Johannes Naylor's Blog

fat tails, convex harm, and surveillance software

An amateur analysis of the coffee shops in Barcelona

Rebuilding Wine in a Million with serverless compute, LanceDB, and streaming recommendations

Why Your Headphones Might Be Blocking Your Best Thoughts

AI agents can't listen to music (yet)

How to organize a positive-sum hackathon people actually want to attend

Localism, federalism, and why a functioning national government still matters / Rebuilding the National Government Using First Principles

What happens in your browser when you stream Spotify or Netflix / The tyranny of Digital Rights Management

Improving on the incredible 'sherlock' python package with a performant static binary / Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks

On la recerca d’avantguarda troba la festa - el futur híbrid de la Music Tech.

On fast fashion software, pay-per-generation pricing, and escaping SaaS rent

Writing audio ML preprocessing pipelines in Zig to get orders of magnitude speedups from native ffmpeg bindings?

Why most algorithmic trading backtests are theater / not all crashes are the same / how to do better

A amateur analysis of the coffee shops in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

The First Android Home Screen with a Built In LLM Agent

Letting go of my $500k software job and building in the age of fast fashion software

From Blogging Platforms to YouTube's Moat.

Learn how png-db uses steganography and the flexible PNG file format to embed and retrieve JSON data within image files.

a database proxy to defend against AI

Meine Reise zum Deutschlernen

A semi-technical deep-dive into building a robust AI audio agent.

Turn Google Sheets into a Database with Go

Building a Rust-powered drop-in replacement that actually works

Learn Web Scraping with Hands-On Challenges and Real Websites

Program an Ai Audio Manipulation Agent with Python & Langchain

why javascript has null and undefined

Use AWS SageMaker to create sentence-BERT embeddings and run realtime Nearest Neighbors inferences

Why you can't just delete passwords from a git repo

Using C++ and NVIDIA's CUDA