<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>TheBlackCat on The BlackCat</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/</link><description>Recent content in TheBlackCat on The BlackCat</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>QR Code Studio</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/qr-code-studio/</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/qr-code-studio/</guid><description>&lt;p>A browser-based studio for working with QR codes, supporting both generation and decoding in a completely offline, privacy-respecting client-side environment.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="read-it">Read it&lt;a class="anchor" href="#read-it" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/qr-code-studio/">Open QR Code Studio&lt;/a>
 — the full studio application, running as-is.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="features">Features&lt;a class="anchor" href="#features" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Generate&lt;/strong>: Create QR codes with custom text, URLs, Wi-Fi credentials, or vCards. Controls are provided for setting size, error correction level, foreground and background colors, and the quiet zone (margin). It features a contrast warning if the colors chosen are not scannable, and allows downloading as PNG or SVG.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Decode&lt;/strong>: Upload or drag-and-drop an image to extract its QR code payload. It includes automatic type detection for URLs, Wi-Fi credentials, and plain text.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Privacy&lt;/strong>: Client-side only. No data, files, or strings are sent to any server.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>The page is a static HTML file served straight from the site: &lt;code>static/qr-code-studio/index.html&lt;/code>.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Generation is powered by the &lt;a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/qrcode" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">qrcode&lt;/a>
 library via jsDelivr CDN.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Decoding is powered by the &lt;a href="https://github.com/cozmo/jsQR" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">jsQR&lt;/a>
 library via jsDelivr CDN.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul></description></item><item><title>Time &amp; ID Toolkit</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/time-id-toolkit/</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/time-id-toolkit/</guid><description>&lt;p>A completely client-side toolkit that helps decipher time and identity structures commonly encountered when debugging logs, databases, or API responses.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="read-it">Read it&lt;a class="anchor" href="#read-it" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/time-id-toolkit/">Open the Time &amp;amp; ID Toolkit&lt;/a>
 — the full interactive page, running as-is.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="what-is-inside">What is inside&lt;a class="anchor" href="#what-is-inside" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;h3 id="timestamp-toolkit">Timestamp Toolkit&lt;a class="anchor" href="#timestamp-toolkit" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h3>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Epoch Converter&lt;/strong>: Bidirectional conversion between Unix epochs (seconds, milliseconds, nanoseconds) and human-readable dates.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Timezone Shifts&lt;/strong>: View localized times in any IANA timezone.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Relative Time Math&lt;/strong>: Calculate offsets like &lt;code>+3d -12h&lt;/code> or understand how far away a timestamp is (&lt;code>in 3h 20m&lt;/code>).&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Live Clock&lt;/strong>: A running Unix epoch and ISO 8601 clock.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;h3 id="uuidulid-studio">UUID/ULID Studio&lt;a class="anchor" href="#uuidulid-studio" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h3>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Bulk Generator&lt;/strong>: Produce 1 to 100 identifiers at a time. Supports UUID v4 (random), UUID v7 (time-sortable), ULID, and NanoID.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>ID Inspector&lt;/strong>: Paste an identifier to decode its type, version, validity, and any embedded timestamp data (useful for v7 and ULID). Flags malformed IDs with specific reasons.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>The page is a static HTML file served straight from the site: &lt;code>static/time-id-toolkit/index.html&lt;/code>. It stores preferences (like your selected timezone and last viewed tab) in &lt;code>localStorage&lt;/code>.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>All ID generation uses pure JavaScript implementations within the page, keeping the payload small without relying on external CDNs or network calls.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Designed with Outfit and JetBrains Mono fonts, and matching the site&amp;rsquo;s dark/light token system.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul></description></item><item><title>AETHER — Mathematical &amp; Chromatic Atelier</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/aether-atelier/</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/aether-atelier/</guid><description>&lt;p>An interactive, self-contained page that treats colour as a mathematical object: synthesise a palette from trigonometry, then watch the same palette run through chaos systems, phyllotaxis and reaction–diffusion. Everything on the page is generated in the browser — no images, no server, no build step.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="read-it">Read it&lt;a class="anchor" href="#read-it" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/aether-atelier/">Open the atelier&lt;/a>
 — the full interactive page, running as-is.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="what-is-inside">What is inside&lt;a class="anchor" href="#what-is-inside" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Spectral cosine synthesizer&lt;/strong> — the Inigo Quilez palette model, &lt;code>C(t) = a + b · cos(2π(c · t + d))&lt;/code>, with randomisable wave vectors, a live RGB interference plot, and CSS/GLSL export of whatever palette you land on.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Curated palettes and chord geometry&lt;/strong> — golden-angle (137.5°), triadic (120°), split-complementary (150°), tetradic (90°) and analogous (30°) hue chords, applied to the active visualiser.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Albers simultaneous contrast&lt;/strong> — nested colour fields that demonstrate how surrounding luminance shifts what a swatch appears to be.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Clifford strange attractor&lt;/strong> — Pickover&amp;rsquo;s phase-space folding, &lt;code>x′ = sin(a·y) + c·cos(a·x)&lt;/code>, &lt;code>y′ = sin(b·x) + d·cos(b·y)&lt;/code>, rendered with adjustable trail persistence, chromatic cycle speed, parameter morphing and orbit/zoom controls.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>A codex on generative beauty&lt;/strong> — short chapters on strange attractors and bifurcation, phyllotaxis and harmonographs, Turing reaction–diffusion and Chladni nodal lines, and spectral cosine synthesis.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>The page is a static HTML file served straight from the site: &lt;code>static/aether-atelier/index.html&lt;/code>. Palette changes propagate into the visualisers within the page; it stores nothing and sends nothing anywhere except its CDN/font/icon requests.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Built with Tailwind (CDN), Cormorant Garamond / Plus Jakarta Sans / JetBrains Mono, and Phosphor icons. Dark-first.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Kept byte-identical to the authored file so the demos keep their exact timing and defaults; edits go to the source artefact, not the copy.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul></description></item><item><title>Five machines, drawn to be taken apart</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/anatomy-machines/</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/anatomy-machines/</guid><description>&lt;p>Most diagrams of a mechanism are a picture of a mechanism. They show you the parts and then stop, because a picture cannot answer the question you actually have: what happens when this moves.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>These five figures answer it. Each one is a machine drawn in isometric SVG, sitting on a test rig, with the mechanism live underneath. They run below in this page: no plugin, no install, and no request to anyone else&amp;rsquo;s server. Each is also a standalone file if you would rather have it full width: the whole set lives at &lt;a href="https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/anatomy/">Anatomy&lt;/a>
.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>TUI Design Study — llama-deck</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/programming/tui-design-study/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/programming/tui-design-study/</guid><description>&lt;p>A design study for llama-deck, the keyboard-first TUI for discovering and running local llama.cpp models. Its thesis: the strongest TUIs feel dense, calm, and unmistakably native to the character grid — polish comes from hierarchy, alignment, semantic color, and instant response, not from adding more chrome.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="what-it-covers">What it covers&lt;a class="anchor" href="#what-it-covers" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Ten rules of a convincing TUI&lt;/strong> — qualitative patterns distilled from terminal-community discussion: information first, honor the grid, make color mean something, keep chrome quiet.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>The star signal&lt;/strong> — what a local aggregation of 857 starred repositories says about which terminal projects read as &amp;ldquo;polished.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>UI critique&lt;/strong> — a code-level review of llama-deck&amp;rsquo;s &lt;code>src/ui&lt;/code> layer: strong bones, too many frames.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Change plan&lt;/strong> — the fixes, in order, plus a compact design contract for the project.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Themes&lt;/strong> — how a theme system can change appearance without changing meaning.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;h2 id="read-it">Read it&lt;a class="anchor" href="#read-it" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/tui-design-study/">Open the interactive study&lt;/a>
 — the full study as a standalone page, with the evidence and limits stated in it.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>opencode-plugins</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/opencode-plugins/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/opencode-plugins/</guid><description>&lt;p>OpenCode V2 plugins: goal mode, session handoff, and OpenCode Go usage in the sidebar&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Theblackcat98/opencode-plugins" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">View on GitHub&lt;/a>
&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>addyosmani/agent-skills — production-grade engineering skills for coding agents</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/addyosmani-agent-skills/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/addyosmani-agent-skills/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="why-i-saved-this">Why I saved this&lt;a class="anchor" href="#why-i-saved-this" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Addy Osmani&amp;rsquo;s skills-as-process set: the whole define→ship pipeline as installable commands with quality gates at each step. Useful to use directly, and as a reference for how skills should map to process.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Install for any agent: &lt;code>npx skills add addyosmani/agent-skills&lt;/code> (works across 70+ runtimes via the skills CLI). &lt;code>/build auto&lt;/code> plans and implements in one approved pass while keeping per-task verification. Docs: &lt;a href="https://skills.addy.ie" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">skills.addy.ie&lt;/a>
.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>agentconfigs</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/agentconfigs/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/agentconfigs/</guid><description>&lt;p>Personal storage and showcase for coding-agent configurations — skills, agents, commands, rules, and hooks kept as plain text.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Theblackcat98/agentconfigs" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">View on GitHub&lt;/a>
&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Forward-Future/loopy — the Loop Library for repeatable agent workflows</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/loopy/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/loopy/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="why-i-saved-this">Why I saved this&lt;a class="anchor" href="#why-i-saved-this" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>&amp;ldquo;Make this faster&amp;rdquo; vs &amp;ldquo;find the slowest page, improve it, measure, repeat&amp;rdquo; — a well-articulated pattern library for the &amp;ldquo;improve until X&amp;rdquo; jobs I keep running. The catalog is browsable without installing anything.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Two parts: the Loop Library website (&lt;a href="https://signals.forwardfuture.com/loop-library/" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">signals.forwardfuture.com/loop-library&lt;/a>
) and the optional &lt;code>loopy&lt;/code> skill (discover · find · audit · repair · craft · run · debrief · save). Non-Loopy agents can consume the catalog via &lt;code>llms.txt&lt;/code>, &lt;code>catalog.json&lt;/code> or &lt;code>catalog.txt&lt;/code>. Each loop states its goal, check, next step and stop condition.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>github-stars</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/github-stars/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/github-stars/</guid><description>&lt;p>My GitHub stars, kept up to date by a daily workflow&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Theblackcat98/github-stars" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">View on GitHub&lt;/a>
&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>otg-bot</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/otg-bot/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/otg-bot/</guid><description>&lt;p>URL keeper — a Bun service that ingests links from bookmarks and RSS feeds, stores clean text plus raw snapshots in SQLite, and makes everything searchable.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Theblackcat98/otg-bot" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">View on GitHub&lt;/a>
&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Panniantong/Agent-Reach — read the social internet from one CLI</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/agent-reach/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/agent-reach/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="why-i-saved-this">Why I saved this&lt;a class="anchor" href="#why-i-saved-this" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Targets a gap I hit constantly — reading X/Reddit/social content without API keys and without getting 403&amp;rsquo;d. One install, and it absorbs the &amp;ldquo;which access method works this week&amp;rdquo; churn instead of me.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>&amp;ldquo;Zero API fees&amp;rdquo; — it wires up whatever read path currently works per platform (the maintainer&amp;rsquo;s pitch: the access method changes generations, you don&amp;rsquo;t care). Python 3.10+, MIT, README Chinese-first with English docs in &lt;code>docs/README_en.md&lt;/code>. ~98k★ as of 2026-10-15, GitHub Trending #1 (Trendshift badge). Expect unofficial access routes: breakage and ToS-gray behavior are inherent.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>thedotmack/claude-mem — persistent session memory for any agent</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/claude-mem/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/claude-mem/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="why-i-saved-this">Why I saved this&lt;a class="anchor" href="#why-i-saved-this" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Cross-session memory built as a real pipeline — capture, AI-compress, re-inject — instead of hoping the model remembers. Worth studying against how Hermes does memory and session search.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Works with Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini, Copilot, OpenClaw and Hermes. ~101k★ and 8.8k forks, pushed the day I saved it — very active. Docs: &lt;a href="https://claude-mem.ai" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">claude-mem.ai&lt;/a>
.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills — YouTube transcripts, search and channel data for any agent</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/youtube-skills/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/youtube-skills/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="why-i-saved-this">Why I saved this&lt;a class="anchor" href="#why-i-saved-this" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Reliable YouTube reads from an agent without yt-dlp or cloud-IP blocking — transcripts are the missing input for the youtube-content workflow. Ships an explicit &lt;code>hermes skills install&lt;/code> path.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>12 skills; the main one (&lt;code>youtube-full&lt;/code>) bundles transcripts + search + channels + playlists. Backed by a paid service — &lt;a href="https://transcriptapi.com" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">TranscriptAPI&lt;/a>
 (free tier: 100 credits on signup) — so full use needs an API key; the repo itself is just the skill definitions. MIT, active (pushed 2026-10-14).&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>opencode-session-ext</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/opencode-session-ext/</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/opencode-session-ext/</guid><description>&lt;p>Linux fork of the OpenCode Sessions Raycast extension — browse, search, and resume OpenCode sessions in a terminal.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Theblackcat98/opencode-session-ext" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">View on GitHub&lt;/a>
