Lucy: A Voice Assistant for the Pebble Time 2
Two lanes behind one button — a deterministic router that answers in a quarter of a second, and a full agent that takes seventeen.
Sam Patterson's Blog
Thoughts on software development, AI, and technology
Latest posts
My Grandma Was a Fed - Lessons from Digitizing Hundreds of Hours of Childhood
In Which I go into Great Detail About Digitizing Video8 and Learn My Grandmama Lived With a Prostitute
Visualizing Why Bitcoin Can't Work Over HF Radio
In Which I Show Why We Need the Internet for Bitcoin
Why did I wait so long to Integrate AI into my Shell
In Which I Add ZSH Widgets to make CLI AI Easy
Sammy's Sensation: Pausing to See If a New Pattern Has a Name
How I coined ‘Sammy’s Sensation’—the sudden urge to wonder if a newly noticed pattern already has a name.
o3 Beats a Master-Level Geoguessr Player—Even with Fake EXIF Data
In Which I Try to Maintain Human Supremacy for a Bit Longer
We’re Still the Best Bakers: The Myth of American Manufacturing Decline
In Which I Explain Per Capita Manufacturing Favors the US
Informed versus Uninformed AI Skeptics
In Which I Describe why some AI Skeptics need to Experiment
No Longer 98.6 - How Human Body Temperature has Changed
In Which I Learn that our Body Temperature is Lower than Commonly Believed
Can Coding LLMs only Increase Complexity?
In Which I Vent my Frustrations about Using LLMs for Coding
Can AI Tell You What You Need (But Don't Want) To Hear?
In Which I Question Whether AI Will Help Us Stay Grounded
Why Don't You Walk Daily?
In Which I Persuade you to do something you already know you should be doing
Interesting Facts About my Father
In Which I Share Stories about my Father
My Book List 2024-2025
A dive into my reading from the past 18 months, featuring highlights across science, history, philosophy, and fiction.
Introducing My Notes System
I've added a new notes system to my personal site to share book reviews, thoughts, and other content that doesn't necessarily fit the blog format.
Breakdown of all Satoshi's Writings Proves Bitcoin not Built Primarily as Store of Value
An evidence-based analysis of Satoshi Nakamoto's writings showing Bitcoin was not built primarily as a store of value.
Unc's Unlearning Outfit for 2024
In Which I Write a Short Fiction
Claude Code Redesigned my Website in 3 Mins for $0.61
In Which I Recognize How Inferior I am at Design
Testing Claude Code
In Which I Test the New Claude Code Release
No Ideology Required; AI Customization Makes Open Source Tools the Obvious Choice
In Which I Describe how Cracked LLMs are for Customization
Fitness Tips from a Formerly Obese Nerd
In Which I Explain the Misconceptions I had About Fitness
Avoiding Google with Umami for Open Source Analytics
In Which I "Self-Host" another Pikapods Instance and don't even need AI
Using Listmonk for my Newsletter because Substack has no API
In Which I use Open Source Self Hosted Tools like a Good Boy
Saving My Table Tennis League’s Hard Drive—and Finding Lost BTC
In Which I Repair a Borked Linux Distro and Find Lost Bitcoin
Automated Screenshot Hosting with jsDelivr
In Which I Make a Cool Script
Testing Zonos TTS + Ubuntu + 4090
Testing it out
AI Tools Suck and are Amazing
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