Best World Cup Ever :D
Every World Cup starts with outrage and ends with 'best ever' — and this one, controversies and all, was no exception.
Dalan Mendonca
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Building My First AI Model
I fine-tuned a Llama model on my own notes to build a chatbot that mimics my voice — and discovered that AI is less magic and more data pipeline than I expected.
Social Site Is Now Live!
After nearly two decades on big tech platforms, I built my own social media home — posting on my own domain first and syncing everywhere else.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times - AI edition
AI has been a miraculous empowering tool for tinkerers like me, but the tech industry is in the middle of a painful reckoning.
Digital Reform vs Revolution
Dealing with the lack of privacy in internet products
In remembrance of Nana - Lily Rego
Rest in Peace Nana
Life with a baby: First year update
Notes, feelings, and thoughts after a year of having a baby
Book review: Cyberselfish by Paulina Borsook
A review of Paulina Borsook's prescient 25-year-old critique exposing the libertarian selfishness at Silicon Valley's core
Credit cards - Understand the game
Understand how credit cards work and use them wisely
Hello world to the new website
Thanks to Claude Code, Maggie Appleton, Astro and more; I was able to final build my own website and do a cloud and build a little digital garden
Technology without Imagination
A good example of rushing to shove technology without an imagination is this demo: (3) AI-Powered Travel Booking: How VAs Can Use AI to Plan & Book Tr
The internet social contract is beyond broken. Exits are a must.
For most technologies, humans react to it with enthusiasm and naivete. So, it happened with the internet. 15 years ago, millennials like me were posti
🔍 Why I stopped angel investing after 15...
🔍 Why I stopped angel investing after 15 years (and what I’m doing instead)(https://halletecco.substack.com/p/why-i-stopped-angel-investing-after) Ra
The End of Programming as We Know It...
The End of Programming as We Know It(https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.oreilly.com%2Fradar%2Fthe-end-of-programming-as-we-know-it%2F&t=
“None of the ways by which we’re taught...
“None of the ways by which we’re taught to make sense of the world still live up to their billing. The grand liberal faith in a future of limitless be
Good comment, LLMs are a useful for a...
!(/tumblr-media/2ae4418e9854a944ca4be3a90bf4fab37e3f5e88.png) Good comment, LLMs are a useful for a lot of things; but they are not search engines++ a
Why are Japanese developers not undergoing mass layoffs
Why are Japanese developers not undergoing mass layoffs?(https://www.gamesindustry.biz/why-are-japanese-developers-not-undergoing-mass-layoffs) Felt t
The tech industry is in a rough spot
!(/tumblr-media/c891d673e6112cd4df1744708d7cba0c3e7ff767.png) The tech industry is in a rough spot. Continuous layoffs and increasing data pointing to
Writebook Hat’s off to the folks at 37 Signals
Writebook(https://once.com/writebook) Hat’s off to the folks at 37 Signals. They just published Writebook - a free self-hostable and (quite importantl
How I write Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s wrote a...
How I write(https://medium.com/incerto/how-i-write-8b495eae0330) Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s wrote a post on “How I Write”. _“That was the period when I v
The Superiority Of Piracy I think Indi hits...
The Superiority Of Piracy(https://indi.ca/the-superior-of-piracy/) I think Indi hits the nail on the head here. The evolution of internet video has ju
Fast Crimes at Lambda School (sandofsky
Fast Crimes at Lambda School (sandofsky.com)(https://www.sandofsky.com/lambda-school/) Hat tip to Ben Sandofsky for this post
“Microsoft volunteer working on a Linux-based database”
“Microsoft volunteer working on a Linux-based database”
Back here after 10 years or so
!(/tumblr-media/42d795c5eab6acdb9ce25c6f5abafe48bb72a0c1.png) Back here after 10 years or so? I think the last time I installed Linux on a personal ma
Debugging Tech Journalism—Asterisk This is a great article...
Debugging Tech Journalism—Asterisk(https://asteriskmag.com/issues/06/debugging-tech-journalism) This is a great article on the state of tech journalis
It’s been awhile since I read a book without an ISBN
It’s been awhile since I read a book without an ISBN. This one was damn funny and really good! !(/tumblr-media/a92fa100f8d1ae86715ee1ff1ee1b147f53f30f
Yesterday I was on I was live on...
Yesterday I was on I was live on the radio with Kalyan Kattamuri from Virijallu. I was promoting BITSync - our annual conference in the Bay Area. Firs
Astro Nano
Minimal portfolio and blog build with astro and no frameworks.
Astro Sphere
Portfolio and blog build with astro.
Social resets and friend formation
It’s February, it’s raining in San Francisco and I’m thinking about friend circles. When a person migrates, their social context doesn’t migrate with...
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Supplying our light
_“For any given topic, there is a gap between the supply of what we actually know and the demand for what we feel we need to know. Everything that fil
We have two quests in life - one...
We have two quests in life - one to sustain materially and the other to sustain spiritually.
IBM taps AI to translate COBOL code to...
IBM taps AI to translate COBOL code to Java | TechCrunch(https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/22/ibm-taps-ai-to-translate-cobol-code-to-java/) So banks, gov
The Enlightened view on productivity
Intro I’ve been productivity geek for 20 years now. A geek and straight A right student from the time I slid out from the womb - I always loved organi
The real challenges of AI
The real challenge of AI is democratisation. We are in middle of a boom in AI. While it may seem like a sudden explosion in the media; this moment has
ज्ञान
Hey hey hey, who randomly went to UCSC to talk to students about tech careers. Public speaking is easy for me, the drive back was the crazy part :D
Very well written! Payments nerd appreciate.
Very well written! Payments nerd appreciate.
Kudos on the effort and comparison Elliot.
Kudos on the effort and comparison Elliot.
“Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can...
“Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments
Thank you to everyone who got me to 100 likes
!(/tumblr-media/8bad83a728137921bed1b3697f85c519f5aedf91.png) Thank you to everyone who got me to 100 likes! Wow 😂 - this is an auto-generated post f
I agree with the optimistic sentiment. Generative AI is truly feels like a new technology epoch.
I agree with the optimistic sentiment. Generative AI is truly feels like a new technology epoch.
Axe and Magic
The Axe It was a melancholic start to the year. It rained incessantly outside and the mood was grey. Then came the axe in the form of layoffs at “Big Tech
Fresh off the plane — My Yelp review of the US
Spoiler alert — it’s a solid 3.8
Fresh off the plane — My Yelp review of the USA
_Spoiler alert — it’s a solid 3.8_ !Astronauts from India and the USA bumping fists on mars vibrant cyberpunk synthwave artstation(/tumblr-media/609a
This is the thought leadership I crave
This is the thought leadership I crave
I've heard a lot about Amazon's 14 LPs and even studied them for some Amazon interview prep…
I've heard a lot about Amazon's 14 LPs and even studied them for some Amazon interview prep…
We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic...
We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the new,but perchance the first news that will leak through int
Every great man is an actor of his...
Every great man is an actor of his own ideal — Nietzsche (modified version of original quote)
Post-survival
Likely a very cool image