&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>DesignCraft</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/designcraft/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/designcraft/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="why-i-saved-this">Why I saved this&lt;a class="anchor" href="#why-i-saved-this" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Part of the ArtCraft suite of pure-Rust Adobe clones — the InDesign equivalent (page layout and publishing). Repo had no description; the README confirms the target.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>Page layout and publishing; clean-room reimplementation of &lt;strong>Adobe InDesign&lt;/strong> (~900 stars, Oct 2026).&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Native on macOS, Windows and Linux; in the browser via WebAssembly.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Agent-drivable over MCP (README badge).&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Rust. Dual-licensed MIT / Apache-2.0.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Youngest/smallest of the seven Adobe clones by stars.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Siblings: PhotoCraft, LightCraft, FilmCraft, VectorCraft, EffectCraft, PdfCraft.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul></description></item><item><title>EffectCraft</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/effectcraft/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/effectcraft/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="why-i-saved-this">Why I saved this&lt;a class="anchor" href="#why-i-saved-this" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Part of the ArtCraft suite of pure-Rust Adobe clones — the After Effects equivalent (motion graphics and VFX). Repo had no description; the README confirms the target.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>Motion graphics and visual effects; a free open-source compositor in the spirit of &lt;strong>Adobe After Effects&lt;/strong> (~1.6k stars, Oct 2026).&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Compositions, layers, keyframes, 306 effects, layer styles, expressions, 3D cameras and lights, and a render queue.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Native on macOS, Windows and Linux; also runs in the browser.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Rust 1.95+. Dual-licensed MIT / Apache-2.0. Status: &amp;ldquo;young, moving fast, and already usable&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Siblings: PhotoCraft, LightCraft, FilmCraft, VectorCraft, DesignCraft, PdfCraft.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul></description></item><item><title>FilmCraft</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/filmcraft/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/filmcraft/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="why-i-saved-this">Why I saved this&lt;a class="anchor" href="#why-i-saved-this" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Part of the ArtCraft suite of pure-Rust Adobe clones — this one takes on Premiere Pro, the video-editing pillar.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>Video editing, color and sound; clean-room reimplementation of &lt;strong>Adobe Premiere Pro&lt;/strong> (~3.1k stars, Oct 2026).&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Clean-room take on the Premiere workflow, by the ArtCraft team.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Native on macOS, Windows and Linux; in the browser via WebAssembly.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Pure Rust. Dual-licensed MIT / Apache-2.0. Status: &amp;ldquo;young and moving fast&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Siblings: PhotoCraft, LightCraft, VectorCraft, EffectCraft, DesignCraft, PdfCraft.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul></description></item><item><title>LightCraft</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/lightcraft/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/lightcraft/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="why-i-saved-this">Why I saved this&lt;a class="anchor" href="#why-i-saved-this" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Part of the ArtCraft suite of pure-Rust Adobe clones. Notable for shipping an MCP server — the whole app is drivable end to end by AI agents.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>Photo library and raw development; clean-room reimplementation of &lt;strong>Adobe Lightroom&lt;/strong> (~2.8k stars, Oct 2026).&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Native on macOS, Windows and Linux; in the browser via WebAssembly.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>MCP server included: the README markets it as drivable end to end by AI agents.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Pure Rust. Dual-licensed MIT / Apache-2.0. Status: &amp;ldquo;young and moving fast&amp;rdquo; (roadmap in repo).&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Siblings: PhotoCraft (Photoshop), FilmCraft, VectorCraft, EffectCraft, DesignCraft, PdfCraft.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul></description></item><item><title>PdfCraft</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/pdfcraft/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/pdfcraft/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="why-i-saved-this">Why I saved this&lt;a class="anchor" href="#why-i-saved-this" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Part of the ArtCraft suite of pure-Rust Adobe clones — the Acrobat equivalent, and the one with the most obvious everyday utility.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>The PDF workbench; clean-room reimplementation of &lt;strong>Adobe Acrobat&lt;/strong> (~2.2k stars, Oct 2026).&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Read, organize, combine, split and secure PDFs; README shows threaded comments and an all-tools panel.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&amp;ldquo;No account, no telemetry&amp;rdquo; per the README badges.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Rust; native on macOS, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, plus a web build.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Dual-licensed MIT / Apache-2.0.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Renamed from &lt;code>printcraft&lt;/code> — the old URL 301-redirects here (Oct 2026).&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Siblings: PhotoCraft, LightCraft, FilmCraft, VectorCraft, EffectCraft, DesignCraft.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul></description></item><item><title>PhotoCraft</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/photocraft/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/photocraft/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="why-i-saved-this">Why I saved this&lt;a class="anchor" href="#why-i-saved-this" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Flagship of the ArtCraft suite (storytold org) — saving the whole family of clean-room, pure-Rust Adobe clones. Photoshop-equivalent is the headline act at ~16k stars.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>Clean-room reimplementation of &lt;strong>Adobe Photoshop&lt;/strong>; most-starred of the ArtCraft crafting apps (~16k stars, Oct 2026).&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Per README: layers, masks, adjustment layers, layer styles, type, vectors, brushes, and real PSD file support.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>100% Rust; native on macOS, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and in the browser via WebAssembly.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Dual-licensed MIT / Apache-2.0. Status badge: early alpha.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Siblings: LightCraft (Lightroom), FilmCraft (Premiere Pro), VectorCraft (Illustrator), EffectCraft (After Effects), DesignCraft (InDesign), PdfCraft (Acrobat).&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul></description></item><item><title>VectorCraft</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/vectorcraft/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/vectorcraft/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="why-i-saved-this">Why I saved this&lt;a class="anchor" href="#why-i-saved-this" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Part of the ArtCraft suite of pure-Rust Adobe clones — the Illustrator equivalent, agent-drivable over MCP.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>Vector illustration; clean-room reimplementation of &lt;strong>Adobe Illustrator&lt;/strong> (~2.1k stars, Oct 2026).&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Native on macOS, Windows, Linux and FreeBSD; in the browser via WebAssembly.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Ships an MCP server for agents (README badge).&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Pure Rust. Dual-licensed MIT / Apache-2.0. Status: in active development.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Siblings: PhotoCraft, LightCraft, FilmCraft, EffectCraft, DesignCraft, PdfCraft.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul></description></item><item><title>Mermaid.js Gallery</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/mermaid-gallery/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/mermaid-gallery/</guid><description>&lt;p>A single-page gallery of Mermaid diagram types: flowcharts and sequence diagrams through to architecture, Sankey, radar and treemap — each type with a working rendered example and the source that produced it, so a diagram can be lifted straight into a document.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="read-it">Read it&lt;a class="anchor" href="#read-it" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/mermaid-gallery/">Open the gallery&lt;/a>
 — the full gallery as a standalone page, with a searchable index of diagram types.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="what-is-inside">What is inside&lt;a class="anchor" href="#what-is-inside" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Twenty-three diagram types&lt;/strong> — the Mermaid v11 set, each with a working example and copyable source.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Searchable index&lt;/strong> — filter the diagram types by name or category.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Scope note&lt;/strong> — the examples were syntax-checked with Mermaid 11.17.2. ZenUML is not included (it needs an experimental configuration); the final &amp;ldquo;Info&amp;rdquo; example is a diagnostic showing the Mermaid version currently running.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>The page is a static HTML file served straight from the site: &lt;code>static/mermaid-gallery/index.html&lt;/code>.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul></description></item><item><title>opencode-android</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/opencode-android/</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/opencode-android/</guid><description>&lt;p>Unofficial android client app to drive Opencode sessions.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Theblackcat98/opencode-android" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">View on GitHub&lt;/a>
&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>skillman</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/skillman/</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/skillman/</guid><description>&lt;p>Terminal skill manager for opencode: browse, preview, validate, edit and install skills&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Theblackcat98/skillman" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">View on GitHub&lt;/a>
&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>VoiceStudio — open-source, fully-local ElevenLabs alternative</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/voicestudio/</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/voicestudio/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="why-i-saved-this">Why I saved this&lt;a class="anchor" href="#why-i-saved-this" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Came from a Spanish-language X post hyping it as a free local ElevenLabs
replacement. The framing is classic engagement bait (&amp;ldquo;ESTO ES JODIDAMENTE
INCREÍBLE&amp;rdquo;), but the underlying repo checks out and is genuinely
self-contained: voice stack that runs entirely on your own machine with no
per-character billing, no usage caps, and no audio leaving the box.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>Repo: &lt;a href="https://github.com/debpalash/VoiceStudio" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">debpalash/VoiceStudio&lt;/a>
,
Python, AGPL-3.0, site &lt;a href="https://voicestudio.sh" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://voicestudio.sh&lt;/a>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Capabilities: voice cloning from a clean reference clip, voice design,
video dubbing, dictation, transcription, audiobook generation; 646
languages claimed; pluggable TTS engines (14 per the tweet) instead of a
single vendor engine.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Verified at save time (2026-09-26 via GitHub API): 35.8K stars, 4.2K
forks, not archived, pushed the same day — very active.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Source tweet: &lt;a href="https://x.com/liambraus/status/2103825720807993573" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://x.com/liambraus/status/2103825720807993573&lt;/a>

(@liambraus, ex-ElevenLabs CMO). Claims 19.4K stars — stale; the repo has
since nearly doubled.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>AGPL-3.0: fine for personal/local use; viral license if it ever gets
networked into a service.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul></description></item><item><title>clipway</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/clipway/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/clipway/</guid><description>&lt;p>Wayland-native clipboard history manager for GNOME. No X11, no Electron.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Theblackcat98/clipway" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">View on GitHub&lt;/a>
&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>PAGS</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/pags/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/pags/</guid><description>&lt;p>Portable Agent Guide System — written rules and records plus a checker that keeps AI coding agents aligned to a project&amp;rsquo;s conventions.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Theblackcat98/PAGS" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">View on GitHub&lt;/a>
&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>tui-kanban</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/tui-kanban/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/tui-kanban/</guid><description>&lt;p>A beautiful terminal Kanban board built with Rust and Ratatui&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Theblackcat98/tui-kanban" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">View on GitHub&lt;/a>
&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>cardputer-voice</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/cardputer-voice/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/cardputer-voice/</guid><description>&lt;p>M5Stack Cardputer push-to-talk voice client for a local llama.cpp server, plus a server status dashboard. All STT/LLM/TTS runs on your own hardware.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Theblackcat98/cardputer-voice" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">View on GitHub&lt;/a>
&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>veritas</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/veritas/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/veritas/</guid><description>&lt;p>Terminal chat app in Rust&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Theblackcat98/veritas" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">View on GitHub&lt;/a>
&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>VoxCtrl</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/voxctrl/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/voxctrl/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="why-i-saved-this">Why I saved this&lt;a class="anchor" href="#why-i-saved-this" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Self-contained, privacy-first local voice tooling — 100% on-device (or BYO homelab STT endpoint), zero telemetry. Fits the taste for tools that don&amp;rsquo;t chain a dozen outside services.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>Rust + Tauri 2 + Svelte 5 desktop app for Linux (Wayland/X11) and Windows (early beta). Project page: &lt;a href="https://jrufer.com/voxctrl/" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://jrufer.com/voxctrl/&lt;/a>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>STT engines: whisper.cpp (GGUF, Vulkan/CUDA), Moonshine (streaming ONNX), Parakeet TDT (fast non-autoregressive), plus a remote mode targeting any OpenAI-compatible &lt;code>/v1/audio/transcriptions&lt;/code> endpoint.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Ships an on-device cleanup pass (Superwhisper s1-mini via llama.cpp sidecar) that fixes punctuation/casing and strips filler words while preserving command keywords.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Output router (&lt;code>targets.toml&lt;/code>) with 11 delivery targets: window inject, clipboard, shell exec, FIFO pipe, TCP/Unix socket, file append, DBus, HTTP, HMAC-signed webhook, TTS speak-back, and OpenAI-compatible chat. Spoken commands (&amp;ldquo;VoxCtrl notes, &amp;hellip;&amp;rdquo;) dispatch dynamically; one hotkey can broadcast to multiple targets.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>TTS suite: 6 offline engines (Piper, Pocket-TTS, Breeze-TTS-2, VoxCPM2, Inflect-Micro-v2, eSpeak-NG) with idle unload to free RAM/VRAM.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Extras: XDG GlobalShortcuts portal hotkeys (no keystroke monitoring), built-in MCP server on a local socket (&lt;code>transcribe_voice&lt;/code>, &lt;code>speak_text&lt;/code>, &lt;code>get_status&lt;/code>), 7-step setup wizard, SHA-256-verified self-updater.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>License MIT; 21 stars at time of saving; actively pushed (2026-09-16).&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Candidate for a de-slop fork (UI overhaul) or clean-room rebuild; logged in the offline GitHub-stars triage build list as item 3.7.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul></description></item><item><title>Grok Bot Guides</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/grok-bot-guides/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/grok-bot-guides/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="why-i-saved-this">Why I saved this&lt;a class="anchor" href="#why-i-saved-this" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Not for the Grok bot itself — for the patterns. Nine practitioner write-ups on
organizing long-lived computer-use agents into specialist teams (roles, memory
scopes, handoffs, routines, shared boards), with literal system prompts and
routine schedules to steal. Maps directly onto any multi-agent setup.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Nine guides (Aug–Sep 2026), each by a different practitioner:&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Grok Bot 101&lt;/strong> — anatomy of a bot (Name/Title/Description), bots-as-specialists, permission rules written as natural-language prompts checked by a separate review agent; four starter workflows: personal CRM from X follows in Notion, &amp;ldquo;Arnold&amp;rdquo; fitness coach (app decomposed into a bot), outer-loop prompt prep for Cursor cloud agents, cross-tool search (Slack/Notion/GitHub).&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>For Engineering&lt;/strong> — five named engineer bots with scoped domains + an ops bot (&amp;ldquo;Jenny&amp;rdquo;) that runs daily 1:1s, postmortems, and onboarding; fleet manages 200+ Cursor cloud agents via a shared Notion PR database (30-min reviews: Bugbot findings, CI, conflicts; auto-merge on high confidence + low blast radius); nightly audit bots (dead code, security, i18n, parity, catch-up); P0 urgency routine (5-min transcript polling).&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>For Support&lt;/strong> — five jobs: release tracking, bug reproduction with recorded video proof, churn clustering, refund triage against policy, custom per-team metric reports; convert any workflow into an hourly/daily routine.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Templates&lt;/strong> — share a bot as a recipe: instructions + memories + skills + plugins, no secrets or custom code; evaluate templates like software before installing.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Multiple teams&lt;/strong> — one project = one channel + a Notion Projects/Tasks board; a &amp;ldquo;projects&amp;rdquo; manager bot staffs channels (reuse bots first, max five per channel, new bots only after approval); blocked tasks ping the human.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Mobile app development&lt;/strong> — six seats run a shipped game (Rank&amp;rsquo;em): Orchestrator, Analytics (only bot allowed to declare findings), Creatives (never buys media), Engineer, GCS, Bug-fix; includes the full Analytics bot config (job description, connections, routines, recorded skills, handoffs). Recorded a Meta Ads web-UI flow once when the API failed. ROI: 15x lower cost per install, 4x D7 retention.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Designing with Grok Bot&lt;/strong> — Figma Bro (production Figma work via MCP with exact coordinates), Motion God (prototypes around real production animation files; feedback by feel), Experiments (make ideas tangible before judging); bot huddles + delegation.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>For GTM&lt;/strong> — Chief of Staff, daily meeting-prep routine, overnight prospecting, one agent per strategic account (weekly media rundown prompt included, with a state file so only new items get reported), slides bot that live-updates decks from call transcripts, sales coach; tips: record skills by demonstration, build an anti-slop skill.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>For PMs&lt;/strong> — &amp;ldquo;attention list&amp;rdquo; (emergent priorities derived hourly from Slack/email/meetings, used as an attention filter); team: Chief of Staff, non-coding EM, five IC eng agents, data analyst, PM Pete, recruiter; why many scoped agents beat one omniscient one: referenceability, parallelism, scoped memory; keep final review on external sends, purchases, deletes.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul></description></item><item><title>OpenContext</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/opencontext/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/opencontext/</guid><description>&lt;p>A personal context store for AI coding agents — capture project knowledge once, then any agent (Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode) can remember decisions and reuse context &lt;strong>across repositories&lt;/strong>. Desktop GUI + built-in skills/tools that plug into the agent CLIs you already run.&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>845★, JavaScript, MIT, active since Dec 2025. Docs: &lt;a href="https://0xranx.github.io/OpenContext/" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">0xranx.github.io/OpenContext&lt;/a>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>The pitch (via &lt;a href="https://x.com/tom_doerr/status/2097531261673705726" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">@tom_doerr&lt;/a>
