Few random blogs
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- Why does getting a job in tech suck right now? (Is it AI?!?)
- How to cut your Python Docker build times in half with uv
- Should you ask data science job candidates this tricky math question?
- ChatGPT as a query engine on a giant corpus of text
- Intuitive Explanation of Arithmetic, Geometric, & Harmonic Mean
- and more...
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I was popping off on Mastodon with an idea for a physical board game then decided to just make a digital version. It’s called “o(m)g:image” and you can play it now: omgimg.jim-nielsen.com Here’s the idea: You have a bunch images Each image is a real-life og:image pulled from an online article You try to guess the title of the article based solely...
I had previously posted about drawing outlines around fonts. The goal is to make labels easier to read in situations like these:
llm-openrouter 0.3 New release of my llm-openrouter plugin, which allows LLM to access models hosted by OpenRouter. Quoting the release notes: Enable image attachments for models that support images. Thanks, Adam Montgomery. #12 Provide async model access. #15 Fix documentation to list correct LLM_OPENROUTER_KEY environment variable. #10 ...
In no specific order: By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2024-12-09.
So much of what I take for granted today would have seemed like science fiction to me as a child of the 70s.
I spent a few hours mulling over this website and futzing with it. I tweaked some CSS to simplify things. And I decided to add more tags to some of my posts. The personal category was a bunch of odd stuff. Those posts also have tags like travel, politics, and health. I'm having second thoughts about calling this section of the site a microBlog...
After writing the title for this post, I can’t get that Who song out of my head. Back to Serif… again? Hey look, another inadvertent Music Monday, courtesy of a train of thought that made no sense. What was I talking about again? I posted this almost a month ago to the day: The serif fonts have been retired. It was fun, but they weren’t as...
Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group I just learned about this delightful piece of internet culture via Leven Parker on TikTok. Occlupanids are the small plastic square clips used to seal plastic bags containing bread. For thirty years (since 1994) John Daniel has maintained this website that catalogs them and serves as the basis of a wide ranging...
Sharing one of my favorite music projects: a gorgeous, free - as in freedom - recording of J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations