George Mandis

In a recent sidebar with a former coworker, I learned about the hoops they were jumping through as part of their company's AI enablement initiatives.

I've been working on a small project that uses whereami and nearme to do some local scraping and experimentation with LLMs to build enriched datasets.

If you distribute software through Homebrew or Scoop, you've probably wondered if anyone is actually instaslling your tools.

I recently moved my site from Netlify to Cloudflare Pages, partly to consolidate the services I'm using and partly to finally have proper server logs.

If you're in the business of building things that run on computers long enough, I think you will eventually acquire a favorite bug story.

I've hosted this site on Netlify for years.

Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.

I built a tool to help people keep track of their job applications.

I remember learning about cronjobs in the early 2000s.

For some reason I've been thinking about go links, which are really just a fancy word for link shorteners.

Want to make OpenAI transcriptions faster and cheaper?

There is no shortage of opinions on this topic.

As a child of the 80s and 90s, I have the vaguest memory of Hooked on Phonics commercials on television.

There is nothing more meta than blogging about your blog, but I had to start somewhere after a six-month hiatus.

Note: I accidentally published this before it was ready!

The last week of the year is a time for rest and reflection.

I've been having fun with Raspberry Pis lately.

This weekend I cobbled together all the pieces to debut a truly MVP version of what I'm dubbing Solar Pi: https://solar.mandis.dev It's a solar-powered website!

Lately I've been playing around with Val Town.

Dates are hard and JavaScript is odd.