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Humans in the loop

February 1, 2026

Exploring 'humans in the loop', Clawdbot controversy, and discovering creative developers!

Deutsche Technik museum is a treasure

January 25, 2026

Hello from the past, hope you are having a good day. How do you index data about fields/column that are only decided during runtime and can be completely...

Gel-mann amnesia and solving unknown problems

January 18, 2026

I spent some time this week thinking and talking to Claude about how syncing photo transitions with tempo of the music can work. This was related to a...

A bird begins its collection

January 11, 2026

A warm welcome to the magpie’s nest and thank you if you have already subscribed to the newsletter. If you haven’t, hope you find it interesting enough to do...