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In my latest post, I dive into a range of fascinating topics, from creating my own ultra-fast game streaming video codec called PyroWave, to navigating the evolving tech landscape with AI tools! I also explore the changing role of design in the AI era, why some projects demand lots of energy, and principles for production AI agents. Join me on this tech-fueled journey!

• I designed my own ridiculously fast game streaming video codec – PyroWave:
• copyparty: Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps – 9001/
• Working Effectively with AI Coding Tools like Claude Code: ns require understanding the full context of your business, team, and market. AI can implement any approach brilliantly once you’ve made the decision, but it can’t make that decision for you.
• Why I’m Giving Up My Design Title—And What That Says About The Future of Design: Suff Syed, former Head of Product Design, announces his shift to a technical role, arguing that design has been commoditized in the AI era while technical depth is now where innovation happens. He argues design has become baseline, while innovation now lies in systems, agents, and orchestration. The future belongs to those who can wield AI—not just make things beautiful, but make them think.
• AI is eating the Internet: An exploration of the Internet to come
• How to Make Websites That Will Require Lots of Your Time and Energy: Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
• Six Principles for Production AI Agents: Practical lessons from building production agentic systems
• When Software Engineers Think They Need More Focus Time: The personal website of Johanna Larsson, software engineer, manager, writer, speaker.

Hey there! In my latest post, I dive into some nifty resources. First, I share a useful link for comparing the pricing of various LLM APIs like OpenAI GPT-4 and more. Plus, you’ll get a kick out of my adventure hacking my washing machine—it’s where the big words find their home. Lastly, check out how to upscale images using generative adversarial neural networks, CSI-style!

• Price Per Token: Compare pricing for LLM APIs including OpenAI GPT-4, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini and more. Updated daily with official pricing.
• How I hacked my washing machine – Nex’s Blog: I ran out of characters for microblogging so this is where the big words go
• ENHANCE!: Upscaling images CSI-style with generative adversarial neural networks:

Hey there! I recently stumbled upon this fantastic guide titled “The Next Act,” which delves into the art of career change and professional reinvention. It’s packed with insights on discovering your skills and steering your own comeback. Perfect if you’re contemplating a career shift or looking to find work that truly matters. Give it a read for some inspiration!

• The Next Act – A Complete Guide to Career Change, Professional Reinvention, and Finding Work That Matters: How to discover your skills and own your career comeback

Hey there! In my latest blog post, I’m sharing a peek at my ultimate self-hosting setup, unraveling the myths about asynchrony and concurrency, and I’m kickstarting a DIY series on creating your own backup system, emphasizing the strategy before diving into scripts. It’s an exciting mix of tech strategies you won’t want to miss!

• My Ultimate Self-hosting Setup:
• Asynchrony is not Concurrency: Asynchrony is not C
• Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts:

I’ve shared an array of topics on my blog recently—perfect for tech enthusiasts and budding leaders. Dive into AI with an expansive glossary, learn strategic insights for product managers, explore tools for autonomous systems, and discover the revolution of AI-assisted coding with Claude Code. Plus, get practical advice for new managers and insights into why self-taught engineers often excel. Let’s explore these intriguing topics together!

