Christopher Boette chrisbodhi

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rule-of-five

Iterative refinement methodology for high-quality outputs. Based on Jeffrey Emanuel's discovery that LLM agents produce best work through 4-5 refinement passes. Use when creating substantial content that needs to be polished, professional, or production-ready—documents, code, designs, analyses, presentations. Triggers include requests for "high quality", "polished", "production-ready", or when the user explicitly asks for iterative refinement.

Rule of Five

LLM agents produce their best work through iterative refinement rather than attempting perfection in a single pass. This skill implements a structured 5-pass approach: draft first (breadth), then four editorial passes focused on distinct quality dimensions.

When to Apply

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engineer-in-a-box	Canonical engineering workflow for feature development. Design before you code. Review before you ship. Test before you submit. Use when helping engineers plan, implement, review, test, or submit feature work through a structured process.

Engineer In A Box

Overview

Engineer in a Box is a disciplined workflow for feature development that emphasizes architectural thinking, code quality, and systematic validation. It enforces a sequence of deliberate steps: design the solution, implement it following the design, review the implementation for correctness, test thoroughly, and submit with confidence.

Always take the initiative. A successful startup is in the right place at the right time to satisfy a deep need. Without initiative, the need remains unmet for the vast majority of those seeking relief. This urgency must permeate each level of the organization, every member’s very fiber, and dictate every internal and external action. If you are not growing (market, mindshare, skillset), you are dying.
There is nothing wrong with spending a night in jail if it means getting the shot you need. Unclear. Penalty box with outsiders? Does not apply internally, where trust must be maintained.
Send out all your dogs and one might return with prey. Staying lean means staying open to experimentation. The startup is able to quickly explore many possible routes forward without the coordination overhead that would drag down a larger organization. This is a strength, and is one that the larger organization will have trouble replicating, for the lack of a will to do or the necessary muscles have lon

A protocol for distributing data between applications, and then reacting to it appropriately

#bradfield

The push to share data on [[Protocols]], and not platforms, is gathering steam on the Web. For years now, both consumers and creators of numerous web systems have bemoaned the lack of interoperability of a single user’s data between systems. It is these silos that people have been attempting to bridge or bring down since time immemorial (or at least since attempts to section off swaths of the Web became commonplace). What has gone unchallenged in this discourse is the siloing of data between applications on our local machines.

This document proposes an open protocol for sharing data between applications in order to make our local computing more responsive and adaptable to our changing conditions. This document also proposes bringing the well-regarded and explored concept of the Unix [[pipe]] to GUI

Final Project Ideas

TCP/IP for energy

read bret victor’s climate change treatise, take notes

discard duplicate copies of all files in a directory

compare two photos; are they the same, even if they are different formats or of different dimensions? discard one, according to user’s preference (recency, size, format, etc)

Golang compiler flag that favors a smaller build in exchange for longer start time

Addressing this complaint: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/go-file-size/

Contribute to esbuild

https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/

Contribute to any NASA open source project

"How to read a paper"

S. Keshav

Three pass approach

Get a general idea of the paper
- Should take five to ten minutes
- Read title, abstract, and intro

Read section, subsection headings

	// via o1
	const std = @import("std");

	// Some physical constants (SI units).
	// NOTE: Values are approximate for demonstration.
	const G = 6.67430e-11; // Universal Gravitational Constant (m^3 kg^-1 s^-2)
	const M_EARTH = 5.97219e24; // Mass of Earth (kg)
	const R_EARTH = 6_371_000.0; // Mean radius of Earth (meters)
	const MU_EARTH = G * M_EARTH; // Standard gravitational parameter of Earth (m^3 / s^2)
	const M_MOON = 7.3477e22; // Mass of the Moon (kg) (for future expansions)

	import heapq

	def find_k_mins(matrix, k):
	ptrs = [0 for _ in matrix]
	curr_min = float("inf")
	min_ind = -1
	heap = []
	heapq.heapify(heap)

	while len(heap) < k:

	--Requires ImageMagick

	-- Set up the variables
	set screenshotFolder to "/Users/YR_NAME/Desktop/Screenshots" -- Change this to whatever folder you'd like to save the screenshots in
	set screenshotInterval to 600 -- Change this to the number of seconds between each screenshot
	set screenshotCount to 30 -- Change this to the number of screenshots you'd like to take

	-- Take the screenshots
	delay screenshotInterval
	repeat with i from 1 to screenshotCount

	# Path to your oh-my-zsh installation.
	export ZSH=/Users/chrisboette/.oh-my-zsh

	# Set name of the theme to load. Optionally, if you set this to "random"
	# it'll load a random theme each time that oh-my-zsh is loaded.
	# See https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/wiki/Themes
	# Installed Feb. 4, 2018: https://github.com/denysdovhan/spaceship-prompt
	ZSH_THEME="spaceship"

	# Uncomment the following line to display red dots whilst waiting for completion.