Browse all posts organized by year.
Entries with '↗︎' are quotes, recommendations, and my comments on articles by others.
2025
38 posts- October 24 Quoting Geoffrey Litt: Code Like a Surgeon ↗︎
- September 22 On Vibe Coding Cleanup as a Service ↗︎
- September 2 Curious & Confused: TIL in July - August 2025
- September 2 Quoting Michael Bassili: I Miss Using Em Dashes ↗︎
- August 27 Quoting Bruce Schneier: We Are Still Unable to Secure LLMs ↗︎
- August 20 Prototyping a Tag Manager Component with ChatGPT and Cursor
- August 19 Quoting Anu Atluru: Doomprompting Is the New Doomscrolling ↗︎
- August 8 GPT-5 First Impressions
- August 6 What is Slopsquatting? ↗︎
- August 4 Quoting Orta Therox: Programming’s ‘Introduction to Photography’ Moment ↗︎
- July 16 Quoting Vincent Schmalbach: My LLMs Have Personalities ↗︎
- July 7 Curious & Confused: TIL in May - June 2025
- July 5 Quoting Simon Willison: Identify, solve, verify ↗︎
- July 2 Quoting John Rush: Building a Personal AI Factory ↗︎
- June 17 Quoting Simon Willison: The lethal trifecta for AI agents ↗︎
- June 12 Quoting Devansh: Fine-Tuning LLMs is a Huge Waste of Time ↗︎
- May 3 Curious & Confused: TIL in April 2025
- April 27 Quoting Sean Goedecke: Debugging, emotional resilience, and mental models ↗︎
- April 26 Watching o3 guess a photo’s location is kinda scary ↗︎
- April 11 Quoting Drew Breunig on Domain Experts & Developers ↗︎
- April 7 How secure is MCP, really? ↗︎
- April 5 Matt Webb, Interview for People and Blogs: ↗︎
- April 2 Curious & Confused: TIL in March 2025
- March 2 Curious & Confused: TIL in February 2025
- February 13 The future belongs to idea guys who can just do things ↗︎
- February 10 The Anthropic Economic Index by Anthropic ↗︎
- January 31 Curious & Confused: TIL in January 2025
- January 29 OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data They Stole First ↗︎
- January 28 Your very own Benjamin Gates with ChatGPT ↗︎
- January 22 Think of local-first as a hardening function. ↗︎
- January 19 Digital sovereignty is more important than ever ↗︎
- January 16 A guide to AI prototyping for product managers ↗︎
- January 14 ChatGPT reveals the system prompt for Tasks ↗︎
- January 14 The 2025 AI Engineering Reading List ↗︎
- January 10 Street-fighting RAG: Chain-of-thought prompting ↗︎
- January 4 Challenging the "LLMs are just next-token predictors" take ↗︎
- January 4 Tracking Flights Over My House With ChatGPT and Claude
- January 3 Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”? ↗︎
2024
9 posts- December 31 Things we learned about LLMs in 2024 ↗︎
- December 29 OpenAI’s Board: ‘To Succeed, All We Need Is Unimaginable Sums of Money’ ↗︎
- December 15 How decentralized is Bluesky really? ↗︎
- November 8 Perfect is the Enemy of Good ↗︎
- November 1 To Auto-Save or Not to Auto-Save? ↗︎
- October 24 Art Display with Real-Time Image Diffusion ↗︎
- October 18 What I Should Have Focused on When Picking Freelance Gigs
- October 10 The web is too big, or scaling down ↗︎
- July 25 The Lost Charm of the Early Internet
2022
1 post2021
1 post- October 9 2021 Podcasts Recommendations
2020
1 post2017
32 posts- December 27 Net Neutrality is dead, cryptojacking keeps spreading & the Mirai Botnet isn’t what you think ↗︎
- November 15 Parts of the US Internet broke down, a poor guy stole and lost $300m in cryptocurrency by accident ↗︎
- October 23 WiFi is broken, Big Brother lives in China and robots are coming for Wall Street! ↗︎
- October 17 Disqus leaks user data, Equifax still struggles with cybersecurity ↗︎
- October 10 AIM shuts down after 20 years, Kaspersky Lab might be working with the Kremlin ↗︎
- October 2 Deloitte leaks clients’ secret emails, Uber wants to leave Quebec and the new Firefox Quantum is out ↗︎
- September 25 Uber loses licence in London, Google buys HTC talents for $1.1B & CCleaner distributes malware million users ↗︎
