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 A boy stood at the ship’s rail. He was sixteen. He had money sewn into the lining of his coat. He watched the dock and the German architecture in the distance. Bremen. 
 A priest moved through the crowd with a Bible, pressing verses into palms. The boy took one and folded it into his pocket without reading it. He knew the words already. They had been ringing in the Palatinate since…

 On a relatively normal day in the not-so-distant future, a tech-savvy entrepreneur was planning his week. He cleared his throat and bellowed out to the device on the nearby table: 
 “Hey ChatGPT! 
 I need to go to Austin this weekend for a meeting with prospective investors, after that I’ll spend the weekend there and return. Plan my itinerary, book my flights and hotel,…
Disclaimer: We are at a historical crossroads, so this is a long post. 
 
 
 The critically acclaimed award-winning 2015 German-language satirical dark comedy Er ist wieder da (He’s back again) based on the eponymous 2012 novel, tells the (fictional) story of a time-travelling Adolf Hitler who finds himself alive and awake in 2014 Berlin. 
 At first, he is mistaken for an…

 This post details the short but exciting virtual scavenger hunt that I participated in last week, and the various technical challenges involved, along with an exploration of dead-ends and lessons learned. 
 One week ago, I noticed this tweet: 
 
 I will personally hand deliver a 4090 to you if you can solve this. Warning you though, it's hard. 99% probably can't.…

 When using large language models like ChatGPT or Perplexity or Phind in my day to day routine - I find myself working with two workflows. 
 The first is the one that they excel at - conversational interfaces to explore a topic in-depth and exhaustively ask questions until I get the information I need. 
 The second is more of a replacement for Google. I find myself using Google to get…
Every developer has a set of unique, uncompromising, arcane set of requirements for their own blog. This is a well-known affliction and has become a popular running-joke. Every blogging platform is eliminated from consideration due to obscure nitpicks, leading to one inevitable conclusion - building your own blog engine. 
 This is a rundown of how, with a little bit of tinkering, I arrived at…
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