Richard's Workbench — Blog

Notes, experiments, and things still being figured out.

Emails from AI

24 October 2026 — Richard Hall

I’ve had my first email from a self-identified AI agent. It feels weird.

Tags: ai

My life in plain text: calendar.txt

21 October 2026 — Richard Hall

For some time I’ve been trying to reduce my reliance on the tools offered by google. Not that there’s anything wrong with the tools. Quite the opposite. Mail, calendar, drive, docs – they all work really well. I’m just not comfortable with how reliant I am on them. It feels a bit “eggs in one basket”, if you know what I mean. Besides, google is not above shutting off services it no longer wants to support. It might be highly unlikely that this ignoble fate will befall gmail or google docs, but still…

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Still testing

20 October 2026 — Richard Hall

I made a small modification to the BashBlog script.
If this posts, I haven’t broken it.

Tags: testing, bashblog

Second post

20 October 2026 — Richard Hall

This is to check how we get on with Markdown. bold text, for example. How about a link? Markdown Guide

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Welcome to the Workbench

19 October 2026 — Richard Hall

This is the first post on my new blog.

I’m experimenting with Bashblog, a simple blogging system that generates static HTML pages.

If you’re reading this, it worked!

Tags: testing, workbench