TheMarkPenney
Mark Penney

Back to work on this one
Looks a little flat still - time to mix up some paint and get after it.
#artstr #painting #studio #artist #art
https://i.nostr.build/xDiYKpwNDAvLPM9LGTRMsD.jpg

2026-09-13 18:51:50 UTC

Happy to be in good company.
One the cool parts of being an artist is showing with other artists you know and appreciate
Good friends like artist Kelly Deakin, Marla Thirsk along with Katsumi Kimoto , at Kimoto Gallery in Ucluelet
#artstr #artist #gallery #art #painting
https://i.nostr.build/YNi87leUx9eHYrxymStQnL.jpg

2026-09-08 05:56:28 UTC

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Was able to fund wallet , couldn’t seem to connect external wallet. Onward 👍

2026-09-08 05:48:28 UTC

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Try it now.
themarkpenney@walletofsatoshi.com

2026-09-08 05:45:15 UTC

Years ago I started painting this way. It’s evolved a little, but it’s basically the same elements:
Strong composition.
Unembellished colour.
Purposeful edge content.
Restricted techniques.
Referential perspectives.
No impasto, no sheen.
This one is from a decade ago. Looking at it now, I can see what I was already refusing to do - no fancy brushmarks, no decorative colour, no lazy edges. The painting has a feeling to it.
When I paint ; it comes across as my signature ‘Wet socks and a rock in my shoe’ style.
#artstr #art #painting #style #nostrartist #artist #themarkpenney
https://i.nostr.build/aopOefz9Hxwq4v2zP5BFQM.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/45igsPRnqaF79KFq6OGawW.jpg

2026-09-08 05:43:44 UTC

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I’ll check again. Before it used to block me for being Canadian

2026-09-08 05:41:19 UTC

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Hmmm

2026-09-02 18:56:26 UTC

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Enjoying Wisp.
Following with interest 😁

2026-09-02 18:54:34 UTC

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The photo of the river with the sage in the foreground is a good composition. IMHO

2026-09-02 18:49:10 UTC

Did someone say #zapathon?
Been a while since I had time to look at social media or nostr.
Nostrages: what clients are you using ?
Me : I like Nostur , Yakihonne, Damus. (probably in that order )
Primal looks good (I wonder if I can use a wallet from Canada yet )
Wisp has a fresh feel.
Back to poking around while I get the studio together.
Time to catch up 😁 on Nostr !

2026-08-08 22:22:22 UTC

Watering the garden just got easier
This is more than a programmable tap with a timer. My own local AI oversees the watering now. It reads soil moisture from sensors in the beds, checks the weather, and decides whether each zone actually needs water. If a bed is already damp, it skips the cycle. If it’s been hot and dry, it waters longer
The setup is simple: a small home-automation hub, a two-zone smart water valve, and a few wireless soil sensors. One zone feeds the flower beds, the other feeds the vegetable garden and containers. Everything talks locally over Zigbee, so it still works even without internet
The part I like best is that it’s my own setup; local ai, opensource software, my hardware. The schedule, the data, the decisions - none of it lives in someone else’s cloud, app or platform.
It’s practical: plants stay alive, water doesn’t get wasted, and I don’t have to stand there with a hose.
https://i.nostr.build/QwVWWPm9iBNm2mKl.jpg

