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I sure wish I could commit to writing with pen and paper. There are very compelling arguments for why one should write by hand. It’s good for your brain ! Science proves it ! I’ve been in meetings with people who enter the room with a pen and notebook. They seem so much more attentive and engaged than the people typing something in their laptops. I’ve tried . I wrote in a journal…
I know you want to use AI as an escape. It is so tempting. You get to sit in your bubble and imagine everything and see it come to life and your agent buddy will keep cheering you on while you get nothing done with your life. And I think that’s the biggest danger of AI. You convince yourself that you are doing something useful when you are not.
There is the appealing idea that AI-assisted programming means better tools which lets us build more ambitious software. That is certainly true at the level of the individual and without doubt a developer with an agent will be dramatically more capable of changing a codebase. But large software projects have never been limited only by how quickly an individual can produce code. They are limited by…
This post by Daniel Gilbert immediately resonated with me, because I struggle with procrastination and have found AI tools to be surprisingly helpful in overcoming it. I have a stale task waiting to be done, but I just can’t bring myself to get started working on it. All I really have to do is pull up my AI agent and say “Hey I gotta do this thing”. The peppy AI will immediately…
Local AI shines when the model’s job is transforming user-owned data, not acting as a search engine for the universe.
Spectrimage takes a photograph, visualizes the color information pixel-by-pixel, and builds a palette. Great writeup of techniques to extract a good set of colors from any image.
A lovely web app to extract color palettes from images. Simple, but really impressive set of features.
Consumption versus Creation. I’ve long been conscious of two contrasting categories of pastimes – those that consume, and those that create. Consumption is fast. Consumption is passive. Consumption is easy. Consumption in today’s world is limitless, as there are an infinite number of sources that each provide an infinite amount of content. It’s easy to blow this into a dystopian…
Modern CSS code snippets, side by side with the old hacks they replace. Every technique you still Google has a clean, native replacement now. There are really useful new CSS features that I’m embarrassed to say I knew nothing about.
This looks like a pretty neat interactive fiction game, by Michael Gentry. Excited to give it a shot. This is a pretty enormous game. There are lots of rooms to explore and lots things to mess with, and they don’t all necessarily contribute directly to solving the game. Don’t be daunted. Don’t spend too much time banging your head against a locked door – many of the keys…