Harris Jose

Some very cool techniques to actually get frontier models to produce outputs that are unique.

NYU Professor Ruby Thelot explains how 'taste' is not just aesthetic preference. I loved how he traced it's origins back to the 17th century. And how in a world where infinite choices exist, taste (or specifically the presence of taste in the maker's work) is how we filter for quality.

Fantastic article on how the harness has essentially become the most important piece in our dev environments.

This is a nice trick I have to keep reminding myself to use in the projects I’m working on. Putting it here so it’s easier to find next time.

After a few weeks of dogfooding this, I’ve finally gotten it onto the Chrome Web Store. It’s still pretty rough around the edges because it was fully “vibe-coded,” but if you do run into issues or have a feature request, please open an issue or send a PR?

Here are the links:

Chrome extension
Source

Organisms, people, products, organizations, networks. All are able to overcome competitors and accumulate energy by developing strengths along certain vectors.

Successful things tend to optimize competency on a narrow set of strategies, often a unique and unusual combination of strategies. Here are eighty such strategies, grouped in broad categories.

this is the bit I think people mean when they talk about speed, although “move fast” by itself has always felt a bit empty to me. it’s not particularly useful to type faster than everyone else. you want the company you’ve constructed to make certain things unusually cheap or obvious for you, so that by the time the thing you were originally right about is conventional wisdom you’ve already followed it somewhere else.

I've been seeing a lot of tweets recently about using Cloudflare Access to create a simple auth layer for admin portals. And I've always wanted a simple Markdown-style editor for writing blog posts, cause I always get distracted and start tweaking things if I do this in an IDE.

The site currently lives on Cloudflare, with Workers powering most of it. Content from GitHub - everything you see on /blog is an MDX file - is compiled into a sqlite database (on D1) after every push to the content/blog folder.

Highly recommended viewing, particularly if you've had bouts of feeling like you don't enjoy building software anymore - because the parts you enjoyed got ai'd away.

Chances are, you never think about typography. You happily scribe your Messages (SF Pro), Mails (Helvetica), and Slacks (Lato), thinking nothing of serifs, ligatures, or kerning. You are content trusting that a someone else has chosen a proper typeface for your current task.