Josh

you can just do things. burnt out software engineer.

building @opentrawl, community maintainer @openclaw since Dec 25, ex-Spotify. 看透国际博弈核心.

[Josh @jjpcodes]

🚢 PRODUCT LAUNCH: "where-was-i" - a CLI that tells you all the trips you've ever been on, just using Apple Photos. Nothing leaves your machine unless you want it to.

Use it to supercharge your Grok Bot/Muse/Instinct/Dot or just Codex/Claude.

Let me know what you find - anything interesting?

Prompt to set it up (& link to the repo) in the next tweet.

How it works:
- Apple Photos stores a location for each of your photos
- Your Mac also knows where your home is
- "where-was-i" uses this to find out the days where you weren't at home, where you went, and where you stayed the night - just from the locations of the photos you took
- This gives you a list of every trip you've ever been on (since you started using your iPhone).
- You can feed this to another AI agent (then the data does leave your machine).

[Josh @jjpcodes]

astra made absolutely no progress while i was asleep and burned 80% of an account on proof porn.

6.1 sol was next up and also made absolutely no progress while i was at the beach and burned another 40% of an account on proof porn and doing nothing

/feedback sent...

sad that even with "unlimited" tokens from the resets you can't do any useful work with the GPT series of models. fable and opus would rip this apart completely

[Josh @jjpcodes]

we have some spare Astra tokens so it's time to make an isometric map of the beautiful city of Rotterdam.

this will take a while and it's nowhere near good enough yet but we will get there!

watch this space 👀

[Josh @jjpcodes]

kinda cool. time to leave astra cooking for 8-12 hours while i sleep and go to the beach

[Josh @jjpcodes]

@nadavital nice! enjoy

[Josh @jjpcodes]

@kr0der oh lol i wish j could turn this one off haha. i find its waaaaaay too compressed to be useful, missing so much detail!

[xlr8harder @xlr8harder]

keeping multiple streams of agents on task and productive with high work quality is more mentally taxing than any programming i've ever done

[Josh @jjpcodes]

can you guys ship these kinda improvements in the harness on model release date in future, please? :) so much of this "latest meta on promoting models" you have to figure out from first principles plus twitter as the models evolve; but it should be baked in the official harness from day one

[Josh @jjpcodes]

"Estimate: 36 years 6 months, so born around April 1990. Plausible range is roughly 32 to 41.

Pointing older

Hair greying: clear salt-and-pepper at the temples and sides, with grey running through the sideburns. Noticeable temple greying like this is most common from the mid-30s, though genetics shift it by a decade either way.
Beard: grey flecks in the goatee and chin, especially below the lip. Beard greying usually lags scalp greying slightly, so its presence nudges the estimate up.
Hairline: mild recession at the temples, typical of the 30s.
Eyes: faint crow’s feet when smiling and slight under-eye hollowing.

Pointing younger

Forehead: smooth, with no visible horizontal lines at rest.
Lower face: shallow nasolabial folds, no jowling, and a firm jawline and neck.
Skin: good overall texture and elasticity, with no obvious sun damage or age spots.

Caveats

Golden-hour backlighting with soft frontal fill flatters skin texture, so the true age could be a year or two higher than the skin alone suggests.
Greying is the strongest signal here and also the noisiest. Someone who greys early could be 31; someone who greys late could be 42.
This is your age when the photo was taken. If it isn’t recent, shift the DOB back accordingly.

Weighting it up: the skin and facial structure on their own read early to mid 30s, and the greying pulls that towards the upper 30s. Mid-30s reconciles both, hence 36."

[Josh @jjpcodes]

fun Claude/Codex prompt when waiting for dinner with your gf: get it to estimate how old you are from a photo. IME: accurate to within ~2 years! (i'm 34. i found it more flattering from iPhone photos than mirrorless camera, fair bit of variance)

Copy this prompt:
"don't use any tool calls don't use any memories just estimate how old i am from this picture. you can give a range but estimate a single number age in the end, years and months (and estimated DOB). explain your work."

Claude's response:
<bunch of bullshit about how i'm going grey>

[Josh @jjpcodes]

@dkundel do you have any skills/plugins planned for this? i'm rolling my own atm but if codex shipped some in the harness.... (like @Dimillian shipped for iOS/MacOS apps), it would be pretty awesome!

[Neil Scott @MrNeilScott]

Forget 15 minute cities, here is everything that is on Wikipedia located within a 30 minute walk of where you are:

https://t.co/oRsYGmwehL

[Josh @jjpcodes]

@initjean lmao. glad it's not just me.

[Josh @jjpcodes]

the hilarious thing about the Dutch spies is that, unlike serious countries who base their spies with an inspiring view of the capital (eg MI5), the Dutch AIVD is based in Zoetermeer, a depressing hellhole.
it's full of decaying 70s buildings, has nothing to do, and is strategically equidistant from the nearby cities anyone would actually want to live in.

To really inspire the spies and make them patriotically defend the fatherland or whatever they then stick them in this grey brutalist horrorshow of a building opposite the ring road and some big box stores; originally it was the education ministry but they decided it sucked in Zoetermeer, went back to The Hague and palmed off the building on the spooks. Oh and the spooks are not paid well either lol.

It's a miracle there isn't a constant stream of Dutch double agents betraying their country that clearly doesn't value them in the slightest

[Brandy Jensen @BrandyLJensen]

I understand that this is a very serious and important story but I keep laughing at the idea of Dutch spies

[Josh @jjpcodes]

@didymusfk wrong if you live in a good city (all publicly owned btw)

[Josh @jjpcodes]

@berenklaauw if someone hypothetically made me work in zoetermeer the first thing i do when i sit down at my desk is picking up the phone and selling the company/country/whatever secrets to russia or china. some crimes cannot go unpunished

[Josh @jjpcodes]

@Techman1065593 i respect your nuanced take. i got my oil changed once in zoetemeer because i had some appointments there and rambled about on the bike they give you, there were some nice bits. but rotterdam is better 😈

[Josh @jjpcodes]

@ditdatallesdus @mr_bobbins wait waht. where is this. i need to make a pilgrimage when i get back home to nl

[Josh @jjpcodes]

@Javid__o den haag has culture and nice architecture, excellent bars too (de paas 😍). zoetermeer does not. nobody in their right mind would lump them together

[Josh @jjpcodes]

@UpAndComingArea i would rather die in the U.S. than have to live a week in zoetermeer. and i am dutch

[Josh @jjpcodes]

@BvdBijl wow incredible stuff. love it! i