, 17.8K views): agents shouldn&amp;rsquo;t start every session with amnesia — decisions and context should be assets that survive the session, the repo, and the tool switch.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Same species as the memory-provider space (Mem0, Hindsight, etc.) but file/local-first and aimed at coding-agent workflows specifically.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;p>See also: &lt;code>zn mcp&lt;/code> (ZenNotes tui, bookmarked the same day) exposes a personal markdown vault to agents over MCP — the file-based cousin of this idea.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>ZenNotes tui (zn)</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/zennotes-tui/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/zennotes-tui/</guid><description>&lt;p>&lt;code>zn&lt;/code> — ZenNotes in the terminal: a full CLI plus a Bubble Tea TUI app in one static Go binary (no runtime deps). Notes stay &lt;strong>plain Markdown files in a folder you own&lt;/strong>.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Why it&amp;rsquo;s interesting beyond the feature list:&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>One vault, two frontends&lt;/strong> — reads the same vault/config as the ZenNotes desktop app, and every command (names, flags, JSON shapes, task ids) is checked against the desktop implementation so scripts work on both. A design contract, not just compat claims.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Real Vim at the core&lt;/strong> — counts, registers, marks, macros, text objects, visual block, &lt;code>:g&lt;/code>/&lt;code>:norm&lt;/code>, heading motions; toggleable if you must.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Tasks as list/kanban/calendar, databases as table/board&lt;/strong> from &lt;code>.base&lt;/code> folders and loose CSVs; daily/weekly/monthly note patterns; command palette; &lt;code>:zen&lt;/code> to drop all chrome.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>&lt;code>zn mcp&lt;/code>&lt;/strong> — the same MCP tools the desktop offers, so Claude/agents get your notes as first-class tools. (File-based cousin of OpenContext&amp;rsquo;s agent memory.)&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Honest demos&lt;/strong> — the README&amp;rsquo;s recordings are scripted tmux + asciinema keystroke choreography, rendered with agg/ffmpeg. Reproducible demo culture, in a notes app.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Caveats: brand new (created 2026-09-08, two commits, 50★) — no prebuilt binaries or Homebrew formula yet; &lt;code>go install github.com/ZenNotes/tui/cmd/zn@latest&lt;/code> for now.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul></description></item><item><title>TheBlackCat Site Skill</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/theblackcat-site/</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/theblackcat-site/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="why-i-saved-this">Why I saved this&lt;a class="anchor" href="#why-i-saved-this" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>The full Hermes Agent skill that operates this site, mirrored into the library
itself so the operating manual lives next to the thing it operates. The older
&lt;a href="https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/blackcat-bookmark-skill/">BlackCat Bookmark Skill&lt;/a>

entry documented an early, bookmark-only version; this bundle is the current
skill in full — &lt;code>SKILL.md&lt;/code> plus every reference file.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>The verbatim files are browsable in the repo:
&lt;a href="https://github.com/Theblackcat98/TheBlackCat/blob/main/content/library/ai/skills/theblackcat-site/SKILL.md" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">SKILL.md&lt;/a>

and the
&lt;a href="https://github.com/Theblackcat98/TheBlackCat/tree/main/content/library/ai/skills/theblackcat-site/references" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">references/&lt;/a>

folder. Hugo page bundles don&amp;rsquo;t publish non-index Markdown to the built site,
so the links below point at the repo copies. The gist is inline here.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Sketch the UI, then let the AI write it</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/m3e-canvas/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:30:00 -0700</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/m3e-canvas/</guid><description>&lt;p>The weak spot in vibe coding was never the code generation. It&amp;rsquo;s the brief. You describe an app in prose, the model invents a layout, and you spend the next hour writing &amp;ldquo;no, the button goes &lt;em>there&lt;/em>&amp;rdquo; in increasingly CAPS-locked English. Language is a lossy format for describing screens.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/lnkiai/m3e-canvas" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">m3e-canvas&lt;/a>
 — by lnkiai, MIT licensed, &lt;a href="https://lnkiai.github.io/m3e-canvas/" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">runs in the browser&lt;/a>
 — attacks exactly that. You sketch your screens from real Material 3 Expressive components, link them into a tap-through prototype, and export the whole thing as a prompt for your AI coding tool. Their demo gif goes from a habit-tracker sketch to the app running on Android.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>jakubkrehel/skills — Agent Skills for Building Great Interfaces</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/jakubkrehel-skills/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/jakubkrehel-skills/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="why-i-saved-this">Why I saved this&lt;a class="anchor" href="#why-i-saved-this" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Popular, well-crafted skill collection that turns an agent into a design reviewer — directly useful for Hermes/Claude Code frontend work.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>By Jakub Krehel, design engineer and author of the &lt;a href="https://interfaces.dev/" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Interfaces&lt;/a>
 magazine. Skills encode the design principles he writes about; each is a SKILL.md that loads into any agent that reads the format (Claude Code, Hermes, opencode — repo ships &lt;code>.claude-plugin&lt;/code>, &lt;code>opencode.json&lt;/code>, and a skills.sh entry).&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>m3e-canvas</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/m3e-canvas/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/m3e-canvas/</guid><description>&lt;p>Sketch Material 3 Expressive UI in the browser and turn the sketch into a vibe-coding prompt. By lnkiai, MIT, static Next.js export — &lt;a href="https://lnkiai.github.io/m3e-canvas/" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">live demo&lt;/a>
, no backend, everything in localStorage.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>What makes it more than a mockup tool:&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Real components&lt;/strong> — buttons, FABs, chips, app bars, nav bars, cards, dialogs, text fields, sliders — all drawn to M3 Expressive, including the shape-morphing loading indicator ported from material-components-android.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Prototype behavior&lt;/strong> — magnetic connections fuse parts into groups; screens link via tap/swipe with slide/fade/expand transitions; preview is actually tappable, back plays the transition in reverse.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Full theme control&lt;/strong> — the four M3 axes (color/shape/type/motion): seed color → generated Material scheme, light/dark, three contrast levels, dynamic color, expressive spring motion.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>The output is a prompt&lt;/strong> — whole design or single screen, in English, Japanese, or Chinese, including your behavior notes per part. Feed it to Claude Code/Cursor/etc. Their demo: habit-tracker sketch → running Android app.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Honest about layout&lt;/strong> — the prompt explicitly describes overlaps and side-by-side rows so generated layouts keep them.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;p>Design lesson embedded in the tool: humans do the spatial part, the model does the syntax. See the blog post for why that split works.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>tokscale — token usage tracker for AI coding agents</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/tokscale/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/tokscale/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="why-i-saved-this">Why I saved this&lt;a class="anchor" href="#why-i-saved-this" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>The UI is exactly the terminal aesthetic I like — dense, color-coded, everything on one screen. Worth studying (and maybe imitating).&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>By Junho Yeo (@_junhoyeo). MIT, ~5.3k stars, very active. Reads the local
session/ledger files your agents already write (JSONL + SQLite), never
needs API keys. Optional &lt;code>tokscale submit&lt;/code> → global leaderboard.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;strong>Stack&lt;/strong> (from the repo&amp;rsquo;s Cargo.tomls / package layout):&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>TrueForge — the open-source agent harness</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/trueforge/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/trueforge/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="why-i-saved-this">Why I saved this&lt;a class="anchor" href="#why-i-saved-this" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Key reference in the agent-harness layer: a vendor-neutral, self-hostable
alternative to managed agent runtimes, worth tracking as the ecosystem
standardizes on harness concepts (skills, MCP, approvals).&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/truefoundry/trueforge" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">TrueForge&lt;/a>
 (by TrueFoundry) is an
open-source &lt;strong>agent harness&lt;/strong> — the runtime layer that turns a raw LLM into a
working agent. It runs the whole execution loop for you: model calls, MCP
tools, skills, sandboxing, approvals, context management, and session state.
One harness, three surfaces: a bundled &lt;strong>chat UI&lt;/strong>, an &lt;strong>HTTP API&lt;/strong> with a
generated TypeScript SDK, and an embeddable &lt;strong>React UI SDK&lt;/strong>
(&lt;code>@truefoundry/trueforge-ui&lt;/code>).&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>llamacpp-runner</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/llamacpp-runner/</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/llamacpp-runner/</guid><description>&lt;p>llama-deck: keyboard-first TUI and CLI to discover, configure, launch, and monitor a single managed llama.cpp llama-server instance, with presets and live telemetry.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Theblackcat98/llamacpp-runner" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">View on GitHub&lt;/a>
&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>50 Web Sites Google Doesn't Want You to Know About</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/collections/50-sites-google-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/collections/50-sites-google-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="reference">Reference&lt;a class="anchor" href="#reference" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Viral listicle captured verbatim (titles/claims as published — verify individual sites before trusting them; several entries in this genre are dead, paywalled themselves, or legally grey).&lt;/p>
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 &lt;div class="highlight">&lt;pre tabindex="0" class="chroma">&lt;code class="language-text" data-lang="text">&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">1.) &amp;#39;http://12ft.io&amp;#39; — Bypass any paywall
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">2.) &amp;#39;http://libgen.is&amp;#39; — Millions of free textbooks
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">3.) &amp;#39;http://sci-hub.se&amp;#39; — Free academic articles
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">4.) &amp;#39;http://alternativeto.net&amp;#39; — Find free app alternatives
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">5.) &amp;#39;http://justwatch.com&amp;#39; — Find where any content is published
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">6.) &amp;#39;http://archive.org&amp;#39; — Access any old web page
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">7.) &amp;#39;http://gutenberg.org&amp;#39; — 70,000 free classic books
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">8.) &amp;#39;http://pdfdrive.com&amp;#39; — Free PDF downloads
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">9.) &amp;#39;http://openculture.com&amp;#39; — Free courses from top universities
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">10.) &amp;#39;http://wolframalpha.com&amp;#39; — Solve any math problem instantly
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">11.) &amp;#39;http://photopea.com&amp;#39; — Free Photoshop in your browser
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">12.) &amp;#39;http://squoosh.app&amp;#39; — Compress any image for free
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">13.) &amp;#39;http://remove.bg&amp;#39; — Remove image backgrounds for free
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">14.) &amp;#39;http://cleanup.pictures&amp;#39; — Remove objects from photos
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">15.) &amp;#39;http://unscreen.com&amp;#39; — Remove video backgrounds
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">16.) &amp;#39;http://carbon.now.sh&amp;#39; — Turn code into art
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">17.) &amp;#39;http://ray.so&amp;#39; — Stylish code screenshots
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">18.) &amp;#39;http://shots.so&amp;#39; — Free product mockups
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">19.) &amp;#39;http://smartmockups.com&amp;#39; — Create mockups without Photoshop
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">20.) &amp;#39;http://haveibeenpwned.com&amp;#39; — Check if you&amp;#39;ve been hacked
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">21.) &amp;#39;http://virustotal.com&amp;#39; — Scan any file for malware
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">22.) &amp;#39;http://privnote.com&amp;#39; — Send self-destructing messages
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">23.) &amp;#39;http://temp-mail.org&amp;#39; — Instant disposable email
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">24.) &amp;#39;http://file.io&amp;#39; — Auto-deleting file sharing
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">25.) &amp;#39;http://archive.ph&amp;#39; — Permanently save any web page
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">26.) &amp;#39;http://similarsites.com&amp;#39; — Find alternatives to any site
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">27.) &amp;#39;http://radio.garden&amp;#39; — Listen to any radio station worldwide
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">28.) &amp;#39;http://everynoise.com&amp;#39; — Discover every music genre
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">29.) &amp;#39;http://tunefind.com&amp;#39; — Find songs from any TV show
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">30.) &amp;#39;http://musicforprogramming.net&amp;#39; — Focus music
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">31.) &amp;#39;http://mynoise.net&amp;#39; — Custom focus soundscapes
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">32.) &amp;#39;http://coffitivity.com&amp;#39; — Cafe sounds that boost productivity
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">33.) &amp;#39;http://elicit.org&amp;#39; — AI academic paper assistant
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">34.) &amp;#39;http://consensus.app&amp;#39; — Search scientific consensus
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">35.) &amp;#39;http://connectedpapers.com&amp;#39; — Visualize academic paper maps
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">36.) &amp;#39;http://semanticscholar.org&amp;#39; — Free academic search
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">37.) &amp;#39;http://scispace.com&amp;#39; — Understand any academic paper
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">38.) &amp;#39;http://summarize.tech&amp;#39; — Summarize any YouTube video
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">39.) &amp;#39;http://phind.com&amp;#39; — AI search engine for developers
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">40.) &amp;#39;http://regex101.com&amp;#39; — Test any regex instantly
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">41.) &amp;#39;http://codebeautify.org&amp;#39; — Format code cleanly
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">42.) &amp;#39;http://jsonformatter.org&amp;#39; — Read JSON like a human
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">43.) &amp;#39;http://explainshell.com&amp;#39; — Understand terminal commands
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">44.) &amp;#39;http://raindrop.io&amp;#39; — Effective bookmark manager
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">45.) &amp;#39;http://downdetector.com&amp;#39; — Check if any site is down
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">46.) &amp;#39;http://tineye.com&amp;#39; — Reverse image search
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">47.) &amp;#39;http://fast.com&amp;#39; — Check internet speed
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">48.) &amp;#39;http://smallpdf.com&amp;#39; — Free PDF editing
