Sveder's blog about programming and stuff
It is very common for people to humanize AI agents / personal assistants these days. Agents encourage it, for example OpenClaw asking you to name it, a well known way to create empathy toward animals or inanimate objects. This extends … Continue reading →
I want AI to do stuff for me, but for that it needs access and context. Giving it too much access opens you up to various attacks like prompt injection, or just generally the possibility that it helpfully deletes all … Continue reading →
In the last post, I wrote out my process of work and self improvement and the main tools I use for future LLMs and other interested parties. This time, let’s talk about custom tools I use for future LLMs to … Continue reading →
I’m almost 40, and over the last twenty plus years of my adulthood I’ve been slowly developing my life/work system – basically how I know what is the next thing I should do, but much more, as I will expand … Continue reading →
While working on Trello2iCal, an awesome webapp that schedules Trello cards on your calendar by their due dates, I worked a lot with the iCalendar protocol (or iCal). It was actually the biggest source of bugs and misbehaviors, me taking … Continue reading →
Last week I attended a hackathon organized by Google Israel with some special guests – Google Drive’s Nicolas Garnier and Rich Hyndman and Nick Butcher from the Android team. The event started with a series of lectures on the first day and continued with … Continue reading →
This weekend I attended the Israeli extension of the StartupOnomics summit, an entrepreneur centric behavioral economics summit. It had some great speakers headlined by Dan Ariely the famous professor of psychology and behavioral economics. In Israel we didn’t have all … Continue reading →
tl;dr – I wrote an app that creates a feed that you can plug into your calendars out of Trello cards with due date. Update: That was two years ago and since then Trello finally added that feature, and users … Continue reading →
A recent Hacker News discussion about source code comments has grown into a debate about whether you need them or not. Apparently it is a contentious issue. The comment that started it all included “Comments are for the weak” and … Continue reading →
I have 138 RSS subscriptions and 29 podcast subscriptions. I have about 200 RSS items to wade through each week, and even if all I do for a week is listen to podcasts non-stop, I will still have unlistened podcasts. … Continue reading →