Federated services are the only escape from corporate platforms and lonely self-hosting. ActivityPub works. Git forges are next. AI just made protocols cheap enough to iterate on.
dailyprog needs a new puzzle every day. I wrote the first few drafts by hand, then built a generator that writes them with an LLM and validates the output against real sandbox execution. The generator works, but it still needs someone to run it. Pick a pattern, kick off the script, review the result, commit. Fifteen minutes on a good day. More if the model gets stuck in a repair loop and I need to nudge it.