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into Obsidian using Pandoc", "url": "https://theaspiringnerd.com/raindrop-bookmarks-to-obsidian-markdown-with-pandoc/", "published_at": "2022-01-28T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087ec-0312-7204-97a2-6ace3606c002", "title": "2021 Podcasts Recommendations", "url": "https://theaspiringnerd.com/2021-podcasts-recommendations/", "published_at": "2021-10-09T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087ec-0312-7204-97a2-6ace366df40e", "title": "The brand new 2020 Aspiring Nerd blog has arrived!", "url": "https://theaspiringnerd.com/the-brand-new-2020-aspiring-nerd-blog-has-arrived/", "published_at": "2020-02-06T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087ec-0312-7204-97a2-6ace36ee1d8c", "title": "Net Neutrality is dead, cryptojacking keeps spreading & the Mirai Botnet isn’t what you think", "url": "https://theaspiringnerd.com/net-neutrality-is-dead-cryptojacking-keeps-spreading-and-the-mirai-botnet-isnt-what-you-think/", "published_at": "2017-12-27T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087ec-0312-7204-97a2-6ace37a9e04a", "title": "Parts of the US Internet broke down, a poor guy stole and lost $300m in cryptocurrency by accident", "url": "https://theaspiringnerd.com/parts-of-the-us-internet-broke-down-a-poor-guy-stole-and-lost-300m-in-cryptocurrency-by-accident/", "published_at": "2017-11-15T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087ec-0312-7204-97a2-6ace3824584a", "title": "WiFi is broken, Big Brother lives in China and robots are coming for Wall Street!", "url": "https://theaspiringnerd.com/wifi-is-broken-big-brother-lives-in-china-and-robots-are-coming-for-wall-street/", "published_at": "2017-10-23T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087ec-0312-7204-97a2-6ace39076c47", "title": "Disqus leaks user data, Equifax still struggles with cybersecurity", "url": "https://theaspiringnerd.com/disqus-leaks-user-data-equifax-still-struggles-with-cybersecurity/", "published_at": "2017-10-17T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087ec-0312-7204-97a2-6ace39143930", "title": "AIM shuts down after 20 years, Kaspersky Lab might be working with the Kremlin", "url": "https://theaspiringnerd.com/aim-shuts-down-after-20-years-kaspersky-lab-might-be-working-with-the-kremlin/", "published_at": "2017-10-10T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087ec-0312-7204-97a2-6ace3a09bca3", "title": "Deloitte leaks clients’ secret emails, Uber wants to leave Quebec and the new Firefox Quantum is out", "url": "https://theaspiringnerd.com/deloitte-leaks-clients-secret-emails-uber-wants-to-leave-quebec-and-the-new-firefox-quantum-is-out/", "published_at": "2017-10-02T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087ec-0312-7204-97a2-6ace3ae3f5fa", "title": "Uber loses licence in London, Google buys HTC talents for $1.1B & CCleaner distributes malware million users", "url": "https://theaspiringnerd.com/uber-loses-licence-in-london-google-buys-htc-talents-for-11b-and-ccleaner-distributes-malware-million-users/", "published_at": "2017-09-25T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087ec-0312-7204-97a2-6ace3bd9cd49", "title": "Equifax breach exposes millions of US consumers’ data, China bans cryptocurrencies & bluetooth flaw puts billions at risk", "url": "https://theaspiringnerd.com/equifax-breach-exposes-millions-of-us-consumers-data-china-bans-cryptocurrencies-and-bluetooth-flaw-puts-billions-at-risk/", "published_at": "2017-09-17T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087ec-0312-7204-97a2-6ace3bea395c", "title": "Google breaks Japan’s internet, DDoS botnets keep growing & central banks get interested in cryptocurrencies", "url": "https://theaspiringnerd.com/google-breaks-japans-internet-ddos-botnets-keep-growing-and-central-banks-get-interested-in-cryptocurrencies/", "published_at": "2017-09-05T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087ec-0312-7204-97a2-6ace3c8b86e3", "title": "HBO keeps getting hacked, cryptocurrencies are not currencies & robots won’t take all our jobs", "url": "https://theaspiringnerd.com/hbo-keeps-getting-hacked-cryptocurrencies-are-not-currencies-and-robots-wont-take-all-our-jobs/", "published_at": "2017-08-28T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087ec-0312-7204-97a2-6ace3cea61fb", "title": "The Daily Stormer sucks, Trumps disbands business councils & China’s headed for AI world domination", "url": "https://theaspiringnerd.com/the-daily-stormer-sucks-trumps-disbands-business-councils-and-chinas-headed-for-ai-world-domination/", "published_at": "2017-08-18T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087ec-0312-7204-97a2-6ace3d417b79", "title": "Google’s diversity memo shakes the web, Walt Disney's leaving Netflix & researchers infected a computer with DNA", "url": "https://theaspiringnerd.com/googles-diversity-memo-shakes-the-web-walt-disneys-leaving-netflix-and-researchers-infected-a-computer-with-dna/", "published_at": "2017-08-11T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087ec-0312-7204-97a2-6ace3d859e6d", "title": "China censors Apple and Amazon, cryptocurrencies are the new gold & Hyperloop is the future of public transportation", "url": "https://theaspiringnerd.com/china-censors-apple-and-amazon-cryptocurrencies-are-the-new-gold-and-hyperloop-is-the-future-of-public-transportation/", "published_at": "2017-08-04T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087ec-0312-7204-97a2-6ace3e120416", "title": "Sweden leaks massive data, Amazon misleads consumers & the Library of Congress opens its catalogs", "url": "https://theaspiringnerd.com/sweden-leaks-massive-data-amazon-misleads-consumers-and-the-library-of-congress-opens-its-catalogs/", "published_at": "2017-07-28T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087ec-0312-7204-97a2-6ace3e65978c", "title": "$31M+ stolen in cryptocurrencies, new blockchain challenges & Japan sent a drone to space!", "url": "https://theaspiringnerd.com/sweden-leaks-massive-data-amazon-misleads-consumers-and-the-library-of-congress-opens-its-catalogs-2/", "published_at": "2017-07-21T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087ec-0312-7204-97a2-6ace3f27b38b", "title": "Internet fights for Net Neutrality, bacteria can store animated gifs & AI is at war with journalists", "url": "https://theaspiringnerd.com/internet-fights-for-net-neutrality-bacteria-can-store-animated-gifs-and-ai-is-at-war-with-journalists/", "published_at": "2017-07-14T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087ec-0312-7204-97a2-6ace3f9119b5", "title": "Fake news is scarier than ever, blockchain struggles with scaling & online privacy still an issue", "url": "https://theaspiringnerd.com/fake-news-is-scarier-than-ever-blockchain-struggles-with-scaling-and-online-privacy-still-an-issue/", "published_at": "2017-07-07T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087ec-0312-7204-97a2-6ace40440e7c", "title": "Petya breaks computers, EU fines Google €2.42B", "url": "https://theaspiringnerd.com/petya-breaks-computers-eu-fines-google-eu242b/", "published_at": "2017-06-30T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087ec-0312-7204-97a2-6ace4123d6ab", "title": "Amazon buys Whole Foods, Uber’s CEO resigns and the NSA goes open source", "url": "https://theaspiringnerd.com/amazon-buys-whole-foods-ubers-ceo-resigns-and-the-nsa-goes-open-source/", "published_at": "2017-06-23T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087ec-0312-7204-97a2-6ace418f9240", "title": "Internet Trends 2017 are out, hacking power grids is possible & the blockchain keeps growing", "url": "https://theaspiringnerd.com/internet-trends-2017-are-out-hacking-power-grids-is-possible-and-the-blockchain-keeps-growing/", "published_at": "2017-06-16T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087ec-0312-7204-97a2-6ace420b839b", "title": "The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #12", "url": "https://theaspiringnerd.com/the-aspiring-nerd-issue-12/", "published_at": "2017-06-09T00:00:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

