Notes on Zach Nielsen's Blog

Officiallly switching back to Apple Music after a 1.5 year dalliance with Spotify.

I wanted to step back for a second to get into what AI is doing as we enter the majority of 2026.

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I wanted to note some initial thoughts down on two new products that have just hit my inbox today.

I’ve been going through the archives of the great newsletter The F5.

After reading more AI apps that should exist, I decided I had to note it(similar to my first post).

I recently came across the OSS Simple Sabotage Rules again.

I was listening to Derek Thompson’s most recent podcast with Cal Newport.

I’ve been meaning to link to this tweet by Patrick Mckenzie for a bit, where he explains the essay meta.

A really good post on the current AI landscape.

Channeling this idea - when in doubt, throw more tokens at the problem, docuemnt lessons learned, and redo it.

One idea I had for an LLM benchmark - rather than Javascript web dev, I’d want something that’s a bit more multi functional.

Found these excellent instructions via the always excellent Swyx on using the new Nano model in every chrome.

Really good post on hacker news for Transcribing tips (comments).

Really good video by the Recast folks.

Fun post by Amp on how subagents may be changing the current meta consisting of a project plan and carefully managing scope.

Quick update on my Poddigests.com app.

It’s been a bit since Airbnb released their most recent update.

Really cool tweet talking about project creation.

I have a broader review of my new NHL Forecasts coming soon, but one thing I wanted to call out specifically.

Lots of great coding terminal tools floating around.

Foudn a good article on Mac Gaming by Macsparky It seems pretty good!

I also got MCP hooked up on my local Claude app today.

A few days late, but found Gemini Code which is super cool.

I found this coding retreat via Dan Snow’s excellent blog and post and it seems reallly cool!

Found a rec for a new game.

So it turns out that the cursor for writing… may just be Cursor?

I found this really fun article on MacStories on integrating vinyl into modern homeplay speakers.

Really good comment on Hacker News on how to work with LLMs to professionally translate some prose (via the great Simon Willison).

Being a new parent comes with a host of challenges, amoung them being how unaware I was about the tasks I’d have to make the baby do (tummy tinme, crawling practice, etc.)

I’m putting together away to post more short term content from my phone.

I want to start tracking all of the absolutely wild coding projects that I find.

So I’ve finally gotten into Mastodon - better late than never I suppose!

I’ve been experimenting with Mastodon recently - it’s long past time to move on from Twitter/X.

I’ve been thinking about OpenAi’s recent developer conference and release for the past few days.

I’ve been trying to redownload nfl_data_py on my Mac after hosing my python installation.

Some working notes on using GPT-4 to code (and LLM’s generally) GPT-4 is definitely the move over GPT-3.5 It’s pretty clear when GPT loses the context window - sometimes it just makes more sense to paste the code into a new chat window to refresh.

Metrics for my real friends, real tricks for my meh friends — Jeremy B.

With all of the dust flying over Twitter and the API shutting down, I think it’s time to get back to writing.

Rediscovered the humble library and it’s been a game changer.

I’m currently working on building out a new website in Django and one key component is an email capture system.

I have recently published several Tableau dashboards, which has me relearning many of Tableau’s foibles since I frequently used it in 2015.

As Austin Kleon notes, problems of output are so often problems of input.

I was scrolling and found the Big Data Cup for 2021.

In my first post on the Big Data Cup, I talked about how I think I’m going to focus more on the Scouting dataset.

As someone who always has project ideas turning around in his head, I’ve decided that they’ve been lacking one thing: codenames.

Thinking about it more, the NFL being so random means that any predictions have to be couched in probabilities.

Finally had some time to think through sports betting that happened over Wild Card Weekend.

One last enhancement to make to this site eventually is including favicon support.

“Life isn’t about finding yourself.