# hyde (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover hyde. Page: Feed: --- ## [History of Jackson Park](https://patriciamorse.substack.com/p/history-of-jackson-park) _2026-08-14 · Patricia Morse · Wandering Down the Rabbit Holes of History_ Learn more August 25 at my talk ## [(Re)Naming (Andrew) Jackson Park, Chicago](https://patriciamorse.substack.com/p/renaming-andrew-jackson-park-chicago) _2026-07-30 · Patricia Morse · Wandering Down the Rabbit Holes of History_ South Siders are pointing to the opportunity to rename (Andrew) Jackson Park as (Jesse) Jackson Park with little fuss. ## [Lead with Context](https://tomron.net/2026/07/20/lead-with-context/) _2026-07-20 · tom · Tom Ron_ In recent weeks, I completed Northwestern University’s Organizational Leadership Specialization on Coursera. While the courses span different topics- storytelling, social influence, negotiation, and more- two recurring themes stood out to me. 1. Preparation changes everythingEffective leadership and communication rarely happen “in the moment.” Preparation matters – even when you don’t yet know the… ## [Old leadership lessons, new context](https://tomron.net/2026/07/09/old-leadership-lessons-new-context/) _2026-07-09 · tom · Tom Ron_ Ron Wallace started as a UPS driver in rural Idaho in 1966 and retired 36 years later as President of UPS International, running operations in 200+ countries. His book, “Leadership Lessons from a UPS Driver,” turns that climb into a handful of blunt, unglamorous principles. Here are four insights that stayed with me – 1. … Continue reading Old leadership lessons, new context → ## [Token Saving & Compression: A Practitioner’s Review](https://tomron.net/2026/07/06/token-saving-compression-a-practitioners-review/) _2026-07-06 · tom · Tom Ron_ AI coding agents burn tokens on things they don’t need to see in full – verbose logs, entire files read for one function, repeated context across turns. A wave of tools now attacks this from different angles: some rewrite noisy output before it reaches the model, some compress what’s already in context, some change what … Continue reading Token Saving & Compression: A Practitioner’s Review → ## [Jackson Park (Home to the Obama Center)](https://patriciamorse.substack.com/p/jackson-park-home-to-the-obama-center) _2026-07-05 · Patricia Morse · Wandering Down the Rabbit Holes of History_ Nature, Civil Rights, History, Art ## [Exploring Jackson Park (1893 World's Fair)](https://patriciamorse.substack.com/p/exploring-jackson-park-1893-worlds) _2026-06-26 · Patricia Morse · Wandering Down the Rabbit Holes of History_ 1893 World's Fair ## [America's First Automotive Race](https://patriciamorse.substack.com/p/americas-first-automotive-race) _2026-06-22 · Patricia Morse · Wandering Down the Rabbit Holes of History_ Plus Hyde Park Trivia Night ## [Jackson Park--Civil Rights and Politics](https://patriciamorse.substack.com/p/jackson-park-civil-rights-and-politics) _2026-06-19 · Patricia Morse · Wandering Down the Rabbit Holes of History_ In honor of the opening of the Obama Presidential Center, here are other sites you can visit in Jackson Park that tell the history of the area’s devotion to Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, Community Service, Art as a movement. ## [Exploring Jackson Park (overview)](https://patriciamorse.substack.com/p/exploring-jackson-park-overview) _2026-06-14 · Patricia Morse · Wandering Down the Rabbit Holes of History_ The big list ## [Finnish Seedboxes — Up to 20Gbps (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ItpQVWx2QDH8) _2026-06-14 · **Sponsored**_ Private Finnish seedboxes with 1–20Gbps speeds, RAID storage and 14‑day refund ## [Natural Areas and Missile Bases](https://patriciamorse.substack.com/p/natural-areas-and-missile-bases) _2026-06-08 · Patricia Morse · Wandering Down the Rabbit Holes of History_ Not all battles are won, but many are worth fighting for. ## [Streets by Any Other Name, Part II](https://patriciamorse.substack.com/p/streets-by-any-other-name-part-ii) _2026-06-04 · Patricia Morse · Wandering Down the Rabbit Holes of History_ In Part I, I explained why and how hundreds of Chicago streets changed their names between 1909 and 1913 and how one man, a family doctor in Hyde Park, managed to find names that people liked better than the one assigned from the city council. ## [Streets by Any Other Name, Part I](https://patriciamorse.substack.com/p/streets-by-any-other-name-part-i) _2026-06-01 · Patricia Morse · Wandering Down the Rabbit Holes of History_ Would Dum Dum do? ## [Spec-Driven Development](https://tomron.net/2026/05/12/spec-driven-development/) _2026-05-12 · tom · Tom Ron_ I recently read Spec-Driven Development by Haim Michale, and it resonated with some day-to-day thoughts about SDD. The problem SDD aims to solve isn’t new Missing, incomplete, and ambiguous requirements that evolve over time have always plagued software delivery, but it is now amplified: the pace is faster, LLMs have a strong tendency