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Photo by Ryan Snaadt We were on a road-trip through Wisconsin last month, and one morning I'm about to enjoy my "free" waffle and chef-made omelet. ...

I miss RSS readers. Maybe not RSS the specification exactly. But the concept of having one inbox for the insane amount of stuff I liked to visit on the internet, so I didn't have to keep going back to all those sites piecemeal. But RSS died. Everyone just

In 1969 a group called The Winstons released a single called "Color Him Father." It won a Grammy. The B-side was a throwaway gospel instrumental called "Amen, Brother," and about a minute and a half into it the drummer, Gregory Coleman, plays a seven seco

Gracie Abrams just dropped a new album last week, Daughter From Hell . It's really good. So of course Gracie is everywhere all at once. But one interview caught me off guard. Her producer said, " I don't know if we'll ever make a good song again. " And...

Let me short-circuit the flames. He wasn't using AI, but my attempts at trying to rid myself of AI slop in my feed reader flagged him as the worst offender. Is he? No. It just points out how hard this is. So just yesterday, I posted a neat article to Hack

Single people can be as productive as whole teams. People are freaking out. There's so much angst about how their jobs are changing with AI. I get it. It does feel like the things you used to do aren't as valuable anymore. There's new things to learn. And

AlliHat now can talk to ChatGPT and Gemini. Still needs to use an API token you provide it. Or use the local Apple model which does a great job for small tasks like summarization of an article.

Photo by Tim McErston Some asshole made an illegal right turn onto Lake Shore Drive in Chicago yesterday. There was a line of traffic cones spec...

I have a bad habit. Pasta. Not that kind. Copypasta. Whenever I'm reading something online (an article, a GitHub issue, a dense doc), I end up copying chunks of text, opening a new tab, pasting it into Claude, and asking my question. Then I go back to the

I know a lot of folks are worried about their jobs and AI. Another worry folks have is that AI is making them dumber. The things that felt good before: solving puzzling work problems, thinking hard about a project, etc. have vaporized when Claude can do i