Technology Launching AI Trix Consulting I always aspired to be an entrepreneur. Have a successful business and make money myself, no paychecks in sight.
Technology LLMs are like pizza, and that's OK Let’s get pizza. Cheese? Meat lovers? Vegetarian? Want pineapple? Deep dish, giant slice, or fully loaded with the lot? There’s enough takes on pizza to please every taste; and the existence of one type of pizza doesn’t devalue any other. Pizza is a food genre.
Technology Counting Bondi Salties swimmers with a little help from AI This is a story about a new way of building software: in dialogue with an LLM. In this case, Claude 3.5 Sonnet from Anthropic.
Technology Ideas to level up daily standups Today while reading The Daily Scrum over at Rethinking Software I realized that what is framed as a complaint could be reframed as a question:
Technology Creating VeggieBrain Building with AI is rewarding: neat things can be done very quickly. VeggieBrain is a chat app I built wherein you chat with a chatbot that exists in a magical world where everything relates to vegetables. It was born as a response to a friend’s project - my mate built beefbrain.com, similar but beef-related instead. BeefBrain uses vanilla CSS and JS and OpenAI’s gpt-3.5-turbo model. Kudos to Ben, the bot does really well with that model - one may even say despite it!
Technology Switch Homebrew Setup in June 2022 If you have a Nintendo Switch which can be patched to run homebrew software, the possibilities are endless. Fortunately for me, my Switch falls into this category. More people should try it!
Technology • Philosophy Demanding the right to "bear servers" In the Wild West of the modern Internet, the people must be able to wield (ie. run) their own infrastructure. The Second Amendment to the US Constitution allows the populace to control their own destiny in self-defense against both the wilderness and authoritarianism; in a similar vein, controlling our own infrastructure (email, social networking etc.) allows us a form of self-defense against monopolization and monetization of the Internet by big players.
Technology • Philosophy What's your unit of (software) reuse? Keeping concerns separate in software is a key step on the path to reusability, as a company I was at before 2013 learned, when a desktop web app suddenly needed to become mobile-ready. The desktop web app had significant business logic in UI components, which was not feasible to duplicate 3 more times to support mobile web, iOS, and Android.
