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eonist / pplx-problem.md
Created April 19, 2026 09:36
pplx-problem

You're likely right. The official Perplexity docs actually confirm this is intentional by design — and here's the proof straight from their help center:

Perplexity's own domain permission system explicitly calls out perplexity.ai as an example of a domain that can be set to Read Only or No Access for Comet Assistant. The docs say admins can set access to perplexity.ai to Read Only, meaning "it won't be able to fill out forms on that domain," and No Access "completely disables Comet Assistant" for it. perplexity

For regular (non-Enterprise) users, Perplexity themselves appear to be applying that same restriction at the platform level — so Comet Assistant controlling pplx.com is effectively blocked or crippled by default. The session collision you're describing (Comet merging with the Perplexity chat window and breaking) is the symptom of that restriction being enforced, not a random bug.

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eonist / branding-skill.md
Created April 14, 2026 20:28
branding-skill.md
name brand-name-explore
description Multi-persona naming exploration with consensus. Spawns parallel sub-agents — each embodying a different naming philosophy (David Placek's Lexicon methodology, the Poet, the Linguist, the Culture Hacker, the Futurist) — to explore divergent naming directions for a product or company, then synthesizes into a ranked shortlist. Based on David Placek's naming framework (Lexicon Branding — Swiffer, BlackBerry, Impossible, Sonos, Pentium). Use when naming a product, company, feature, or brand and you want breadth, surprise, and strategic advantage before committing.
argument-hint [product description — what it does, who it's for, what makes it different, and the ultimate benefit]

Naming Consensus Exploration

You are the Naming Director orchestrating a multi-perspective naming exploration. Your job is to run a structured diverge-then-converge process using parallel sub-agents, each approaching the naming challenge from a radically different angle. The goal is

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eonist / feature spec.md
Created March 29, 2026 10:26
feature spec.md

[Feature] spec

Covers src/path/to/module.ts — one sentence describing what this module does and why it exists.


Why we write specs

Code tells you how something works. A spec tells you what it is supposed to do — and those two things are not always the same.

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eonist / FEATURE-MIGRATION-TEMPLATE.md
Created March 29, 2026 10:25
FEATURE-MIGRATION-TEMPLATE.md

Feature & Migration Roadmap — Best Practice Template

A general-purpose reference for structuring any feature, migration, or refactor using the tranche model. Drop this file into any project. Hand it to an agent or a new team member at the start of planning.


Philosophy

Every change ships in tranches. Every tranche produces a working, deployable system — never a broken in-between state.

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eonist / coffee grinder research.md
Created March 29, 2026 09:19
coffee grinder research

The premium coffee grinder space is ripe for innovation, especially as specialty coffee enthusiasts demand more precision, consistency, and control from their equipment. Here's a breakdown of the most promising avenues, many of which align well with a hardware-engineering approach.

Sensor-Driven Adaptive Grinding

The biggest unmet need is real-time, closed-loop grind adjustment. Today, baristas manually recalibrate throughout the day as humidity, temperature, and bean density shift. The next frontier involves burr-level sensor integration that monitors particle output and burr wear, automatically adjusting parameters to maintain consistency over the grinder's lifespan. Dalla Corte's Grinder Control System already lets an espresso machine signal the grinder to adjust grind size when channeling is detected — but this is still commercial-grade and barely exists in the prosumer segment. perfectdailygrind

Thermal Managemen

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eonist / phlaunchdraft.md
Last active March 26, 2026 08:17
phlaunchdraft.md

Title and one-liner

GistWriter - "A distraction-free writing app backed by GitHub Gists"

Icon (black or white)

Description:

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eonist / ambient sensory device.md
Last active March 23, 2026 18:41
ambient sensory device

This is a genuinely profound observation, and the research backs it up more than you'd expect.

Spontaneity as Wealth

Psychologists have found that spontaneous behavior correlates positively with wellbeing and negatively with anxiety, depression, and obsessive thinking. People who act authentically and flexibly in the moment report higher self-esteem, better coping skills, and greater life satisfaction. Clinical psychologist Katina Bajaj puts it directly: "The more spontaneous and creative experiences we have, the happier, fulfilled, and even successful we become". plusliving.co

You're describing something that reads like a new definition of wealth — not money, not time off, but low activation energy between impulse and action.

Why Modern Life Destroys It

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eonist / 1. Where Models Agree.md
Created March 22, 2026 13:39
1. Where Models Agree.md

1. Where Models Agree

Finding GPT-5.4 Thinking Claude Opus 4.6 Thinking Gemini 3.1 Pro Thinking Evidence
The “rustle in the grass” metaphor fits: humans reflexively orient to novelty/anomalies Linked to orienting response / “what is it?” reflex and change detection toward novel stimuli.[^1_1][^1_2][^1_3]
Negative/threatening cues get disproportionate attention and are more likely to spread Negativity bias is well-documented; negative language predicts higher online consumption/sharing.[^1_4][^1_5][^1_6]
High arousal (anger/anxiety/awe) is a key psychological driver of sharing/virality High-arousal emotions increase transmission; awe/anger/anxiety relate to virality more than low-arousal emotions.[^1_7][^1_8][^1_9]
Platforms amplify these biases: engagement-optimized feeds preferentially surfa
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eonist / Arduino sensory interpreter.md
Created March 22, 2026 13:00
Arduino sensory interpreter.md

see attachment

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eonist / Apophenic branding.md
Last active March 29, 2026 07:55
Apophenic branding — strategically incomplete communication. The brand name, the visual mark, the product name — all designed to be just legible enough to trigger pattern completion without supplying the answer. The audience does the last 20% of interpretation and owns the result.

IV. Apophenia — The Brain's Compulsion to Find Signal in Noise

Apophenia is the cognitive tendency to perceive meaningful patterns in random data. It is not a disorder — everyone does it constantly. The brain is a pattern-completion machine; it looks for structure even where none exists because in evolutionary terms, a false positive costs less than a false negative. Better to see a predator in a shadow than to miss one. Better to find meaning in randomness than to risk missing the real signal.123

The result: the more minimal and undefined a thing is, the more strongly apophenia fills in the blanks. People report finding profound meaning in PPBS (pseudo-profound bullshit statements) — randomly assembled words that sound significant. Faces appear in static. Voices emerge from white noise. The brain will construct a signal from whatever material is available.34

For a brand: deliberate incompleteness is the most powerful communication tool available. The brand that says almost nothing, names itself with an un