Turn Apple Music Playlists into mixtapes with AppleScript, Markdown & JavaScriptoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2026
AI;DR or Don't be a meat proxyoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2026
The Monthly Dispatch - The Lighter Summer Editionoriginal ↗
6 Aug 2026
The Monthly Dispatch - June 2026original ↗
3 Jul 2026
Wait, Midjourney Is Building a What Now?original ↗
20 Jun 2026
The Monthly Dispatch - May 2026original ↗
31 May 2026
Quoting Sameer Al-Sakran: Welcome to the strip mining era of open source securityoriginal ↗
17 May 2026
Notes from inside China's AI labsoriginal ↗
9 May 2026
The Monthly Dispatch - April 2026original ↗
30 Apr 2026
The Monthly Dispatch - March 2026original ↗
30 Mar 2026
Curious & Confused: TIL in February 2026original ↗
28 Feb 2026
Quoting Ethan Mollick: A Lot is Going to Changeoriginal ↗
12 Feb 2026
AI Doesn't Reduce Work—It Intensifies Itoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2026
Curious & Confused: TIL in January 2026original ↗
2 Feb 2026
Moltbook is fascinating, and kind of terrifyingoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2026
Hilary Gridley's AI Steering Wheeloriginal ↗
21 Jan 2026
The Camera You Have on Hand: Using Codex Web to Act on Ideas Instantlyoriginal ↗
8 Jan 2026
Quoting Ethan Mollick: Managing Agents is Really a Management Problemoriginal ↗
3 Jan 2026

