In my latest blog post, I dive into the fascinating world of prompt engineering with a special spotlight on Kai_ThoughtArchitect. Check out the link to explore their innovative approach to crafting effective prompts. It’s an insightful read for anyone curious about optimizing AI interactions!
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Daily Links: Wednesday, May 28th, 2025
Hey, friends! This blog post dives into a variety of topics from tech innovations to culinary delights. I’m exploring the evolution of software engineering on YouTube, revisiting iconic horse betting algorithms, and discussing AI’s impact on news and business. Plus, there’s a delicious recipe for make-ahead egg wraps! Whether you’re into tech, finance, food, or social commentary, there’s something here for everyone.
- IndyDevDan: On this channel we think, plan, and build.Right now on the channel, we’re on the path to evolve into Agentic engineers.Engineers that build software that wor…
- just-prompt: is an MCP server that provides a unified interface to top LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Groq, DeepSeek, and Ollama) – disler/just-prompt
- Revisiting the Algorithm that Changed Horse Race Betting: Explore Bill Benter’s iconic horse betting strategy, enhanced with modern code and contrasted against three decades of evolving data.
- Make-Ahead Egg, Spinach and Feta Wraps: Packed with protein, enough baby spinach to make Popeye proud, and punchy umami from sun-dried tomatoes and feta cheese, these wraps are ideal for make-ahead breakfasts Feel free to customize by adding herbs like dill, parsley or cilantro, or a small handful of chopped roasted red peppers or pitted olives The frittata-like egg mixture is baked in the oven in a baking pan and sliced into rectangles to fit easily on lavash wraps or burrito-size flour tortillas
- We Exposed Fraud at Enron and WorldCom. Don’t Let History Repeat Itself.: A proposal by Republican lawmakers to eliminate an auditing watchdog would make the next corporate disaster more likely.
- README.md: Contribute to ross39/new_bloom_filter_repo development by creating an account on GitHub.
- Supply Chains Are Us: Every purchase we make ties us to a vast, hidden network of people, machines, and resources — whether we see it or not.
- Efficiency Without Morality Is Tyranny: Notes on Sedation, Technocracy, and AI
- How to Fall in Love with Questions: A New Way to Thrive in Times of Uncertainty by Elizabeth Weingarten: Journalist and applied behavioral scientist Elizabeth Weingarten charts a new path to embrace the…
- Atlantic CEO discusses AI impact on news business models: From building direct audience relationships to editorial assistance, Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic, discussed the opportunities and challenges posed by AI at the INMA World Congress of News Media in New York.
- At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resemble Warehouse Work: Pushed to use artificial intelligence, software developers at the e-commerce giant say they must work faster and have less time to think. Others welcome the shift.
Daily Links: Monday, May 26th, 2025
In my latest blog post, I explore a range of intriguing topics from why seeking approval might be hampering your potential and practical steps to overcome it, to navigating the art of reading amidst constant digital distraction. Additionally, I delve into the beauty of supporting friends, celebrate achievements with Bucknell University’s Class of 2025, and touch on the evolution towards Web 2.0 2.0.
- Why Seeking Approval is Killing your Potential: Can’t stop seeking approval? Here are 5 practical steps to build self-belief and free yourself from others’ opinions.
- Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction: Twenty-five years ago, Sven Birkerts published “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age.” Have his fears and projections come to pass?
- Good Writing:
- Reinvent the Wheel: Personal website of Matthias Endler, a Software Engineer interested in low-level programming and Backend development. Rust, Go
- Root for Your Friends: Discover the power of rooting for your friends and how it can amplify success for everyone involved.
- Find Your People: Thank you to Bucknell University for inviting me to be this year’s commencement speaker. And congratulations to the Class of 2025! Watch the speech on YouTube. Thirty-two…
- MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0: A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
- Why Algebraic Effects?:
Daily Links: Saturday, May 24th, 2025
In my latest blog post, I dive into an eclectic mix of tech and culture! I chat about Jonathan Nunn’s journey with Vittles magazine from Substack to print, reveal my adventure with crafting an MP3 player app to tackle Apple’s challenges, and share insights into Claude 4’s AI leap. Plus, explore groundbreaking algorithms, the quirky realm of decibels, and Google’s Gemini Diffusion from I/O! Exciting stuff awaits!
- ‘Print is new counter culture’ says Vittles founder as newsletter launches in print: Interview with Vittles magazine founder Jonathan Nunn who first launched the food brand on Substack in 2020 and has now gone into print.
- In 2025, Apple still makes it hard to play your own MP3s, so I wrote my own app: Technical leadership, MVP development, and scalable infrastructure consulting for startups and founders. Hands-on expertise in Go, Kubernetes, system design, and cloud architecture.
- Pocket is saying goodbye – What you need to know: More information about the end of support for Pocket.
- Introducing Claude 4: Discover Claude 4’s breakthrough AI capabilities. Experience more reliable, interpretable assistance for complex tasks across work and learning.
- Decibels are ridiculous: Celebrating a rare dumpster fire in the kingdom of science.
- For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time: One computer scientist’s “stunning” proof is the first progress in 50 years on one of the most famous questions in computer science.
