6 September 2024

18 links · Friday

What happens when you touch a Pickle to an AM radio tower?

A few months ago, our AM radio hot dog experiment went mildly viral. That was a result of me asking my Dad 'what would happen if you ground a hot dog to one of your AM radio towers?' He didn't know, so one night on the way to my son's volleyball practice, we t…

Wealthfolio | Desktop Investment Tracker

Wealthfolio is a simple, desktop-based investment tracker. Your financial data is stored safely on your own computer. No subscriptions, no cloud.

Did Sandia use a thermonuclear secondary in a product logo?

I happened to look at a slide deck from Sandia National Laboratories from 2007 that someone had posted on Reddit late last night (you know, as one does,...

Clojure - Clojure 1.12.0

There are many development-time cases where it would be useful to add a library interactively without restarting the JVM - speculative evaluation, adding a known dependency to your project, or adding a library to accomplish a specific task.

To raise or not to raise.

Recent discussions with a serial entrepreneur got me thinking about fundraising.

Introducing `live_view_events`

This first release of `live_view_events` includes everything you need to send and handle messages between live views and components or between components and components.

How I Got My Dev Job On Twitter

This article shares my story of landing a developer job through Twitter. It also talks about my growth and the work culture at Documenso.

Long Context vs. RAG

One of the projects I have built is a long-standing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) application. Documents are saved in a database, chunked into a reasonable amount of text that a large language model (LLM) can handle, and turned into numerical ...

Don't Ask 'What to Learn'

Don't start by asking 'what to learn.' It's the wrong approach. If you don't know where you're going, how will you know when you get there?

Minifying HTML for GPT-4o: Remove all the HTML Tags

tl;dr; if you want to pass HTML data to GPT-4o, just strip out all the HTML and pass raw text, it’s cheaper and there is little to no performance degradation. Source code and demo available.

Dark Mode Sucks

There I've said it. The decision by major tech companies to add native dark mode support to their operating systems is the biggest mistake in the last decade. Does it look like you're doing some cool hacks with Angelina Jolie? I guess. But does it look good?…