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Apr 26, 2025: The System Prompt is Down Why are AI system prompts being treated like digital gold, leaked and protected like user passwords? What’s the real difference between a system …
Apr 25, 2025: Chrome Covet No fewer than three companies: Yahoo (yes, you read that right), OpenAI, and Perplexity have each been reported by The Verge as being interested in …
Apr 22, 2025: I think Macworld ‘s Macalope meant “slap MacOS on the iPad and call it a day”. But I’m not 100% sure the way it’s written. 🤷🏼♂️
Apr 21, 2025: Tampa Bay’s COL advantage has largely evaporated. The in-migration trend took a hit in 2024, with 24k fewer movers than 2023. Rising insurance …
Apr 21, 2025: The color "Olo" A top restaurant SaaS company AND a new color? Yes: Olo. As someone building software, I find this stuff pretty cool. And this is just a bonkers …
Apr 20, 2025: Save the planet: be a jerk Sam Altman mentioned that our collective politeness to ChatGPT is costing OpenAI “tens of millions of dollars” in additional computing …
Apr 19, 2025: Jeff Bridges Abides Saw something interesting today about the beloved cult classic “The Big Lebowski.” Jeff Bridges recently revealed at an LA screening that …
Apr 17, 2025: Sparkling mineral water with no bubbles Borrowed from TikTok: Diner: So this is still-water? Server: Mm-hmm. Diner: And I ordered sparkling mineral water with no bubbles. Server: I see. …
Apr 16, 2025: Vibe EMs There’s vibe-coding. And you may have even heard of vibe-project management: where projects are guided by a gut feeling or the overall mood of …
Apr 3, 2025: Vibe painting. Hermes, messenger of the gods. Oil on GPT 4o.
Apr 2, 2025: New location services privacy setting to turn off in iOS 18.4. Toggled on by default.
Apr 1, 2025: My neighbor is having some landscaping done and they’ve been using the gas-powered leaf blower for at least 45 minutes. I’m surprised it …
Apr 1, 2025: OK, good. So no more melting GPUs right?
Mar 30, 2025: Took the image of the Lumon Terminal Pro, used a little GPT-4o magic and made a decent first-pass of an album cover for my Severance music playlist.
Mar 30, 2025: Vibe-painting. Marie Antoinette. Oil on GPT 4o.
Mar 28, 2025: Vibe-painting. Napoleon Bonaparte. Oil on ChatGPT.
Mar 27, 2025: Vibe-painting. George Washington. Oil on ChatGPT.
Mar 25, 2025: ChatGPT’s new image generation capabilities are quite impressive.
Mar 24, 2025: One of my favorite sorts to watch from Sorting Visualizer: Time sort.
Mar 22, 2025: This one was a lot of fun to work through. Inspired, of course, by all those funny-sounding sorting videos on YouTube (and on Tidbyts!)
Mar 14, 2025: When you’re vibe coding a project, don’t forget these tips: Clear the context window occasionally. Start with a fresh agent. Be clear in …
Mar 10, 2025: Priorities: This vs. that.
Mar 6, 2025: Great read in Ars. I definitely vibe-coded most of Prime Number Finder.
Mar 5, 2025: This seems timely.
Mar 4, 2025: Want to get rich? Here’s how: Give yourself the title “data scientist.” Form your own AI company. Raise $30 billion. No questions asked. Simple, …
Mar 2, 2025: It’s fine. Everything is fine.
Feb 25, 2025: Dipping into the iOS App Pool There’s an itch I’ve been meaning to scratch for the better part of 15 years now. And among job, family, and let’s face it, lack of motivation, I’ve …
Feb 13, 2025: This is one of those rare takes that really nails it. I love the comparison with the industrial and PC revolutions. I posted something similar (but …
Feb 11, 2025: I really liked Fox’s scorebug that was shown during the Super Bowl. Reminiscent of older broadcasts. Classy and easy to read.
Feb 8, 2025: Dear Internet, stop giving away your Severance theories! They’re basically spoilers.
Feb 7, 2025: As an Apple News+ user one of the most frustrating things is that there’s no easy way to open the current News App article in the default …
Feb 7, 2025: For anyone looking for a good, lightly-used white noise machine, I have a 2019 Intel MacBook Pro that fits the bill perfectly.
Feb 5, 2025: Super Bowl ticket prices are plummeting. Can’t imagine why.
Feb 2, 2025: That’s right, woodchuck chuckers! It’s Groundhog Day!
Jan 27, 2025: I don’t mean to brag, but I started using DeepSeek before it was cool, thanks to The Neuron Daily email newsletter. Started using DeepSeek about …
Jan 27, 2025: This year’s Super Bowl is like season 8 of The Office vs. the two Matrix sequels.
