Sam Collins's Weblog

51 image models draw themselves from one prompt.

Notes for a friend on why I fast a few days a year — autophagy, ketosis, beating cravings — plus practical tips for getting through your first 3-day fast.

A prompt to unconfuse the situation with your AI agent and get clear on the goal, status, and the decisions it needs from you.

A technique for accurate text and numbers in AI-generated images: generate the layout deterministically, then ask the image model to paint on top.

How to use Claude Code as a tutor for a specific book by importing the full text via @file — and the context-window tradeoffs that come with it.

An expanded markdown checkbox syntax for tasks with more than two states, designed to render cleanly in Obsidian without plugins.

Three bash commands to remap Caps Lock as a hotkey on macOS — for triggering voice transcription apps that don't support it natively.

On the bicycle for the mind metaphor and what the 1973 Scientific American chart showed me