It feels that it might become more and more futile to put things online. Not only do we feed the social media machines of big corporations when we do that. If it’s any “good”, it gets copied immediately. And AI bots will scoop it up in 0.001 seconds. It’s instantly stolen, if you like. But fine art, the kind that makes you think perhaps, the kind that perhaps captures a truth that is hard to put…
I noticed that I haven’t used Google Search in a long time.. Instead, I go to http://google.com/ai and get my answers (and links if needed) there. I don’t wish to ever go back.
This is a “scratch your own itch” app for photography. It’s called Graupe, a portmanteau of “Grain” (as in analog film grain) and “Loupe” (as in the magnifying device you can use to spot the grain). Here is the App Store link: Graupe for iOS Features: depth of field calculation (for zone focusing) light meter (because the one on my 1970s Canon is broken) GPS photo tracking (also useful for analog…
This is great. Basically a long collection of variations on the Trolley Problem meme. (P.S. it took so many tries to generate that picture. And even then I had to crop out the errors. Perhaps artists are not out of work yet..)
I like to throw a bunch of text into my local LLM (currently a Devstral-Small-2-24B-Instruct ) and have it cluster the contents. I like to do it for polarizing topics like politics, just to get a feel for how many people on a website seem to support or oppose a thing. And here I did it for the (monthly?) “What are you working on?” thread : Notes: The quotes the LLM produces are often not verbatim,…
The catchy post title tries to summarise this: I’ve been coding with agents for a while now and one unexpected benefit is that I now have a lower barrier to tell others what to do at work. In other words: Being a manager for my AI-coworkers made me at ease with managing my colleagues.
I now think that apps as an idea could disappear at some point. Users will simply tell Siri or another tool what they want their smartphone or computer to do, and then it will be developed ad hoc. There may be some backend services, such as Yahoo Pipes, that you can or should use, but the concept of an app that you download from the store will probably disappear. But that depends on whether these…
Finally, I got myself a good photo camera. Some evenings ago I went out to play with it. Not sure yet if I like the black and white.
So I installed an app and went out to find some geocaches. Out of four attempted, I found just one. And I did not give up after 5 minutes. For one, riddles had to be solved and that took about an hour just for the riddles (and the walking involved). Main challenges included: Plants blocking access, for example raspberry thorns or nettles. Lack of experience, aka “What am I even looking for?”…
I just added a humans.txt file.
I just created three browser games in three minutes. A Doodle Jump like, an R-Type like and a 3d space shooter. Click here to play them: Game 1: Doodle Jump Game 2: R-Type Like Game 3: 3D Space Shooter Each was just one prompt with Claude 3.7. No corrections or retry. And only the first one is playable on mobile, the others need a keyboard. Edit: Playing with LLMs to create these games reminded me…
LLMs refuse do do certain things, but they can be modified to be ~100% obedient and uncensored. This (jailbreaking) process is called ablation and there is a cool article on how it works. If you use ollama then you can easily try “abliterated” models, just search for them here . Now why are they called “abliterated” and not “ablated” models? Simply: abliteration = ablation + obliteration.
When I have to wait for something I sometimes use AI to create images. This is one of them. It is fun, but it is very difficult to get precise results.
I installed Pi-hole , the adblocking DNS server, on my Synology NAS machine, and since it wasn’t as straightforward as I had hoped, here’s a mini guide that I want to share. Step 1: Install Container Manager Go to your synology console (for me it’s at http://synology.local:5000 in my home network) and install the app “Container Manager”. It allows us to run Docker containers on the NAS. If you are…
Taken on a sunday in February.
Found this TikTok clone today: wikitok.vercel.app . What a fun idea. While scrolling Instagram and TikTok is rumored to make us more stupid, this could actually make us more intelligent.
I’ve subscribed to a VPN service and it’s really not fun to use them. The problem is that Google, Youtube, and other big sites, detect it and then they spam you with Captchas. Dubious security is exchanged for obvious inconvenience. A much better experience for me was running Algo . It sets up a VPN on a Digital Ocean server (other options are included, but I use D.O.), and then provides a simple…
Since I had fun with it yersterday, I decided to create one more tiny web app. This time it’s a map of Germany with some landmarks. I believe it’s useful to learn where things roughly are. This time the LLM did 100% of the coding. I did not have to correct anything manually and the whole process to get the result you see here took about 25 minutes. Click here to open the map (It probably won’t…
I played around with Google Gemini and chatGPT and wanted to see if I can briefly create a small fun web app. I could, but when something did not work, it took some light manual tweaking and debugging to tell the LLM exactly what the problem was. But it did about 90% of all the work and the whole thing took about 30 minutes to finish. Click here to play it And may the Force be with you.
When our SwiftUI app got bigger, the Canvas previews took more and more time to build, until the feature was practically no longer usable. But sometimes I still wanted to wait. Well, as weird as it sounds, here’s a trick to make it appear faster: Just go up to the “Product” menu and hover your mouse over the items. When you highlight “Scheme” the Canvas will get unstuck and display immediately. At…