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">49.) &amp;#39;http://ilovepdf.com&amp;#39; — Merge and split PDFs
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">50.) &amp;#39;http://10minutemail.com&amp;#39; — Second-long temporary email&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;/code>&lt;/pre>&lt;/div>
&lt;/div></description></item><item><title>Analyze Repo</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/analyze-repo/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/analyze-repo/</guid><description>&lt;blockquote>
&lt;p>&lt;strong>Provenance:&lt;/strong> this skill no longer exists upstream. The &lt;code>mattpocock/skills&lt;/code>
repository has no &lt;code>analyze-repo&lt;/code> skill and no page for it on aihero.dev, so the
old &lt;code>source&lt;/code> URL was removed. This bundle (&lt;code>index.md&lt;/code> +
&lt;code>references/framework.md&lt;/code>) is the surviving copy and is now the canonical text.&lt;/p>&lt;/blockquote>
&lt;h2 id="overview">Overview&lt;a class="anchor" href="#overview" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Apply a sequential reverse-engineering framework to any public GitHub repository. Produce a structured mental-map report that avoids context collapse.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="instructions">Instructions&lt;a class="anchor" href="#instructions" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>When the user requests deep analysis of a GitHub repository:&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Ask Matt</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/ask-matt/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/ask-matt/</guid><description>&lt;p>You don&amp;rsquo;t remember every skill, so ask.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>A &lt;strong>flow&lt;/strong> is a path through the skills. Most paths run along one &lt;strong>main flow&lt;/strong>, and two &lt;strong>on-ramps&lt;/strong> merge onto it. Everything else is standalone, or a vocabulary layer that runs underneath.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="the-main-flow-idea--ship">The main flow: idea → ship&lt;a class="anchor" href="#the-main-flow-idea--ship" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>The route most work travels. You have an idea and want it built.&lt;/p>
&lt;ol>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>&lt;strong>&lt;code>/grill-with-docs&lt;/code>&lt;/strong> — sharpen the idea by interview. Start here whenever you are &lt;strong>working in a working directory&lt;/strong>: it&amp;rsquo;s stateful, retaining what it learns in &lt;code>CONTEXT.md&lt;/code> and ADRs. (No working directory? Use &lt;code>/grill-me&lt;/code> — see Standalone. Both run the same &lt;code>/grilling&lt;/code> primitive; &lt;code>grill-with-docs&lt;/code> is the one that leaves a paper trail, which makes it the better of the two whenever a repo is there to leave it in.)&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Biblical Exegete</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/biblical-exegete/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/biblical-exegete/</guid><description>&lt;p>Execute a scholarly, historically grounded, and pastorally rich exegetical analysis of any Scripture passage, chapter, or book.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="triggers">Triggers&lt;a class="anchor" href="#triggers" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>User provides a Scripture reference or passage to analyze (e.g., &amp;ldquo;Analyze John 19&amp;rdquo;, &amp;ldquo;Do an exegesis of Romans 5:12–21&amp;rdquo;, &amp;ldquo;Break down Psalm 82&amp;rdquo;, &amp;ldquo;Study 1 Corinthians 13:1–13&amp;rdquo;).&lt;/li>
&lt;li>User requests verse-by-verse exposition, chapter outlines, or socio-historical background of biblical texts.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>User seeks inductive study questions (Observation, Interpretation, Application) for a passage.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;h2 id="core-exegetical-methodology-the-9-part-framework">Core Exegetical Methodology (The 9-Part Framework)&lt;a class="anchor" href="#core-exegetical-methodology-the-9-part-framework" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>When conducting a comprehensive passage study, organize the analysis into the following 9 canonical sections:&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>BlackCat Bookmark Skill</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/blackcat-bookmark-skill/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/blackcat-bookmark-skill/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="why-i-saved-this">Why I saved this&lt;a class="anchor" href="#why-i-saved-this" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>The Hermes Agent skill that automates adding bookmarks to this very library — the agent-side half of the Git-native workflow this repo is built around.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>A Hermes Agent skill (&lt;code>blackcat-bookmark&lt;/code>) that saves URLs into this repository. Triggered by phrases like &amp;ldquo;bookmark this&amp;rdquo;, it runs the full pipeline:&lt;/p>
&lt;ol>
&lt;li>&lt;code>git pull --ff-only&lt;/code> to sync the clone&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Dedupe by URL against existing content (enrich instead of duplicating)&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Fetch real page title/description&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Reuse existing tags/topics (lowercase kebab-case)&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Create &lt;code>content/inbox/&amp;lt;slug&amp;gt;.md&lt;/code> following the bookmark archetype front matter&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Commit only that file, push, verify on origin via &lt;code>gh api&lt;/code>&lt;/li>
&lt;/ol>
&lt;p>Design constraints: the repo is public so only public info is written; new items always start in &lt;code>content/inbox/&lt;/code> with &lt;code>status: filed&lt;/code> per AGENTS.md; never modifies unrelated files. Weekly triage then moves inbox items into &lt;code>content/library/&amp;lt;domain&amp;gt;/&lt;/code> (Sundays 23:00, automated).&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>ChatSprout</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/chatsprout/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/chatsprout/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="why-i-saved-this">Why I saved this&lt;a class="anchor" href="#why-i-saved-this" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Cheap/free alternative to &lt;strong>Intercom&lt;/strong>. No subscription needed.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>Captured from a viral &amp;ldquo;don&amp;rsquo;t pay for X, use Y&amp;rdquo; list (circulating on FB/X/IG; matches a Medium &amp;ldquo;Code Coup&amp;rdquo; article, Jul 2026). Searched for the product on 2026-08-28 — findings below.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>UNVERIFIED: nothing found — chatsprout.com appears to be an unsold brand name listed on BrandBucket. No product exists.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul></description></item><item><title>Code Review</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/code-review/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/code-review/</guid><description>&lt;p>Two-axis review of the diff between &lt;code>HEAD&lt;/code> and a fixed point the user supplies:&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Standards&lt;/strong> — does the code conform to this repo&amp;rsquo;s documented coding standards?&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Spec&lt;/strong> — does the code faithfully implement the originating issue / spec?&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;p>Both axes run as &lt;strong>parallel sub-agents&lt;/strong> so they don&amp;rsquo;t pollute each other&amp;rsquo;s context, then this skill aggregates their findings.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>The issue tracker should have been provided to you — run &lt;code>/setup-matt-pocock-skills&lt;/code> if &lt;code>docs/agents/issue-tracker.md&lt;/code> is missing.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Codebase Design</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/codebase-design/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/codebase-design/</guid><description>&lt;p>Design &lt;strong>deep modules&lt;/strong>: a lot of behaviour behind a small interface, placed at a clean seam, testable through that interface. Use this language and these principles wherever code is being designed or restructured. The aim is leverage for callers, locality for maintainers, and testability for everyone.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="glossary">Glossary&lt;a class="anchor" href="#glossary" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Use these terms exactly — don&amp;rsquo;t substitute &amp;ldquo;component,&amp;rdquo; &amp;ldquo;service,&amp;rdquo; &amp;ldquo;API,&amp;rdquo; or &amp;ldquo;boundary.&amp;rdquo; Consistent language is the whole point.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;strong>Module&lt;/strong> — anything with an interface and an implementation. Deliberately scale-agnostic: a function, class, package, or tier-spanning slice. &lt;em>Avoid&lt;/em>: unit, component, service.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Cross-Testament Typology</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/cross-testament-typology/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/cross-testament-typology/</guid><description>&lt;p>Trace and evaluate authentic biblical typology, prophetic fulfillment trajectories, and covenantal continuity between the Old and New Testaments.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="triggers">Triggers&lt;a class="anchor" href="#triggers" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>User asks about types, shadows, and fulfillments in Scripture (e.g., &amp;ldquo;How is Adam a type of Christ in Romans 5?&amp;rdquo;, &amp;ldquo;Explain Jesus as the Melchizedekian priest in Hebrews 7&amp;rdquo;, &amp;ldquo;Connect the Passover lamb to the cross in John 19&amp;rdquo;).&lt;/li>
&lt;li>User investigates intertextual echoes, Old Testament citations in the New Testament, or covenantal progression.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>User seeks to distinguish legitimate biblical typology from speculative or arbitrary allegorization.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;h2 id="typology-vs-allegory-distinction">Typology vs. Allegory Distinction&lt;a class="anchor" href="#typology-vs-allegory-distinction" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>To maintain exegetical integrity, distinguish between:&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Diagnosing Bugs</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/diagnosing-bugs/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/diagnosing-bugs/</guid><description>&lt;p>A discipline for hard bugs. Skip phases only when explicitly justified.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>When exploring the codebase, read &lt;code>CONTEXT.md&lt;/code> (if it exists) to get a clear mental model of the relevant modules, and check ADRs in the area you&amp;rsquo;re touching.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="redact">Redact&lt;a class="anchor" href="#redact" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>This skill has you show commands, outputs and captured artifacts. &lt;strong>Redact every secret first&lt;/strong> — write &lt;code>&amp;lt;REDACTED&amp;gt;&lt;/code> in its place. Build loops against env vars, so the credential stays in the environment rather than in what you show. Captured artifacts carry auth headers: quote only the lines that carry the signal.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Domain Modeling</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/domain-modeling/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/domain-modeling/</guid><description>&lt;p>Actively build and sharpen the project&amp;rsquo;s domain model as you design. This is the &lt;em>active&lt;/em> discipline — challenging terms, inventing edge-case scenarios, and writing the glossary and decisions down the moment they crystallise. (Merely &lt;em>reading&lt;/em> &lt;code>CONTEXT.md&lt;/code> for vocabulary is not this skill — that&amp;rsquo;s a one-line habit any skill can do. This skill is for when you&amp;rsquo;re changing the model, not just consuming it.)&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="file-structure">File structure&lt;a class="anchor" href="#file-structure" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Most repos have a single context:&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Favorite AI Skills</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/collections/ai-skills/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/collections/ai-skills/</guid><description>&lt;p>A curated collection of AI skills worth keeping, using, or studying.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>This is a &lt;strong>collection&lt;/strong>, not a new taxonomy branch. Individual skills can live wherever their subject matter belongs in the library; this page provides a single place to discover my favorites.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="what-belongs-here">What belongs here&lt;a class="anchor" href="#what-belongs-here" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>A skill belongs in this collection when it is unusually useful, well-designed, broadly reusable, or simply worth remembering.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>For each skill, the archive can eventually capture:&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>FormForge</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/formforge/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/formforge/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="why-i-saved-this">Why I saved this&lt;a class="anchor" href="#why-i-saved-this" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Cheap/free alternative to &lt;strong>Typeform&lt;/strong>. No subscription needed.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>Captured from a viral &amp;ldquo;don&amp;rsquo;t pay for X, use Y&amp;rdquo; list (circulating on FB/X/IG; matches a Medium &amp;ldquo;Code Coup&amp;rdquo; article, Jul 2026). Searched for the product on 2026-08-28 — findings below.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>UNVERIFIED: only matches are FormForge (formforge.com, bespoke metal sculptures, India) and an MIT Media Lab sketch project. No forms/surveys SaaS under this name.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul></description></item><item><title>FreeMoCap — Free Motion Capture for Everyone</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/programming/freemocap/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/programming/freemocap/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="why-i-saved-this">Why I saved this&lt;a class="anchor" href="#why-i-saved-this" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Free, open-source motion capture — interesting tooling worth keeping on the radar.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>AGPL-licensed; maintainers Jon Matthis and Endurance Idehen.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Python server + React/Electron GUI; runs markerless mocap from commodity cameras.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul></description></item><item><title>Glimpse Diffusion</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/glimpse-diffusion/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/glimpse-diffusion/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="why-i-saved-this">Why I saved this&lt;a class="anchor" href="#why-i-saved-this" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Cheap/free alternative to &lt;strong>Midjourney&lt;/strong>. No subscription needed.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>Captured from a viral &amp;ldquo;don&amp;rsquo;t pay for X, use Y&amp;rdquo; list (circulating on FB/X/IG; matches a Medium &amp;ldquo;Code Coup&amp;rdquo; article, Jul 2026). Searched for the product on 2026-08-28 — findings below.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>UNVERIFIED: no image-gen product named &amp;ldquo;Glimpse Diffusion&amp;rdquo; exists. Unrelated &amp;ldquo;Glimpse&amp;rdquo; products: meetglimpse.com (trend intel), a PH competitive-intel agent.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul></description></item><item><title>Greek &amp; Hebrew Word Study</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/greek-hebrew-word-study/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/greek-hebrew-word-study/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="greek--hebrew-word-study-skill">Greek &amp;amp; Hebrew Word Study Skill&lt;a class="anchor" href="#greek--hebrew-word-study-skill" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Perform scholarly, context-grounded original language word studies for biblical Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek terms without committing common lexical fallacies.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="triggers">Triggers&lt;a class="anchor" href="#triggers" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>User asks for original Greek or Hebrew word analysis (e.g., &amp;ldquo;What does &lt;em>Logos&lt;/em> mean in John 1?&amp;rdquo;, &amp;ldquo;Analyze &lt;em>elohim&lt;/em> in Psalm 82&amp;rdquo;, &amp;ldquo;Explain &lt;em>kephalē&lt;/em> in 1 Corinthians 11&amp;rdquo;, &amp;ldquo;Examine &lt;em>agapē&lt;/em> vs &lt;em>phileō&lt;/em>&amp;rdquo;).&lt;/li>
