Quanta Magazine: When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field: An Oral History – a fascinating article of interviews with over 20 people in the field of NLP
Micro.Blog
There are 330 posts filed in Micro.Blog (this is page 9 of 33).
Quanta Magazine: At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery (via links.daveverse.org)
Coyote: You Can Make A Website – one page guide – cool! (via Joe Jennett)
HTML for People: Site that takes you through how to create a web site and more (via Indieseek.xyz)
Use case: linkblogging as curation
I have experimented with several methods of curating links:
- Zettlekasten/directory of links organized by categories (used Drummer, created a OPML file, rendered by the “this.how” feature within Drummer)
- Website using categories (used Hugo, with Fluency theme, each link had a page, used tags for classification)
- WordPress (used Links category to collect just links)
My struggle is – am I just collecting stuff? This article talks about how to break that cycle, I should read it again….
Bluehost: How to upgrade your PHP version – should do this for my WordPress sites
Interesting presentation by Boris Mann at FediCon on apps supporting ATProto – cool! (via Manton Reece)
Use case: linkblogging from your phone
I use my RSS reading app to graze stories from the feeds I am following. After scrolling through the list, I have a set of browser tabs open to read. After reading, usually I have several tabs (or perhaps a lot of tabs) for which I would like to save the links. Many times in the past, I have copied them to a “link dump” file. However, another approach is to use a linkblogging tool to capture the links.
My tool of choice in this situation is MyStatusTool (my live version is here). Here is a screenshot from my phone browser:
The area above the “post your update” button is the text area to enter a post. MyStatusTool uses the medium-editor toolbar to make it easy to add a link. The most difficult thing is to select the link text and get the medium-editor toolbar to appear (usually I double-tap the text). It is also best to only link to a single word (again, selecting several words as the link text can be difficult). The tool also creates a view of user posts, so you can review just your posts and not all of the content from subscribed feeds.
If anyone is interested in installing MyStatusTool, let me know! More information is available at The Feed Network.
More on linkblogging
Frank McPherson wrote this week on the subject of linkblogging, looking at how RSS can be used to share. I liked his perspective on how linkblogs can be useful in a web browser, while just having a RSS-feed linkblog requires a feed reader. Both of these types of sharing are supported on the Web – diversity in action!
Starting to look at TDD again
Yesterday, with the help of Google Gemini, I created a small test project to start trying my hand again at test-driven development with Node.js, Express, Mocha, and Chai. After I was able to get the small project to run, I created a starter project as a Github repo, so I can have the same starting point for new projects. Enjoy!