Building a Personal Daemon: Why the Manual Pipeline Lasted One Day

"The personal daemon was a semi-autonomous piece of software that lived in your system and acted as your agent, going out into the Cloud to do things for you." — Neal Stephenson, Fall, or Dodge in Hell I have been quietly drowning in feeds for years. Not in a productive way — in the "I have 47 tabs open and three of them are arXiv" way. AI research, cloud infrastructure, smart-grid news. Each domain moves fast enough on its own; together they generate more credible signal than any one human can absorb. ...

October 5, 2025