New blog post: mattholden.substack.com/p/fuzzy-comp...

Playing with a new TeXipedia feature: "Draw to Search"

Try it out: texipedia.com

What do you think?

Cursor is gradually becoming more agentic for coding. But it's a spectrum, not a binary

I suspect the path toward "agents" will look like this

Start with vertical SMEs in a tight human feedback loop, then slowly improve

Claude's new "custom styles" feature is sweet!

LLMs are becoming a sort of "meta-compiler" of text -> anything

I'm now using Claude to "compile" my high level intent to more precise style instructions for...itself as a text compiler

This is getting so meta and I love it 🥰

New favorite LLM coding hack I use all the time:

Ask Claude to change my code in some way...but say "no code yet, let's discuss approaches first"

The model gets to think more, and I get to course correct approach & trade-offs in low-fidelity before it gets in the weeds 😍

How do we get Benedict Evans to start posting over here?

Threads sucks, and I want to hear more of his thoughts on this: www.ben-evans.com/presentations

One tiny productivity hack I’ve found is just putting the filename at the top of every code file

Then when I select all + copy/paste to an LLM, it has more context and keeps the artifacts straight

We love links because we love the open web

I like this quote.

But if a system is not an object, how do you influence it?

Places to intervene (from @gordon.bsky.social): newsletter.squishy.computer/p/places-to-...

I love that you can just link to stuff here, like the Internet gods intended

TeXipedia is an example of what I call an "offline AI" app.

What I mean is an app that uses AI to generate content at *build* time, not runtime.

The advantage of this approach is an app can be entirely static/SSG, i.e. extremely fast and super cheap to host.

Here, I used...

Fun post from my brother about architecture in Japan: www.samholden.jp/p/two-system...

LaTeX is the gold standard for technical writing.

But I can never remember all the symbol commands, can you?

So I made TeXipedia.com, a free site to find symbols fast.

Give it a spin. Would love any feedback. How can I make it better?