If you ve got any kind of engineering background, you re probably spending most of your waking hours enmeshed in a possibly unhealthy relationship with a coding agent like Claude Code. I know I am. This also means you know models like Claude have good days and bad days. Sometimes these issues stem from service interruptions as [ ]
I built a Claude Code skill that creates Spotify playlists from natural language. You describe what you want 70s Ethiopian jazz fusion, ambient music that sounds like it was recorded in a cathedral, deep cuts from the golden age of hip-hop and Claude talks to Spotify s API and generates a personalized playlist in [ ]
Like most people, I ve had my identity stolen once or twice in my life. It s annoying, but thankfully I ve avoided some of the more catastrophic outcomes when criminals begin impersonating you. These days, however, it seems like someone is really trying to change that: a scammer has now tried to impersonate me multiple times in [ ]
For the past several months, I ve been receiving and then ignoring a steady stream of concerning emails from Sendgrid, the popular email delivery service owned by Twilio that I use for sending emails from Breadwinner. I d see some weird API error notification, login to my SendGrid account, check everything is working properly, and then delete [ ]
What s the fastest and most accurate way to calculate the exact area of a pink in this design? That was the question my friend Alex Hague asked me when he was developing the game Figment for his tabletop company CMYK Games. It s a deceptively simple request, but answering it formally or even technically is quite [ ]
When you’re surfing and get caught in the whitewater after a big wave, the feeling can be terrifying – you’re “caught on the inside.” I love this phrase because it conveys a feeling all humans have felt some version of: when things get a little intense, your body is burning oxygen, and you lose track of [ ]
I m on the board of Rhizome.org, a great non-profit focused on technology and art. We do an event every year called Seven on Seven where we pair seven technologists with seven artists. Saturday was the fifth anniversary of the event, and this year one of the teams paired NYT writer and author Nick Bilton with [ ]
A month or so ago, Andy Baio was watching 120 Minutes and thought he recognized the wall moulding in Rancid s Time Bomb video: Watching old music videos, I just realized Rancid's Time Bomb was filmed in the old Kickstarter office. Mind blown. http://t.co/roDdDf8kVD Andy Baio (@waxpancake) December 21, 2013 Here s the video: Rancid was [ ]
CitiBike Share launched yesterday. I finally got my fob activated, but since its raining, I haven t had a chance to take the bikes out for a spin, so I decided to take their data for a spin instead. Jer RT d Chris Shiflett s link to the CitiBike Share JSON data: Want to make something fun with [ ]
Thessaly La Force, recently published a book with the artist Jane Mount called My Ideal Bookshelf. In it, Thessaly interviews over 100 people and Jane paints their bookshelves: The books that we choose to keep let alone read can say a lot about who we are and how we see ourselves. In My Ideal Bookshelf, [ ]