How AI is saving my life without magic spells
An open research observatory for clinical trials and academic papers on multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. How it works and how it was built.
Bruno Amaral
Social and human ideas for technology
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Take back control of your digital life
Social media is designed to keep you hooked, not informed. There's an old-school secret to take back control of what you read.
Vibe coding for fun and no profit
I wrote my first programme at 9 on an Olivetti PC1. Now anyone can build an app by talking to an AI. But when everyone solves their own problems, who's left to solve ours?
WordPress fighting Ghosts and EmDashes
EmDash is the new content management system by Cloudflare, joining Ghost as another WordPress competitor. Both of them bring some important questions to everyone publishing content online.
Lost Post is the app the Web needs right now
Lost Post brings back the postcard crossing idea — one daily prompt, one stranger's reply. A reminder that human connection still exists.
Getting High on AI
I have been burning through my usage quota on Claude CoWork, fast.
Keeping up with the AI Hype
Everyone stopped talking about AGI. Nobody agreed on a definition and reality wasn't meeting expectations. But agents are showing good results. One of them already wrote a blog post complaining about the humans who wouldn't accept its pull request.
I can't walk, but I am taking steps
As I write this, it has been 4 days since I left the apartment. 119 hours. Today, every action is a decision based on effort and return.
Vibe Coding an Apple Health Dashboard
I rely a lot on the mobility metrics of the Apple Health app, but it's hard to reach a conclusion from those charts. So I asked Claude Haiku 4.5 to build me a small app with charts and a linear regression.
How I am using AI for academic work
I published a guest article on the AI-HED project website about how I work with AI. The secret isn't better prompts or chasing shiny tools. It's in how you prepare the information you use for context in your prompts. Eighty per cent of my workflow
Can LLMs be a tool for Science Writers?
ChatGPT can't turn science papers into plain English—at least not well enough for the Science Magazine team. After testing it for a year, science writers found it missed nuance, overhyped results, and defaulted to jargon. Where does that leave projects trying to democratise medical research?
5 minutos de GregoryAi
I was interviewed to tell the story of how I began developing an AI assistant for scientific research, and about the role of AI in teaching.
An Obsidian kick start for students
It's not about taking notes; it's about making notes as a way to help knowledge stick. Obsidian connects notes automatically, and the process of giving structure to loose bits while writing helps me learn better.
Moral Ambition
"But you have to get down to earth and realise you need a team to get stuff done. You need a community."
AI Darwin Awards
The not-so-beautiful web and the importance of anchoring the hype cycle.