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Topics are Tags are Topics

tags arent great until they are

Bram Adams

31 Aug 2025 — 3 min read

YCB

Cache

I added the cache for fetching entries I mentioned in Upstream Thinking, and now I'm testing on my device. This is part of my overall effort to make the app feel snappier from page to page, and making the task of synthesis more enjoyable. The modern Internet user needs speed to work, but I can't help but feel we lost collective patience from the lowered expectations of the Dial Up era.

Audio Storage

The transcription workflow still isn't allowing the m4a to call the API endpoint, and I have no clue why.

Local File

Playing around with a local file spec for a commonbase. Still very nascent, but I think an offline file type is eventually where I'm driving to, in parallel to the work on the main YCB.

cbase init my.cbase --dim 384 --model bge-small-en-v1.5
cbase add my.cbase "first atomic entry" --meta '{"tags":["intro"]}'
cbase import-image my.cbase --url https://example.com/img.png
cbase import-video my.cbase ./clip.mp4 --every 6
cbase search my.cbase --text intro --k 10
cbase export-csv my.cbase out.csv

Tags and Topics

I'm against tags in general, but topics/tags are in the line of fire of my more compute per row efforts, so there ya go I guess.

If there's a silver lining here, it's that it taught me that GPT Vision is basically censoring character names, which is easily uncovered with a two step prompt.

Creative Coding

I'm thinking about how to be a little bit more meta about my Claude Code usage, specifically for creative coding open-source projects. I'd like to get into a rhythm where I can start publishing more code in general that isn't YCB related. I was thinking that I could get back into creative coding, and a cool place to start would be using Claude Code. My friend Russ makes a ton of things using Claude Artifacts, and he has a bunch of those floating around the internet.

So maybe that's a place that I'll get started with looking and then go from there. But I'm kind of envisioning something that I can consistently post here and to GitHub with just creative sketches and studies and different ideas to pursue.