Dark mode on the site
Going through the lists of easy things to make the site more usable, I came across Simon’s post about using LLMs to add dark mode to his site. Using the literal exact same prompt with Opus 4.6, …
Now with tagging
Reading through Simon Willison’s great blog, I realized how useful tagging was. I wanted to add it to my blog too but dreaded retroactively reading through 100+ blogposts and thinking through a …
Building a static website with Claude
I moved this personal blog to a static site from Wordpress tonight, mostly on a whim. If this was 10 years ago, I’d have written out a step-by-step instructions of exports and one-off migration …
Movies I watched in 2024
I watched a lot of movies this year: 128 of them to be exact and 74 of those were ones I watched for the first time (or first time in a long long time). I’ve never watched this many movies in a …
A few Copenhagen spots
This past July, we spent a few days in Copenhagen. A coworker (Fatih!) asked for a few tips, and since I wrote them up in Slack, I figured I’d copy and past them here for more permanence. …
Software I gladly pay for
I always enjoy reading about software that people will actually choose to pay for and endorse, so here’s some of mine. Deliveries: We probably buy more than we should over the Internet, but this …
Week Roundup: 2024-09-02
Fogwall over the bay, Aug 28 Today is Labor Day and due to a work perk (a Friday off every month), I am on day 3 of a 4 day weekend. Often weekends are a bust as far as moving anything forward, but …
Thoughts about Twitter
I write this as thousands of Twitter employees learned in the past day that they no longer had a job. They were dumped unceremoniously, the result of the addled whims of a walking meme. I wanted to …
Three Levels of Developer Productivity
If you work on developer productivity, you sit in an unique spot. You are often given a broad mandate — “make the engineers more productive”-and typically little guidance on what the word ‘productive’ …
Rules over Safety
Last year, MUNI removed a few seats from the front of its standard electric buses by permanently locking them upright. They did this due to safety reasons: “these seats do not have a barrier in …