2025

Quoting Jason Gorman: The Future of Software Development is Software Developersoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2025
My Writing Workflow: From Reading to Publishingoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2025
From 9 Posts to 47: Building, Breaking, and Learning With AI in 2025original ↗
26 Dec 2025
Curious & Confused: TIL in December 2025original ↗
25 Dec 2025
Quoting Bryan Newbold: Why Leaving X Makes Senseoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2025
Quoting Johann Rehberger: The Normalization of Deviance in AIoriginal ↗
6 Dec 2025
Quoting The Resonant Computing Manifestooriginal ↗
6 Dec 2025
Curious & Confused: TIL in September - November 2025original ↗
30 Nov 2025
A First Look at Prototyping With Gemini 3 and Google AI Studiooriginal ↗
20 Nov 2025
Quoting Elena Verna: My beef with AI credit pricingoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2025
Experimenting with Codex CLI, Agents.md, and PRDsoriginal ↗
3 Nov 2025
Quoting Geoffrey Litt: Code Like a Surgeonoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2025
On Vibe Coding Cleanup as a Serviceoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2025
Curious & Confused: TIL in July - August 2025original ↗
2 Sept 2025
Quoting Michael Bassili: I Miss Using Em Dashesoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2025
Quoting Bruce Schneier: We Are Still Unable to Secure LLMsoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2025
Prototyping a Tag Manager Component with ChatGPT and Cursororiginal ↗
20 Aug 2025
Quoting Anu Atluru: Doomprompting Is the New Doomscrollingoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2025
GPT-5 First Impressionsoriginal ↗
8 Aug 2025
What is Slopsquatting?original ↗
6 Aug 2025
Quoting Orta Therox: Programming’s ‘Introduction to Photography’ Momentoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2025
Quoting Vincent Schmalbach: My LLMs Have Personalitiesoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2025
Curious & Confused: TIL in May - June 2025original ↗
7 Jul 2025
Quoting Simon Willison: Identify, solve, verifyoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2025
Quoting John Rush: Building a Personal AI Factoryoriginal ↗
2 Jul 2025
Quoting Simon Willison: The lethal trifecta for AI agentsoriginal ↗
17 Jun 2025
Quoting Devansh: Fine-Tuning LLMs is a Huge Waste of Timeoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2025
Curious & Confused: TIL in April 2025original ↗
3 May 2025
Quoting Sean Goedecke: Debugging, emotional resilience, and mental modelsoriginal ↗
27 Apr 2025
Watching o3 guess a photo’s location is kinda scaryoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2025
Quoting Drew Breunig on Domain Experts & Developersoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2025
How secure is MCP, really?original ↗
7 Apr 2025
Matt Webb, Interview for People and Blogs:original ↗
5 Apr 2025
Curious & Confused: TIL in March 2025original ↗
2 Apr 2025
Curious & Confused: TIL in February 2025original ↗
2 Mar 2025
The future belongs to idea guys who can just do thingsoriginal ↗
13 Feb 2025
The Anthropic Economic Index by Anthropicoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2025
Curious & Confused: TIL in January 2025original ↗
31 Jan 2025
OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data They Stole Firstoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2025
Your very own Benjamin Gates with ChatGPToriginal ↗
28 Jan 2025
Think of local-first as a hardening function.original ↗
22 Jan 2025
Digital sovereignty is more important than everoriginal ↗
19 Jan 2025
A guide to AI prototyping for product managersoriginal ↗
16 Jan 2025
ChatGPT reveals the system prompt for Tasksoriginal ↗
14 Jan 2025
The 2025 AI Engineering Reading Listoriginal ↗
14 Jan 2025
Street-fighting RAG: Chain-of-thought promptingoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2025
Challenging the "LLMs are just next-token predictors" takeoriginal ↗
4 Jan 2025
Tracking Flights Over My House With ChatGPT and Claudeoriginal ↗
4 Jan 2025
Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?original ↗
3 Jan 2025