Jan 26, 2025: As a software engineering leader, my role often feels like a balancing act: juggling technical challenges, team dynamics, and quarterly objectives - …
Jan 23, 2025: Want to catch LLM web-crawlers? Here ya go: zadzmo.org/code/nepe…
Jan 22, 2025: For those of you who, like me, fall into the center of the Venn diagram of “those who follow Instagram memes” and “those who listen …
Jan 20, 2025: I have Apple Intelligence. I use Apple Music. Please make it so I can use both to seamlessly beat match tracks on my playlist automatically. Spotify …
Jan 9, 2025: So changing the region from US to UK back to US – in both Siri and Region Settings – fixed it 🤷🏻♂️ Anyone have an estimate as to how long …
Jan 9, 2025: Anyone have an estimate as to how long this should last? It’s been like this for about 24 hours now. To be fair it hasn’t always been plugged into …
Jan 9, 2025: One of the features on iPhone 16 Pro that impressed me the most? Not Apple Intelligence, not camera control, not standby mode. But rather hearing my …
Jan 6, 2025: Buy new iPhone 16 Pro. Buy Apple Magsafe silicone case for said iPhone. Buy Belkin 2 in 1 Qi2 charger. (Last step and this is critical!) Look up …
Jan 5, 2025: Tried out the free (!) ElevenLabs app. For an absolutely free app (no subscriptions), it’s pretty slick. You can link to a news article and have …
Jan 4, 2025: It’s the beginning of the end for landline phone service.
Jan 3, 2025: Today’s unnecessary program: var random = new Random(); var outputNum = random.Next(1, 1001); Console.WriteLine(outputNum); while (outputNum …
Jan 2, 2025: I’m happy to have been completely oblivious to Honey’s existence and to have always just searched coupon codes manually on the web. Like an animal.
Jan 2, 2025: Today’s unnecessary program: for (var pow = 0; pow <= 21; pow++) { for (var i = 1; i <= 9; i++) { var num = i * Math.Pow(10, pow); …
Jan 2, 2025: Wishing happy new year after someone died in an explosion is crazy. daringfireball.net/linked/20…
Dec 31, 2024: Happy New Year, y’all. 🎉
Dec 28, 2024: Knowing my anxiety type just gives me more anxiety. No thanks.
Dec 23, 2024: Finally got the upgrades I wanted on my 2012 4Runner: Dash cam Upgraded stereo to take advantage of Apple Car play New backup cam (old one was not …
Dec 20, 2024: Ha! Thanks for the mention, attorneyryan!
Dec 19, 2024: I’m not so much contrapositive as I am pronegative.
Dec 19, 2024: One day when I actually have the time and resources (likely never, but one can still dream), I’m going to have a podcast where the following …
Dec 19, 2024: I don’t mean to minimize what earlier generations of Americans had to go through what with world wars and such. But only people my age know what …
Dec 13, 2024: The US Department of Defense releases it’s latest statement on the drones flying over New Jersey.
Dec 13, 2024: All of the content I post is 100% AI generated: “Alex Intelligence”.
Dec 12, 2024: Is it me, or MacOS Pages doesn’t truly run in dark mode?
Dec 12, 2024: It’s the little things: that rare moment where the song playing on the car stereo ends just as you arrive at your destination. :chefkiss:
Dec 11, 2024: After seeing some of the first few reviews of iOS 18.2 and not owning a compatible device for Apple Intelligence, I’m wondering if I should …
Dec 11, 2024: It’s mind blowing how a well thought out post with slight turns of phrase about reaching a birthday milestone obtains meh-levels of engagement, …
Dec 10, 2024: With Google’s quantum computing breakthrough, how much longer before ALL of my passwords are rendered worthless? Trying to plan ahead.
Dec 9, 2024: 🎂 🎂 🎂 Here we are: the big 5-oh. I asked ChatGPT to create a light but heartfelt post for me, but all I got out of that exercise was generic and …
Dec 6, 2024: Damn.
Dec 6, 2024: Anthropic countering OpenAI with unlimited access to all of their models for a mere $2000/month.
Dec 5, 2024: Bridgy. Has anyone used it? Let me know.
Dec 4, 2024: I think I’ve mentioned this before but it bears repeating: just about everyone dances the Electric Slide incorrectly.
