An appreciation for (technical) architecture 🔗
Once upon a time I kept on meeting architects who had ended up working with the web. I asked why. Some good answers: Architects think about how people [...]
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Filtered for home security 🔗
1. The Amazon Ring Always Home Cam is an indoor security drone for your home. Introduced with this video in 2020: "Yeah, it’s a camera that flies." Sa [...]
New Wave Hardware 🔗
We briefly mentioned New Wave Hardware in last week’s Inanimate Lab Notes so this is me doing some unpacking. While you’re there, join 300+ other subs [...]
The violence of the Librareome Project 🔗
Vernor Vinge’s sci-fi novel Rainbows End (2006) is so prescient about AI training data. His short Fast Times at Fairmont High (2002) is set in the sam [...]
Speaking is quick, listening is slow 🔗
Thank goodness voice computing is finally happening. Now we can work on making it good. The tech is here, like the free Whisper model (what an unlock [...]
Filtered for electricity and mayonnaise 🔗
1. Rain panels? Rain panels. researchers have found a way to capture, store and utilize the electrical power generated by falling raindrops, which may [...]
mist: Share and edit Markdown together, quickly (new tool) 🔗
It should be SO EASY to share + collaborate on Markdown text files. The AI world runs on .md files. Yet frictionless Google Docs-style collab is so ha [...]
90% of everything is sanding e.g. laundry 🔗
What mundane pleasures will I be robbed of by domestic robots? Sometimes I feel like my job at home is putting things into machines and taking things [...]