web’.

This page discusses the organization of this #digital garden and the associated partially public knowledge database

A study of 6 OpenClaw agents and a group of humans who tried to trick them: https://agentsofchaos.baulab.info/ – I think it’s a great indication of how far into unknown terrain we are at the moment when it comes to LLM security. #LLMagent #LLMsecurity

This is a digital garden, collection of resources and writings by Heikki. Everything is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. Citation information can be found on every page.

Content is mainly in English (#en), but some of it in Finnish (#fi) and perhaps sometimes in Bahasa Indonesia (#id) as well. #meta #digital garden

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