In bloom
After years of care, the orchid in the bathroom has bloomed again. I moved it from the edge of the bathtub, where it had been surviving in a wilted state for...
Blogs are still a thing
Quoting Andreas: Blogging is a small niche these days. There isn’t much hype around it, nor is there any money to be made because the VC firms are all busy...
Protests work
Quoting Brent Simmons: Chatting with my friends about how I hate these fascist assholes doesn’t do a damn thing. Protests work. (Imperfectly, sure, with no...
The empire strikes back
Quoting straight from Jim Nielsen’s note on LLM training on copyrighted data: As a broke teenager, the web was this strange wonderland where you could access...
Exploration by Calibro 35
Calibro 35’s Exploration, their latest album that I have just purchased, supremely fits and redefines the instrumental jazz-funk genre, adding a firm pinch...
Agentic coding recommendations
Armin Ronacher is on a roll. He just published his Agentic Coding Reccomendations. On the topic of Agenting Coding he recently published: AI Changes...
MCP or connecting our apps to LLMs
Last night, I presented a session titled MCP or Connecting our Apps to LLMs at DevRomagna, our local developer’s community, and I think it went well. I had...
Quoting Sam Altman
In the 2030s, intelligence and energy—ideas, and the ability to make ideas happen—are going to become wildly abundant. These two have been the fundamental...
People won't use IDEs anymore
I’m just back from watching Mastering Claude Code in 30 Minutes, a talk by Boris Cherny, who, I learned, created Claude Code. I was struck by Boris’s reply...
What happens when people don't understand how AI works
This week’s obligatory yet solid warning about the misunderstanding of LLMs comes from Tyler Austin Harper’s What Happens When People Don’t Understand How AI...
Why Bell Labs worked
Why Bell Labs Worked is a fascinating, evocative read. We live in a metrics obsessed culture that is obsessed with narrowly defined productivity. There’s too...
Being fat is a trap
Federico Pereiro’s Being Fat is a Trap is, I think, a great piece of advice. Way more people than I wish who are close to me are struggling with eating...
Claude Code first impressions
Since yesterday, Claude Code has been included in the Pro subscription we’re signed up for. I’d been wanting to try it for a while, and now nothing was...
When to leave
Knowing when to leave might be more important than knowing when to show up. – kupajo in When to Leave The post When to leave appeared first on...
AI changes everything
Today’s Armin Ronacher’s AI Changes Everything strongly resonates with me1. I may not be using Claude Code as a daily driver as he now does, but I’ve slowly...
Run your own AI
Run Your Own AI by Anthony Lewis is a concise tutorial on how to run large language models on your laptop from the command line via llm-mlx. It focuses on...
Moving On
In Moving On, Simone Silvestroni recounts how he moved away from the Apple ecosystem. It’s a move I’ve been contemplating for some time. Like Simone, I use...
Eve 2.2.1
Eve v2.2.1 was just released on PyPI. It is a minor upgrade, but it includes a remarkable performance increase contributed by Alexander Urieles. Also, thanks...
Serra Pass along the pilgrims' route
From Corezzo, a short hiking loop along the park’s oldest mule tracks. The Serra Pass mule track is one of the most fascinating in the entire Casentino...
Foresta della Lama
I went hiking in my beloved Foreste Casentinesi National Park a few weeks ago. This trip has been on my radar for a long time, a circular tour of...