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The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

From chatbots to autonomous agents - teenage me would be mindblown

I’ve been interested in the idea of virtual intelligence ever since I was a teenager in Alabama. I’ve played around with everything from building rudimentary chat bots to creating snails and experimenting with open-ended simulations.

From chatbots to autonomous agents - teenage me would be mindblown

I’ve been interested in the idea of virtual intelligence ever since I was a teenager in Alabama. I’ve played around with everything from building rudimentary chat bots to creating snails and experimenting with open-ended simulations.

A right to copy.

This is one author’s short, failed journey to file a claim in Anthropic’s copyright lawsuit. (Oops. Spoilers, sorry.)

Refactoring English: Month 10

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Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers.

Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one to share how things are going with my book and my professional life overall.

Highlights

  • I’m experimenting with low-investment, low-payoff-style blog posts.
  • I’m adjusting my strategy for freelance editing to work specifically with people who have read my book.
  • My intuition was way off about the odds of reaching the front page of Hacker News.

Goal grades

At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those goals:

Thoughts on monthly recaps.

Here, on this blog, starting May 2021 and ending August 2022, I wrote as often as I could a recap of my months. I love this format, this publishing interface (WordPress), but eventually found out that the audience is both invisible and an unknown. Over time, it made me uncomfortable. I shifted to Instagram “stories” — and then monthly photo ... Continue reading →