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75 years of innovation: How F1 has evolved since 1950 and where it's headed To celebrate F1's 75th anniversary, ESPN charts the sport's evolution since 1950 through its most iconic cars, and details where it's headed in 2026.

I think this is the most beautiful blog post that I have ever read.
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The free Antropic courses are so nice. The advanced MCP course explains the difference between the two communication modes that MCP server has: stdio transport and HTTP.

Of course, that path is crowded many developers are thinking the same thing. But that’s no excuse. The ones who focus, ship, and learn fast still have a shot.

And yet, if you’re a developer worried about AI replacing your job, building your own company might be the safest long-term move. Be your own CEO, CTO, and COO.

But it’s also harder. The internet is one giant distraction machine (hello doomscrolling), and staying focused feels like a superpower in itself.

Easier, because AI gives software developers superpowers. I don’t need a designer, an SEO expert, or a sales team. With the right prompts, I can build, market, and ship on my own.

I think we’re living through a paradox. It's never been easier and never been harder to build your own startup.

Ah, good point. Yes, but I am still new to Vim, so I like that I can see that I actually selected everything inside "". I also agree with Stack Overflow. Maybe I need to come up with a funny personality for ChatGPT when it comes to learning, so it will sometimes yell at me.

So funny that @simonw is always using the pelican on a bicycle as his benchmark for AI models.

Mo Gawdat sounded the alarm on AI, and now he’s back with an even bigger warning: AI will cause global collapse, destroy jobs, and launch us into a 15-year d... Ex-Google Exec (WARNING): The Next 15 Years Will Be Hell Before We Get To Heaven! - Mo Gawdat

This was one of the more interesting podcasts about AI. I like the utopia that they talk about, a utopia where nobody is forced to work anymore to survive, a world where we can all just spend our time on our hobbies and hang out with the people we love.
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The great thing about LLMs is that you can learn more effectively than ever before in human history. Here's an example: I asked ChatGPT how to copy and paste text enclosed in quotation marks in Vim.

The best positive outcome if humanity ever achieves AGI would be that AI and AI robots can do everything for us. Nobody has to work anymore, capitalism will end, and there won't be a difference between rich and poor anymore.

Writing MCP Servers is easy

GitHub - unplugin/unplugin-unused: Check unused dependencies. Check unused dependencies. Contribute to unplugin/unplugin-unused development by creating an account on GitHub.

When using Vite, there's a helpful plugin that detects unused dependencies in your project.
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how it feels to customize VSCode with the Vim extension and add custom motions

When using the Vim extension for VSCode, you can add custom Vim motions. For example, when you type "gcc," it comments a line.

i wonder why Claude's code always wants to add his name when I tell him to generate a pull request

What it does:

Grabs the edited file path from Claude's JSON input

If it’s a .ts file:
→ Lints the file with --fix
→ Typechecks the whole project
→ Blocks the edit if anything fails (exit 2)

Now create .claude/hooks/postedit_ts.sh:

This runs postedit_ts.sh after any tool action that edits files.
The matcher ensures it only runs on edits, not unrelated tool calls.

Add this to your .claude/project.json:

Claude Code has hooks:
You can run a shell script after Claude edits a file, and block the change if something breaks.
We’ll use this to lint & typecheck on every .ts file change.

Every time Claude Code edits a TypeScript file, it should prove it still works.
Here’s how I added auto-linting and type checking with one Claude hook.
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you can literally self-study and become an AI engineer

Transcript: http://nav.al/enjoy You Have to Enjoy It a Lot

I love naval so much . Just find what you love to do and then "success" will come to you
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Beast Mode Beast Mode. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

You don't need to pay anything to get a good AI agent to help you while coding. You just need VS Code Copilot and this.
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you literally have to enable the chat to be indexed by Google, so I don't understand the problem with the ChatGPT sharing on Google.

Everyone wants to be happy, but do you even know what flow is?

MCP lets you connect an AI agent with literally anything and that means that you can now do almost anything with an AI. All you need to do is build an MCP Se... Vibe Code your first MCP server with GitHub Copilot

Such a good video on building MCP servers and using VSCode with GPT 4.1 and the custom Beast Mode. I have been using beast mode with gpt4.1 now for 2 weeks at work and its really nice how useful gpt4.1 can be with a custom system prompt and the correct tools.
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No Server, No Database: Smarter Related Posts in Astro with `transformers.js` | alexop.dev How I used Hugging Face embeddings to create smart “Related Posts” for my Astro blog—no backend, no database, just TypeScript.

Implementing a related content function for my @astro.build project was a piece of cake thanks to prior art by @alexvue.bsky.social and @logarithmicspirals.com‬. Pasting some of their posts into Claude Code and saying "make this" got me most of the way there too 😵‍💫
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