steven.irby

Mark my words. Soon, you'll suffer through ads when using LLMs (Google, ChatGPT, etc.)

Apple and Microsoft were built from this, and both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates went personally to see the OS and computer they worked to build.

RIP

I'm very sad to hear my uncle Charles Irby has passed away. He was a big hero and an inspiration to me. He worked at Xerox PARC back in the day and helped build the very first computer and operating system.

He and that legendary team are responsible for building the tech you are looking at.

RANDOM DAILY URLS - StumbleUpon in Your Inbox Discover one random cool website every weekday. The internet's hidden gems, curated by humans, delivered brutally.

For the social meta tag image. I made a dedicated HTML page to create a card. Then created a script to take a screenshot of the page and the card with playwright. Then save it to disk.

Not too bad.

randomdailyurls.com

RANDOM DAILY URLS - StumbleUpon in Your Inbox Discover one random cool website every weekday. The internet's hidden gems, curated by humans, delivered brutally.

My new funky newsletter is live!

randomdailyurls.com

#buildinpublic

YouTube video by AI with Steve Build in Public My newsletter is live! (Fox and squirrels) | Build in public E124

Episode 124. My newsletter Random Daily URLs is live!

I'm off for a 10-day vacation in two days.

youtube.com/watch?v=T65b...

I swear to god, if I see "You're absolutely right!" one more time...

I'm creating a new newsletter! I'm almost done with the MVP / first version. I'm super excited about this one.

It's something I care deeply about. Showcasing weird, random, and cool stuff across the internet.

No AI BS. Just human-curated URLs to cool stuff around the web.

Build in public E123.

How I build custom newsletters:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=BV6n_Z4fdXk

Build in Public E122

I'm launching a new email newsletter!

Plus, I'm gearing up for a 10-day Europe road trip.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=HWeHpRMEZJM

I can't imagine vibe coding a huge app and not being experienced in building real software.

I want today's AI abilities, running locally, at 5x the speed.

I managed to get my script to crawl through all my Gmail emails (.mbox file). I thought it was hung and not working, but nope. It was taking sometimes minutes(!) to parse some large emails with email-reply-parser. 🤯

#buildinpublic

I need TONs of real-life emails to test against and build agents. So I'm writing a script that will pull out emails I need from my Gmail inbox via the .mobox file.

It's kind of working, but I'm running into funky issues.

Starting work on an email threader that will build threads from any raw email.

The original vibe coding.

Random shower thought–I hope they find planet 9 and send a probe to it like they did Pluto, in my lifetime.

I've been trying out a rate limit service. But it seems to flake out and not connect. So I added retrying, so it will try a few times before giving up.

Holy hell, YouTube on the phone is so bad and unusable! 😵‍💫

I've been grinding hard the last 4 months, 6 days a week 10 hours a day. I had to take the last two weekends off. Feeling burnt out.

YouTube video by AI with Steve Build in Public I'm Changing directions on my AI Agent Service | Build in public E117

New video update: after a rough week with a stomach bug, I'm shifting my AI agent service.

youtube.com/watch?v=K3hX...

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I'm never very impressed with ChatGPT's deep research.

I completely redid aichat.email! Now it's a free tool to summarize and chat with your emails.

Build in public: repurposing AIChat.email.

Now shifting to 3x/week updates to focus on building.

Plus a UK residency update.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=asgdNWv6PQ0

Just published E113: improving security on the email summarizer.

Plus, a near kiss by a seal.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=H0OljmnHVQ0

Build in Public E112. I made a new AI email summarizer tool and AI Agent!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Jrzxzt1y9j0

Build in public E111. More backend work for my email summarizer AI Agent.

Balancing freelance work and side projects.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1g9in9QSS7w

Just published E110: working on an email summarization AI agent. Prompt challenges. Took a walk and did some real reflection on life.

youtube.com/watch?v=1-e7...

More progress on the next AI agent for email summary.

My experience with Claude Task Master.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=jooaAPIH9H4