Mar 21, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog Can Coding LLMs only Increase Complexity? In Which I Vent my Frustrations about Using LLMs for Coding
Mar 18, 2025 from Saeed Esmaili Enhancing Text-to-SQL With Synthetic Summaries LLMs are being experimented with to do so many things today, and one of the use cases that sound compelling is getting their help to generate insights from data. What if you could find the answer t...
Mar 16, 2025 from Saeed Esmaili Building a Personal Content Recommendation System, Part One: Introduction Every morning, my RSS reader greets me with hundreds of new posts. Tech blogs, indie developers’ journals, photography content - they all compete for attention. While I’ve gotten good at quickly sc...
Mar 14, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog Can AI Tell You What You Need (But Don't Want) To Hear? In Which I Question Whether AI Will Help Us Stay Grounded
Mar 13, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog Why Don't You Walk Daily? In Which I Persuade you to do something you already know you should be doing
Mar 11, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog Interesting Facts About my Father In Which I Share Stories about my Father
Mar 10, 2025 from Adventures in Open Source Software SCaLE 22x NOTE: When I initially wrote this article I used “they/them” pronouns when referring to Hazel Weakly instead of the preferred “she/her” pronouns shared in her speaker notes. People have pointed out...
Mar 10, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog My Book List 2024-2025 A dive into my reading from the past 18 months, featuring highlights across science, history, philosophy, and fiction.
Mar 07, 2025 from Adventures in Open Source Software Some Thoughts on Mozilla, Apple and Linux Mint This post was inspired by the fact that I am going to be traveling and I needed a new laptop. I am not a “laptop” guy. I much prefer to use desktops, even though I do connect an external screen to ...
Mar 06, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog Introducing My Notes System I've added a new notes system to my personal site to share book reviews, thoughts, and other content that doesn't necessarily fit the blog format.
Mar 05, 2025 from Adventures in Open Source Software Why I Love the Fediverse I am not as much of a free software user as I was in the past. There was a time where almost all of the technology I used was open source. That is no longer the case (I am heavily invested in the A...
Mar 04, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog Breakdown of all Satoshi's Writings Proves Bitcoin not Built Primarily as Store of Value An evidence-based analysis of Satoshi Nakamoto's writings showing Bitcoin was not built primarily as a store of value.
Mar 03, 2025 from Saeed Esmaili Add Logprobs to Openai Structured Output When working with LLMs sometimes you want to know if the response you’re getting from the model is the one that at least the model itself is sort of confident about. For example, I recently worked ...
Mar 03, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog Unc's Unlearning Outfit for 2024 In Which I Write a Short Fiction
Mar 02, 2025 from Daryl Sun's Journal This Week — Everything Changes This Week — Everything Changes TL;DR:I switch out Firefox and Thunderbird for their soft forks. I start taking daily notes in Memos. I also consider whether to open donations for my writing. This b...
Feb 28, 2025 from Chaotican Writer Nerds and Knights: a TTRPG “Nerd Nite” Presentation Our editor griped the mic at a community TED talk for local nerds, and gushed about tabletop RPGs. Check out more about the presentation here! The post Nerds and Knights: a TTRPG “Nerd Nite” Presen...
Feb 26, 2025 from Jasco's Website Spring Blossoms I talk about a trip I took and the beauty that it left me with
Feb 26, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog Claude Code Redesigned my Website in 3 Mins for $0.61 In Which I Recognize How Inferior I am at Design
Feb 24, 2025 from Daryl Sun's Journal This Week — New Year, New Upgrades This Week — New Year, New Upgrades TL;DR:I'm running Fedora XFCE on my old laptop now. I tried out several software on PikaPods and added some improvements to my blog. I also reorganized my Johnny ...
Feb 24, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog Testing Claude Code In Which I Test the New Claude Code Release
