What will GenAI product placement look like?
The path to profitability for many AI providers likely includes embedded advertisements and product placement.
Logan Hood
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Wrapping up 2025
Fatherhood continues Of course, my biggest accomplishment this year was - with the help of many other people - raising a baby human who is now almost a year old. AI? Like many in the industry, the new tool in my toolbelt is AI, which really landed this year. (Or, maybe I was just a late adopter.) It’s gone from a curiosity to a near-daily tool for coding and writing. My “AI Ethics” post from June…
PrimeGrid on EC2 Spot: Bonus IPv6 Adventures
Using IPv6 to save money and discovering that, of course, not everyone supports IPv6 in 2025.
Using EC2 Spot for the PrimeGrid Compositorial Prime Search
The most cost effective way to find prime numbers on EC2!
PrimeGrid
Searching for enormous prime numbers...
AI Ethics
As a fully-remote worker, the majority of my conversations with my teammates are text-based. It feels bad to send someone a message and get a multi-faceted comprehensive response that hopefully is a satisfactory answer to your fascinating question . I won’t wade into ongoing politics of AI regulation, but I can talk about my personal ethics. If you work with me professionally, you’ve probably seen…
Fatherhood
A few days ago, my first child was born. About a month ago, at my wife’s recommendation, I read Abraham Verghese’s 2023 novel The Covenant Of Water . In the same way that Moby Dick is a “book about everything”, The Covenant Of Water is a book about everything human. Near the end of the story, one of Verghese’s characters reflects on his own fatherhood and acceptance at fading into the background.…
A goal For 2025: Learn to animate
Learning to create simple technical animations.
Your investment portfolio grows as a geometric series
Compound interest is only part of the story. Treating your saving and spending habits as inputs to a geometric series is a powerful tool for finanical decision-making.
Analysis of the wild beat in Lookin At Me by Chrome Sparks
An EDM trap beat that sounds like a crazy time signature, but it's just 4/4 (or is it?)
The Busy Farmer’s Hens
A barnyard allegory about recency bias in system modeling
u 0.0.1 release
u is a functional programming language based around unary operators.
Four months of Rust
I started learning Rust in October 2023, a few hours a week. This post shares some of the things I've done that have worked well for me.
The chore heatmap
A spreadsheet-based tool for keeping track of recurring tasks
Shellspec as a language-agnostic testing tool
Shellspec is primarily branded as a unit testing framework for shell scripts, but it can do a lot more than that.
The Junk Drawer monorepo, and a real-life use-case for an obscure git-merge flag
How I combined a few “junk repos” into my JunkDrawer monorepo with git merge --allow-unrelated-histories.
Everyday peer-to-peer sharing with 7-Zip and BitTorrent
You can use BitTorrent as a self-hosted means to share files like photos and videos, with decent privacy, and it's simple enough to use with moderately tech-savvy friends and family.