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2025 (41)
A First Look at Prototyping With Gemini 3 and Google AI Studio
Quoting Elena Verna: My beef with AI credit pricing
Experimenting with Codex CLI, Agents.md, and PRDs
Quoting Geoffrey Litt: Code Like a Surgeon
On Vibe Coding Cleanup as a Service
Curious & Confused: TIL in July - August 2025
Quoting Michael Bassili: I Miss Using Em Dashes
Quoting Bruce Schneier: We Are Still Unable to Secure LLMs
Prototyping a Tag Manager Component with ChatGPT and Cursor
Quoting Anu Atluru: Doomprompting Is the New Doomscrolling
GPT-5 First Impressions
What is Slopsquatting?
Quoting Orta Therox: Programming’s ‘Introduction to Photography’ Moment
Quoting Vincent Schmalbach: My LLMs Have Personalities
Curious & Confused: TIL in May - June 2025
Quoting Simon Willison: Identify, solve, verify
Quoting John Rush: Building a Personal AI Factory
Quoting Simon Willison: The lethal trifecta for AI agents
Quoting Devansh: Fine-Tuning LLMs is a Huge Waste of Time
Curious & Confused: TIL in April 2025
Quoting Sean Goedecke: Debugging, emotional resilience, and mental models
Watching o3 guess a photo’s location is kinda scary
Quoting Drew Breunig on Domain Experts & Developers
How secure is MCP, really?
Matt Webb, Interview for People and Blogs:
Curious & Confused: TIL in March 2025
Curious & Confused: TIL in February 2025
The future belongs to idea guys who can just do things
The Anthropic Economic Index by Anthropic
Curious & Confused: TIL in January 2025
OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data They Stole First
Your very own Benjamin Gates with ChatGPT
Think of local-first as a hardening function.
Digital sovereignty is more important than ever
A guide to AI prototyping for product managers
ChatGPT reveals the system prompt for Tasks
The 2025 AI Engineering Reading List
Street-fighting RAG: Chain-of-thought prompting
Challenging the "LLMs are just next-token predictors" take
Tracking Flights Over My House With ChatGPT and Claude
Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?
2024 (9)
Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
OpenAI’s Board: ‘To Succeed, All We Need Is Unimaginable Sums of Money’
How decentralized is Bluesky really?
Perfect is the Enemy of Good
To Auto-Save or Not to Auto-Save?
Art Display with Real-Time Image Diffusion
What I Should Have Focused on When Picking Freelance Gigs
The web is too big, or scaling down
The Lost Charm of the Early Internet
2022 (1)
2021 (1)
2020 (1)
2017 (32)
Net Neutrality is dead, cryptojacking keeps spreading & the Mirai Botnet isn’t what you think
Parts of the US Internet broke down, a poor guy stole and lost $300m in cryptocurrency by accident
WiFi is broken, Big Brother lives in China and robots are coming for Wall Street!
Disqus leaks user data, Equifax still struggles with cybersecurity
AIM shuts down after 20 years, Kaspersky Lab might be working with the Kremlin
Deloitte leaks clients’ secret emails, Uber wants to leave Quebec and the new Firefox Quantum is out
Uber loses licence in London, Google buys HTC talents for $1.1B & CCleaner distributes malware million users
Equifax breach exposes millions of US consumers’ data, China bans cryptocurrencies & bluetooth flaw puts billions at risk
Google breaks Japan’s internet, DDoS botnets keep growing & central banks get interested in cryptocurrencies
HBO keeps getting hacked, cryptocurrencies are not currencies & robots won’t take all our jobs
The Daily Stormer sucks, Trumps disbands business councils & China’s headed for AI world domination
Google’s diversity memo shakes the web, Walt Disney's leaving Netflix & researchers infected a computer with DNA
China censors Apple and Amazon, cryptocurrencies are the new gold & Hyperloop is the future of public transportation
Sweden leaks massive data, Amazon misleads consumers & the Library of Congress opens its catalogs
$31M+ stolen in cryptocurrencies, new blockchain challenges & Japan sent a drone to space!
Internet fights for Net Neutrality, bacteria can store animated gifs & AI is at war with journalists
Fake news is scarier than ever, blockchain struggles with scaling & online privacy still an issue
Petya breaks computers, EU fines Google €2.42B
Amazon buys Whole Foods, Uber’s CEO resigns and the NSA goes open source
Internet Trends 2017 are out, hacking power grids is possible & the blockchain keeps growing
The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #12
The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #11
The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #10
The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #9
The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #8
The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #7
The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #6
The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #5
The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #4
The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #3
The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #2
The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #1
2010 (2)
2009 (10)
Posterous: My Ideal Publishing Format?
BruTwestival Is Back—and Needs You!
Thesis: Rumors 2.0 or Just a Matter of Semantics
Social Media Releases for the music industry
Social Media and the Iranian Elections
What Could Google Wave Change for Students?
Are iPhone apps better than flash ecards!?
How would I use Twitter if I had an indie band?
Underground record labels and Twitter
Brussels Twestival 2009
2008 (18)
Alien Links Are Taking Over the Web!
Belgian Usability Day 2008: program
Dissertation about electronic rumours: I need your help!
Bright One: Communication with a Social Purpose
Why we use Facebook to promote our concerts
Design Help via Twitter
Some Tips for Using Social Media Well
Google’s Ad Targeting Gets Sharper
EuroBlog 2008: What’s Next
EuroBlog 2008: Final Countdown
interMedias: It's On!
Download 'The Future of Reputation' for Free!
Buzz Marketing, According to Kapferer (in 1987)
Study from TNS Sofres: Web 2.0 and Business
I Don't Seek News Anymore—It Finds Me!
Can user-generated content predict music sales?
Impact of User-Generated Content on Music Sales
Euroblog 2008: Social media and the future of PR