The Terminal, API, and my AI swarms

Posted on May 24, 2026 by raymond

In 1994, I discovered the internet, and I immediately hooked on to Valhalla, a MUD that I could connect to through telnet.

telnet valhalla.com 4242

The Multi User Dungeon became a world of text, and objects, and monsters to kill. I created a female character named Noala, and she became a fierce warrior, running a zone called Hell. The telnet window was the interface. It was where I interacted with the server.

The Dictionary was one of my central items. It was where I had my aliases. I used the number keys on the right side of my keyboard, and I had alias 3 for “east”, 5 for “north”, 31 for “kill goblin”, and so on. Through countless iterative sessions, I built a muscle memory, and towards the end, I had become very efficient. I would estimate “xp/hour” and similar things.

Later in life, I was exposed to API’s, and through that to programmatic approaches to dealing with different systems. As more and more systems used open API’s, the ecosystem became richer.

On November 29th 2022, when ChatGPT launched, I jumped on the AI bandwagon, and I have experimented a lot with OpenAI systems as well as others. In 2025, I started using the terminal much more after I got hooked on the Claude Code.

And after the shock from the start of this week, the memento mori reminder, I have seen that I need to dig deeper. Not in a stress-ful way, but to really dig deeper.

I will for fun create a new MUD. I guess not from scratch, but I will combine my love for the Valhalla mud, with API’s, and the swarms of AI instances.

I will start today. And I will hopefully have a working demo within a week. We will see how complex it is.

But

Knowing the toolboxes I have available, it will perhaps take max 2 days to get a demo up and running.

I’ll be back!

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2000

Posted on May 24, 2026 by raymond

The year 2000 was the year I started blogging. That was on livejournal, which recently had launched.

My most active blogging years were 2000-2009. I switched to wordpress in 2005, when i also registered dltq.org.

2000 – I turned 22 that year. I was active at uni of Bergen. In January thst year I travelled to Asia for the first time, to Hong Kong. Those 3 weeks in Hong Kong are magical moments in my memory.

This week in 2026 has shocked me. Things need to change.

I am older, but i still have years in me, if all goes well.

And now dltq.org is up again as a new wordpress instance.

Will I be able to experience magic like the times in 2000?

We will see!

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New questions

Posted on May 23, 2026 by raymond

It is Saturday. May 23rd 2026. It is the week where I received the word from my doctor that my blood pressure is insanely high. That happened on Monday May 18th.

And this incident; the feeling of having dodged the bullet (since we discovered this without a prior incident), and the reminder of the memento mori principle – it has led me to ask new questions. Or, perhaps rather, to ask old questions all over, but as new iterations of those questions.

DLTQ as a concept started in March 2002. I was living in Brussels then, and I had turned 24 years old. I decided to adopt this new mantra as a constant reminder to myself.

To never stop being curious.
To never stop going deeper.
To never accept status quo.

Well, a lot of water has passed under that bridge since 2002. I am now 48 years old; double the age of what I was then. I am the father of a 15 year old boy, and I have moved from Oslo to Kongsberg outside Oslo, and I work as a project manager at the competence centre of a large labour union for engineers and developers in Norway.

The water has passed, but these new questions are linked to the old ones, the ones that came before March 2002, and the ones after that milestone.

Today, this Saturday, I re-start DLTQ. Yes, I had sort of moved on from DLTQ (dltq.org) to str.is (str.is) in late 2025, but I never really gave up on the DLTQ mantra. And here we are. New questions, and old, and me who is still here.

So.

What to expect from this version of dltq.org?

More meandering, like it was in the past. I have the wayback machine tracks from 2005 until now.

More experimentation. Back in 2005, it was all about videoblogging, which was my thing back then. Now, I am mostly dealing with AI, and specifically AI swarms – I have a separate www.sverm.ai website that is currently in Beta.

More iterations. Yes, that’s it.

Iterations on who I am, what I do, what I am interested in, and what I am avoiding. (I left Twitter/X and Meta in August 2025).

Iterations on questions, until I iterate towards something more interesting. Maybe. Possibly maybe.

I will try to be clear when my blog entries have been AI assisted, or pure AI written, or just me typing whatever comes to my head. I will have different categories for that.

May 23rd 2026. A new reset. Welcome!

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