https://thetruesize.com/# Pretty neat!
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Such a great speech. Some parts haven’t aged so well, but others remain relevant today, and will in the future.
https://fortune.com/2025/05/24/duolingo-ai-first-employees-ceo-luis-von-ahn/ As I recently noted in an email to a client, the only use case I’ve seen that is definitively making a difference for orgs is in software development. There’s a lot of people out there using AI as a helper but I won’t get into all the risks and benefits here, because if you’re…
Note: I’m not passing judgement or taking a stand on these items, I’m putting them here to keep track of them. I do find it interesting that Trump said he had no idea what Project 2025 was, and then has done a pretty good job of implementing their recommendations. Weird. Project 2025 Tracker The no…
This post on X covers the issues that exist in trying to bring back manufacturing by raising the costs of imports. He does a far better job of describing the issues than I have when talking with friends and business partners. “May you live in interesting times” indeed.
I recently purchased a Bambu Labs P1S printer, and have been having a lot of fun printing a variety of things. However, recently it started squeaking during certain movements of the print head. I got lucky and found this video which describes the problem and solution. In my case I didn’t have to take the…
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/17/video-scraping/ He needed to add up a bunch of data across multiple emails – made a video of him flipping through them and then had Gemini extract the data from the video. A good, a brief, read!
https://grep.app
https://infocon.org/
As my friends know, I’m a huge fan of classic computers (and LEGO, but that’s a whole ‘nother blog post). My personal collection includes an original Macintosh, an IBM PC Jr, Atari 600, Timex Sinclair 1000, a new-in-box TI 99/4a, several Radio Shack Color Computers, two Coleco Adams, a 20th Anniversary Macintosh and many more….