Locally hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files. I was kind of hoping the convert web to PDF would be a possible replacement for running chromium and puppeteer, but my first experiment wasn't great. The other tools still look worth exploring.
A guide to the fundamental concepts that underlie message queues, and how they apply to popular queueing systems available today.
Anna runs Anna's Archive, a search engine of shadow libraries. A big old article on the why's and how's of being a guerilla preserver of books and media.
So much weird content about the internet
The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.
A little bit of an explainer on the changing nature of training LLMs. They are increasingly being trained on things other than just the open internet.
I have a task and I suspect an llm can help with it and I feel like I need a shower.
I want to extract text from something, a website or a pdf most likely, and have it summarised down to maybe half a dozen words, with a preference for the words to match an existing set of words. That is, I want a tool that suggests tags for a bookmark and if possible reuse existing tags where appropriate.
I feel dirty.
Arguing that the danger to AI isn't that it will destroy humanity or take your job. It is that you will believe it is something more than it is.
Good. A lot. Still can't make biscuit crumb base properly.
Bring back National Service (i.e. we’re a little worried we’re not even going to get the gammon vote) really brings home how badly the UK Tories are going.
2oz Fireball Whiskey 1oz Baileys 1oz Salted Caramel liquor 1oz coffee
I expected it to be awful. It is not.
I watched Gen V and I don’t know why because everything related to The Boys is so fucking tediously exhausting. It’s all so lazy and cynical. In particular….neither of the heel turns was actually earned. They needed more work to make it work. But of course the writers and creators of this shitshow are cynical enough to believe they don’t need to earn it, the audience will just go with it.
Had these at a place called Roast Republic, which seemed all about smoked meats. Really nice accompaniment to roasted potatoes/chips.
The office moved. Now I am faced with those two very bourgeoise problems:
1) working out where I need to sit on the train to optimise getting out of the station with minimal eye contact; 2) finding a new coffee shop that doesn’t smell like sadness.
Wake up for a maintenance downtime at 05:00 this morning and it really drummed home the priorities of the dogs. The puppy†stayed with me in the coldest room of the house and watched me very very closely in case some food materialised. The more seasoned professional took my side of the bed and got some solid snoozing done.
It’s good that they know what they want out of life.
†well, he’s two but he’s a Labrador so ten more years of puppiness to go before he grows up.
Gosh, Gruber is on a tear finding examples to prove to people that their lived experience is wrong.
Another idea on measuring engineering productivity via value add.
A followup to two earlier responses to the McKinsey Engineering Productivity article