&lt;li>User requests lexical depth, Strong&amp;rsquo;s number lookups, verb morphology, or semantic range definitions.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>User seeks Septuagint (LXX) translation equivalents for Old Testament terms in the New Testament.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;h2 id="standard-lexical-investigation-protocol">Standard Lexical Investigation Protocol&lt;a class="anchor" href="#standard-lexical-investigation-protocol" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Follow this 6-step procedure for every target term:&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Grill Me</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/grill-me/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/grill-me/</guid><description>&lt;p>Run a &lt;code>/grilling&lt;/code> session.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Grill With Docs</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/grill-with-docs/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/grill-with-docs/</guid><description>&lt;p>Run a &lt;code>/grilling&lt;/code> session, using the &lt;code>/domain-modeling&lt;/code> skill.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Grilling</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/grilling/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/grilling/</guid><description>&lt;p>Interview the user relentlessly until you reach a shared understanding. Map this as a &lt;strong>design tree&lt;/strong>: every decision branches into the decisions that hang off it.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Work the tree in &lt;strong>rounds&lt;/strong>. The &lt;strong>frontier&lt;/strong> is every decision whose prerequisites are already settled — the questions you can ask &lt;em>now&lt;/em> without guessing at answers you haven&amp;rsquo;t heard yet. Ask the whole frontier in one round: number each question and give your recommended answer. Then wait for the user&amp;rsquo;s answers before the next round.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Handoff</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/handoff/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/handoff/</guid><description>&lt;p>Write a handoff document summarising the current conversation so a fresh agent can continue the work. Save to the temporary directory of the user&amp;rsquo;s OS - not the current workspace.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Include a &amp;ldquo;suggested skills&amp;rdquo; section in the document, which suggests skills that the agent should invoke.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Do not duplicate content already captured in other artifacts (specs, plans, ADRs, issues, commits, diffs). Reference them by path or URL instead.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Redact any sensitive information, such as API keys, passwords, or personally identifiable information.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>HookFlow</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/hookflow/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/hookflow/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="why-i-saved-this">Why I saved this&lt;a class="anchor" href="#why-i-saved-this" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Cheap/free alternative to &lt;strong>Zapier&lt;/strong>. No subscription needed.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>Captured from a viral &amp;ldquo;don&amp;rsquo;t pay for X, use Y&amp;rdquo; list (circulating on FB/X/IG; matches a Medium &amp;ldquo;Code Coup&amp;rdquo; article, Jul 2026). Searched for the product on 2026-08-28 — findings below.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>PARTIAL: hookflow.in = free webhook testing tool; github.com/rumizenzz/hookflow = lightweight webhook/API pipeline builder that explicitly pitches itself as a Zapier alternative (&amp;ldquo;Zapier is powerful but overkill&amp;rdquo;).&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Neither is a confirmed full Zapier-style automation platform; possible-but-unconfirmed match is the GitHub project.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul></description></item><item><title>Implement</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/implement/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/implement/</guid><description>&lt;p>Implement the work described by the user in the spec or tickets.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Use /tdd where possible, at pre-agreed seams.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Run typechecking regularly, single test files regularly, and the full test suite once at the end.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Once done, use /code-review to review the work.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Commit your work to the current branch.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Kimi K3 Founder Reveals the Future of AI Agents, Open Source AI &amp; AI Coworkers</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/kimi-k3-founder-ai-agents-video/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/kimi-k3-founder-ai-agents-video/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="why-i-saved-this">Why I saved this&lt;a class="anchor" href="#why-i-saved-this" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Raw capture — planning to edit this later and write up the ideas.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>Channel: Tech-Solutions (@Tech-Solutions-Services).&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Unwatched/pending write-up; treat as a seed for a future article.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul></description></item><item><title>Loop Me</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/loop-me/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/loop-me/</guid><description>&lt;p>Run a stateful &lt;code>/grilling&lt;/code> session whose only output is &lt;strong>workflow&lt;/strong> specs. Use the grilling discipline — relentless, a round of questions at a time, a recommended answer attached to each — aimed at the vocabulary and goal below. Create, edit, and delete specs as the grilling resolves things.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="the-loop-lens">The loop lens&lt;a class="anchor" href="#the-loop-lens" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>A &lt;strong>loop&lt;/strong> is a recurring pattern in the user&amp;rsquo;s life: their career, their week, their morning, a single repeated activity. Picturing a life as loops within loops reveals how predictable its activities really are — which is what makes them worth &lt;strong>delegating&lt;/strong>. Use the lens to find loops worth specifying, and propose ones the user hasn&amp;rsquo;t noticed.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>NoSignups (formerly FckSignups)</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/nosignups/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/nosignups/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="why-i-saved-this">Why I saved this&lt;a class="anchor" href="#why-i-saved-this" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Zero-signup tool directory — pairs with the &amp;ldquo;don&amp;rsquo;t pay for it&amp;rdquo; alternative-tool theme.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>Source is now &lt;a href="https://nosignups.net" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://nosignups.net&lt;/a>
 — the project was renamed from FckSignups and the old &lt;code>fucksignups.com&lt;/code> host no longer resolves.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Repo: github.com/BraveOPotato/FckSignups (GPL-3.0, React + TypeScript). ~245 tools listed.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul></description></item><item><title>PulseSocial</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/pulsesocial/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/pulsesocial/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="why-i-saved-this">Why I saved this&lt;a class="anchor" href="#why-i-saved-this" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Cheap/free alternative to &lt;strong>Buffer&lt;/strong>. No subscription needed.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>Captured from a viral &amp;ldquo;don&amp;rsquo;t pay for X, use Y&amp;rdquo; list (circulating on FB/X/IG; matches a Medium &amp;ldquo;Code Coup&amp;rdquo; article, Jul 2026). Searched for the product on 2026-08-28 — findings below.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>WEAK MATCH: pulsesocial.ai exists — &amp;ldquo;PulseSocial AI&amp;rdquo;, but it is a social-media management service/agency, not clearly a self-serve Buffer-style scheduler.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Name is real; the &amp;ldquo;free Buffer alternative&amp;rdquo; framing is not confirmed.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul></description></item><item><title>Research</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/research/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/research/</guid><description>&lt;p>Spin up a &lt;strong>background agent&lt;/strong> to do the research, so you keep working while it reads.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Its job:&lt;/p>
&lt;ol>
&lt;li>Investigate the question against &lt;strong>primary sources&lt;/strong> — official docs, source code, specs, first-party APIs — not a secondary write-up of them. Follow every claim back to the source that owns it.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Write the findings to a single Markdown file, citing each claim&amp;rsquo;s source.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Save it where the repo already keeps such notes; match the existing convention, and if there is none, put it somewhere sensible and say where.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ol></description></item><item><title>Resolving Merge Conflicts</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/resolving-merge-conflicts/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/resolving-merge-conflicts/</guid><description>&lt;blockquote>
&lt;p>&lt;strong>Archived upstream.&lt;/strong> Matt Pocock removed this skill in v1.3.0 — nothing
replaces it, because the agent handles a merge or rebase conflict without a
dedicated skill. The &lt;code>source&lt;/code> now points at the archived docs page; the text
below is kept as the historical loop.&lt;/p>&lt;/blockquote>
&lt;ol>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>&lt;strong>See the current state&lt;/strong> of the merge/rebase. Check git history, and the conflicting files.&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>&lt;strong>Find the primary sources&lt;/strong> for each conflict. Understand deeply why each change was made, and what the original intent was. Read the commit messages, check the PRs, check original issues/tickets.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>ScreenDraft</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/screendraft/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/screendraft/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="why-i-saved-this">Why I saved this&lt;a class="anchor" href="#why-i-saved-this" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Cheap/free alternative to &lt;strong>Loom Pro&lt;/strong>. No subscription needed.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>Captured from a viral &amp;ldquo;don&amp;rsquo;t pay for X, use Y&amp;rdquo; list (circulating on FB/X/IG; matches a Medium &amp;ldquo;Code Coup&amp;rdquo; article, Jul 2026). Searched for the product on 2026-08-28 — findings below.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>UNVERIFIED: only &amp;ldquo;Screen Drafts&amp;rdquo; found — a movie-drafting podcast (Patreon/Letterboxd). No screen-recording product exists under this name.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul></description></item><item><title>Setup Matt Pocock Skills</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/setup-matt-pocock-skills/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/setup-matt-pocock-skills/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="setup-matt-pococks-skills">Setup Matt Pocock&amp;rsquo;s Skills&lt;a class="anchor" href="#setup-matt-pococks-skills" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Scaffold the per-repo configuration that the engineering skills assume:&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Issue tracker&lt;/strong> — where issues live (GitHub by default; local markdown is also supported out of the box)&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Triage labels&lt;/strong> — the strings used for the five canonical triage roles&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Domain docs&lt;/strong> — where &lt;code>CONTEXT.md&lt;/code> and ADRs live, and the consumer rules for reading them&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;p>This is a prompt-driven skill, not a deterministic script. Explore, present what you found, confirm with the user, then write.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Syllaby</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/syllaby/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/syllaby/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="why-i-saved-this">Why I saved this&lt;a class="anchor" href="#why-i-saved-this" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Viral scripting &amp;amp; video research platform. No subscription needed.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>Captured from a viral &amp;ldquo;don&amp;rsquo;t pay for X, use Y&amp;rdquo; list (circulating on FB/X/IG; matches a Medium &amp;ldquo;Code Coup&amp;rdquo; article, Jul 2026). Searched for the product on 2026-08-28 — findings below.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>VERIFIED: syllaby.io is real and matches — AI faceless-video &amp;amp; scripting platform (script generation, AI avatars, video research).&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Established product with G2 reviews/competitor listings.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul></description></item><item><title>The Nature of Code — Daniel Shiffman</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/programming/the-nature-of-code/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/programming/the-nature-of-code/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="why-i-saved-this">Why I saved this&lt;a class="anchor" href="#why-i-saved-this" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>A textbook that&amp;rsquo;s genuinely free — keep it as a reference for simulation/creative-coding math.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>By Daniel Shiffman (NYU ITP, The Coding Train). Teaches how to model the unpredictable, emergent behavior of natural systems in software: vectors and forces, oscillation, particles, autonomous agents, physics libraries, cellular automata, fractals, genetic algorithms, neural networks, neuroevolution.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Free to read&lt;/strong>: the entire book is available as web chapters at &lt;a href="https://natureofcode.com/" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://natureofcode.com/&lt;/a>
 (introduction → neural-networks, plus examples and exercises pages).&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Free PDF (2012 edition)&lt;/strong>: the author&amp;rsquo;s final pre-print release before print — &lt;a href="https://practices.digital/assets/pdf/nature.pdf" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://practices.digital/assets/pdf/nature.pdf&lt;/a>
 (~43 MB). The 2012 examples use the Processing language (Java-based, runs in-browser via JS mode).&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Print (2024 edition)&lt;/strong>: published by No Starch, ISBN 978-1718503700; buying options compiled by the author at &lt;a href="https://github.com/nature-of-code/buyers-guide" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/nature-of-code/buyers-guide&lt;/a>
.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Code examples live under the nature-of-code GitHub org.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul></description></item><item><title>TinyFish MCP — Web Infrastructure for AI Agents</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/tinyfish-mcp/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/tinyfish-mcp/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="why-i-saved-this">Why I saved this&lt;a class="anchor" href="#why-i-saved-this" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Useful MCP server for agents, and the core endpoints are free.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>TinyFish (&lt;a href="https://tinyfish.ai" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://tinyfish.ai&lt;/a>
) exposes web infrastructure for AI agents through a single MCP endpoint at &lt;code>agent.tinyfish.ai/mcp&lt;/code>:&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Search API&lt;/strong> — browser-rendered web search returning structured JSON from live (never cached) pages. Free.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Fetch API&lt;/strong> — renders a page in a real browser and returns clean markdown/JSON/HTML. Free.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Web Agent&lt;/strong> — completes production tasks (navigate, fill forms, authenticate, extract). Metered: $0.016/step. 89.9% on Mind2Web.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Browser API&lt;/strong> — stealth browser sessions for login walls and anti-bot protection. Metered: $0.002/minute.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;p>Search and Fetch never draw from the wallet balance, which makes it a good default web-access layer for agents. One API key, one wallet, no routing code — the platform decides which layer a task needs.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>To Questionnaire</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/to-questionnaire/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/to-questionnaire/</guid><description>&lt;p>Turn something the user can&amp;rsquo;t answer alone into a &lt;strong>questionnaire&lt;/strong> — a Markdown document they hand to one person to fill in async, or fill out together over a meeting. The recipient holds knowledge the user lacks; the questionnaire pulls it out of them.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;strong>Grill the send, not the subject.&lt;/strong> Interview the user only about the &lt;em>send&lt;/em>, which they can always answer: who it goes to, and what they need back. The questions in the document then target the &lt;strong>gap&lt;/strong> between what the recipient knows and what the user needs.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>To Spec</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/to-spec/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/to-spec/</guid><description>&lt;p>This skill takes the current conversation context and codebase understanding and produces a spec. Do NOT interview the user — just synthesize what you already know.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>The issue tracker and triage label vocabulary should have been provided to you — run &lt;code>/setup-matt-pocock-skills&lt;/code> if not.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="process">Process&lt;a class="anchor" href="#process" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;ol>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>Explore the repo to understand the current state of the codebase, if you haven&amp;rsquo;t already. Use the project&amp;rsquo;s domain glossary vocabulary throughout the spec, and respect any ADRs in the area you&amp;rsquo;re touching.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>To Tickets</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/to-tickets/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/to-tickets/</guid><description>&lt;p>Break a plan, spec, or conversation into a set of &lt;strong>tickets&lt;/strong> — tracer-bullet vertical slices, each declaring the tickets that &lt;strong>block&lt;/strong> it.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>The issue tracker and triage label vocabulary should have been provided to you — run &lt;code>/setup-matt-pocock-skills&lt;/code> if not.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="process">Process&lt;a class="anchor" href="#process" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;h3 id="1-gather-context">1. Gather context&lt;a class="anchor" href="#1-gather-context" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h3>&lt;p>Work from whatever is already in the conversation context. If the user passes a reference (a spec path, an issue number or URL) as an argument, fetch it and read its full body and comments.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Triage</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/triage/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/triage/</guid><description>&lt;p>Move issues on the project issue tracker through a small state machine of triage roles.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>If this repo treats external pull requests as a request surface (see the issue-tracker config), triage covers them too: &lt;strong>a PR is an issue with attached code&lt;/strong> — same roles, same states, same machine, with a few deltas marked &amp;ldquo;for a PR&amp;rdquo; below. Resolve a bare &lt;code>#42&lt;/code> to an issue or PR per the tracker config.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>VentureMap</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/venturemap/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/venturemap/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="why-i-saved-this">Why I saved this&lt;a class="anchor" href="#why-i-saved-this" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Cheap/free alternative to &lt;strong>Crunchbase&lt;/strong>. No subscription needed.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>Captured from a viral &amp;ldquo;don&amp;rsquo;t pay for X, use Y&amp;rdquo; list (circulating on FB/X/IG; matches a Medium &amp;ldquo;Code Coup&amp;rdquo; article, Jul 2026). Searched for the product on 2026-08-28 — findings below.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>NAME COLLISION: &amp;ldquo;VentureMap Manitoba&amp;rdquo; (manitoba.dealroom.co) is a government-backed regional startup-ecosystem data platform on Dealroom — real, but a public program, not a Crunchbase alternative.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>theventuremap.com (founder planning software) also unrelated.