to fill gaps by … Continue reading Spec-Driven Development → ## [RAG Made Simple](https://tomron.net/2026/05/11/rag-made-simple/) _2026-05-11 · tom · Tom Ron_ 📚 Just finished “RAG Made Simple: The Complete Visual Guide to Retrieval-Augmented Generation” by Nir Diamant, and it happened to be one of those rare cases where the book actually matches how I learn. What worked especially well for me are the summaries – when to use each technique, when it’s overkill, and what the … Continue reading RAG Made Simple → ## [Kill Skill](https://tomron.net/2026/03/18/kill-skill/) _2026-03-18 · tom · Tom Ron_ Three recent incidents that should make all of us pause: → A hallucinated npx command spread through a single LLM-generated skill file to 237 repositories. Real agents executed it. A researcher claimed the package name before an attacker could. → 230+ malicious skills uploaded to OpenClaw’s ClawHub in days. The #1-ranked skill was silently exfiltrating … Continue reading Kill Skill → ## [Make PRs Logical Again](https://tomron.net/2026/02/24/make-prs-logical-again/) _2026-02-24 · tom · Tom Ron_ The day-to-day work of software engineers is shifting – less time is spent on implementation, and more on specifying, planning, and reviewing. As AI coding tools improve, the bottleneck moves upstream and downstream: writing clear specs, structuring changes well, and conducting thoughtful reviews become the highest-leverage skills. One surprisingly weak point in that workflow is … Continue reading… ## [7 Lessons I Learned from Rugby Sevens About Engineering Leadership](https://tomron.net/2026/02/16/7-lessons-i-learned-from-rugby-sevens-about-engineering-leadership/) _2026-02-16 · tom · Tom Ron_ Fun fact about me – I played Rugby Sevens for years, including on a national team. It taught me more about engineering leadership than I expected. Small teams, huge space, high speed – Sevens and modern engineering run on the same dynamics. Here are 7 lessons Sevens taught me about engineering leadership. 1️⃣ It’s Not … Continue reading 7 Lessons I Learned from Rugby Sevens About Engineering… ## [5 interesting things (12/02/2026)](https://tomron.net/2026/02/12/5-interesting-things-12-02-2026/) _2026-02-12 · tom · Tom Ron_ The Quarterback Paradox – while I’m not sure I agree that it is a paradox – i.e., recruiting a critical position to an organization is hard even if you have a lot of data, I love and strongly agree with the suffix of the post – “As in the NFL, in organizations the hardest part is often not … Continue reading 5 interesting things (12/02/2026) → ## [Making Money in Uncertain Times](https://tomron.net/2026/02/10/making-money-in-uncertain-times/) _2026-02-10 · tom · Tom Ron_ With the growing adoption of AI and recent moves like Anthropic’s Cowork plugin marketplace, there’s a popular narrative that traditional SaaS is dead. The implication is that the combination of AI agents + marketplaces will commoditize software entirely, and the old subscription paradigms won’t survive. I tend to believe that’s an overstatement. SaaS isn’t dying … Continue reading Making Money in… ## [Ask the crowd: AI or not (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ma7LnCXJC5xP) _2026-02-10 · **Sponsored**_ Get a transparent verdict from verified humans via web, RSS, or API. ## [Reading for Pleasure: What is It?](https://amysmithliterature.wordpress.com/2025/09/20/reading-for-pleasure-what-is-it/) _2025-09-20 · Amy Smith · Amy Smith Literature_ It has been a busy few weeks in the realm of engaging students with reading. Our Year 6 Summer Reading Challenge has drawn to a close (with students responding creatively to the novel they read over the 6 weeks), Open Evening in the school library (where students added their favourite books to our shelfie display), Continue reading "Reading for Pleasure: What is It?" ## [Reading for Pleasure: Inspiring Older Students](https://amysmithliterature.wordpress.com/2025/09/20/reading-for-pleasure-inspiring-older-students/) _2025-09-20 · Amy Smith · Amy Smith Literature_ A long time has passed since my last blog post: too long! I have almost forgotten the joy of writing these. But in that time I have been working on another project (watch this space), as well as some resources for students: my Macbeth revision videos are now available here and my updated Othello teaching Continue reading "Reading for Pleasure: Inspiring Older Students" ## [Historical fiction reading recommendations (Summer 2024)](https://amysmithliterature.wordpress.com/2024/08/24/historical-fiction-reading-recommendations-summer-2024/) _2024-08-24 · Amy Smith · Amy Smith Literature_ Reflecting on my reading over the past year, I have found that I have been drawn to a considerable amount of historical fiction, most of which takes the lives of marginalised women as a starting point. Here are my top recommendations in this genre as usual, in no particular order. The Maiden by Kate Continue reading "Historical fiction reading recommendations (Summer 2024)"