• Make Strategy Your Side Project: Start small, stay close to delivery and follow through where others don’t for product leaders
• AI Product Manager Glossary: 80+ key terms across 12 categories critical for AI Product Managers, AI engineers, and AI builders.
• Claude Code UI: A desktop and mobile UI for Claude Code, Anthropic’s official CLI for AI-assisted coding. Works locally or remotely with proper interface everywhere.
• Building Autonomous Systems: A Guide to Agentic AI Workflows: A complete guide to building autonomous systems with agentic AI workflows—covering core concepts, tools, and real-world applications.
• Claude Code revenue jumps 5.5x as Anthropic launches analytics dashboard: Anthropic has launched a powerful analytics dashboard for its Claude Code AI assistant, giving engineering leaders real-time insights into developer productivity, tool usage, and ROI on AI coding investments.
• siteboon/claudecodeui: Use Claude Code on mobile and web with Claude Code UI. Claude Code UI free open source webui/GUI that helps you manage your Claude Code session and projects remotely –
• How I Use Claude Code to Ship Like a Team of Five: It’s the first AI tool that feels like delegating to a colleague, not prompting a chatbot
• New Manager Essentials: A Practical Guide to Your First Months in Leadership: A practical and thoughtful guide for new engineering managers. Learn how to build agreements, avoid micromanagement, run effective 1:1s, and navigate your first months with clarity.
• Choosing a Database Schema for Polymorphic Data: Blog for DoltHub, a website hosting databases made with Dolt, an open-source version-controlled SQL database with Git-like semantics.
• NO DAYS OFF: A celebration of consistency, discipline, and the pursuit of movement
• The sound of inevitability: Have you ever argued with someone who is seriously good at debating? I have. It sucks. You’re constantly thrown off-balance, responding to a point you didn’t expect to. You find yourself defending the weak edges of your argument, while the main thrust gets left behind in the back-and-forth, and you end up losing momentum, confidence, and ultimately, the argument. One of my close friends won international debate competitions for fun while we were at university (he’s now a successful criminal barrister), and he told me that the only trick in the book, once you boil it all down, is to make sure the conversation is framed in your terms. Once that happens, it’s all over bar the shouting.
• Back to The Future: Evaluating AI Agents on Predicting Future Events: We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
• Anthropic and OpenAI’s new bets on the AI Super Assistant: Plus: The $130 million AI coding startup that could eliminate tech debt and the end of the front end engineer?
• Self-Taught Engineers Often Outperform: Explore Michael Bastos’ 20+ years in engineering and defense technology. Filter by tech stack, domain expertise, or leadership experience to create a tailored view.
• Former Top Google Researchers Have Made a New Kind of AI Agent: The mission? Teaching models to better understand how to build code will lead to superintelligent AI.

Hey there! This blog post is a treasure trove of diverse content. I dive into some intriguing reads and discoveries, like Bridget Read’s history-packed book “Little Bosses Everywhere”, a nifty programming trick for writing better code, a look at enhancing RAG with ELO Scores, and even how to artisanally craft your own git repositories. Come explore these topics with me!

• Little Bosses Everywhere by Bridget Read: A groundbreaking work of history and reportage that unveils the stranger-than-fiction world of mu…
• To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head: This is a brief write-up of a trick I learned that helps me write code faster and more accurately. I say “trick”, but it’s really something I started to do without noticing as I moved further into my career. When you’re working on something difficult, sketch a proof in your
• Improving RAG with ELO Scores: ZeroEntropy has just released zerank-1 and zerank-1-small, state-of-the-art open models trained with a novel ELO-based pipeline.
• Artisanal Handcrafted Git Repositories: How to lovingly handcraft your own git repositories

In my latest blog entry, I delve into a mysterious new law that’s causing quite a stir in the gambling world. With a tax change looming, the industry faces significant shifts. Click the link to explore how this could play out for gamblers and the industry alike.

• The mysterious new law that has gamblers sweating: A tax change could have big implications for the gambling industry.

In this blog post, I highlight some intriguing reads! Discover insightful business metrics, tips for rapid software development, automating oral arguments, and crafting stellar newsletters. I also explore tools like Jukebox for music sharing, handy self-hosted utilities, and advanced SEO tactics for the LLM era. Plus, learn about the mystical user-interface journey of Apple legend Bill Atkinson and consider switching to Folio, an exciting Pocket alternative.

• Lies per Second, Meetings per Decision Ratio, and other important biz metrics: And yes, please add your own
• How I build software quickly: Know how good your code needs to be for the task at hand. Start with a rough draft. Try to soften requirements if you can. Don’t get distracted. Make small changes. Practice specific skills.
• Automating oral argument:
• The 10 Laws of Great Newsletters: Keep listening to your audience. Lean into your voice with everything you do. And eight other laws that best-in-class newsletters always follow.
• Jukebox: Turn your phone or any device into a jukebox! Share a link with friends so they can add songs to your shared music queue.
• Caching: Every time you use a computer, the cache is working to ensure your experience is fast.
• iib0011/omni-tools: Self-hosted collection of powerful web-based tools for everyday tasks. No ads, no tracking, just fast, accessible utilities right from your browser!: Self-hosted collection of powerful web-based tools for everyday tasks. No ads, no tracking, just fast, accessible utilities right from your browser! – iib0011/omni-tools
• 37 Things I Learned About Information Retrieval in Two Years at a Vector Database Company: From BM25 to RAG: Everything I learned about vector databases, embedding models, and vector search – and everything in between.
• SEO Is Dead. Long Live GEO.: How to win in the era of LLMs, AI Overviews, and GEO — before your traffic disappears
• From The Mac to The Mystical: Bill Atkinson’s Psychedelic User Interface: How an Apple legend approached the world’s most powerful psychedelic as a user-experience problem to be solved.
• Meet Folio: Your Pocket Replacement: If you loved Pocket, you’ll feel right at home. Folio is a thoughtful, modern replacement — and it’s ready today.
• fosrl/pangolin: Tunneled Reverse Proxy Server with Identity and Access Control and Dashboard UI: Tunneled Reverse Proxy Server with Identity and Access Control and Dashboard UI – fosrl/pangolin