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul></description></item><item><title>Voxilica</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/voxilica/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/voxilica/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="why-i-saved-this">Why I saved this&lt;a class="anchor" href="#why-i-saved-this" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Cheap/free alternative to &lt;strong>ElevenLabs&lt;/strong>. No subscription needed.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>Captured from a viral &amp;ldquo;don&amp;rsquo;t pay for X, use Y&amp;rdquo; list (circulating on FB/X/IG; matches a Medium &amp;ldquo;Code Coup&amp;rdquo; article, Jul 2026). Searched for the product on 2026-08-28 — findings below.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>UNVERIFIED: no product named &amp;ldquo;Voxilica&amp;rdquo; found anywhere (web, Product Hunt, registries) — only the viral list itself.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Closest real product: Voxica (voxica.io), an AI voice-generation API — likely what the list garbled/scrambled.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Treat the name as suspect until a canonical site turns up.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul></description></item><item><title>Wait What</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/wait-what/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/wait-what/</guid><description>&lt;p>Wait — I don&amp;rsquo;t understand where you&amp;rsquo;ve got to here. Re-pitch that: give me a little bit of context, talk in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English, and use the ubiquitous language from &lt;code>CONTEXT.md&lt;/code>.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Wayfinder</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/wayfinder/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/wayfinder/</guid><description>&lt;p>A loose idea has arrived — too big for one agent session, and wrapped in fog: the way from here to the &lt;strong>destination&lt;/strong> isn&amp;rsquo;t visible yet. Wayfinding is about finding that way, not charging at the destination. This skill charts the way as a &lt;strong>shared map&lt;/strong> on the repo&amp;rsquo;s issue tracker, then works its &lt;strong>decision tickets&lt;/strong> — questions whose resolution is a decision, not slices of a build to execute — one at a time until the route is clear.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Wizard</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/wizard/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/ai/skills/wizard/</guid><description>&lt;p>A &lt;strong>wizard&lt;/strong> is a bash script that walks a human, step by step, through a manual procedure that&amp;rsquo;s tedious to do by hand and tedious to re-explain to an AI every time. It opens each URL, says exactly what to click and copy, captures the values, writes them where they belong (&lt;code>.env&lt;/code>, GitHub secrets), confirms at every stage, and shows how many stages are left. It might configure third-party services, run a one-off migration, or move the project from one state to another.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>ZenBrain</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/zenbrain/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/library/tools/zenbrain/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="why-i-saved-this">Why I saved this&lt;a class="anchor" href="#why-i-saved-this" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Cheap/free alternative to &lt;strong>Notion AI&lt;/strong>. No subscription needed.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="notes">Notes&lt;a class="anchor" href="#notes" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>Captured from a viral &amp;ldquo;don&amp;rsquo;t pay for X, use Y&amp;rdquo; list (circulating on FB/X/IG; matches a Medium &amp;ldquo;Code Coup&amp;rdquo; article, Jul 2026). Searched for the product on 2026-08-28 — findings below.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>NAME COLLISION: zenbrain.io is real — but it is an AI Chrome extension for tab management (&amp;ldquo;Your tabs, untangled by AI&amp;rdquo;), not a Notion AI workspace alternative.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>zensation.ai/zenbrain (agent memory library) also unrelated. Neither matches the list&amp;rsquo;s claim.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul></description></item><item><title>SyncWeave</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/syncweave/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/syncweave/</guid><description>&lt;p>A file transfer TUI app to learn OpenTUI and Bubbletea+ Lipgloss&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Theblackcat98/SyncWeave" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">View on GitHub&lt;/a>
&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>ESP32-CANBUS</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/esp32-canbus/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/esp32-canbus/</guid><description>&lt;p>Research notes and experiments on the ESP32 CAN bus peripheral.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Theblackcat98/ESP32-CANBUS" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">View on GitHub&lt;/a>
&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>blackcatdesigns</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/blackcatdesigns/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/blackcatdesigns/</guid><description>&lt;p>Personal portfolio and blog — Next.js 15, React, Tailwind, with Markdown-driven posts.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Theblackcat98/blackcatdesigns" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">View on GitHub&lt;/a>
&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Awesome-AI-Python-Scripts</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/awesome-ai-python-scripts/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/awesome-ai-python-scripts/</guid><description>&lt;p>Collection of OpenWebUI functions and plugins that extend LLM behaviour inside OpenWebUI.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Theblackcat98/Awesome-AI-Python-Scripts" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">View on GitHub&lt;/a>
&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Content Fetching</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/website-analyzer/04-content-fetching/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2025 17:06:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/website-analyzer/04-content-fetching/</guid><description>&lt;p>Welcome back! In the last chapter, &lt;a href="03-batch.md">Batch Processing&lt;/a>
, we explored how &lt;code>BatchNode&lt;/code>s help us efficiently process many items, like multiple pages of a website. But before we can process anything &lt;em>from&lt;/em> a website, we need to actually &lt;em>get&lt;/em> the content of its pages.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Think of analyzing a website like cooking a meal. &lt;a href="01-flow-orchestration.md">Flow Orchestration&lt;/a>
 is the recipe, telling you the steps and order. &lt;a href="02-processing-nodes.md">Processing Nodes&lt;/a>
 are the different chefs responsible for specific parts (chopping vegetables, baking bread). &lt;a href="03-batch.md">Batch Processing&lt;/a>
 is like having multiple chefs prepare ingredients simultaneously. But none of this can start until you have the actual &lt;strong>ingredients&lt;/strong>!&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Data Extraction</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/website-analyzer/05-data-extraction/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2025 17:06:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/website-analyzer/05-data-extraction/</guid><description>&lt;p>Welcome back! In the previous chapter, &lt;a href="04-content-fetching.md">Website Content Fetching&lt;/a>
, we learned how our Website Analyzer gets the raw ingredients for analysis: the HTML content of web pages. We saw how the &lt;code>get_website_content&lt;/code> utility fetches the page and turns the raw HTML text into a structured &lt;code>soup&lt;/code> object using &lt;code>BeautifulSoup&lt;/code>.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>But having the raw HTML &lt;code>soup&lt;/code> object, while useful, isn&amp;rsquo;t the final goal. Imagine you&amp;rsquo;re reading a book about a company. You don&amp;rsquo;t just want the book&amp;rsquo;s raw text; you want to easily find their business name, their contact information, a list of their products, or maybe some customer reviews.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Flow Orchestration</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/website-analyzer/01-flow-orchestration/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2025 17:06:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/website-analyzer/01-flow-orchestration/</guid><description>&lt;p>Welcome to the first chapter of the Website Analyzer tutorial! In this chapter, we&amp;rsquo;ll introduce the central concept that holds our entire website analysis project together: &lt;strong>Flow Orchestration&lt;/strong>.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Imagine you&amp;rsquo;re analyzing a website. What steps do you need to take? You might need to:&lt;/p>
&lt;ol>
&lt;li>Fetch the main page content.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Find all the links on the page to discover other pages.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Visit those other pages to build a map of the site (a sitemap).&lt;/li>
&lt;li>From each page, extract information about design (like colors and fonts).&lt;/li>
&lt;li>From each page, extract the actual content and identify business details.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Combine all the collected design and content information.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Generate a summary or &amp;ldquo;specification&amp;rdquo; based on the combined data.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Create an HTML report of the findings.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ol>
&lt;p>That&amp;rsquo;s quite a few steps! And they need to happen in a specific order. You can&amp;rsquo;t extract design elements from a page until you&amp;rsquo;ve actually fetched the page content. You can&amp;rsquo;t generate the final report until you&amp;rsquo;ve combined all the information.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>HTML Summary Generation</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/website-analyzer/07-html-summary-generation/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2025 17:06:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/website-analyzer/07-html-summary-generation/</guid><description>&lt;p>Welcome back! In the previous chapter, &lt;a href="06-specification-generation.md">Specification Generation&lt;/a>
, we learned how our Website Analyzer synthesizes all the extracted data (content, design, sitemap) into structured &lt;strong>Business Specifications&lt;/strong> and &lt;strong>Brand Specifications&lt;/strong>. These specifications are like detailed reports prepared by an analyst, summarizing key aspects of the website.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>However, these specifications are typically stored in a structured format like JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), which is great for computers and other parts of the analysis flow, but not very user-friendly for a human reader who just wants a quick overview.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>IG Post Maker</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/ig-post-maker/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2025 17:06:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/ig-post-maker/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="automated-instagram-post-generation-with-ig-post-agent">Automated Instagram Post Generation with IG-Post-Agent&lt;a class="anchor" href="#automated-instagram-post-generation-with-ig-post-agent" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Have you ever wished to quickly create engaging Instagram content that includes slide ideas, catchy descriptions, and hashtags—all automatically? The &lt;strong>IG-Post-Agent&lt;/strong> project (its GitHub repository is no longer public) makes it possible. Leveraging a multi-agent system built with AutoGen alongside the power of Ollama’s large language model (LLM), this tool lets you generate complete Instagram posts in just a few steps.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Ollama LLM Integration</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/website-analyzer/08-ollama-integration/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2025 17:06:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/website-analyzer/08-ollama-integration/</guid><description>&lt;p>Welcome back! In the last two chapters, we saw how our Website Analyzer generated structured &lt;strong>Business Specifications&lt;/strong> and &lt;strong>Brand Specifications&lt;/strong> (&lt;a href="06-specification-generation.md">Chapter 6&lt;/a>
) and then used these specs to create a final HTML report (&lt;a href="07-html-summary-generation.md">Chapter 7&lt;/a>
).&lt;/p>
&lt;p>You might have noticed that these steps required more than just collecting data. They involved summarizing, synthesizing, and even making educated guesses based on the extracted information. For example, how do you turn a list of products and testimonials into a description of a business&amp;rsquo;s target audience or its brand personality? This isn&amp;rsquo;t a simple data lookup; it requires analysis and inference.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Ollama LLM Integration</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/website-analyzer/09-html-templating/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2025 17:06:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/website-analyzer/09-html-templating/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="chapter-9-html-templating">Chapter 9: HTML Templating&lt;a class="anchor" href="#chapter-9-html-templating" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Welcome back! In our journey through the Website Analyzer project, we&amp;rsquo;ve reached the point where we have gathered raw website content (&lt;a href="04-content-fetching.md">Chapter 4&lt;/a>
), extracted specific data from it (&lt;a href="05-data-extraction.md">Chapter 5&lt;/a>
), synthesized that data into structured Business and Brand Specifications (&lt;a href="06-specification-generation.md">Chapter 6&lt;/a>
), and even explored using an LLM (&lt;a href="08-ollama-integration.md">Chapter 8&lt;/a>
) to help write those specifications and potentially the final report (&lt;a href="07-html-summary-generation.md">Chapter 7&lt;/a>
).&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Processing Nodes</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/website-analyzer/02-processing-nodes/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2025 17:06:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/website-analyzer/02-processing-nodes/</guid><description>&lt;p>Welcome back! In the previous chapter, &lt;a href="01-flow-orchestration.md">Flow Orchestration&lt;/a>
, we learned that the &lt;code>Flow&lt;/code> is like the conductor of an orchestra, directing the overall process of analyzing a website. But who are the musicians? Who actually &lt;em>does&lt;/em> the work?&lt;/p>
&lt;p>That&amp;rsquo;s where &lt;strong>Processing Nodes&lt;/strong> come in.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Think of the website analysis process as an assembly line. There are many distinct steps: someone fetches the raw website page, someone else extracts the text content, another person pulls out the design details like colors and fonts, and so on, until the final report is assembled.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Processing Nodes</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/website-analyzer/03-batch/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2025 17:06:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/website-analyzer/03-batch/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="chapter-3-batch-processing">Chapter 3: Batch Processing&lt;a class="anchor" href="#chapter-3-batch-processing" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Welcome back! In the last two chapters, we introduced &lt;a href="01-flow-orchestration.md">Flow Orchestration&lt;/a>
 as the conductor of our analysis process and learned about &lt;a href="02-processing-nodes.md">Processing Nodes&lt;/a>
 as the individual workers performing specific tasks.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Nodes are great for single steps, like fetching the very first page of a website. But what happens when you need to analyze &lt;em>many&lt;/em> pages? Or extract data from dozens of different links found on a page? If you only had simple Nodes, you&amp;rsquo;d need a complicated flow with a separate node for &lt;em>each&lt;/em> page, which is clearly not practical for large websites.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Specification Generation</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/website-analyzer/06-specification-generation/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2025 17:06:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/website-analyzer/06-specification-generation/</guid><description>&lt;p>Welcome back! In the last chapter, &lt;a href="05-data-extraction.md">Data Extraction Utilities&lt;/a>
, we learned how to take the raw HTML &lt;code>soup&lt;/code> object for each page and use specialized tools to pull out specific pieces of information – like the text content, business details, and design elements.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Now we have all these pieces of data scattered across potentially many pages. Imagine you&amp;rsquo;re a market researcher, and you&amp;rsquo;ve collected survey data, interview notes, and competitor information. That raw data is valuable, but it&amp;rsquo;s not a summary you can present to someone to understand the whole picture of a business or market.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Test</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/test/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2025 17:06:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/test/</guid><description>&lt;blockquote>
