Antoine Finkelstein's blog

This article is about my experience using Opus 4.8 to read the results of an MRI and give me a sort of second opinion on the diagnosis.

TLDR: If you like the idea of playing as James Bond in a game that mixes stealth and action, in numerous cool environments with a strong forced direction, then you enjoy that game!

TLDR: If you're only curious about the result, check out the video at the end.

A couple of weeks ago, I was shared an interesting thread on X.

This year, I visited Japan for the first time which was fantastic, in part because I had made the effort to learn some Japanese before the trip.

This is a niche article but if you're learning a language and want to do some sentence mining, you are in the right place.

TLDR: For AlloyDB, C4A is a significant improvement at the same cost.

Why would you want to host the Anki sync server yourself?

If you're getting started with a language, you could get a premade deck, but there are times when you will want to build one out of your own list.

Over the last couple of months, I've been trying to build the dream: A local-first, end-to-end encrypted and reactive app, with all of the user's data in a local SQL database but continually synced to a remote server.

"What is the most efficient way of learning a language?".

If you're on this article, it's because you've seen BugBot in Cursor's interface or heard about it somewhere, and are curious if it could be useful to you.

How good is OpenAI's Codex and its newest codex-1 model?

Duolingo is a fascinating app cleverly trying to trick you into learning a language.

Yesterday, OpenAI released its latest agent: Deep Research.

New AI features such as OpenAI's Operator or Sora tend to only be available in the US or block the EU for months after their release.

As OpenAI describes it, Operator is "an agent that can go to the web to perform tasks for you.

I'm currently building an application that is offline-first (meaning it is fully usable even without an internet connection) but eventually syncs to a server and is E2E encrypted.

A few days ago, I was fortunate enough to find an existing deck that was close to what I was about to create from scratch, but it lacked a field.

There's a lot of value in setting goals, but I often find it more workable, especially when building new habits, to instead set thresholds.

If you have a ChatGPT subscription, I found that you can get some really good insights from having o1 models (including o1 pro) review your code.

Wondering what the new Bug Finder in Cursor provides?

If you're getting started with Kamal, you saw that a container registry is necessary to store your Docker images.

If you're curious about old Windows versions and want to try them out on a modern Mac with Apple Silicon, it's actually fairly easy to do.

If you ever wanted super minimal analytics for your website that you could host yourself, I might be able to help.

For years, I've been deploying to servers I've personally managed.

I'll write it here in case someone does the same Google searches as I did: Cloudflare Fonts doesn't work for all fonts.

To improve this blog, I wanted to suggest further reading by showing related articles at the end of each post.

When I imagine what a typical Call of Duty campaign is, it's an action-packed, over-the-top movie that you get to play.

You should use your AirPods less.

You're only a real developer once you start spending more time building your blog than actually writing on it.

Before I share my take on Reflect, I think it's important to touch on the risk of looking at yet another note-taking application: If you have ever dabbled in the world of Personal Knowledge Management Systems (PKMS), you know how much "perfect is the enemy

Over the last few weeks, I tried going back to WoW after around 15 years.

A few weeks ago, a colleague told me of a sales negotiation he was handling.

You've seen the ads: For a reasonable price, you can now switch to using an electricity provider that guarantees your electricity will be green or renewable.

Time Machine is a great feature and a great way to take advantage of your NAS if you have one.

I know little from Star Trek, but there's a scene that left a strong impression on me some time ago.

Let's say you have a developper in your team based in London making $150k a year.

So many things in our world deserve our intervention: wars, discrimination, poverty, illness, etc.

I feel a continuous background level of stress.

We usually don't think of our feet too much.

Before we start, be aware this review spoils the entire TV show!

Go to a French supermarket, and you’ll find lots of foods with the Nutri-Score A to E rating.

This is one wildly off-topic article.

Some time ago, I was reminded of Masterworks and finally decided to do some digging to decide if it might be a worthwhile investment.

Rent control is a recurring idea in politics.

Even putting aside the hype around cryptocurrencies, it’s impossible to deny how big an innovation they are.

It is still possible to build interactive features on the web without overengineering them.

P2P Lending is a recurring topic in the Financial Independence community due to its relatively good track record (at least in Europe in the last couple of years).

Those who use voice messages on apps such as WhatsApp or iMessage know how efficient and personal they are.