Reading Time: 2 minutesThere’s been a huge amount of momentum recently around OpenClaw / ClawBot-style agent systems. A lot of people are experimenting with agents, subagents, and skills.
I’ve been exploring that ecosystem as well, but from a slightly different angle. Instead of building a generic AI assistant, I’ve been focusing on something more personal.
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minuteCheck out https://ai-signal.ericblue.com/ Earlier this week I shared a small local first pipeline I
built to help me step back from the constant flood of AI news and find actual signal. I decided to
take it one step further. I used to blog heavily from 2004 to 2012, and for a while experimented with
LifeStreaming…
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My AI Signal is live!
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minutesOver the last couple of weekends, I ran into a problem that had been quietly bothering me for a
while. I’ve used ChatGPT heavily for years. Over time, it accumulated a lot of useful context: how I
work, what I’m building, preferences, projects, and long-running threads that make future
conversations faster and more relevant. Recently,…
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Memspan.ai: Portable Memory for LLMs
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minutesThis week marks the 20th anniversary of when I first started writing online and published my
first blog post. In 2010, I released my first open-source project: an unofficial Fitbit API
written in Perl. At the time, I had no grand vision—just curiosity and a desire to document my
thoughts and pursue my passion across…
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20 Years of Blogging and Coding: Reflections on an Unexpected Journey
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minutesFor the past month, I’ve been researching more on the Tonalism style of art. This was a very
popular style of art in the early-mid 1800s to early 1900s before Impressionism became the rage. I
really like the mood / atmosphere, and darker color themes and stories you can tell with light. I
particularly like…
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Artwork Focus: Tonalism
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minutesOverview For me, tracking data related to my overall health & fitness has been a long and
amazing journey; starting off almost a decade ago in 2009 with my Total Recall post
(https://eric-blue.com/2009/10/18/total-recall/), my idea on fitness tracking after waking up from
a dream
(https://eric-blue.com/2010/08/14/fitness-tracking-platform-personal-informatics-for-fitness/) and
ultimately building a health & fitness data aggregation company…
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10 Improvements I’ve Made As A Result Of Being Immersed In The Quantified Self
Movement
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minutesAnalyze artwork using GPT Vision and LLM This past weekend I spent time diving deeper into
OpenAI’s GPT-4 Vision capabilities. I figured this would be a good excuse to blend my interests in
software development, AI/LLMs, and artwork. I wanted to see how quickly and effectively GPT-4V
(_gpt-4-1106-vision-preview_) could analyze artwork given an uploaded image.…
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Art Analyzer
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minuteIt’s been quite a while since I’ve blogged, or published an open source project! With ChatGPT
taking the world by storm, and finding myself using it daily, I decided to do something I’ve done
before – opening up an SMS interface using Twilio. When you’re on the go and just need a quick
interaction, nothing…
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ChatGPT-Twilio-Java : Enabling communication with ChatGPT over SMS
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minutesLet me start by saying, where in the world does time fly?! Getting a new personal website refresh
done and porting over hundreds of blog posts from the last 15 years was long overdue – 5 years by
my count. So, better late than never! Blogging seems to be a thing of the past for…
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Blogging in 2019? Looking Forward and a 15-Year Retrospective
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minuteIt’s been quite a while since I’ve regularly written a blog post. I’m hoping to change that
after the New Year and start writing regularly again as I have a lot to share, and much has been
happening since the blog has been active. With that in mind, my health & fitness tech startup
– ActiveOS…
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Announcing ActiveOS
