In this blog post, I explore the keys to being a wise optimist when it comes to science and technology. I’ll delve into how to balance hope and realism, fostering a mindset that embraces innovation while staying grounded. Visit the link to read more and join me on this insightful journey!
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Daily Links: Friday, Aug 1st, 2025
In my latest blog post, I dive into some cool tools and concepts that can seriously boost your productivity and understanding of technology. Discover how the Routinery app turns your intentions into actions, and get the scoop on whether you should build or buy your data pipelines. Plus, I explore Meta’s vision for personal superintelligence and introduce a handy tool to spot untested code changes.
- Routinery Habit Tracker & Builder – Intention to Action: Turn your intentions into meaningful actions with Routinery, the routine app and habit tracker that helps you build lasting routines. Discover tools to improve your daily life.
- Build vs. buy data pipeline: How to decide: Build vs. buy data pipelines is a key decision. Explore pros, cons, and when each option fits best.
- Personal Superintelligence: Explore Meta’s vision of personal superintelligence, where AI empowers individuals to achieve their goals, create, connect, and lead fulfilling lives. Insights from Mark Zuckerberg on the future of AI and human empowerment.
- grodowski/undercover: undercover warns about methods, classes and blocks that were changed without tests, to help you easily find untested code and reduce the number of bugs. It does so by analysing data from git diffs, code structure and SimpleCov coverage reports –
Daily Links: Thursday, Jul 31st, 2025
Hey there! In my latest blog post, I dive into some fascinating topics: exploring patterns in “Context Engineering for Agents,” picking up tips from Ethan Evans on how to effectively manage up at work, and a guide on building a disaster-prep kit to keep you safe during emergencies. You won’t want to miss these insights and practical advice!
- Context Engineering for Agents: Patterns for managing agent context.
- How to Effectively Manage Up – The Better Leader: In this guest post from Ethan Evans, author of Level Up with Ethan Evans, learn how to effectively manage up in a professional environment.
- Build Your Own Disaster-Prep Kit: In an emergency, the right gear ensures your comfort and safety, and can even save your life.
Daily Links: Wednesday, Jul 30th, 2025
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.
Daily Links: Tuesday, Jul 29th, 2025
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:
Daily Links: Tuesday, Jul 22nd, 2025
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
Daily Links: Monday, Jul 21st, 2025
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!
Daily Links: Saturday, Jul 19th, 2025
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.
Daily Links: Friday, Jul 18th, 2025
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
Daily Links: Tuesday, Jul 15th, 2025
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.