- September 17 Equifax breach exposes millions of US consumers’ data, China bans cryptocurrencies & bluetooth flaw puts billions at risk ↗︎
- September 5 Google breaks Japan’s internet, DDoS botnets keep growing & central banks get interested in cryptocurrencies
- August 28 HBO keeps getting hacked, cryptocurrencies are not currencies & robots won’t take all our jobs ↗︎
- August 18 The Daily Stormer sucks, Trumps disbands business councils & China’s headed for AI world domination ↗︎
- August 11 Google’s diversity memo shakes the web, Walt Disney's leaving Netflix & researchers infected a computer with DNA ↗︎
- August 4 China censors Apple and Amazon, cryptocurrencies are the new gold & Hyperloop is the future of public transportation ↗︎
- July 28 Sweden leaks massive data, Amazon misleads consumers & the Library of Congress opens its catalogs ↗︎
- July 21 $31M+ stolen in cryptocurrencies, new blockchain challenges & Japan sent a drone to space! ↗︎
- July 14 Internet fights for Net Neutrality, bacteria can store animated gifs & AI is at war with journalists ↗︎
- July 7 Fake news is scarier than ever, blockchain struggles with scaling & online privacy still an issue ↗︎
- June 30 Petya breaks computers, EU fines Google €2.42B ↗︎
- June 23 Amazon buys Whole Foods, Uber’s CEO resigns and the NSA goes open source ↗︎
- June 16 Internet Trends 2017 are out, hacking power grids is possible & the blockchain keeps growing ↗︎
- June 9 The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #12 ↗︎
- June 2 The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #11 ↗︎
- May 26 The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #10 ↗︎
- May 19 The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #9 ↗︎
- May 12 The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #8 ↗︎
- May 7 The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #7 ↗︎
- April 27 The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #6 ↗︎
- April 21 The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #5 ↗︎
- April 14 The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #4 ↗︎
- April 7 The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #3 ↗︎
- March 31 The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #2 ↗︎
- March 24 The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #1 ↗︎
2010
2 posts2009
10 posts- October 3 Posterous: My Ideal Publishing Format?
- August 3 BruTwestival Is Back—and Needs You!
- July 20 Thesis: Rumors 2.0 or Just a Matter of Semantics
- July 14 Social Media Releases for the music industry
- June 16 Social Media and the Iranian Elections
- June 4 What Could Google Wave Change for Students?
- May 22 Are iPhone apps better than flash ecards!?
- March 22 How would I use Twitter if I had an indie band?
- March 20 Underground record labels and Twitter
- February 10 Brussels Twestival 2009
2008
18 posts- November 30 Alien Links Are Taking Over the Web!
- October 24 Belgian Usability Day 2008: program
- October 22 Dissertation about electronic rumours: I need your help!
- October 19 Bright One: Communication with a Social Purpose
- September 20 Why we use Facebook to promote our concerts
- August 18 Design Help via Twitter
- July 29 Some Tips for Using Social Media Well
- July 9 Google’s Ad Targeting Gets Sharper
- March 22 EuroBlog 2008: What’s Next
- March 9 EuroBlog 2008: Final Countdown
- February 28 interMedias: It's On!
- February 24 Download 'The Future of Reputation' for Free!
- February 23 Buzz Marketing, According to Kapferer (in 1987)
- February 16 Study from TNS Sofres: Web 2.0 and Business
- February 13 I Don't Seek News Anymore—It Finds Me!
- February 11 Can user-generated content predict music sales?
- February 11 Impact of User-Generated Content on Music Sales
- February 7 Euroblog 2008: Social media and the future of PR