2024

Things we learned about LLMs in 2024original ↗
31 Dec 2024
OpenAI’s Board: ‘To Succeed, All We Need Is Unimaginable Sums of Money’original ↗
29 Dec 2024
How decentralized is Bluesky really?original ↗
15 Dec 2024
Perfect is the Enemy of Goodoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2024
To Auto-Save or Not to Auto-Save?original ↗
1 Nov 2024
Art Display with Real-Time Image Diffusionoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2024
What I Should Have Focused on When Picking Freelance Gigsoriginal ↗
18 Oct 2024
The web is too big, or scaling downoriginal ↗
10 Oct 2024
The Lost Charm of the Early Internetoriginal ↗
25 Jul 2024

2022

Get your Raindrop.io bookmarks into Obsidian using Pandocoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2022

2021

2021 Podcasts Recommendationsoriginal ↗
9 Oct 2021

2020

The brand new 2020 Aspiring Nerd blog has arrived!original ↗
6 Feb 2020

2017

Net Neutrality is dead, cryptojacking keeps spreading & the Mirai Botnet isn’t what you thinkoriginal ↗
27 Dec 2017
Parts of the US Internet broke down, a poor guy stole and lost $300m in cryptocurrency by accidentoriginal ↗
15 Nov 2017
WiFi is broken, Big Brother lives in China and robots are coming for Wall Street!original ↗
23 Oct 2017
Disqus leaks user data, Equifax still struggles with cybersecurityoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2017
AIM shuts down after 20 years, Kaspersky Lab might be working with the Kremlinoriginal ↗
10 Oct 2017
Deloitte leaks clients’ secret emails, Uber wants to leave Quebec and the new Firefox Quantum is outoriginal ↗
2 Oct 2017
Uber loses licence in London, Google buys HTC talents for $1.1B & CCleaner distributes malware million usersoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2017
Equifax breach exposes millions of US consumers’ data, China bans cryptocurrencies & bluetooth flaw puts billions at riskoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2017
Google breaks Japan’s internet, DDoS botnets keep growing & central banks get interested in cryptocurrenciesoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2017
HBO keeps getting hacked, cryptocurrencies are not currencies & robots won’t take all our jobsoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2017
The Daily Stormer sucks, Trumps disbands business councils & China’s headed for AI world dominationoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2017
Google’s diversity memo shakes the web, Walt Disney's leaving Netflix & researchers infected a computer with DNAoriginal ↗
11 Aug 2017
China censors Apple and Amazon, cryptocurrencies are the new gold & Hyperloop is the future of public transportationoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2017
Sweden leaks massive data, Amazon misleads consumers & the Library of Congress opens its catalogsoriginal ↗
28 Jul 2017
$31M+ stolen in cryptocurrencies, new blockchain challenges & Japan sent a drone to space!original ↗
21 Jul 2017
Internet fights for Net Neutrality, bacteria can store animated gifs & AI is at war with journalistsoriginal ↗
14 Jul 2017
Fake news is scarier than ever, blockchain struggles with scaling & online privacy still an issueoriginal ↗
7 Jul 2017
Petya breaks computers, EU fines Google €2.42Boriginal ↗
30 Jun 2017
Amazon buys Whole Foods, Uber’s CEO resigns and the NSA goes open sourceoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2017
Internet Trends 2017 are out, hacking power grids is possible & the blockchain keeps growingoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2017
The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #12original ↗
9 Jun 2017
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