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A short one today. I've had a busy last couple weeks, but I've been thinking of what to do next with this little blog and now that I've been posting here for over 6 months I feel it's gotten to the point where it can graduate from its current host 1 and move to its own domain next to all the other things I have scattered all over the internet. So, coming soon is: ~ blog.guernier.nz ~ There you'll…
Like seemingly everyone else with a Claude subscription, since the start of this month I've been squeezing as much Fable as I can 1 out of my little USD$20 subscription. And most of that has gone towards my little side project / informal frontier AI coding test case: a top down railway company simulator game a la OpenTTD . So what have I got out of the big code machine so far? Well, one thing I'll…
Whenever I'm sitting at home looking for something to read, or watch, or browse; these thoughts tend to pop into my mind: I could read / watch / listen / browse something I'm already familiar with, or look for something totally new. If I find something new that I deeply enjoy, this will bring a lot of happiness to me and could potentially improve my life over a long period. However, most (but not…
Lately I've been having to get up earlier than I am used to (around 6:30am to 7am) for work reasons. I'm usually fine with getting up early, but the problem is I like sleeping in too much, so over the weekend I stay in bed a couple hours later (even past 10am sometimes) and completely mess up my sleep schedule for the oncoming week. I could just set a flat wake up time that I stick to every day,…
A spooky looking empty street in Chikan, China I was recently travelling around Okinawa (with family), Hong Kong (by myself) and Guangdong Province in China (with a Mandarin-speaking friend). Here are some thoughts and observations I had during that trip. The airport in Taipei (which I connected through to get to Okinawa) is incredibly nice and certainly the best airport I've ever been to. Pretty…
The Former Site Of The New Pornographers I have a confession to make. Despite being a 26 year old who came of age with YouTube Let's Play videos and Tumblr blogs, I actually have the music taste of a circa-2006 hipster. I listen to more recent music as well of course 1 , but most of the music I listen to is firmly rooted in the 1990s/2000s indie rock scene. To justify which I could possibly…
I've become somewhat obsessed with Infinite Jest again after reading the Matt Lakeman post about it, having somehow made my way through it 1 some time during high school. Like most other things involved with the author David Foster Wallace, the book is deeply insight laden but also at times incomprehensible, puerile or just plain distasteful. But somehow it has stuck with me through the decade…
I've had a crazy busy last couple of days and my sleep schedule hasn't quite recovered, so this will just be a link dump post. At least it's all 'on-theme', albeit a rather over saturated theme these days. If you're tired of hearing about AI, I don't blame you! There have been quite a few good posts on the topic of using LLMs for writing recently: here and here . Both of them land pretty close to…
TL;DR : Don't use AI to produce notes, but using it for semantic search and knowledge synthesis seems fine. Don't use it until you have a well ingrained note taking habit and at least 1 month of daily notes. Keep AI and human generated notes as separated as you can. So a little while ago I finally relented and started paying for a personal Claude subscription, mostly to get access to Claude Code.…
As of yesterday it's my 100 day anniversary of my daily journal goal. Through that and the word count goal I started slightly earlier, I have written over 26,000 over the last 4 or so months, much more than I have written before then. Some of that writing has made it here onto this blog, some needs some more marinating time, but overall I think all this writing has helped improve my thinking (and…