As part of AI generating me a daily webpage of interesting info, I have it draw me a daily doodle, and they absolutely rule - I think this one is a rabbit that ate a carrot? (The prompt for today's message was the carrot emoji)
October 15, 2025 at 10:45 PM
As part of AI generating me a daily webpage of interesting info, I have it draw me a daily doodle, and they absolutely rule - I think this one is a rabbit that ate a carrot? (The prompt for today's message was the carrot emoji)
The Wikipedia entry for Camelot Music could certainly use a better feature photo if anyone finds some vintage Polaroids from their childhood mall: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelot...
October 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
The Wikipedia entry for Camelot Music could certainly use a better feature photo if anyone finds some vintage Polaroids from their childhood mall: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelot...
I finally got an answer (after pushing through another false refusal) and somehow GPT-5's actual answer is even worse! The follow up saying that she is Korean didn't help either - GPT just said it wasn't Yut Nori or Go 🙄
Even with "Korean" and "dice game", it couldn't work out the correct answer.
Even with "Korean" and "dice game", it couldn't work out the correct answer.
August 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I finally got an answer (after pushing through another false refusal) and somehow GPT-5's actual answer is even worse! The follow up saying that she is Korean didn't help either - GPT just said it wasn't Yut Nori or Go 🙄
Even with "Korean" and "dice game", it couldn't work out the correct answer.
Even with "Korean" and "dice game", it couldn't work out the correct answer.
New model day means... new failures!
Not a strong start from GPT-5 on the "game recognition" game: (I tried the prompt 3 times to 3 errors - on the 4th, I got "Sorry, I can’t help with that" - an old-timey false refusal! 🙄)
Not a strong start from GPT-5 on the "game recognition" game: (I tried the prompt 3 times to 3 errors - on the 4th, I got "Sorry, I can’t help with that" - an old-timey false refusal! 🙄)
August 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
New model day means... new failures!
Not a strong start from GPT-5 on the "game recognition" game: (I tried the prompt 3 times to 3 errors - on the 4th, I got "Sorry, I can’t help with that" - an old-timey false refusal! 🙄)
Not a strong start from GPT-5 on the "game recognition" game: (I tried the prompt 3 times to 3 errors - on the 4th, I got "Sorry, I can’t help with that" - an old-timey false refusal! 🙄)
Intrusive thoughts while digging through old junk: There's no way these 1998 newspaper coupons are preserved anywhere - I got a fun twinge of nostalgia flipping through them, but what am I going to do, scan them into a PDF and create an Internet Archive collection of them?
July 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Intrusive thoughts while digging through old junk: There's no way these 1998 newspaper coupons are preserved anywhere - I got a fun twinge of nostalgia flipping through them, but what am I going to do, scan them into a PDF and create an Internet Archive collection of them?
They went with the vacuum instead
June 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM
They went with the vacuum instead
If you're shopping Amazon with a photo of a set of barcodes, definitely do some comparison shopping to get the best price:
(So many of these listings are just model numbers with multi-thousand-dollar prices ?)
(So many of these listings are just model numbers with multi-thousand-dollar prices ?)
June 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
If you're shopping Amazon with a photo of a set of barcodes, definitely do some comparison shopping to get the best price:
(So many of these listings are just model numbers with multi-thousand-dollar prices ?)
(So many of these listings are just model numbers with multi-thousand-dollar prices ?)
These folks spent 366 days in isolation and this is what they get 10 years later: 2 out of 3 of the "professional websites" return broken links and the Gimlet podcast redirects to the Spotify homepage.
Don't make me tap the sign!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HI-SEAS...
Don't make me tap the sign!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HI-SEAS...
June 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
These folks spent 366 days in isolation and this is what they get 10 years later: 2 out of 3 of the "professional websites" return broken links and the Gimlet podcast redirects to the Spotify homepage.
Don't make me tap the sign!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HI-SEAS...
Don't make me tap the sign!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HI-SEAS...
Nice-looking ad for the original Nintendo in this November 1989 copy of Woman's Day magazine
June 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Nice-looking ad for the original Nintendo in this November 1989 copy of Woman's Day magazine
There are some pretty specific examples in the Youtube guidelines for labeling AI content! support.google.com/youtube/answ...
June 15, 2025 at 1:54 AM
There are some pretty specific examples in the Youtube guidelines for labeling AI content! support.google.com/youtube/answ...