Dec 4, 2024: Ever notice how Instagram will not allow your phone to go to sleep? Try it. Go the the main feed and then set your phone down. It won’t go to …
Dec 4, 2024: Ever hit ctrl+R or cmd+R on the wrong application and instead of your browser refreshing it’s some random app in the background? Focus is a …
Dec 4, 2024: (2/2) However, having stopped using Spotify, I can’t partake in Spotify wrapped this year. Now, is my life any worse off because of this? Of …
Dec 4, 2024: (1/2) So I stopped using Spotify as my main source of streaming music about half-way through the year and switched over to Apple Music. The experience …
Dec 3, 2024: Ok I’m going to say something super controversial, but I’d like to hear your thoughts. I actually think the new iOS Photos app is an …
Dec 2, 2024: Spectrum internet service is down AGAIN in central Florida. 🙄
Dec 1, 2024: Does anyone use Tumblr (besides @crumbler@threads.net) ? How about Medium?
Dec 1, 2024: My friends, when pasting a link to an Apple News article, please take a moment and get the link to the original publication’s article. Clicking …
Nov 27, 2024: Test post. Please ignore.
Nov 27, 2024: 100% human-generated content right here.
Nov 24, 2024: Rewatched Gladiator last night. I’ve seen it a million times before but it’s been awhile. Joaquin Phoenix’s performance is …
Nov 23, 2024: Cross-posting is fun Fediversing is dope, see? Testing it out now.
Jun 17, 2024: In The Godfather, Tom Hagan explains that Sollozzo is good with the knife. And yet, we never see Sollozzo use a knife. Ever. We never hear him …
Apr 5, 2024: Dear Floridians: today’s NYC quake was basically a tropical storm in terms of severity. You’re welcome.
Mar 27, 2024: Topics discussed at dinner tonight with my wife and kids. • Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry. • The opening lines of Romeo and Juliet. • The …
Mar 23, 2024: This is your daily reminder that you only feel gravity when you’re NOT falling.
Mar 23, 2024: Found a bug. Fixed. And by that, I mean the wife found a roach in the cabinet, sprayed everything in there with bug spray, slammed it shut and put …
Mar 20, 2024: Optometrists love to place that new pair of glasses on your face as if you’re royalty having the crown placed on your head at your coronation. You …
Mar 20, 2024: Meta Threads notifications currently broken.
Mar 19, 2024: I wouldn’t call it a “living document”. It’s a glorified wiki page. Electronic communications aren’t suddenly …
Mar 16, 2024: What we didn’t know at the time was that every time Steve Ballmer said “developers” in that famous clip, a new version of .NET would spawn in the …
Mar 15, 2024: “Beware the ides of March” 🏛️ 🗡️
Mar 13, 2024: I’m being 100% serious: I’ve started working from my bed (my laptop literally propped on my lap) and my productivity has gone way up. I …
Mar 9, 2024: I’m convinced the highway billboard advertising industry is entirely supported by the personal injury attorney cartel.
Mar 7, 2024: The other day I did something I never thought I would end up doing: I called Amazon support. Apparently, one of my kids inadvertently signed up for an …
Feb 29, 2024: Book recommendation and leap day are a great combination! Here’s one that I recently read. Camille Fournier lays out the path in a way engineers …
Feb 29, 2024: Happy calendar drift prevention day for those who celebrate.
Feb 27, 2024: Today’s workout: 4-5-6-7-8 reps for time: Squat Clean Thruster, 95lbs Jumping pull-ups 17:31
Feb 23, 2024: Dear News+: I am already paying for your service. Why am I seeing ads embedded in every dang article? And not just one. There’s at least two or three …
Feb 22, 2024: Today’s workout: For time: 400 meter run 21 burpees 400 meter run 15 burpees 400 meter run 9 burpees 14:50
Feb 22, 2024: A so-called financial columnist was recently scammed out of $50k in one of those “shoe-box” scams. There are entire YouTube channels …
Feb 21, 2024: Despite its name, the type system in Typescript is not exactly like the type system in C#. I understand this on a rational level. But not on a gut …
Feb 20, 2024: Apple Music vs Spotify The selection of music on Apple Music compared to Spotify continues to disappoint. I already pay for the service via iCloud+. I have heard others …
Feb 20, 2024: Wanted to reshare this from @manton . This is so timely as I am going through the arduous process of integrating all my various socials. Challenging …
Feb 20, 2024: Today’s workout: For time: 200 meter run 5 squat cleans - 65lbs 200 meter run 4 squat cleans - 75lbs 200 meter run 3 squat cleans - 95lbs 200 …
Feb 20, 2024: Today’s map. The population density of China. RealLifeLore did a video on this as well: youtu.be/kVaBlat06…
Feb 20, 2024: As one of the greatest characters in TV history, Chief Jim Hopper, so eloquently stated in season 1, episode 1 of Stranger Things: “Mornings are …
Feb 19, 2024: An example of a short blog post
Feb 19, 2024: Happy Presidents' Day! This post is a test of X-posting from Micro.blog. If you’re reading this, the test worked! 🎉
Nov 5, 2023: First post. Hello, world!