Copasetic Flow

CW Simon: Simon, but, you know, for Morse code Remember Simon from the ’90s? The handheld game with four buttons that played a sequence you had to copy back from memory? Each round added one more step, and you kept going until you finally made a mistake. KO6BTY built a phone game, Project TouCans CW Simon , using Gas Town that does the same thing, but for Morse code. Part of the inspiration for CW Simon was W1REX telling KO6BTY and I that he’d worked on Simon 2. You can hear more about that on Rex’s episode on HRWB. Why CW Simon Exists KO6BTY found that keying CW was helping her learn Morse more quickly, but she and I didn't always have enough time to get on the air together. CW Simon grew out of that. It is a quick way to get more sending practice in, one short round at a time. CW Simon gives you a way to spend more time sending, not just listening. Long Island CW Club points out: “At least a quarter of practice should be sending.” How CW Simo...

 I asked ChatGPT 5.4 Thinking to write some JSON-LD text to summarize a blog post this morning along with alt text for the posts images and got this When I asked it to file a but report on itself, I didn't really expect it to succeed, but I didn't expect more oaicite index listings for the proposed issue description. (Kinda obviously, I also haven't had enough coffee yet :) Anyone else seeing this? Happenings of Interest   (radio and nature) Where was our skip zone at San Bruno? For example. QSO Log Table containing QSOs in text Callsign rx RST tx RST Time (GMT) Frequency KBTEST 539 559 16:42 14058.3 kHz (Add callsigns as post tags?) Unschooling Highlights POTA tx QSL: QSL rx album: References POTA ( Parks on the Air ) Local Ionograms https://lgdc.uml.edu/common/DIDBYearListForStation?ursiCode=PA836 (for example) Videos Demo

 Just a brief note to mention that when I was fighting Codex CLI earlier this week to call the OpenAI Whisper API , what was really going on was that Codex CLI was sandboxed. ChatGPT helped me modify the script I was creating so that the script itself punched through the sandbox by clearing the proxies that had been setup to keep Codex CLI in the secondbox. It's interesting that ChatGPT didn't just tell me to add the --yolo argument to my codex cli command line. I wonder if that's part of its guardrails, or if ChatGPT doesn't know about the arguments to Codex CLI yet through training. I saw similar things happen when  ChatKit was announced. ChatGPT wasn't quite sure what it was on the day of the announcement. The good new is that I'm now calling APIs without any shenanigans because I learned to simply add '--yolo' the following day. That argument comes with its own set of risks, but I'm ok with those for the moment.

I finally got Beads working on Windows… sort of. The trick? I used WSL. I hadn’t tried to do serious work on Windows in quite a while, so I was genuinely surprised to discover that WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) just worked. I’d been struggling with Beads— a system that helps to automate workflows for LLM agents by essentially creating revision controlled context for them —for several days. Some of the things Beads wanted simply weren’t available on Windows. The big one was tmux (which I also needed for Gastown). I spent about three days fighting with that. Then I finally took the plunge and went all-in on WSL. And… it just worked. It worked especially well combined with OpenAI Codex. From WSL/Linux, I can fire up Codex CLI and tell it to install things for me. No worrying about which Windows installer to use. No chasing down extra packages. Everything just works. Need ffmpeg and Gimp ? You need merely ask.. I did have to start Codex CLI with: codex --yolo Then, with basic sudo ...

When Port 9 Ate My Transcript When Port 9 Ate My Transcript A small debugging story about proxies, Codex CLI, and why localhost isn’t always your friend. CopaseticFlow field notes WinError 10061 Codex CLI + Whisper Environment gremlins There’s a particular kind of bug that feels like someone's been messing with your network stack again. You run a script from cmd.exe . It works. You run the exact same script from Codex CLI. It stops with: [WinError 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it FFmpeg happily splits the audio. The Whisper API call dies immediately. No 401. No timeout. Just an instant refusal. Translation: that’s not an API error. That’s a socket being rejected. ...

 I had dreams of activating the US-1178 each of the three days I planned on being there. I didn't get it done. Oh, but the other stuff I did do! Strap in. I may have to split this into a few different posts because there's so much stuff!  I documented the updated transit route from furthest away San Francisco BART station to Pantoll Campground I tested Starlink—a system I worked on a few years ago—with regard to doing my new work while out camping (how meta ☺️) I hiked the Dipsea Trail for the first time in over a year. Ouch. I camped for two nights. I'd hoped to play radios from four different locations in three different parks. I wound up playing radios from two different locations in one park, the one I was camping in,  Mount Tamalpais State Park . Here's a view of the campsite and its very adjacent hiking trail. And here's how the radio was installed at the campsite It's in the TouCans and a Stick configuration with its carbon fiber mast vertical whip . No...