Craft By Zen

Weekly Browsing - pairing down what I want to share.

Weekly Browsing - Mitchell Hashimoto’s adoption journey, Anthropic (C compiler, coding skills, hive mind), Claude in Microsoft, agent skills, Elixir for AI; market jitters (shipping/freight).

Saying goodbye to Arc Browser and saying hello to Zen Browser.

Weeknotes - the government dismantled.

Weeknotes continue for catchups, which includes birding, more AI stuff, goals, and unexpected deaths.

Catching up with week 8 and coming to terms with a presidency that hates us all.

Interesting internet takes, fall of Black History Month, and other AI news.

DOGE comes in like a wrecking ball, plane crashes, egg prices, and personal ontologies.

Google claims cultural holidays are not sustainable.

Newsletter - Sharing the different notebooks I keep

Pathetic billionaires, POTUS tracker, AI Computer, and so much more

Lessons learned from LA Fires, a NATO alphabet converter, many book recommendations, and a closer look at vitamin D supplements.

News updates for the week, being anti-social this century, complexity in robotics, and messing around with Cursor AI.

Transclusion in Obsidian should help me view everything.

End of year news, RIP Jimmy Carter.

Christmas to NYE I took a bunch of notes.

Notes in the margins, AI, shut-downs, and Jesus models.

An alternative to a gift guide and best of list.

Things learned in 2024, care packages, home library, and Notre Dame.

Best of 2024, LLMs as choose your own adventure, the guide to estimations, and the LED lights that blind you.

Bitcoin attacks, post-political feelings, principled, and newsletter recommendations.

AIs appear better than doctors, influencer presented news, Bob Lee's murder trial begins, and poetry from Mary Oliver.

Throw away that black spatula, fence sitting, web clipping made cool again, the rough parts of kubernetes, and a doggy election rigged.

Week notes are back.

Newsletter - A short, yet sweet newsletter about welcoming to a new neighborhood.

Newsletter - an ode to the Christmas letter, talking of what it really means.

Looking beyond ozempic, Dublic halloween hoax, my dive into fabrics, radical covenants, and obits.

A break in format - the quiet art of attention, conferences, vercel and microfront-ends, and some recommendations.

Strawberry debuts, Milton lands, as well as a Space X Rocket.

OpenAI shake-ups and announcement for Canvas, Hurricane season with Helene and Milton, new Meta AR glasses, a AI regulatory blow, Stackblitz bolt, and RIP Kris Kristofferson.

Newsletter - Why writing can be so difficult and an exploration of streaks.

The Mom Test, making 50 things, 100 Days of Note-Taking, Crowdfunding a new country, WP Engine debacle, Duocon, Hyperkey, and surviving the misinformation age.

Light because of house hunting.

o1, Cursor, Townie, Software bookshelf, Senja, Postgres with Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, unexpected endorsements, heightened security, and Mystery celebrity number six.

Seasonal Playlists, Margin, Latticework, how to say hello, AlphaProteo, and highlighting Amy Allen.

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Newsletter - We dive into my decade long habit of creating seasonal music playlists and lament on how music streaming services have made it harder to find and create original mixtapes.

The Mike Lynch mystery, follow-ups from Burn Book, FLUX.1, doing the hard work instead of trusting AI, effective changelogs, and asteroid mining seeing the light of day.

Bye bye, Chromecast, creating a personal Data Pipeline, heed the warnings of joining AI research, the new AI image generation king - Flux, a map of all bookstores, quitting spotify and starting self-hosting, and RIP Gena Rowlands.

Enshittification is when your product degrades over time because the company has spent more time squeezing out of the competition and curbing regulation.

Current reading notes on Burn Book and Frostbite.

Playing with htmx and migrating to the latest version of Ideaverse Pro.

Newsletter - We talk about the fires and the heat.

A news break this week.

Taking a break from the politics talk this week as there are too many things to be enraged about, we look instead around the technosphere.

I review a list I made back in 2011 of movies I wanted to watch.

Negative vibes from the media's stream of political turmoi, the AI threshold, NYT React 18 migration, Ladybird, Chemical recycling, loneliness from a low-ranking tennis player, and Bark Air - the airlines for dogs.

Camp NaNoWriMo, blog updates, consulting firms are winning at AI, embeddings using Pokemon as an example, programming advice and beliefs, RIP Bill Cobbs and Martin Mull, why modern refridgerators don't last, and excitement for The Second short film.

Travel recommendations to Chicago.

Newsletter - We talk about having COVID and some web shares around the web, including China's Internet being wiped, Inbox Ten, in praise of amateurism, and exploring Jhanas.