Mixed topics #
- Fibery: Probably the best marketing page I ever saw. Just legendary.
- The Wisdom of James Mickens: James Mickens is my spirit animal.
- Storytime: Mongrel: One of the best usenet stories I came across
- Sergey Brin: "Irate call from Steve Jobs"
- Hello, I'm Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers
- The Slow Death of Surveillance Capitalism Has Begun
- The IAB loves tracking users. But it hates users tracking them.
- The Tanzmasken of Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt (ca. 1924)
- A brief rant on converging compliance regimes.
- Airframes: Data aggregation service that's tracking airplanes around the world.
- FindThatMeme - The Meme Search Engine
- Epochalypse: Just 14 years until 32-bit time will overflow 😱
- Wolf Incident Postmortem
- TypeLit - Practice typing by retyping novels
- GPT-3 Is the Best Journal I've Ever Used
- Fetish Tabooness vs Popularity Charts
- omg.lol - A lovable web page and email address, just for you
- The Wasteland Theatre Company - YouTube: Theater crew in multiplayer Fallout.
- Great Wheel cosmology
- The Lost Media Wiki
Software articles #
- The Page With No Code
- The Page With No HTML
- Don't Get Clever with Login Forms
- A Visual Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding
- Use the Wrong Tool for the Job
- What We Do in the /etc/shadow – Cryptography with Passwords
- South Korea's online security dead end
- Code Shelter: a collective of volunteer software developers that aims to help with maintaining popular open source projects whose authors need a hand.
- Troy Hunt: Pwned or Bot
- For your next side project, make a browser extension
- How does reCAPTCHA stop bots from clicking the checkbox?
- Cloud Storage for Offsite Backup
- alexmolas/ml-blogs: A public repository of personal ML/DS blogs.
Software tools #
- Datasette is my data hammer
- Nginx Proxy Manager: Nginx easy mode. Have not tried it out yet, but sounds great.
- Snibox Self-hosted snippet manager.
- GoatCounter – open source web analytics
- A Free, Open, and Documented Weather Forecast API
- Bullshit.js
- Windows port of the whisper.cpp implementation
- Future Tools - Find The Exact AI Tool For Your Needs
- Debdut/browser-extension: Browser Extension Template
- zegl/extremely-linear: Linear Git History
- meganetaaan/stack-chan: A JavaScript-driven M5Stack-embedded super-kawaii robot.
- alexcrist/autotone: A vocal pitch correction web application (like Autotune)
Our new robot overlords #
The "AI" hype train is gearing up to full speed, so it gets harder to find quality content in a sea of clickbaits. Here is a small selection of related articles and tools.
- A prosthesis for imagination: Using AI to boost your creativity
- How to... use ChatGPT to boost your writing
- OpenAI Cookbook
- markuswt/gpt-commit: Generate commit messages using GPT-3
- Openjourney – Stable Diffusion fine tuned on Midjourney
- Calligrapher.ai: Realistic computer-generated handwriting
- Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out. - YouTube
- How to implement Q&A against your documentation with GPT3, embeddings and Datasette
- GPT is all you need for the backend
- karpathy/nanoGPT: The simplest, fastest repository for training/finetuning medium-sized GPTs.
- brycedrennan/imaginAIry: AI imagined images. Pythonic generation of stable diffusion images.
- hwchase17/langchain: Building applications with LLMs through composability
- microsoft/LMOps: General technology for enabling AI capabilities w/ LLMs and MLLMs