Like a normal blog, only with pictures. Insights on technology, fractional CTOing, and life in general.
ChatGPT Tip via OpenAI's Noam Brown: Use o3!
I never liked o1 much, but Brown is right, o3 is amazing ...
AI Engineer World's Fair 2025: My Day 1 Highlights
Key takeaways and observations from Day 1 of the AI Engineer World's Fair 2025
AI Writing Index, Feb '23 to Jun '24
My early AI work, in index form, with reflections
Observable Framework With Hugo
Integrating an Observable Framework dashboard into a Hugo-based website
Apple Intelligence Initial Thoughts
Mostly from other people, I'm still digesting
Observable Framework Delivers Blazing-fast Data Dashboards
An exciting new offering, launched in February, from the team that brought us Observable Notebooks
A Quick Look at GPT-4o
I did a quick benchmark of the new GPT-4o model versus GPT-4-turbo. Roughly twice the speed, with improved Vision accuracy.
OpenAI Vision + Function Calling Examples
OpenAI's April 9th model update merges Turbo and Vision, and these examples show the two working together.
Using Tailscale to Access Amazon VPCs, EC2 Instances, and RDS Clusters
Tailscale has been simple to set up and manage, but also amazingly flexible.
Nice writeup from Russ Cox on the (incredibly long) timeline of the XZ backdoor