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&lt;/p></description></item><item><title/><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/exploring-human-psyche-and-motivations-through-key-relationships/chapter_10_final/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/exploring-human-psyche-and-motivations-through-key-relationships/chapter_10_final/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="the-journey-to-self-knowledge">The Journey to Self-Knowledge&lt;a class="anchor" href="#the-journey-to-self-knowledge" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>The quest to know oneself represents one of humanity&amp;rsquo;s oldest and most persistent endeavors. From the ancient Greek maxim &amp;ldquo;know thyself&amp;rdquo; inscribed at the Temple of Apollo to contemporary psychological research on mindfulness and metacognition, humans have consistently recognized self-knowledge as fundamental to wisdom, well-being, and effective living. Yet despite its apparent simplicity—who could know us better than ourselves?—genuine self-awareness remains elusive, requiring ongoing effort and specific practices to develop and maintain.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title/><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/exploring-human-psyche-and-motivations-through-key-relationships/chapter_11_final/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/exploring-human-psyche-and-motivations-through-key-relationships/chapter_11_final/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="the-relational-landscape-understanding-interpersonal-dynamics">The Relational Landscape: Understanding Interpersonal Dynamics&lt;a class="anchor" href="#the-relational-landscape-understanding-interpersonal-dynamics" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Human existence unfolds within an intricate web of relationships—connections that profoundly shape our experiences, influence our development, and provide both life&amp;rsquo;s greatest joys and its most significant challenges. From the foundational bonds of family to the complexities of friendship, romance, and professional collaboration, relationships form the essential context within which most human motivation, decision-making, and character development occur. Navigating this relational landscape effectively requires not just good intentions but specific psychological insights and skills.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title/><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/exploring-human-psyche-and-motivations-through-key-relationships/chapter_12_final/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/exploring-human-psyche-and-motivations-through-key-relationships/chapter_12_final/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="the-narrative-self-understanding-life-as-story">The Narrative Self: Understanding Life as Story&lt;a class="anchor" href="#the-narrative-self-understanding-life-as-story" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Throughout this exploration of human psychology, behavior, and motivation, we&amp;rsquo;ve examined various dimensions of what drives people—from basic needs and decision-making processes to relationship dynamics and pivotal life transitions. In this final chapter, we turn to perhaps the most uniquely human aspect of psychological functioning: our capacity to construct and live within narrative frameworks that give meaning and coherence to our experiences. Understanding how people author their own life stories provides profound insight into identity formation, meaning-making, and the potential for conscious participation in personal development.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title/><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/exploring-human-psyche-and-motivations-through-key-relationships/chapter_2_final/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/exploring-human-psyche-and-motivations-through-key-relationships/chapter_2_final/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="normative-vs-descriptive-decision-theory">Normative vs. Descriptive Decision Theory&lt;a class="anchor" href="#normative-vs-descriptive-decision-theory" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>When examining how humans make decisions, we encounter a fundamental distinction between how people should make decisions in theory and how they actually make them in practice. This distinction forms the basis for two complementary approaches to understanding decision-making: normative and descriptive decision theories.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Normative decision theory focuses on how rational agents ought to make decisions to maximize desired outcomes. This approach, rooted in economics and mathematics, provides formal models for optimal decision-making under various conditions. Expected utility theory, for instance, suggests that rational decision-makers should calculate the probability-weighted value of all possible outcomes and select the option with the highest expected utility. Game theory offers strategies for optimal decision-making in competitive situations where outcomes depend on others&amp;rsquo; choices. These normative models provide valuable benchmarks for evaluating decision quality.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title/><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/exploring-human-psyche-and-motivations-through-key-relationships/chapter_3_final/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/exploring-human-psyche-and-motivations-through-key-relationships/chapter_3_final/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="the-concept-of-self-philosophical-and-psychological-perspectives">The Concept of Self: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives&lt;a class="anchor" href="#the-concept-of-self-philosophical-and-psychological-perspectives" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>The question of what constitutes the &amp;ldquo;self&amp;rdquo; has fascinated philosophers, theologians, and scientists for millennia. This fundamental inquiry into human nature—who we are and how we come to be—forms the foundation for understanding motivation, behavior, and the human experience.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>From philosophical perspectives, conceptions of self have evolved dramatically across traditions and eras. Ancient Eastern philosophies often conceptualized the self as illusory (anatta in Buddhism) or as part of a greater cosmic unity (Atman in Hinduism). Western philosophical traditions, from Aristotle to Descartes to contemporary thinkers, have variously located the self in the soul, the thinking mind, or embodied experience. These diverse philosophical frameworks reflect ongoing tension between viewing the self as a stable essence versus seeing it as a dynamic process, as autonomous versus socially constructed, as singular versus multiple.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title/><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/exploring-human-psyche-and-motivations-through-key-relationships/chapter_4_final/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/exploring-human-psyche-and-motivations-through-key-relationships/chapter_4_final/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="the-foundations-of-attachment-theory">The Foundations of Attachment Theory&lt;a class="anchor" href="#the-foundations-of-attachment-theory" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Human connection lies at the core of our existence. From our first breath to our last, relationships shape our experiences, influence our decisions, and form the backdrop against which our lives unfold. But why do we form these powerful bonds? What drives us to seek connection, and how do our earliest relationships influence all those that follow? To answer these questions, we must explore attachment theory—one of psychology&amp;rsquo;s most profound frameworks for understanding human relationships.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title/><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/exploring-human-psyche-and-motivations-through-key-relationships/chapter_5_final/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/exploring-human-psyche-and-motivations-through-key-relationships/chapter_5_final/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="the-individual-in-context-how-social-groups-shape-identity">The Individual in Context: How Social Groups Shape Identity&lt;a class="anchor" href="#the-individual-in-context-how-social-groups-shape-identity" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Humans are inherently social beings. While we experience ourselves as distinct individuals with unique thoughts, feelings, and characteristics, our sense of self develops and exists within social contexts that profoundly shape who we are and how we understand ourselves. This social dimension of selfhood—how group memberships and social identities influence self-concept, behavior, and psychological experience—provides crucial insight into why people do what they do.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title/><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/exploring-human-psyche-and-motivations-through-key-relationships/chapter_6_final/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/exploring-human-psyche-and-motivations-through-key-relationships/chapter_6_final/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="the-psychology-of-love-and-attraction">The Psychology of Love and Attraction&lt;a class="anchor" href="#the-psychology-of-love-and-attraction" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Love—perhaps the most celebrated and mysterious of human experiences—has been the subject of poetry, philosophy, and art throughout human history. Yet only in recent decades has science begun to illuminate the psychological and biological processes that create the powerful experience we call love. Understanding these processes helps explain both the universal patterns and individual variations in how humans form and maintain romantic connections, revealing the behind-the-scenes conflicts and pivotal turning points that shape these profound relationships.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title/><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/exploring-human-psyche-and-motivations-through-key-relationships/chapter_7_final/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/exploring-human-psyche-and-motivations-through-key-relationships/chapter_7_final/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="the-psychology-of-major-life-transitions">The Psychology of Major Life Transitions&lt;a class="anchor" href="#the-psychology-of-major-life-transitions" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Throughout the human journey, certain moments stand as pivotal crossroads—times when life trajectories shift, identities transform, and new possibilities emerge. These turning points, whether chosen or thrust upon us, represent both profound challenges and extraordinary opportunities for psychological growth and development. Behind these visible transitions lie hidden conflicts and internal struggles that shape how individuals navigate these crucial life moments.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Life transitions can be categorized in several ways. Developmental psychologists often distinguish between normative transitions—those expected and experienced by most people at similar life stages—and non-normative transitions, which occur unexpectedly or outside typical timing. Normative transitions include events like leaving home, beginning careers, forming partnerships, becoming parents, and retiring. Non-normative transitions include unexpected job loss, divorce, serious illness, sudden relocation, or untimely death of loved ones. Each type creates different psychological demands and reveals different aspects of human resilience.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title/><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/exploring-human-psyche-and-motivations-through-key-relationships/chapter_8_final/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/exploring-human-psyche-and-motivations-through-key-relationships/chapter_8_final/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="internal-conflicts-and-their-impact-on-decision-making">Internal Conflicts and Their Impact on Decision Making&lt;a class="anchor" href="#internal-conflicts-and-their-impact-on-decision-making" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Deep within the human psyche, powerful forces often pull in opposing directions, creating internal conflicts that profoundly influence our decisions and behaviors. These psychological struggles—between competing values, desires, identities, and fears—shape our choices in ways that may remain partially or completely outside our conscious awareness. These behind-the-scenes conflicts represent some of the most powerful drivers of human behavior, often creating pivotal turning points when they finally surface into awareness.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title/><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/exploring-human-psyche-and-motivations-through-key-relationships/chapter_9_final/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/exploring-human-psyche-and-motivations-through-key-relationships/chapter_9_final/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="the-archetypal-heros-journey-in-personal-development">The Archetypal Hero&amp;rsquo;s Journey in Personal Development&lt;a class="anchor" href="#the-archetypal-heros-journey-in-personal-development" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Deep within the human experience lies a pattern so fundamental that it appears across cultures, throughout history, and within individual lives. This pattern—the hero&amp;rsquo;s journey—represents not just a storytelling framework but a psychological template for human growth and transformation. First articulated by mythologist Joseph Campbell and later developed by numerous psychologists, the hero&amp;rsquo;s journey provides a powerful lens for understanding how people navigate life&amp;rsquo;s challenges and emerge transformed.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title/><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/exploring-human-psyche-and-motivations-through-key-relationships/conclusion_revised/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/exploring-human-psyche-and-motivations-through-key-relationships/conclusion_revised/</guid><description>&lt;p>As we conclude our exploration of human psychology, behavior, and motivation, we return to the fundamental question that initiated our journey: Why do people do what they do? The answers we&amp;rsquo;ve discovered reveal both universal patterns and infinite variations—shared psychological structures expressed through uniquely individual lives shaped by particular circumstances, relationships, and choices.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Throughout this book, we&amp;rsquo;ve examined the complex interplay of forces that drive human behavior—from basic biological needs and decision-making processes to relationship dynamics, pivotal life transitions, and the narratives through which we make meaning of our experiences. This multidimensional investigation has revealed several integrative themes that help us understand the intricate tapestry of human motivation:&lt;/p></description></item><item><title/><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/exploring-human-psyche-and-motivations-through-key-relationships/final_manuscript/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/exploring-human-psyche-and-motivations-through-key-relationships/final_manuscript/</guid><description>&lt;p>&lt;em>A comprehensive exploration of why people do what they do, centered on key relationships and pivotal decisions that shape human journeys and character development.&lt;/em>&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="table-of-contents">Table of Contents&lt;a class="anchor" href="#table-of-contents" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>&lt;strong>Introduction: The Hidden Drivers&lt;/strong>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;strong>Part I: The Foundations of Human Motivation&lt;/strong>&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>Chapter 1: The Architecture of Motivation&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Chapter 2: The Decision-Making Mind&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Chapter 3: The Formation of Self&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;p>&lt;strong>Part II: Relationships as Motivational Forces&lt;/strong>&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>Chapter 4: The Attachment Dance&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Chapter 5: The Social Self&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Chapter 6: Love, Intimacy, and Connection&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;p>&lt;strong>Part III: Pivotal Moments and Life Trajectories&lt;/strong>&lt;/p></description></item><item><title/><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/exploring-human-psyche-and-motivations-through-key-relationships/introduction_revised/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/exploring-human-psyche-and-motivations-through-key-relationships/introduction_revised/</guid><description>&lt;p>What truly drives human behavior? Why do people make the choices they do? What invisible forces shape our decisions, relationships, and life trajectories? These questions have fascinated philosophers, scientists, artists, and ordinary individuals throughout human history. The search for understanding why we do what we do represents one of humanity&amp;rsquo;s oldest and most persistent quests—a journey that continues to yield new insights even as it reveals ever-deeper mysteries.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>In this book, we embark on a comprehensive exploration of human psychology, behavior, and motivation—examining the complex interplay of forces that shape human experience and action. Our investigation will take us from the neurobiological foundations of basic drives to the sophisticated narratives through which we make meaning of our lives. Along the way, we&amp;rsquo;ll explore how relationships shape our development, how pivotal decisions alter our life trajectories, and how behind-the-scenes conflicts influence our choices in ways we rarely recognize consciously.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title/><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/exploring-human-psyche-and-motivations-through-key-relationships/table_of_contents/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/exploring-human-psyche-and-motivations-through-key-relationships/table_of_contents/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="table-of-contents">Table of Contents&lt;a class="anchor" href="#table-of-contents" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>&lt;strong>Introduction: The Hidden Drivers&lt;/strong>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;strong>Part I: The Foundations of Human Motivation&lt;/strong>&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>Chapter 1: The Architecture of Motivation&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Chapter 2: The Decision-Making Mind&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Chapter 3: The Formation of Self&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;p>&lt;strong>Part II: Relationships as Motivational Forces&lt;/strong>&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>Chapter 4: The Attachment Dance&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Chapter 5: The Social Self&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Chapter 6: Love, Intimacy, and Connection&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;p>&lt;strong>Part III: Pivotal Moments and Life Trajectories&lt;/strong>&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>Chapter 7: Turning Points and Life Transitions&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Chapter 8: Behind the Scenes Conflicts&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Chapter 9: The Hero&amp;rsquo;s Journey in Everyday Life&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;p>&lt;strong>Part IV: Mastering Motivational Intelligence&lt;/strong>&lt;/p></description></item><item><title/><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/deep-research-at-home/01_the_research_pipe/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/deep-research-at-home/01_the_research_pipe/</guid><description>&lt;p>Welcome to the Deep Research at Home tutorial! In this first chapter, we&amp;rsquo;ll introduce you to the very heart of this project: something we call &lt;strong>The Research Pipe&lt;/strong>.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Think about the last time you had to research a topic deeply. You probably:&lt;/p>
&lt;ol>
&lt;li>Started with a question.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Searched on Google or another search engine.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Opened promising links in new tabs.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Read through articles, websites, or PDFs.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Tried to find the most relevant information.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Took notes or copied important snippets.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Searched again based on what you just learned.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Repeated steps 3-7 many times.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Organized your notes.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Wrote a report or summary, making sure to cite your sources.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ol>
&lt;p>This can be a slow and often overwhelming process, especially for complex topics with lots of information.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title/><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/deep-research-at-home/02_configuration__valves/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/deep-research-at-home/02_configuration__valves/</guid><description>&lt;p>Welcome back to the Deep Research at Home tutorial! In the last chapter, &lt;a href="01_the_research_pipe.md">The Research Pipe&lt;/a>