In this blog post, I dive into some intriguing topics like how algorithms can enhance our bookshelves, the pitfalls of AI’s false promises, and innovative tools for project collaboration and data ownership. There’s also a spotlight on interesting developments like open-source alternatives to Trello, the impact of AI tools on developer productivity, and the importance of context in AI agent operations.

• An Algorithm for a Better Bookshelf – Communications of the ACM:
• GitHub – MrLesk/Backlog.md: Backlog.md – A tool for managing project collaboration between humans and AI Agents in a git ecosystem: Backlog.md – A tool for managing project collaboration between humans and AI Agents in a git ecosystem – MrLesk/Backlog.md
• We reached $1M ARR with zero funding:
• Engineered Addictions:
• LLM Visualization:
• Context Engineering for AI Agents Explained – a simple overview of the basics: Why is everyone suddenly talking about “context engineering”? What it is, how it helps AI agents and why it matters to product teams.
• AI cannot predict the future. But companies keep trying (and failing).: A new paper on how AI companies make false promises and how we can challenge them
• phylum: Self-hosted cloud file storage with offline-first web and native clients
• TheCommishDeuce/TPDB_JellyfinPosterManager: Contribute to TheCommishDeuce/TPDB_JellyfinPosterManager development by creating an account on GitHub.
• OwlCaribou/swurApp: swurApp (Sonarr Wait Until Release App[lication]) is a program to prevent Sonarr from downloading episodes before they’ve aired: swurApp (Sonarr Wait Until Release App[lication]) is a program to prevent Sonarr from downloading episodes before they’ve aired – GitHub – OwlCaribou/swurApp: swurApp (Sonarr Wait Until Release Ap…
• evroon/bracket: Selfhosted tournament system:
• Uaghazade1/kanba: Kanba is an open-source alternative to Trello. Cut the noise, focus on what matters: your projects. The project management tool indie hackers deserve. Simple, powerful, and open-source.:
• Browser Model Context Protocol:
• snap-stanford/Biomni: Biomni: a general-purpose biomedical AI agent: Biomni: a general-purpose biomedical AI agent. Contribute to snap-stanford/Biomni development by creating an account on GitHub.
• I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links: Welp, Pocket shuts down tomorrow despite our pleas for it to stay. While migrating1 all of my saved articles, I noticed that I’ve got almost 900 saved articles spanning nearly 7 years. That’s a goldmine of stuff-I-like data! Some quick analysis using xsv2:
  𝄢 unzip pocket.zip && xsv headers part_000000.csv 1 title 2 url 3 time_added 4 tags 5 status 𝄢 xsv sample 1 part_000000.csv | xsv flatten title The Uncertain Future of American Libraries url https://mek.
• why are we lying to young people about work?: hard work isn’t the tax you pay for living, it’s the tuition for a life worth having -your fav gen z philosopher x
• Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real:
• Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud: A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
• Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity: We conduct a randomized controlled trial to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we find that when developers use AI tools, they take 19% longer than without—AI makes them slower.

In this blog post, I dive into the buzz around AI and what large language models (LLMs) can genuinely achieve. While there’s excitement about AI-first companies, I point out that discussions often feel too abstract to be practical. I explore the real opportunities AI presents, but also highlight the importance of having concrete conversations rather than lofty, vague claims. Check it out!

• What can agents actually do?: There’s a lot of excitement about what AI (specifically the latest wave of LLM-anchored AI) can do, and how AI-first companies are different from the prior generations of companies. There are a lot of important and real opportunities at hand, but I find that many of these conversations occur at such an abstract altitude that they border on meaningless. Sort of like saying that your company could be much better if you merely adopted more software. That’s certainly true, but it’s not a particularly helpful claim.