For real though, how do I get to a place where an RSS reader is something I joyfully open each day? I have never had that experience, including my long lost love for Google Reader (RIP). Almost need it to be more like a desktop app that gently notifies…

I am so sick of algorithms. Here’s how to get the RSS for a YouTube channel RSS: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=<channel_id>

Surprisingly, I find that the RSS reader I’m able to use most consistently is….Slack.

Me, around this time of year: “Oh yeah, tea! I forgot how much I like this stuff!”

Looking back through the guest list on The Amp Hour over the past 15 years. Wow, I have gotten to talk to a lot of smart people. And there are a lot more out there too!

You never realize just how bad overhead room lighting is until you have really good lighting on temporarily in a room…and then you turn it off

I have been referring to LLMs as “a/the dummybox” in casual conversation, but just found out that Neal Stephenson calls them “clankers” and I may have to switch to using that. Proving once again why he’s one of my favorite authors.

Despite my best efforts, I sometimes glance at LED based devices and think “Oh, I shouldn’t leave that on, it might burn out” (like an incandescent bulb).

I wonder if younger people (born post LED lighting) will have any notion of bulbs going bad.

An entire generation slowly learning to RTFM in order to finally, once-and-for-all, prove that stupid LLM wrong

I am Jack’s raging imposter syndrome…

Just bought a second Mac Mini M4 for my other bench (sigh, black friday deals). Honestly, it’s an amazing computer and can handle anything I have thrown at it. Now we’ll see how it does streaming video from many angles. No sweat, I bet.