Many AI boosters are forgetting that the most important part of work is the subjective, human aspect: empathizing with customer needs, communicating effectively, and understanding tastes and trends. A human can prompt an LLM into effectiveness in these areas, but it will rarely get there on its own.

Feeling a sense of relief when the AI coding output is garbage; it’s a good heuristic for the novelty of the work. But using the AI to do today’s novel work will create training data for the next model iteration 🤔

Keyswitch and LED circuit coming together for a step sequencer. Using a dedicated PWM driver IC for controllable brightness gives much better results than my first attempt (bitbanging a constant current LED driver in software)

Realized something recently: MX-style keyboard switches are great general-purpose buttons. You can experiment with different 3d printed keycaps, and they're super tactile. I just wish they were a little easier to breadboard.

Still working out my relationship with coding agents. When you enjoy the process of creating, it's hard to see the value of the process diminished. You also become less capable if you offload the cognitive lifting. But they can help you overcome blockers, and learn things in your own way.

Having fun building the UI for my generative sampler project. These tiny OLED displays are pretty expressive for their size

I was daydreaming about a scuba trip to SE Asia recently and this workflow was useful:

1. Ask for a list of dive spots with descriptions
2. Reformat into .kml (importable in Google Earth)
3. Ask for another list of tourist destinations, also export as .kml
4. Self-plan itinerary by proximity

Trying to cram 9 buttons, 2 pots, 8 leds, 8 resistors, 2 ICs, and an OLED display on a Pi HAT proto board

Adolf Loos describing planned obsolescence in 1908 is a good reminder that there's nothing new under the sun.

AI begets a 21st century Dadaism; it shows you the form of familiar things, but they flow into one another in a situationless manner, devoid of context.

AI researchers would call this a "world model". Right now AI can approximate the distribution of the form, but has no model of the function.

One of those rare things that tempts you to dust off the VR headset

cool project: www.flowstate.cc lets you filter your feeds based on the types of content you do/don't want to see. e.g., no public freakouts, no rage bait. tools like this could help people regain agency over their digital experiences

students using AI on assignments; teachers using AI to grade them. sending emails written by AI, so recipients can respond with AI. building an app with AI; deploying it to be used by AI agents. the implication is that we have no interest in doing anything. what are we freeing our time up for?

this george grosz painting hasn't left my mind since I saw it at the hirshhorn museum a few months ago

still not going to post

opening up the computer in the morning, seeing all my tabs and windows and Documents from the day prior—it’s like coming home to a happy family. Each file is like an old friend. And nothing beats hanging out with your friends 😃

beginning to realize i enjoy cable management more than using the things the cables are connected to

attaching a 12x scope to my iphone and targeting a food truck QR code from 300 yards away