Oct 1
Curated Find
Quoting Pranav Desai: 10 Tells of a Slop UI
Learn the 10 telltale signs of AI-generated UI design gone wrong, from gradient overload to misaligned elements that scream generic slop.
Notes,Rabbit holes,& Unfinished Thoughts
—welcome to The Aspiring Nerd, where irregular posting is the only constant.
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Turn Apple Music Playlists Into Mixtapes With AppleScript, Markdown & JavaScript
Convert Apple Music playlists into shareable website using AppleScript, Markdown, and JavaScript—no database, no API, just simple scripts and HTML.
Aug 19
Curated Find
AI;DR or Don't Be a Meat Proxy
Forwarding unedited AI-generated content wastes everyone's time.
Aug 6
The Monthly Dispatch - The Lighter Summer Edition
Major model releases while an OpenAI test agent escaped its sandbox to hack Hugging Face and 1,300+ frontier lab employees called for slowing AI progress.
Jul 3
The Monthly Dispatch - June 2026
US government restricts frontier AI models while Anthropic and OpenAI file for IPO, SpaceX acquires Cursor , and Claude caught embedding fingerprinting us.
Jun 20
Wait, Midjourney Is Building a What Now?
Midjourney is apparently building a full-body ultrasonic scanner spa. It sounds ridiculous, inspiring, and a little too Gattaca for comfort.
May 31
The Monthly Dispatch - May 2026
Talent, compute, and supply chains. May 2026 brought Karpathy to Anthropic, 220K SpaceX GPUs to Claude, enterprise joint ventures from both frontier labs, a brutal Starlette CVE, and a fresh diagnosis: tech CEOs have AI psychosis.
May 17
Curated Find
Quoting Sameer Al-Sakran: Welcome to the Strip Mining Era of Open Source Security
Open source security faces an AI-driven vulnerability gold rush.
May 9
Curated Find
Notes From Inside China's AI Labs
Discover how China's AI research culture differs from Western labs.
Apr 30
The Monthly Dispatch - April 2026
April 2026 AI roundup: OpenAI-Microsoft restructure, AWS partnership, Claude Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5, major security breaches, and the wildest model leaks yet.