- Gemini Diffusion: Another of the announcements from Google I/O yesterday was Gemini Diffusion, Google’s first LLM to use diffusion (similar to image models like Imagen and Stable Diffusion) in place of transformers. …
Daily Links: Thursday, May 22nd, 2025
Hey readers! In my latest blog post, I dive into how crucial it is to provide proper training when introducing new technology into your business. Plus, I’ve shared J.P. Morgan’s intriguing Summer Reading List for 2025, featuring 16 must-read titles that are perfect for sparking your curiosity. And for those wanting to create a fulfilling future, don’t miss out on the Life Design Prompt. Check it out!
- Technology without appropriate training may ruin your business: Training for new technology requires more than procedures and rules. You must ensure your workers are intellectually equipped for the task.
- Summer Reading List 2025 | J.P. Morgan Private Bank U.S.: J.P. Morgan Summer Reading List 2025. Discover 16 groundbreaking titles to unlock your curiosity this summer.
- 📐Life Design Prompt: Build Your Future:
Daily Links: Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
In my latest blog post, I explore some fascinating finds. I’ve shared a compelling article from The Atlantic about the anti-social trend of our century. Plus, I’ve stumbled upon a treasure trove on Open Culture that breaks down the PhD theses of iconic scientists like Richard Feynman and Marie Curie, complete with illustrations. It’s a great read for anyone keen on science and history!
- The Anti-Social Century – The Atlantic: archived 8 Jan 2025 15:42:50 UTC
- The PhD Theses of Richard Feynman, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein & Others, Explained with Illustrations: Raise your children with a love of science, and there’s a decent chance they’ll grow up wanting to be like Richard Feynman, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, or any number of other famous scientists from history.
Daily Links: Tuesday, May 20th, 2025
In this blog post, I dive into five lesser-known ChatGPT prompts that I think everyone should know about. It’s a quick read that could boost your interaction with ChatGPT, offering new ways to explore its potential. Check it out if you’re looking to enhance your AI chatting experience—I promise it’ll be insightful!
Daily Links: Saturday, May 17th, 2025
In this blog post, I dive into the fascinating world of Boltzmann Machines! I’ll introduce you to these intriguing models and even show you a Tiny Restricted Boltzmann Machine you can run right in your browser. It’s a great way to explore and understand this concept without any hassle. Check it out!
- Boltzmann Machines: Here we introduce Boltzmann machines and present a Tiny Restricted Boltzmann Machine that runs in the browser.
Daily Links: Friday, May 16th, 2025
In my latest blog post, I explore three fascinating topics. First, I daydream about a world devoid of humans, where machines rule. Then, I dive into the suspenseful story of a mysterious server from a tech tale 16 years ago. Finally, I introduce AlphaEvolve, an AI coding agent that pushes the boundaries of algorithm design. Curious to learn more? Check it out!
- Human: Written by a human [0] Imagine, for a moment, a world with no humans. Just machines, bolts and screws, zeros and ones. There is no emotion. There is…
- The Server That Wasn’t Meant to Exist: A story from 16 years ago – trust, tech, and a server that had to disappear. They offered me a blank check. I said no.
- AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms: New AI agent evolves algorithms for math and practical applications in computing by combining the creativity of large language models with automated evaluators
Daily Links: Thursday, May 15th, 2025
Hey friends! This blog post is packed with intriguing reads, exploring a diverse range of topics. Dive into the world of AI psychopathy, geospatial software, and clever cybersecurity observations. You’ll also find insights on how to make motorcycle riding safer, reimagine Google search, and optimize living an intellectually rich life. Plus, there’s some light-hearted fun about Daft Punk’s vocal effects and people-watching observations. Enjoy!
- Can You Really Trust That Permission Pop-Up On macOS? (CVE-2025-31250): A security research blog.
- How Broken OTPs and Open Endpoints Turned a Dating App Into a Stalker’s Playground: Startups Need to Take Security Seriously
- Embeddings are underrated:
- University of Texas-led Team Solves a Big Problem for Fusion Energy: News, stories, and opinions on science, technology, health, education, business, policy, campus life, and more from The University of Texas at Austin.
- Is AI a Psychopath? Why Its Lies Are More Disturbing Than You Think: Summary: AI doesn’t just make mistakes, it lies. That’s uniquely disturbing. Today I explore why AI deception feels more unsettling than human dishonesty, likening it to psychopathy, and urge users to treat AI like a biased news source: with skepticism and caution. Artificial intelligence has come a long way from its early days of clunky…
- Scraperr: Self-hosted webscraper. Contribute to jaypyles/Scraperr development by creating an account on GitHub.
- Void: Void is an open source Cursor alternative. Full privacy. Fully-featured.
- How Cursor Indexes Codebases Fast: Merkle Trees in the real world
- How I Made Google’s “Web” View My Default Search: Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. You just need one URL parameter.
- immichFrame/ImmichFrame: Contribute to immichFrame/ImmichFrame development by creating an account on GitHub.
