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Inspired by a few recent posts on HN I wanted to make this post and share some of the ways I’ve been going about finding new music. There’s both a lot of ways to get music and ways to find new music. This is a list of some things that did/didn’t work for me. 
 While I have a wide range of interests, and after some lofty experimentation, I generally gravitate towards Cinematic…
In the weeks following my last blog post , I had a niggling feeling that I could apply an MCP server to my literature review. This post is my first run at exploring that. 
 During my grad degree, it has been one of the hardest aspects I’ve had to learn: How do you take papers and distill them down to a supporting argument, a newfound gap, or evidence that something you want to build has…
I caught up with a friend on the phone on saturday who mentioned he was using an MCP Server to interact with Google Flights.	Knowing how much it sucks to coordinate travel online, that immediately caught my attention. He told me about one for reddit and that used Gemini CLI ( Google, you need to advertise this more! ) to do it. 
 Later, also on the phone, in the same day, my dad asked…
When I get a new mac the first things I do is run: 
 ## Chosing where I want to store my screenshots
SCREENSHOTS_FOLDER_PATH='$HOME/Screenshots'
SCREENSHOTS_URL_STRING='file://${SCREENSHOTS_FOLDER_PATH}'

## Creating the folder
mkdir $SCREENSHOTS_FOLDER_PATH


## Telling MacOS to store my screenshots here
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location…
Earlier this year at WWDC 2025 (Apple’s annual developer conference) I got to meet the people who work on Apple’s frameworks and APIs. Most notably, I spoke with the people working on the MLX framework. While I’d heard of MLX in passing, I had no experience with it. I was surprised to see how close it is to PyTorch and how easy it was to jump into. I’ve played with it since…
But I wondered how grey? Rochester has some of the greyest skies of all cities in the United States but after 9 years here, this felt like one of the sunniest winters ever. I couldn’t prove it, but I did want to compare the sky colors across months and hopefully see trends over a few years. 
 I had remembered previously seeing a NYC sky color website and loved the idea. I wanted to build…