One of my cars is electric, and I’m used to people bringing up how bad battery fires can be (especially my dad). The facts on the ground are that electric cars burn far less often than gasoline powered ones, but some of the details in The Tesla Files sound truly horrific – not just the…
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…
Just plopping this in here to keep track of – when I have some time I need to go through and poke around in each one… especially the pg_stat_statements one! https://www.craigkerstiens.com/2024/10/18/the-future-of-postgres/
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!
An obviously AI generated image of a developer trying to measure their productivity.
https://grep.app