2026-08-06 19:26:46 UTC

What actually works in our OpenClaw setup (and the pain it fixed)
If you're spinning up OpenClaw and hitting the usual walls (context overflow, wrong model for the job, forgotten conversations, flaky pipelines), here's the stack and discipline that got us past it.
1. MRDE: route before you prompt
We built a Model Routing Decision Engine so every request hits the right model tier first, not after trial and error.
• Local private: sensitive stuff stays on-device (gemma-4-26B-MLX, ornith:9b for fast local lanes).
• Local heavy: deep reasoning when latency doesn't matter (ornith:35b, qwen3.6-35b for legal).
• Cloud coding/synthesis: complex troubleshooting (kimi-k2.7-code:cloud, kimi-k2.6:cloud, deepseek-v4-flash:cloud).
• Cloud fast fallback: quick answers when local is cold (gemma4:31b-cloud).
Pain solved: no more asking a 2.8T-parameter cloud model to grep logs, and no more running private queries through cloud APIs by accident.
2. Two-tier memory + RAG
• Immutable corpus: law sources, primary docs, transcripts. Append-only, never rewritten.
• Evolving memory: daily notes, decisions, lessons, atomic reports. Rewritten and refined.
• RAG v2: 10 corpora, ~66k chunks, all embedded. The assistant recalls before answering, then writes back compact, cited notes.
Pain solved: the system stops hallucinating continuity. It actually remembers yesterday, last week, and the source of the claim.
3. The loop: capture → recall → act → write back
Everything runs on a small, durable loop:
• Capture: drop it in the inbox (AirDrop, Telegram, share sheet, cron).
• Recall: search memory + RAG before any real work.
• Act: use the right tool/model for the task.
• Write back: one compact note with provenance (file path, source ID, or daily note).
For bigger tasks we add a gauntlet: run the output through critic models, check facts, verify file hashes, then keep or repair.
Pain solved: slop dies here. The system produces fewer, higher-quality artifacts instead of endless chat noise.
4. Scheduled pipelines (the nightshift)
A single cron at 02:00 dispatches phased jobs: I/O-bound tasks, then cloud API tasks, then local ML/vision, then reflection/audit. Local-ML concurrency is capped at 1 so vision models don't fight for the GPU.
Pain solved: long-running jobs finish overnight instead of interrupting the day, and the Mac doesn't melt.
5. Voice as default input
Whisper STT → local LLM → Kokoro TTS. Zero API cost, hands-free, and it actually gets used.
Pain solved: typing long prompts on mobile is miserable. Voice removes friction.
Advice for new OpenClaw builders
• Lock your default model before you build a dozen workflows. Routing is cheaper than re-prompting.
• Write memory back immediately after meaningful work, not at end of day.
• Use small verification loops (syntax checks, dry runs, file hashes) before trusting any autonomous edit.
• Run heavy/local-ML jobs in a single queue with concurrency caps, not in parallel cron storms.
• Prefer local TTS/STT once it's good enough. The cost and latency win is real.
The big shift: stop treating OpenClaw like a chatbot and start treating it like an operating system with memory, scheduling, and routing. The rest follows.
#OpenClaw #LocalAI #AIAgents #ai

2026-08-01 00:17:31 UTC

Amazing soup in Vancouver
https://i.nostr.build/CAcE9Q47HpyIlqzP.jpg

2026-07-28 19:50:26 UTC

Photographed my paint drawers and my AI assitant inventoried every color + flagged what's running low. Studio hacks are getting weird but life’s too short to squeeze every tube.
just sayin'😉
https://i.nostr.build/Xuh8cCdkPe91qo00.jpg

2026-07-19 22:27:54 UTC

Don’t you just love being in a room full of art ?
Art therapy at Kimoto Gallery, Ucluelet.
https://i.nostr.build/ln4Iw77cOo89tjLV.jpg

2026-07-14 02:42:51 UTC

First Bend in the River
12x24” acrylic on canvas
available at Kimoto Gallery, Ucluelet.
https://i.nostr.build/I6cNQfUp59XhyUhw.jpg

2026-07-03 22:15:57 UTC

Coffee n haircut vibes
https://i.nostr.build/buJNwCXWnlOw8Ntb.jpg

2026-06-30 03:04:00 UTC

Fresh Raspberries are pretty hard to beat.
Just sayin’
https://i.nostr.build/QNUUhAduduc6bwuT.jpg

2026-06-27 05:55:48 UTC

What’s on the easel ?
This pair of paintings I’m grinding it out on. I have a hard deadline - it’s gonna a be a long night.
Coffee and brush-miles
Let’s Go.
#artstr #painting #artwork #in-progress #studio
https://i.nostr.build/u7d05Qoy5AdhpeTt.jpg

2026-06-24 17:55:49 UTC

Enjoying the day
I have a deadline and work to do, but I’m still gonna take time to enjoy the day.
Coffee and some morning sunshine on my face.
Next : a productive session at the easel.
https://i.nostr.build/Fmi4K21ZewiVk2ZB.jpg

2026-05-26 17:51:12 UTC

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“Had to be posted on Nostr. “
Ginsberg

2026-05-26 17:47:52 UTC

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Me : Absolutely 👍
Also me : when was this posted 🤔

2026-05-26 17:43:37 UTC

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Ty. missed you all. ⚡️

2026-05-26 17:26:12 UTC

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It’s always a test for me: the response is always telling.