- GitHub – icereed/paperless-gpt: Use LLMs and LLM Vision (OCR) to handle paperless-ngx – Document Digitalization powered by AI: Use LLMs and LLM Vision (OCR) to handle paperless-ngx – Document Digitalization powered by AI – icereed/paperless-gpt
- 21 observations from people watching: Painting weddings for a few years now, I have spent a fair bit of time observing strangers move through a room.
- A Critical Look at MCP – Raz Blog:
- From the ClaudeAI community on Reddit:
- Reservoir Sampling: Choosing fairly when you don’t know how many you’re choosing from.
- Prompt Engineering 101: How to Talk to an LLM (So It Actually Gets You):
- rybbit: 🐸 Rybbit – open-source and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics that is 10x more intuitive. – rybbit-io/rybbit
- Every 10th paywall stop is evaded by readers: U.S. research shows how effective news paywalls are and what happens when a reader hits one.
- 6 core motivations for subscribing to news: Readers subscribe to news publishers for six main reasons, including supporting journalism and paywall triggers.
- Introducing web search on the Anthropic API: Today, we’re introducing web search on the Anthropic API—a new tool that gives Claude access to current information from across the web.
- My quest to make motorcycle riding that tad bit safer: It began with a spark—a dormant passion reignited after many years away from motorcycling. Life had steered me in different directions, away from the saddle, but something deep inside pulled me back to the thrill and freedom that only riding offers. Returning to motorcycling after such an extended hiatus was daunting yet exhilarating. I vividly recall my first CBT session: the nerves, the good-natured laughter at my clumsy mistakes, and the sheer joy when everything finally clicked into place.
- ty: An extremely fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust. – astral-sh/ty
- Getting things “done” in large tech companies: —
- system_prompts_leaks:
- Your Brain on Altruism by Nicole Karlis: In an era when “self-care” often revolves around consumption and profit, a health and science jou…
- Jevons Paradox: A personal perspective: What if the most game-optimal play in the new system is actually to become relentlessly, unapologetically you?
- Digital Echoes and Unquiet Minds: When the iPhone was first introduced in 2007, the notion of an “everything device” was universally celebrated. A single object that could serve as
- The Curse of Knowing How, or; Fixing Everything | Blog:
- As an Experienced LLM User, I Actually Don’t Use Generative LLMs Often: But for what I do use LLMs for, it’s invaluable.
- The vocal effects of Daft Punk: Daft Punk have used a wide variety of vocal effects in their songs. A May 2001 interview in Remix magazine provided a rare insight from Daft Punk themselves on the topic.
- The Beauty Of Having A Pi-hole: So, check this little idea that I have – I want to browse the internet without all sorts of unscrupulous actors collecting every little bit of metadata on me and my family they can possibly get their hands on.
- Evolving OpenAI’s structure: An update from the OpenAI board on transitioning its for-profit entity to a Public Benefit Corporation, reinforcing its mission-driven structure under nonprofit oversight while enabling greater impact and long-term alignment with the public good.
- RealtimeVoiceChat: Have a natural, spoken conversation with AI! Contribute to KoljaB/RealtimeVoiceChat development by creating an account on GitHub.
- On The Death of Daydreaming: What we lose when phones take away boredom and interstitial time
- Qwen3: Think Deeper, Act Faster: QWEN CHAT GitHub Hugging Face ModelScope Kaggle DEMO DISCORD Introduction Today, we are excited to announce the release of Qwen3, the latest addition to the Qwen family of large language models. Our flagship model, Qwen3-235B-A22B, achieves competitive results in benchmark evaluations of coding, math, general capabilities, etc., when compared to other top-tier models such as DeepSeek-R1, o1, o3-mini, Grok-3, and Gemini-2.5-Pro. Additionally, the small MoE model, Qwen3-30B-A3B, outcompetes QwQ-32B with 10 times of activated parameters, and even a tiny model like Qwen3-4B can rival the performance of Qwen2.
- Looking for AI strategies: It’s easy to say what tech companies want from AI, but much harder to talk about the product strategy – they’re all pretty much the same. “Just build a better model!” Where does that go? Can they differentiate? What would it mean to differentiate a product that can do ‘everything’ – what would different everythings be?
- How publishers are using apps to deepen engagement and improve retention: Ahead of The Publisher App Summit on June 11th, we’re spotlighting how leading news publishers are using apps in smart ways to connect with readers and drive long-term value.
- How to live an intellectually rich life: .. and how living one is easier than you think
- Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests: Survey of 2023–2024 data finds that AI created more tasks for 8.4 percent of workers.
- DuckDB is Probably the Most Important Geospatial Software of the Last Decade: What happens when you embed geospatial capabilities in generalist data tools? More people engaging with geo data.
- Chain-of-Recursive-Thoughts: I made my AI think harder by making it argue with itself repeatedly. It works stupidly well. – PhialsBasement/
- There’s one question that stumps North Korean fake workers: RSAC: FBI and others list how to spot NK infiltrators, but AI will make it harder
- Dummy’s Guide to Modern Samplers: An idiot’s comprehensive guide to modern sampling
- AI code is legacy code from day one: – Text Incubation
- Linkwarden:
- What to Eat When You’re Sick: The best things to eat when you have the stomach bug—and more.