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Save an audio file into your Spotify account via CLI original ↗

25 May 2026

Treat your morning ritual like an opening chess move original ↗

16 Mar 2026

Taming Claude Code: Taking Back Control original ↗

18 Feb 2026

2025

Playing Tennis in the Netherlands: A Guide for Newcomers original ↗

8 May 2025

Pure Independence original ↗

3 May 2025

Never Been Easier to Learn original ↗

26 Apr 2025

Released a new tool: llm-url-markdown original ↗

16 Apr 2025

Comparing local large language models for alt-text generation original ↗

31 Mar 2025

Could That Meeting Be An Email?original ↗

31 Mar 2025

Building a Personal Content Recommendation System, Part Two: Data Processing and Cleaning original ↗

26 Mar 2025

Lessons in creating family photos that people want to keep original ↗

23 Mar 2025

Enhancing Text-to-SQL With Synthetic Summaries original ↗

18 Mar 2025

Building a Personal Content Recommendation System, Part One: Introduction original ↗

16 Mar 2025

Add Logprobs to Openai Structured Output original ↗

3 Mar 2025

Adding new entries to a Supabase postgres table via REST API original ↗

2 Jan 2025

2024

Ten Favorite Photos I Captured in 2024 original ↗

22 Dec 2024

Label-Studio: Annotate Text and Image Data for AI and ML training original ↗

19 Dec 2024

Quickly Filter and Aggregate Python Lists original ↗

19 Dec 2024

Pydantic Logfire for LLM and API Observability original ↗

19 Dec 2024

Build a search engine, not a vector DB original ↗

4 Dec 2024

Access Google Gemini LLM via OpenAI Python Library original ↗

1 Dec 2024

I Have Two Friends an Introverts Guide to Not Chasing Friendships original ↗

12 Aug 2024

Goodbye Microsoft Hello Facebook original ↗

4 Aug 2024

Country Specific Consent Requirements for Photographing People original ↗

29 Jun 2024

Understanding Input Masking in LLM Finetuning original ↗

29 Jun 2024

Control a smart light with multiple motion sensors in Home Assistant original ↗

20 Jun 2024

Upstream Productivity original ↗

13 Jun 2024

Evidence That You Should Take Your Content Diet More Seriously original ↗

13 Jun 2024

To Chunk or Not to Chunk With the Long Context Single Embedding Models original ↗

2 Jun 2024

Excuse Me Is There a Problem original ↗

27 May 2024

Lessons After a Half Billion Gpt Tokens original ↗

27 May 2024

Lucky vs Repeatable original ↗

3 May 2024

Running Python on a serverless GPU instance for machine learning inference original ↗

22 Apr 2024

Prove It original ↗

11 Apr 2024

Can You Just Quickly Pull This Data for Me original ↗

1 Apr 2024

An Introvert's Guide to Visibility in the Workplace original ↗

31 Mar 2024

Dealing With Surprising Human Emotions: Desk Moves original ↗

22 Mar 2024

LLMs Shouldn't Write SQL original ↗

18 Mar 2024

Effective Ways of Dealing With Spammers original ↗

18 Mar 2024

Thinking Fast by Preparing Well original ↗

14 Mar 2024

Optimizing Technical Docs for LLMs original ↗

12 Mar 2024

Willingness to Look Stupid original ↗

7 Mar 2024

Alfred vs Raycast original ↗

3 Mar 2024

Fuck You Show Me the Prompt original ↗

29 Feb 2024

GROUP BY ALL in Bigquery original ↗

28 Feb 2024

Classless Css Libraries original ↗

25 Feb 2024

My RSS-based Content Consumption Workflow original ↗

22 Feb 2024

Color Palette Generators original ↗

21 Feb 2024

There Is a Huge Gap in Generative Ai original ↗

20 Feb 2024

Office Politics original ↗

20 Feb 2024

Migrating From Gatsby to Hugo original ↗

17 Feb 2024

2023

Hand-drawn xkcd style charts with matplotlib original ↗

9 Dec 2023

Why you should try Alfred original ↗

26 Oct 2023

Getting started with developing browser extensions original ↗

25 Sept 2023

Topic Classification of Texts Locally Using BERTopic original ↗

12 Sept 2023

Text Chunking and Headings Grouping: A Guide to Parsing Documents with Pandoc and Python original ↗

8 Jul 2023

Demystifying Text Data with the unstructured Python Library (+alternatives)original ↗

5 Jul 2023

Generating text embeddings locally using sentence-transformers original ↗

2 Jul 2023

TIL: Simplifying URL Parsing with Python's urlparse Library original ↗

25 Jun 2023

Exploring OpenAI's Whisper with Non-English Voices original ↗

21 Jun 2023

Cleaning up incorrect and duplicates in a 1password account using its CLI original ↗

9 Jun 2023

Why do we need to have a central place for TODOs original ↗

26 Mar 2023

What I dislike about Google Docs (and what I like about it)original ↗

14 Mar 2023