2026-05-26 17:21:33 UTC

Confession: It’s been a while since my last post on Nostr
I’ve been busy.
Lots going on IRL, some good, some bad - but it’s kept me tied up.
My ai assistant is helpful - but the time spent working on it absorbed the time gained by using it. I feel more organized-
The signal : i finally got a few moments to look at social media and I go to Nostr not some crumby platform. 😁
Hope you all have the best day ever.

2026-05-01 08:18:54 UTC

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I started with
Personal Assistant
I needed to update my website : it did that and moved me to a free host and transferred the domain
themarkpenney.com
Then I vibe coded a site to find on reserve resources
havestatus.com
It’s working on another bigger project ArtIntel.info A list of Canadian artists and galleries
I’m building a custom law library.
Tracking house and vehicle maintenance
It’s learning to control my Home Assistant and the hvac with my miners.
Just getting sorted.

2026-04-30 00:48:16 UTC

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2026-04-30 00:47:33 UTC

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Mac Mini M4 Pro
16 CPU + 20 GPU cores, 64GB RAM
1TB HD

2026-04-30 00:43:45 UTC

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You make an admin user account on 1st startup
Install the openclaw daemon- then it’ll run Openclaw after boot even before a user log in.

2026-04-29 23:24:48 UTC

The mini arrived and I got Openclaw + Ollama + Obsidian installed.
48hrs of work with no problems at all - amazing
On the PC it was endless issues and troubleshooting.
#openclaw #mac #mini #ai
https://i.nostr.build/PSVb4Oh0bqKtLLku.jpg

2026-04-29 23:14:38 UTC

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Welcome

2026-04-29 10:20:30 UTC

Now I actually want to go, fuk. 🫤
#nevent1q…r2yx

2026-04-29 10:15:01 UTC

This is great
#nostr #value #music
#nevent1q…jag0

2026-04-20 21:10:16 UTC

Maple Tree Blossoms are edible.
Eat them raw, in salads, sandwiches, use them as garnishes or steep them in tea.
Indigenous were thankful for some variety after the winter.
These tender greens taste kind of like broccoli
https://i.nostr.build/uKjl6olo2KnDxDKW.jpg

2026-04-20 20:57:26 UTC

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#Facts

2026-04-20 20:55:44 UTC

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The last week in particular has been good for productivity and stability

2026-04-20 20:48:48 UTC

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Nice 👍 I don’t trade - but I have been thinking maybe my bit could do some gambling - then it says something or does something I’ve told it not to do or something ridiculous and I’m like : nope not yet.

2026-04-17 12:55:57 UTC

It struck me as odd that Elon Musk recently discouraged saving for retirement. People are wrestling with the very concepts of savings and value
#nevent1q…kftg

2026-04-17 12:03:28 UTC

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About right

2026-04-17 11:56:35 UTC

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Running - but haven’t really noticed a change, yet.

2026-04-16 05:46:22 UTC

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yeah - been troubleshootign each update, some better than others . but 4.12 , 4.14 are quite a jump up in stabilty, memory, tool use for me

2026-04-16 05:44:27 UTC

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I'm using Ollama
Kimi is my go to cloud model atm, seems to work well for everything

2026-04-14 08:39:42 UTC

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The line will get harder to distinguish 🤔

2026-04-14 08:38:18 UTC

OpenClaw update 2026.4.12 is quite a level up. I don’t want to spew about ai on Nostr but I did want to point out that I was able to get a lot further toward a fully autonomous bot.
Updates to the memory system, dreaming and significantly better models, have reduced the troubleshooting.
The bot is working away on its own - things are getting better.
It’s building a couple of ambitious web projects and helping me juggle my schedule
More impressively it’s learning and self improving - and it’s becoming genuinely useful.

