It's funny seeing "The Dixie Chicks" listed under "The Chicks", given they didn't change their name until 2020. I get it, but it's amazing how thorough they were retroactively updating content.
I had a Withings watch and absolutely loved it. I considered buying another one after my old one got water damage. However, it was becoming evident from changes to the app that it was getting more and more locked down…
I was hoping for something more novel. There must be dozens of companies out there working on rethinking what repos and workflows look like in the agentic era. It feels like we're all riding around in horseless…
I only have a few digits of pi memorized, so I had better luck using digits from fibonacci's sequence. I can derive them in my head, albeit slowly as the numbers get large.
I've been experimenting with AI powered DAWs. I finally settled on using Pi Durable to embed the prompting directly in the UI. I've also found AI good at building synths. I now have a bunch of synths, samplers, and drum…
One of the reasons I use OpenRouter is because they offer zero data retention. As far as I can tell, DeepSeek's own API doesn't support ZDR.
I grabbed one of these since I didn't have a hardware FM synth. While playing around with a web-based patch editor and seeing how well synths can run in a web, I started using AI to build out my own synths, and it's…
This is the same argument from when Sirius and XM radio merged. It didn't matter that they were monopolizing satellite radio because the real competition was terrestrial radio and internet radio.
I used to use Claude inside of a terminal within Webstorm until I realized I rarely looked at the code in the IDE. Instead I was creating draft PRs and reviewing the code in github. Now I use claude inside of herdr, and…
I've been using the web search in OpenRouter, which is similar in that it's a wrapper around other search engine providers. It's really convenient to be able to experiment with new models and new search engines without…
I've worked with developers that were reduce maximalist. During PR reviews, anything that could be rewritten with reduce was flagged. One of the benefits of AI is not having to care as much about things like that.
IBM's J9 had AOT for a long time too. I wonder how JEP 544 compares.
I played around with codegraph. I did a quick experiment where I gave claude code a feature to implement, and I had it perform the same task with and without codegraph. This wasn't scientific, so take it all with a…
Often in software development I encounter code that seems overly complex. It's not always obvious at first glance whether that complexity is because it's solving a really difficult problem, or because the developers…
I don't use MCPs much for personal use, but I've come to see the benefits of having a standardized mechanism for distributing tools across non-dev teams, especially when they're using a hodgepodge of agents. I'm also…
My experience with Cognito matches the author's experience exactly. I mostly used Auth0 in the past, but we switched to Cognito for a new project because it would be cheaper. Don't like that email addresses are case…
I've heard that the prevailing theory now is that it wasn't the lack of fungus that made coal. Instead, the earth was covered in tropical wetlands, and trees couldn't decay in the anoxic water.
Nice perspective. So even if all these data centers were built in the desert, it's entirely within the realm of possibility to transport 17B gallons of water, unlike the 43 trillion used for irrigation. Some…
Very cool. I'm currently awaiting delivery of a Sonicware deconstruct MINIMAL. I'm hoping it's as fun to play with as this is.
I built an ecommerce site long ago, and even though the UI was fairly modern for the time, they insisted we use antiquated styling on the billing forms of the checkout page to help exude trust. As a developer it bugged…
True, but Nvidia has 10x'd their market cap since the AI boom. They'll be fine, but their current financials can't be sustained by gamers alone.
I used it to plan a group beach trip back when it came out. We had a single page shared with everyone going on the trip. The page had live shopping lists, maps, weather forecasts, and other snippets of useful…
> Combined, the three companies raked in, on average, some $404 million in profits every day for the last three months. Just for perspective, Nvidia's daily profits for the past quarter are $641 million. For Apple it's…
We've been running automated code reviews on claude with a bunch of skills/subagents with different specialties. Any review feedback is then fed back into claude to fix. Since switching to Opus 5 I've noticed the…
I've been using Sequoia View regularly since the early 2000s, and it's held up amazingly well considering how much bigger hard drives have gotten in the past 25 years.
