Remember when AI (LLMs) couldn’t decide how many fingers go on the average human hand? That still seems pretty recent. But, my how things have changed. AI is now immensely more capable, and not just at counting to five.
To get a sense of where AI is now, I set out on an experiment. I want to better track my family’s spending, so I gave myself two days to create a web app, with AI’s help. I wasn’t sure how far I’d get, or the quality of the output, but I was curious to find out.
Read moreHere’s some fun news: we bought a house, in Northern Tuscany of all places. We’ve been thinking about getting a little escape from the city and have been missing the mountains and coast we had in Seattle. So, we started virtually exploring Europe to find places where the “mountains meet the sea”, as my wife put it. Our journey landed us in Northern Tuscany. Last summer we visited the area, checked out some houses, and fell in love with a little place a little north of Lucca, nestled in the Apuan Alps.
You can find out more in a little introductory video I put together:
We’re still quite early in the renovation process, and will be sharing more on our new YouTube channel. So go like, subscribe, comment, and all that fun stuff!
With pandemic restrictions easing in Europe, our thoughts turned to travel and a needed break from Berlin. After much consideration, we settled on our first destination: Freiburg in Breisgau. A town situated in Germany’s far Southwest corner, Freiburg is known for a few things. Due to its location, it boasts one of the sunniest and warmest climates in Germany. The town is also home to the University of Freiburg, an old and highly regarded institution. Lastly, and of particular interest to us, Freiburg is also considered a gateway to the Black Forest and is a short drive to France’s Alsace region, renown for its wine and well-preserved medieval villages.
Read moreI’ve started playing around with creating Sketch plugins and have run into a few challenges here and there. One of the most annoying issue I’ve found is when you build your plugin, but you don’t see the changes reflected in Sketch. It seems this most often occurs when something has happened with the symlink between your development version and Sketch’s plugin folder. To fix this, you need to delete the version in plugin folder and recreate the symlink.
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