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RTO is in accordance with Mondo Mayo’s Core Principles. 😂

I get my thyroid levels checked every six months, and I’ve always wished there were a nice app for storing the results. I often lose older reports and get flak from my doctors for not maintaining a proper history.

There should be an easy way to digitize these reports, back them up, and have them available on all my devices. I’ve described this app to my friends so many times that they’ve probably lost count.

But no one seems to be building it, so I figured I’d spend my break doing it myself.

TIL about mannered prose 🤓

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.