Add GoatCounter analytics, Miniflux, and update CLAUDE.md
- Add self-hosted GoatCounter via systemd binary service (stats.monotrope.au) - Add Miniflux RSS reader via Docker Compose (reader.monotrope.au) - Extend Ansible playbook with goatcounter and miniflux tags; all provisioning is idempotent - Add Caddy reverse proxy blocks for both new services - Inject GoatCounter script in baseof.html (production builds only) - Add goatcounter and miniflux Makefile targets - Rewrite CLAUDE.md to reflect actual project state Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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title: About
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Monotrope is a play on the idea of [monotropism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotropism). I created this site as an experiment in writing regularly, and also in trying to own things instead of putting them on corporate platforms. Monotropism relates to the autistic experience, but I also just like the idea of deep singular focus and flow states. Modern work, especially with the use of AI, is increasingly fragmented and alienating.
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I read across all genres, and post my reviews here because I want to own them.
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I live on Djadjawurrung and Taungurong land.
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This is the first post on Monotrope. More to come.
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This is the first post on Monotrope. My intent is to write here as frequently as possible. In part this is to practice the craft of writing directly, and in part it is to ensure I own the stuff I'm writing.
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title: "Thoughts on AI, circa April 2026"
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Part of the reason I wanted to make this site is to practice writing more, and in part that's because the writing I do at work (project plans, technical outlines, etc.) are increasingly written with the help of AI.
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This opens up a can of worms, of which some I will attempt to dissect here. A disclaimer: I don't think my views on this topic are currently ideologically consistent. Broadly I think this is ok, and I think with nascent and rapidly changing areas it's valuable to be able to hold opposing views in your mind for awhile. As the title of the post indicates, these thoughts are also current as of mid-April 2026, and are very likely to change dramatically.
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Firstly, I think AI is, in many contexts, useful. I have spent a bit of time on Bluesky and a lot of anti-AI sentiment there revolves around "AI is dumb, it makes stuff up, no one actually gets value from it." As someone who works in software it is incredibly obvious to me that AI _for coding_ is increidbly useful if you know what you're doing. But I think AI can also be genuinely useful for writing, researching, and ideating. Some of the "AI is not useful" critique will be rooted in a view of AI that is a year or more out of date. "Asking ChatGPT for something instead of Googling for a simple answer" _might have been_ dumb when dealing with early versions of the models that couldn't use tools or search the web, but an AI that can run multiple web searches and consolidate the results is a real value-add, especially when you're not wading through pages of ads and fluff in the search results.
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However, AI in the workplace has not been all sunshine and rainbows. The teams are writing code more quickly, routine work like version upgrades is _much_ quicker, and my personal Claude/Obsidian setup has been good for my own context and productivity. But holy shit the documents. You get out of a meeting where someone takes an action to write a plan and BAM! 7 minutes later they've published a detailed, polished plan that you have to read.
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title: "The Compound"
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book_author: "Aisling Rawle"
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date: 2026-03-01
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date_read: "March 2026"
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rating: 4
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tags: ["dystopia", "satire"]
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I liked this book _a lot_. I'm giving it 4 stars because I'm not sure I can fully decipher what it was trying to say, or if it was trying to say anything.
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The pitch is "Love Island meets Lord of the Flies", and that probably about sums it up. Its setting is a realtiy TV show in a very ambiguous future dystopia (there are references to "the wars", but really we get no detail of the world outside the show).
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In a sense maybe it's a bit of a mess, it's a satire but it's not obvious exactly what it's satirising. There's an ambient theme of consumerism and late-stage capitalism, but it's never really a plot point, it's just there. It doesn't really make you think so much as make you vaguely uneasy. As an example, the contestants on the show get rewards for completing tasks, and when they get the reward they go to the camera and thank the brand that provided the reward. Nothing else happens about this, and the narrator (whose name is Lilly) doesn't really reflect on it much either. But it creates this sense of the absurd that contrasts with the darkness of what's going on between the characters.
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The narrator is an interesting point of view as well, because she's deliberately written as a bit dumb, which isn't something I've encountered before in a first person narrative.
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Most of the time all of the internal monologue just relates to the immediate situation in the compound, but there are a small number of times when we get a bit more reflection. There's a bit I highlighted where Lilly talks about dreading leaving the show and going home, and it ends with:
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> What did it matter to wake up at the same time every morning and wear the same clothes and try to eat more protein but less sugar, when an earthquake or a tsunami or a bomb might end it all at any minute? Or maybe we would all continue to boil, slowly but surely, in the mess that we pretended was an acceptable place to live.
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I loved the writing style: tight pace, not overly flowery, but it had this creeping sense of unease or dread that made me want to keep reading, even when not much was happening. I haven't read that many thriller type books but I think this is something I really enjoy, when something manages to be a page turner without relying on plot twists or crazy stuff happening all the time.
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Didn't overstay its welcome, the ending was ambiguous and open ended but I thought it was everything it needed to be.
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In writing this I've _very nearly_ convinced myself to bump it up to five stars. Maybe I'll come back to this one.
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