It's funny seeing "The Dixie Chicks" listed under "The Chicks", given they didn't change their name until 2020. I get it, but it's amazing how thorough they were retroactively updating content.
I had a Withings watch and absolutely loved it. I considered buying another one after my old one got water damage. However, it was becoming evident from changes to the app that it was getting more and more locked down…
I was hoping for something more novel. There must be dozens of companies out there working on rethinking what repos and workflows look like in the agentic era. It feels like we're all riding around in horseless…
I only have a few digits of pi memorized, so I had better luck using digits from fibonacci's sequence. I can derive them in my head, albeit slowly as the numbers get large.
I've been experimenting with AI powered DAWs. I finally settled on using Pi Durable to embed the prompting directly in the UI. I've also found AI good at building synths. I now have a bunch of synths, samplers, and drum…
One of the reasons I use OpenRouter is because they offer zero data retention. As far as I can tell, DeepSeek's own API doesn't support ZDR.
I grabbed one of these since I didn't have a hardware FM synth. While playing around with a web-based patch editor and seeing how well synths can run in a web, I started using AI to build out my own synths, and it's…
This is the same argument from when Sirius and XM radio merged. It didn't matter that they were monopolizing satellite radio because the real competition was terrestrial radio and internet radio.
I used to use Claude inside of a terminal within Webstorm until I realized I rarely looked at the code in the IDE. Instead I was creating draft PRs and reviewing the code in github. Now I use claude inside of herdr, and…
I've been using the web search in OpenRouter, which is similar in that it's a wrapper around other search engine providers. It's really convenient to be able to experiment with new models and new search engines without…
I've worked with developers that were reduce maximalist. During PR reviews, anything that could be rewritten with reduce was flagged. One of the benefits of AI is not having to care as much about things like that.
IBM's J9 had AOT for a long time too. I wonder how JEP 544 compares.
I played around with codegraph. I did a quick experiment where I gave claude code a feature to implement, and I had it perform the same task with and without codegraph. This wasn't scientific, so take it all with a…
Often in software development I encounter code that seems overly complex. It's not always obvious at first glance whether that complexity is because it's solving a really difficult problem, or because the developers…
I don't use MCPs much for personal use, but I've come to see the benefits of having a standardized mechanism for distributing tools across non-dev teams, especially when they're using a hodgepodge of agents. I'm also…
My experience with Cognito matches the author's experience exactly. I mostly used Auth0 in the past, but we switched to Cognito for a new project because it would be cheaper. Don't like that email addresses are case…
I've heard that the prevailing theory now is that it wasn't the lack of fungus that made coal. Instead, the earth was covered in tropical wetlands, and trees couldn't decay in the anoxic water.
Nice perspective. So even if all these data centers were built in the desert, it's entirely within the realm of possibility to transport 17B gallons of water, unlike the 43 trillion used for irrigation. Some…
Very cool. I'm currently awaiting delivery of a Sonicware deconstruct MINIMAL. I'm hoping it's as fun to play with as this is.
I built an ecommerce site long ago, and even though the UI was fairly modern for the time, they insisted we use antiquated styling on the billing forms of the checkout page to help exude trust. As a developer it bugged…
True, but Nvidia has 10x'd their market cap since the AI boom. They'll be fine, but their current financials can't be sustained by gamers alone.
I used it to plan a group beach trip back when it came out. We had a single page shared with everyone going on the trip. The page had live shopping lists, maps, weather forecasts, and other snippets of useful…
> Combined, the three companies raked in, on average, some $404 million in profits every day for the last three months. Just for perspective, Nvidia's daily profits for the past quarter are $641 million. For Apple it's…
We've been running automated code reviews on claude with a bunch of skills/subagents with different specialties. Any review feedback is then fed back into claude to fix. Since switching to Opus 5 I've noticed the…
I've been using Sequoia View regularly since the early 2000s, and it's held up amazingly well considering how much bigger hard drives have gotten in the past 25 years.