I just became aware of Future Fonts, which is “where type designers sell fonts-in-progress. Despite not actively being in the market to buy fonts, I ended up buying this beauty called Mayonnaise…

There are contexts in which it is immoral to use generative AI. For example, if you are a judge responsible for grounding a decision in law, you cannot rest that on an approximation of previous c…

Using S3 triggers to maintain a list of files in DynamoDB I built an experimental prototype this morning of a system for efficiently tracking files that have been added to a large S3 bucket by m…

I’m thrilled to announce that I’m doing a new advice show/series called Open Up I’m doing with my good friends at Smashing Magazine! I found that it’s often easier for people to tal…

“Destruction and renewal are part of the same cycle. Indigenous knowledge has always understood this. It’s not about avoiding collapse-it’s about preparing for regeneration.” &…

Can I still use my Ai Pin for offline features? Yes. After February 28, 2025, Ai Pin will still allow for offline features like battery level, etc., but will not include any function that require…

Meanwhile blogging has become small-p political again. Slowly, slowly, the web was taken over by platforms. Your feeling of success is based on your platform’s algorithm, which may not have you…

What Jeremy describes here also matches the sound of beyond tellerrand. And the following is true for many independetn events these days … As you…

“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson…

I am ready for warmer weather and stoop hangs.…

OpenAI’s President Greg Brockman just shared the best way to structure the perfect prompt. The framework originally from Ben Hylak, is built on four key pillars: 1.Goal – Define what you want clea…

files-to-prompt 0.6 New release of my CLI tool for turning a whole directory of code into a single prompt ready to pipe or paste into an LLM. Here are the full release notes: New -m/--markdown…

tc39/proposal-regex-escaping I just heard from Kris Kowal that this proposal for ECMAScript has been approved for ECMA TC-39: Almost 20 years later, @simon’s RegExp.escape idea comes to fruit…

I like the John Warner thing where the problem with outsourcing writing to AI is that the computers aren’t doing a process that is aligned with how humans would do it. On an episode of Search En…

Andrej Karpathy's initial impressions of Grok 3 Andrej has the most detailed analysis I've seen so far of xAI's Grok 3 release from last night. He runs through a bunch of interesting test p…

OMG. Life perspective through UI. I freaking love it. Check out My Life in Weeks by Gina Trapani…

ChatGPT Operator: Prompt Injection Exploits & Defenses As expected, Johann Rehberger found some effective indirect prompt injection strategies against OpenAI's new Operator browser automation ag…

I’ve been using Optic’s CLI, an OpenAPI tool that does a bunch of things including diffing OpenAPI descriptions and comparing HTTP traffic with OpenAPI. My use case was an established API…

What to do about SQLITE_BUSY errors despite setting a timeout Bert Hubert takes on the challenge of explaining SQLite's single biggest footgun: in WAL mode you may see SQLITE_BUSY errors even wh…

50 Years of Travel Tips These travel tips from Kevin Kelly are the best kind of advice because they're almost all both surprising but obviously good ideas. The first one instantly appeals to my…

I released LLM 0.22 this evening. Here are the annotated release notes: model.prompt(..., key=) for API keys chatgpt-4o-latest llm logs -s/--short llm models -q gemini -q exp llm embe…

David Darnes says You’re Not Creating Enough Prototypes, and I agree! David shares some great real-world examples of how he’s wielded design system components for rapid prototyping. We need more o…

So much great stuff here. We want to be seen. Appreciate everything endlessly. Reach out to people to say nice things Go down all the rabbit holes Truly amazing.  …