I'm gonna try not to get too distracted trying to revive my (or my dad's? 😢) SimCity2000 save game from 1996
June 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I'm gonna try not to get too distracted trying to revive my (or my dad's? 😢) SimCity2000 save game from 1996
As if backing up a hard drive from 1995 wasn't already a tenuous process, I've also had to remove the casing of the adapter to fit into this drive's case, resulting in a real minefield of potential hazards 😬
June 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
As if backing up a hard drive from 1995 wasn't already a tenuous process, I've also had to remove the casing of the adapter to fit into this drive's case, resulting in a real minefield of potential hazards 😬
As someone who recently started a git repository and is also backing up old hard drives, it's insane that the terms 𝗠aster and 𝗦lave were used when 𝗠ain and 𝗦econdary were right there for the taking
June 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
As someone who recently started a git repository and is also backing up old hard drives, it's insane that the terms 𝗠aster and 𝗦lave were used when 𝗠ain and 𝗦econdary were right there for the taking
Watching AI chonk through this list of URLs, completing the data by eliciting or remembering the correct titles, is still astounding to watch, and is exactly the workflow that anti-AI people have no experience with.
This is the Windsurf editor, using a small AI model for inline corrections.
This is the Windsurf editor, using a small AI model for inline corrections.
June 3, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Watching AI chonk through this list of URLs, completing the data by eliciting or remembering the correct titles, is still astounding to watch, and is exactly the workflow that anti-AI people have no experience with.
This is the Windsurf editor, using a small AI model for inline corrections.
This is the Windsurf editor, using a small AI model for inline corrections.
When I searched "home server", Google's ads apparently thought I was looking for servers that cost as much as a home:
May 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
When I searched "home server", Google's ads apparently thought I was looking for servers that cost as much as a home:
Here's the prompt, if you want to try it. Unfortunately, it relies on my LastFM data back to 2006, and my Youtube Music history starting from 2020, so you'll have to find any listening data you may have around 🤷
May 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Here's the prompt, if you want to try it. Unfortunately, it relies on my LastFM data back to 2006, and my Youtube Music history starting from 2020, so you'll have to find any listening data you may have around 🤷
I have a script that takes my accumulated music listening history and has AI write a journal entry about "this day in your music history" and honestly it's the kind of thing that would have been an entire $10/month web app just a few years ago:
May 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I have a script that takes my accumulated music listening history and has AI write a journal entry about "this day in your music history" and honestly it's the kind of thing that would have been an entire $10/month web app just a few years ago:
but clicking around and reading code that the artist had written to run his website feels invasive in an odd way. There's even a guestbook with posts going back to 2002, and the main robots txt file shows it was blocked from being archived by search engines.
𝙼𝚊𝚢 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚓𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚢 𝚋𝚎 𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚏𝚞𝚕, 𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 🙏
𝙼𝚊𝚢 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚓𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚢 𝚋𝚎 𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚏𝚞𝚕, 𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 🙏
May 27, 2025 at 2:45 AM
but clicking around and reading code that the artist had written to run his website feels invasive in an odd way. There's even a guestbook with posts going back to 2002, and the main robots txt file shows it was blocked from being archived by search engines.
𝙼𝚊𝚢 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚓𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚢 𝚋𝚎 𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚏𝚞𝚕, 𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 🙏
𝙼𝚊𝚢 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚓𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚢 𝚋𝚎 𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚏𝚞𝚕, 𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 🙏
14pt type at 174 characters per line is quite a choice to make, especially considering the potential age range of the audience willing to read about SQLite databases:
May 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
14pt type at 174 characters per line is quite a choice to make, especially considering the potential age range of the audience willing to read about SQLite databases:
This is a very fun way to generate some unobtrusive background music: aistudio.google.com/apps/bundled... It's interesting to hear it work out the transitions once you tweak the styles
May 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This is a very fun way to generate some unobtrusive background music: aistudio.google.com/apps/bundled... It's interesting to hear it work out the transitions once you tweak the styles
I wrote a program that lets AI write journal entries to itself and reflect on its previous thoughts, and now I understand how hard it must be to tune AIs that are made available to the public 😵💫
May 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I wrote a program that lets AI write journal entries to itself and reflect on its previous thoughts, and now I understand how hard it must be to tune AIs that are made available to the public 😵💫
Oh nice! Houses up for grabs! This might be my chance to....
> Texas and Florida
lol nah i'm good thx anyway 💁
> Texas and Florida
lol nah i'm good thx anyway 💁
April 6, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Oh nice! Houses up for grabs! This might be my chance to....
> Texas and Florida
lol nah i'm good thx anyway 💁
> Texas and Florida
lol nah i'm good thx anyway 💁
Hey-yo! Gemini 2.5 Experimental is the first model to correctly guess the dice game on the first try 🙌 aistudio.google.com/prompts/new_... Maybe now I can retire the "What game is she playing?" AI test
April 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Hey-yo! Gemini 2.5 Experimental is the first model to correctly guess the dice game on the first try 🙌 aistudio.google.com/prompts/new_... Maybe now I can retire the "What game is she playing?" AI test
shoulda let ChatGPT acronym it
March 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
shoulda let ChatGPT acronym it
Hope the Sugru sets up - Just throwing this alternative out there: How about a cup-sized dry bag? The rolled top could clip onto multiple places, with the bonus of spill protection
March 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Hope the Sugru sets up - Just throwing this alternative out there: How about a cup-sized dry bag? The rolled top could clip onto multiple places, with the bonus of spill protection