As I prepare to start looking for new employment, I needed to clean up my Github repos. This involves cleaning out a LOT of code that turns out to be “useless”.

Per Dictionary.com, pruning is “the act or practice of getting rid of undesirable elements or excess.” And that is exactly what I did. The ones that survived have shipped (CookieTrap), real work related items, or current tech. Going forward, I am making a conscious effort to make more relevant and/or complete demonstrations of what I dig into. Hopefully, pruning will not be such an undertaking next time!

Back to getting to my future… A significant portion of the items that were pruned are old, incomplete, or irrelevant. After multiple reviews and discussions with Claude, the roster was reduced from 49 to 12 at the time of this writing. The ones that did not make the cut were deleted or set to private.

While I have been prolific about poking around and trying different things, I have been negligent in documenting interesting things I touch. When I say “touch”, I am not purporting to have mastered it. Let’s say, “exposed” myself to many things. For example, I have OpenClaw running on an M1 mac mini, and no blog post. It is not an impressive install, because the mini is 8GB of RAM. Full complication disclosure, the LLM it is using exists on a 32GB M4, connected by ethernet. Technically, it works, but is slow and often inconsistent due to LLM timeout. AKA, I need a more powerful machine!!!

Even though I do not have a list of degrees that present a formal education, I hope my endeavors represent my desire to keep learning and moving forward.

Looking back on this post, maybe I need to become more verbose. They tend to be pretty short. They are longer when there are instructions involved. Teh logical conclusion is -> instructions for everything!