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When the analytics screen running on our main operational database got too slow, we moved a year of data into DuckDB on the same server. Getting the data in was the hard part. This is the story of every method ...
Research: Qwen3.8 27B addition in words Colin Frasier posted on Bluesky about an experiment he ran over two years ago using GPT-4o to see how well it could "compute the sum but return the answer in words" across increasingly large ...
Seems like Anthropic cut the Opus 5.5 allowance last week. Ran out of weekly usage on a 20x plan 4 days in. Spent that last day optimizing my workflows to be more token efficient, and now I'm 38 hours since ...
Thatās something Ben Thompson said a recent episode of Dithering. He was referring to how he felt while trying to help his mom get control of her digital life. Everything was just too hard and convoluted and he felt embarrassed ...
Find galaxies, nebulae and stars with your existing telescope. AstroHelm uses fast on-device plate solving to turn smartphones into precision push-to telescope finders.
This promotional video is either too weird or not weird enough, but I like core idea of im Water: a carrying strap for a water bottle designed into the label itself. The family business had a screen printing business growing ...
I always challenge new models to take on work I wouldn't have previously assumed they could accomplish. Kudos to Astra. I asked if it could edit the audio of my latest podcast in Logic (explaining what that meant), and it ...
Sundays are for having the first lie-in in a month. No trips to visit family, no waking in unfamiliar beds, and, best of all, no having to wait until the hosts are up before you can get started on breakfast. ...
Something I find befuddling: advances in AI-generated images, video, music, code, prose, and problem solving continue to legitimately impress me. And yet, somehow, I've never seen an LLM produce a marketing tagline that wasn't total dogshit. What gives?
High: A lot of fun to watch the kid grow (Connect) Low: Been sick a lot (Health) Seed: AI is changing everything, mostly for the better (Create) In 2026.Q3 I continued working with AI, helped my bro...
You know it's a good website when it: Uses subdomains (except for username.platform.com)... especially multiple levels Has a non-standard port number in URL Is served over a plaintext connection Uses very nearly default styles All tag names are written in ...
Here's a product feature which the world is going to need a whole lot more of over the coming months and years: default hard budget caps. I'm talking about the feature of pay-by-usage services and APIs that lets you say ...
I just sent the September edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter. If you are a sponsor (or start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. This month: More Fable class models A pricing war 3D graphics, Blender, and pixel ...
The problem with using AI to write is that the writing sounds like AI. Andrej Karpathy, a co-founder of OpenAI who left Tesla in 2022 and joined Anthropic in May, has a solution. He recommends using a style guide created ...
Itās finally time I go crawling back to Node! Iāve been using Node heavily this month on a SvelteKit client project. When did Node get so goodā½ Deno has been my go-to runtime for so long I forgot how to ...
There is a massive amount of arbitrage opportunity right now for competent agent-wielding developers. Want to get rich in the next 5 years? Find a niche enterprise software domain Poach a well-connected sales guy as a cofounder Undercut and outperform ...
Developing native Apple apps is generally much slower and tedious with agents than building web applications. That said, platform constraints can be liberatingāwith exactly one or two possible ways to accomplish something, an agent can monkey-on-typewriter until it figures it ...
New policy at Searls LLC: humans never touch spreadsheets again. Now have agent skills that will do all the grunt work and tedium to file expenses, document philanthropy, and rebalance mom's portfolio. Latest version of Codex is even competent in ...
Today's links Economic probabilities for our grandchildren: If only data centers would stop hogging all the copper. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: RIAA v P2P; Infoseek's anti-terror brain-scanner; Copyrighting every phone number; Carving pumpkins with cookie-cutters; ...
Sometimes I Wonder About The Other Me is a 2D platformer created by "small game" developer Luis "Ludipe" DĆaz Peralta, whose other works include A Place For The Unwilling. It's broken into a handful of single screen maps. On each ...
October, we meet again. You slip through my bedroom window as a cold draft on a crisp morning, both making my covers more welcome and the long walk to the kitchen for coffee that much harder. Still, your arrival signals ...
Museum: Rex's Dino Store Located just before the turnstiles in the Grand Army Plaza subway station at the north end of Brooklyn's Prospect Park is this former newsstand which is now operated by a dinosaur. The density of dinosaur puns ...
Hopefully Apple has in mind a solution to this situation that will still enable knowledgeable power users to confirm agreement to a sufficiently scary warning and put their Macs in a state similar to what we have today. I worry.
Matt Swanson had me back on YAGNI to talk about the fallout from DHH's Rails World keynote and what it means for your weekend. We discuss what happens to the "one-person framework" when agents write the code, how frustrating it ...
If youāre reading this my website is now built and deployed with Node. If notā¦ well, Iām in for a miserable weekend!
I donāt know if memory shortages have permanently killed off the concept of 'cheap' gaming PCs, but they have at least beat it into a coma. On the desktop side, inflated RAM, SSDs and graphics card prices continue to inflict ...
Wish I knew a programmer with the last name Holland so I could annoy them by insistently referring to Claude as Mr. Holland's Opus.
Interviewing Zach Holman this morning on Hot Fix about AI and our discontents. Have something you want us to talk about? Let me know: https://justin.searls.co/feedback/
Where we're going, we don't need Windows.
