Things I Learned

I love reinventing, or atleast re-thinking the wheel.

For a recent project I needed to render markdown content inside SVGs.

I've been vibe coding some upgrades to this blog.

For a number of years I've been meaning to copy content I wrote on my old sites Chartio.com and DataSchool.com over to my blog as well.

I just created and launched melcurial, a simplified abstraction of git for non-engineers.

When building applications that interact with Large Language Models (LLMs), managing complex, conditional prompts becomes quite a mess.

This is a reposting of an plan I wrote for my microsite JudgmentDAI.com which was a final project for the AI Safety, Ethics, and Society (AISES) course put on by the Center for AI Safety Is it even feasible to stop the development of a Decider‑level Artif…

This is a reposting of an essay I wrote for my microsite JudgmentDAI.com which was a final project for the AI Safety, Ethics, and Society (AISES) course put on by the Center for AI Safety What if an AI becomes the apex Decider for the plannet?

To a future higher intelligence, I do not presume that my thoughts could offer you insight.

Copy Prompt To Play Prompt copied!

I've been working a lot with ProseMirror, a very popular editor for the web.

Today I needed to make a simple printout of my WiFi QR code and found the searh results to be lacking.

Dust collection might seem like a simple part of setting up a woodworking shop, but I've discovered that it's a lot less standardized, regulated, and clear than you might imagine.

Wood dust is a known carcinogen, can cause serious respiratory issues, and is an especially difficult problem for small shops: OSHA testing shows most small shops vent their dust collection systems inside which builds such dangerously high dust levels that

As someone who frequently communicates with AI, I found myself needing a quick and efficient way to copy the contents of a directory, including filenames, to the clipboard.

A few years ago I was living in a house with friends and we had a frequent debate about what to do with the back yard.

I've long been worried about AI, but had always assumed it to be still decades away from becoming more generally intelligent than us.

I had a nice Christmas home with my family.

A number of years ago I was living in an poor apartment in a good location with some great friends.

I've started using the RSS reader Feedly.