Reading List

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

Retour.

Doing a thing I used to do all the time, and having some feelings about it.

Skip to the end

It’s time to forget about the limits we’re used to working in. We need to step out of our magic circle.

To really take advantage of what AI can do, developers need to start thinking about software differently— not as the means to but as the ends. Don’t deliver tools that allow users to achieve outcomes. Just deliver the outcomes.

[…] Instead of requiring users to learn a templating system and string replacements, you can simply write custom messages en mass.

Markdown.new + bookmarklet

Markdown.new is a nice little tool to convert a webpage into Markdown without any fuss.

To make it even easier, I created a bookmarklet to instantly convert the page you’re viewing to Markdown.

javascript:(()=>{location.href='https://markdown.new/'+location.href})()

Two soups, two cookies

I’m a sucker for a good cooking analogy. Liam Hammett on the difference between “it works”, and “it feels right”.

You can’t really condense this article into a single quote. You’re gonna have to read it to feel it.

Caveman

In 1980, Michael Crichton characters in Congo spoke like cavemen to save satellite bandwidth. It was absurd. Ridiculous! Forty-five years later, we’re doing the same thing with LLMs to save tokens.