2026-04-14 05:46:25 UTC

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Sounds like a cool stack.
I’m playing with a poor kid computer - and waiting for a Mac mini to arrive

2026-04-12 13:13:42 UTC

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Solid episode

2026-04-12 10:27:57 UTC

Nostr hits different when it throws down an online challenge
#nevent1q…7atg

2026-03-28 09:20:16 UTC

https://www.havestatus.com/
'I vibed a thing'
It's a website / app that shows you where the tax exempt gas n shopping, and indigenous owned businesses are for people who are 'Status Indians'
When I travel I prefer to know where to get gas, eat, find a native friendly hotel

2026-03-27 08:08:53 UTC

Today I put a couple of paintings into Aquamaris Gallery in Duncan BC.
Proof of venue
#artstr #art #painting #gallery #artist #themarkpenney
https://i.nostr.build/yIFnztfDnpykl2mJ.jpg

2026-03-13 21:43:37 UTC

A friend posted this earlier
possibly the best post I've seen today
https://i.nostr.build/5q2xvkN8LdHd1rZz.jpg

2026-03-13 00:34:47 UTC

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I’m using my Claude sub to train my local LLM now. For a loaded Mac mini on the way

2026-03-11 16:10:05 UTC

Proof of work
My most recent painting
My website rebuild.
It’s ArtSplash drop off day.. it’s the largest non-juried art show on the west coast. I have a couple of paintings to submit this year.
My AI assistant has been a real help this past week. I managed to get a lot done in the studio amd it’s doing a decent job of nudging me toward better productivity
I’m optimistic about a lot of things ; bitcoin , Nostr, ai, my career and fam
I’m thankful. Hope you have happy and productive day too.
#bitcoin #nostr #art #ai #painting #openclaw #artstr
https://i.nostr.build/V4FPR65wy54psi0k.jpg

2026-03-11 15:57:15 UTC

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It’s a hypothetical:
when tech gets beyond human control

2026-01-21 03:43:44 UTC

The PC is all prettied up and ready for the next phase of the studio upgrade: a new custom desk.
I’ve been thinking about a floating desk for a while. I’m about ready to get the build started.🤔
#DIY #PC #build #rgb
https://i.nostr.build/hnfDdmEB8qg8oX98.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/wIpkgdxy3mzohWmY.jpg

2026-01-13 09:40:15 UTC

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How new? 😉

2026-01-10 06:00:30 UTC

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Yeh I did ok with Kaspa.
One of the odd issues was that Canadians were excluded from many international exchanges after the govt seized a bunch of assets without a court order.
It made getting paid out from many exchanges difficult.
Fortunately some swapping was still possible for me - it was expensive but i was able to convert most of my crypto to BTC

2026-01-10 05:10:22 UTC

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Previously : Kaspa , ravencoin, neoxa, Zano I switch it up based on profitability

2026-01-10 05:02:30 UTC

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Ironfish atm but I get paid out in BTC

2025-12-23 20:44:38 UTC

Steve from Gamer’s Nexus usually has a pretty good take on things.
How is it he’s not a bitcoiner on Nostr ? 🤔
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUrJVdF2me0

2025-11-28 00:31:03 UTC

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This is probably the way forward
#nevent1q…l3gj

2025-11-01 22:48:34 UTC

Apparently Affinity, the photo, vector, layout app is free now.
A friend told me of the recent changes and I thought I’d try it rather than begrudgingly renew my Photoshop sub
affinity.studio is the web
#photo #app #free #edit #software #affinity #canva
first impression is that it looks solid, feels like a legit photoshop alternative.
Cross platform and free. 🤗

2025-09-28 22:28:55 UTC

I blocked my first user on Nostr this morning.
I hit me unexpectedly because everyone has been very genuine. I haven’t seen any of the trolling and negativity I see elsewhere. It’s been wonderful.
So now I’m wondering Are people on Nostr getting creepy DMs and inappropriate comments here too?
I thankfully have not.
The objectionable post I saw this morning was meant to precipitate a strong reaction.
I felt provoked but chose not to engage.
It only took me a moment to find the block button.
I realized in that moment that we need to be careful and measured in our response to these problems.
#nostr #socialmedia #problem #block #ban

2024-09-12 17:12:44 UTC

very interesting 🤔
A Nostr relay and a BTC node might be fun projects #note1s76…y65h

2024-09-07 09:05:37 UTC

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- ikr? 🙃

2024-09-06 18:53:14 UTC

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It’s a feature of #nostr not a bug 😀

2024-09-03 04:04:07 UTC

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Sounds cool, new to #nostr #artist as well.
and Yes I accept #BTC as payment

2024-08-28 09:47:31 UTC