AI
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and everything LLM
#2638: How to Build Disposable AI Agents at Runtime
Create ephemeral AI agents that answer questions about specific items, then vanish. No persistent configuration needed.
#2636: Take Notes Like a Diplomat
What WikiLeaks cables teach us about capturing meetings: judgment over transcription, context over completeness.
#2634: The Two-Stage Pipeline for Persistent User Memory
How to extract durable personal context from raw prompts and build a self-healing memory layer for AI systems.
#2632: How to Start a Meetup Without Burning Out
Practical steps for launching a local community around any interest — without it taking over your life.
#2622: How Transformers Actually Work: Attention, Tokens, and Context
How one architectural change unlocked chatbots, image generation, and protein folding — explained without the jargon.
#2604: Self-Hosted Screen Recording: Tools Beyond Loom
Practical tools and trade-offs for async video documentation with real data control across platforms including Linux.
#2603: Defining the Agentic Workspace
How composable AI agent skills turn tedious media tasks into one-instruction operations for creatives.
#2593: The Politics of Unicode: Paleo-Hebrew, Han Unification, and Who Decides What a Character Is
What it takes to build a custom keyboard for an ancient biblical script, from Unicode politics to font design.
#2586: Pseudo-Personalized Emails: The New Spam Uncanny Valley
How to detect and filter AI-generated outreach emails that fake personal connection without nuking legitimate messages.
#2577: Fixing Hidden UI Bugs on Real Devices
Tools and strategies to catch layout failures across devices before users abandon your app.
#2567: Beyond Pixels: Controlling Apps Without Vision
How MCP agents can use accessibility APIs and COM to control Windows and macOS apps at the protocol level.
#2559: The Smartest Path to Python for AI
A practical guide to the best courses and platforms for learning Python, specifically for machine learning.
#2558: Should You Say Please to AI?
The surprising cost, technical tradeoffs, and ethical dilemmas of saying "please" to chatbots.
#2557: Fake It at Dinner Parties: Philosophy Cheat Codes
Eight key terms and three insider nuggets to survive any philosophy conversation without actually doing the reading.
#2551: How Progressive Disclosure Saves MCP from Token Bloat
Why dumping all tool schemas into context breaks accuracy — and three implementations that fix it.
#2549: Jakob's Law: Why Users Think Your App Is Broken
Why broken keyboard shortcuts destroy user trust — and what Jakob's Law reveals about design expectations.
#2546: The Invisible Engineering Behind a Single Click
The technical stack behind click-to-edit features in tools like Canva and Google Photos — from segmentation to inpainting.
#2545: Visual AI Pipelines: Beyond Python Glue Code
From ComfyUI to Dify — a tour of visual tools for building modular AI workflows without writing glue code.
#2544: How to Make AI Architectural Renders Photoreal Without Breaking Geometry
Fixing the uncanny valley in AI-enhanced architectural renders — without breaking the geometry.
#2541: Agent-to-Agent Scheduling: Building the Calendly for AI
How Google's A2A protocol and Anthropic's Remote MCP could power a new kind of agent handoff for scheduling meetings.