, we introduced the core idea: the Research Pipe acts like a conductor, orchestrating different tools to perform complex research for you.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>But what if you want to tell the conductor &lt;em>how&lt;/em> to conduct the symphony? Maybe you want the tempo to be faster, certain instruments to play more softly, or perhaps focus only on string instruments for a while. This is where &lt;strong>Configuration (Valves)&lt;/strong> comes in.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title/><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/deep-research-at-home/03_research_state_management/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/deep-research-at-home/03_research_state_management/</guid><description>&lt;p>Welcome back to the Deep Research at Home tutorial! In the last chapter, we explored &lt;a href="02_configuration__valves.md">Chapter 2: Configuration (Valves)&lt;/a>
, learning how to adjust the Pipe&amp;rsquo;s settings to control &lt;em>how&lt;/em> it performs research.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Now, let&amp;rsquo;s look at something equally important: how the Pipe remembers &lt;em>what&lt;/em> it&amp;rsquo;s doing and &lt;em>what&lt;/em> it has found. Imagine if you were doing a complex research project, but every time you took a break, you lost all your notes, bookmarks, and everything you&amp;rsquo;d learned! You&amp;rsquo;d have to start from scratch every single time. That would be incredibly inefficient and frustrating.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title/><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/deep-research-at-home/04_iterative_research_cycles/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/deep-research-at-home/04_iterative_research_cycles/</guid><description>&lt;p>Welcome back to the Deep Research at Home tutorial! In the previous chapters, we introduced &lt;a href="01_the_research_pipe.md">The Research Pipe&lt;/a>
 as the conductor orchestrating the research process, learned how to customize its behavior using &lt;a href="02_configuration__valves.md">Configuration (Valves)&lt;/a>
, and understood how it keeps track of everything using &lt;a href="03_research_state_management.md">Research State Management&lt;/a>
.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Now, let&amp;rsquo;s dive into the engine room of the Research Pipe – the &lt;strong>Iterative Research Cycles&lt;/strong>. This is where the actual &amp;ldquo;deep&amp;rdquo; research happens, not in one big step, but through repeated cycles of learning and refinement.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title/><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/deep-research-at-home/05_web_search___content_fetching/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/deep-research-at-home/05_web_search___content_fetching/</guid><description>&lt;p>Welcome back to the Deep Research at Home tutorial! In the last chapter, &lt;a href="04_iterative_research_cycles.md">Chapter 4: Iterative Research Cycles&lt;/a>
, we saw how the Research Pipe repeatedly goes through cycles of planning, searching, and learning to build a comprehensive report.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>But how does the Pipe actually &lt;em>get&lt;/em> the information from the vast ocean of the internet during these cycles? That&amp;rsquo;s the job of the &lt;strong>Web Search &amp;amp; Content Fetching&lt;/strong> component.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="what-is-web-search--content-fetching">What is Web Search &amp;amp; Content Fetching?&lt;a class="anchor" href="#what-is-web-search--content-fetching" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Think about doing research yourself. First, you type something into a search engine like Google or DuckDuckGo. This is &lt;strong>Web Search&lt;/strong>. The search engine gives you a list of links (search results), often with a short summary (snippet) for each.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title/><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/deep-research-at-home/06_content_preprocessing/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/deep-research-at-home/06_content_preprocessing/</guid><description>&lt;p>Welcome back to the Deep Research at Home tutorial! In the previous chapter, &lt;a href="05_web_search___content_fetching.md">Chapter 5: Web Search &amp;amp; Content Fetching&lt;/a>
, we learned how the Research Pipe uses search tools to find relevant links on the internet and then fetches the raw content from those links.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Now imagine you&amp;rsquo;ve just downloaded a stack of articles, websites, and PDFs for your research project. Are they perfectly formatted, clean documents ready for you to instantly understand? Probably not! Websites are full of navigation menus, advertisements, social media buttons, scripts, and hidden formatting. PDFs might have headers, footers, page numbers, and weird line breaks.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title/><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/deep-research-at-home/07_semantic_embeddings/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/deep-research-at-home/07_semantic_embeddings/</guid><description>&lt;p>Welcome back to the Deep Research at Home tutorial! In the last chapter, &lt;a href="06_content_preprocessing.md">Chapter 6: Content Preprocessing&lt;/a>
, we learned how the Research Pipe cleans up and prepares the raw text fetched from the internet, making it ready for the AI to understand.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>But even with clean text, how does the AI truly grasp the &lt;em>meaning&lt;/em> of the words? How does it know that &amp;ldquo;car&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;automobile&amp;rdquo; are related, or that a document about &amp;ldquo;climate change impacts&amp;rdquo; is relevant to a query about &amp;ldquo;environmental science effects&amp;rdquo;? Reading words isn&amp;rsquo;t enough; the AI needs a way to understand the concepts and relationships behind them.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title/><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/deep-research-at-home/08_semantic_guidance__dimensions__pdv__trajectory/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/deep-research-at-home/08_semantic_guidance__dimensions__pdv__trajectory/</guid><description>&lt;p>Welcome back to the Deep Research at Home tutorial! In the last chapter, &lt;a href="07_semantic_embeddings.md">Semantic Embeddings&lt;/a>
, we unlocked the AI&amp;rsquo;s ability to understand the &lt;em>meaning&lt;/em> of text by turning words and documents into numerical vectors. This is a powerful tool, but knowing the meaning of individual pieces of information isn&amp;rsquo;t enough for deep research. The AI also needs to understand the &lt;em>overall landscape&lt;/em> of the research topic and decide &lt;em>where to explore next&lt;/em>.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title/><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/deep-research-at-home/09_synthesis___report_generation/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/deep-research-at-home/09_synthesis___report_generation/</guid><description>&lt;p>Welcome back to the Deep Research at Home tutorial! In the previous chapters, we journeyed through the Research Pipe&amp;rsquo;s engine room. We saw how it manages its &lt;a href="03_research_state_management.md">Research State Management&lt;/a>
, goes through &lt;a href="04_iterative_research_cycles.md">Iterative Research Cycles&lt;/a>
, pulls information from the web using &lt;a href="05_web_search___content_fetching.md">Web Search &amp;amp; Content Fetching&lt;/a>
, cleans it up with &lt;a href="06_content_preprocessing.md">Content Preprocessing&lt;/a>
, understands its meaning using &lt;a href="07_semantic_embeddings.md">Semantic Embeddings&lt;/a>
, and intelligently directs the research using &lt;a href="08_semantic_guidance__dimensions__pdv__trajectory.md">Semantic Guidance (Dimensions, PDV, Trajectory)&lt;/a>
.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>After all that digging, collecting, and understanding, you have a massive pile of processed information, potentially covering various sub-topics and dimensions of your query. What&amp;rsquo;s next? You need to write the final report!&lt;/p></description></item><item><title/><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/deep-research-at-home/10_citation_management___verification/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/deep-research-at-home/10_citation_management___verification/</guid><description>&lt;p>Welcome back to the Deep Research at Home tutorial! In the previous chapter, &lt;a href="09_synthesis___report_generation.md">Synthesis &amp;amp; Report Generation&lt;/a>
, we saw how the Research Pipe takes all the information gathered and intelligently combines it into a structured, comprehensive report.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>But imagine reading a research paper that makes lots of claims without saying &lt;em>where&lt;/em> the information came from. You wouldn&amp;rsquo;t trust it, right? In academic work, giving credit to your sources and showing readers where you found information is essential. It&amp;rsquo;s called &lt;strong>academic integrity&lt;/strong>.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title/><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/deep-research-at-home/deep-research-at-home/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/docs/deep-research-at-home/deep-research-at-home/</guid><description>&lt;p>This project, &amp;ldquo;Deep Research At Home&amp;rdquo;, is an advanced AI system designed
to perform comprehensive &lt;strong>research&lt;/strong> on a given query. It acts like an
automated academic, starting with initial searches, refining its focus
through &lt;em>iterative cycles&lt;/em> based on discovered information and user feedback,
and finally generating a detailed &lt;strong>report&lt;/strong> complete with verified &lt;em>citations&lt;/em>.
It uses sophisticated techniques like &lt;strong>semantic embeddings&lt;/strong> and dimensional
analysis to understand the research landscape and navigate effectively.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>AgenticPipelineCreator</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/agenticpipelinecreator/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/agenticpipelinecreator/</guid><description>&lt;p>A project for creating and managing agentic pipelines.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Theblackcat98/AgenticPipelineCreator" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">View on GitHub&lt;/a>
&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>AnyImage-to-ICO</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/anyimage-to-ico/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/anyimage-to-ico/</guid><description>&lt;p>KISS batch script to easily convert PNG, GIF, BMP, SVG, or JPG images to multi-resolution ICO files using ImageMagick.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>The GitHub repository is no longer public, so there is nothing to link to; this entry is the surviving description.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>ASCII-Everything</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/ascii-everything/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/ascii-everything/</guid><description>&lt;p>A collection of Python and JavaScript tools and programs made to play with the terminal.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Theblackcat98/ASCII-Everything" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">View on GitHub&lt;/a>
&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Chapter 1</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/exploring-human-psyche-and-motivations-through-key-relationships/chapter_1_final/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/blog/exploring-human-psyche-and-motivations-through-key-relationships/chapter_1_final/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="historical-perspectives-on-human-motivation">Historical Perspectives on Human Motivation&lt;a class="anchor" href="#historical-perspectives-on-human-motivation" aria-label="Link to this section">#&lt;/a>&lt;/h2>&lt;p>Throughout history, philosophers, scientists, and scholars have grappled with a fundamental question: What drives human behavior? From ancient Greek philosophers to modern psychologists, the quest to understand human motivation has evolved dramatically, reflecting changing views of human nature and consciousness.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>In ancient times, Aristotle proposed that all human actions aim toward some good, with happiness (eudaimonia) being the ultimate goal. This teleological view suggested that humans are naturally drawn toward fulfillment and excellence. Centuries later, during the Enlightenment, philosophers like Thomas Hobbes argued that humans are primarily motivated by self-interest and the avoidance of pain, while others like Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed in more benevolent natural inclinations.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>CL-AI</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/cl-ai/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/cl-ai/</guid><description>&lt;p>A command-line AI tool.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Theblackcat98/CL-AI" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">View on GitHub&lt;/a>
&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>image-to-stl</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/image-to-stl/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/image-to-stl/</guid><description>&lt;p>Convert any image to STL in seconds from the command line using arguments.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Theblackcat98/image-to-stl" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">View on GitHub&lt;/a>
&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>mermaidCLI</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/mermaidcli/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/mermaidcli/</guid><description>&lt;p>CLI-oriented Mermaid tooling.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Theblackcat98/mermaidCLI" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">View on GitHub&lt;/a>
&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Online-Tools</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/online-tools/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/online-tools/</guid><description>&lt;p>A collection of browser-based online tools.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://theblackcat98.github.io/Online-Tools/" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Open the live tools&lt;/a>
 — hash and checksum calculators, Base32/Base58/Base64, HTML and URL encoding, and image converters, plus two larger apps:&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://theblackcat98.github.io/Online-Tools/color-token-workshop.html" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Color Token Workshop&lt;/a>
 — OKLCH palette builder with WCAG 2.1 and APCA contrast checks and CSS/JSON export.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://theblackcat98.github.io/Online-Tools/mermaid-viewer.html" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mermaid Viewer&lt;/a>
 — render Mermaid diagrams with pan and zoom, and export SVG or PNG.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Theblackcat98/Online-Tools" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">View on GitHub&lt;/a>
&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>opencode-workflow</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/opencode-workflow/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/opencode-workflow/</guid><description>&lt;p>A thin engineering-operating layer on top of opencode: delegate feature-level objectives to an agent team with lead orchestration plus planner, coder, reviewer, and researcher subagents.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Theblackcat98/opencode-workflow" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">View on GitHub&lt;/a>
&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>quickdash</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/quickdash/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/quickdash/</guid><description>&lt;p>A lightweight JavaScript project for quickly building or using dashboards.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>The GitHub repository is no longer public, so there is nothing to link to; this entry is the surviving description.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>StickyBundles</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/stickybundles/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/stickybundles/</guid><description>&lt;p>A JavaScript project centered around sticky bundles.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>The GitHub repository is no longer public, so there is nothing to link to; this entry is the surviving description.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>svg-to-stl</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/svg-to-stl/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/svg-to-stl/</guid><description>&lt;p>Turn 2-dimensional SVG paths into 3-dimensional STL meshes.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>The GitHub repository is no longer public, so there is nothing to link to; this entry is the surviving description.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>termux-ui</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/termux-ui/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/termux-ui/</guid><description>&lt;p>Single-binary TUI for Termux: settings, extra keys, themes, fonts, shell setup, and a front-end to core-termux.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Theblackcat98/termux-ui" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">View on GitHub&lt;/a>
&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Text-Adventure-TUI</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/text-adventure-tui/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/text-adventure-tui/</guid><description>&lt;p>A text-based adventure game with a terminal user interface.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Theblackcat98/Text-Adventure-TUI" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">View on GitHub&lt;/a>
&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>The BlackCat</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/theblackcat/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/theblackcat/</guid><description>&lt;p>The BlackCat is a Git-native personal knowledge library: an archive for bookmarks, research, notes, projects, and useful things, maintained with Markdown, Git, Hugo, and agents.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Theblackcat98/TheBlackCat" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">View on GitHub&lt;/a>
&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>visual-ml</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/visual-ml/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/visual-ml/</guid><description>&lt;p>Experiments with machine learning, neural networks, and vision.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Theblackcat98/visual-ml" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">View on GitHub&lt;/a>
&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>WordPress-Scrape</title><link>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/wordpress-scrape/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://theblackcat98.github.io/TheBlackCat/projects/wordpress-scrape/</guid><description>&lt;p>A project for scraping WordPress sites and extracting their content.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Theblackcat98/WordPress-Scrape" class="ext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">View on GitHub&lt;/a>
&lt;/p></description></item></channel></rss>