Denis Bauer

Is Life a Form of Computation? Alan Turing and John von Neumann saw it early: the logic of life and the logic of code may be one and the same.

Is Life a Form of Computation?

Alan Turing and John von Neumann saw it early: the logic of life and the logic of code may be one and the same.

thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-life-a-fo...

Nobody Knows How To Build With AI Yet The future of software development might just be jazz. Everyone improvising. Nobody following the sheet music.

Interesting post and I particularly like the idea of the 4 files to steer the coding agent.

Nobody Knows How To Build With AI Yet
open.substack.com/pub/worksonm...

Why Facts Don’t Change Minds in the Culture Wars—Structure Does Why do facts bounce off some people? It’s not about logic; it’s about structure. Your worldview isn’t a list of opinions—it's a living network. And right now, it's at war.

Why Facts Don’t Change Minds in the Culture Wars—Structure Does

vasily.cc/blog/facts-d...

Aspire Roadmap (2025 → 2026) · dotnet aspire · Discussion #10644 Hi everyone 💫 We’ve had so much fun building, learning, and Aspirifying with you over the last year. As many of you have noticed, there are lots of exciting things in the works, and we figured it w...

@davidfowl.com and i had to squeak this out before he takes off for vacation (and while @damianedwards.com is still away so he can’t tell us how crazy we are 🤪😇 )

github.com/dotnet/aspir...

Notes on China On scale, construction, youngsters, public opinion, censorship, tech, and AI

Super interesting trip report about life in China.

"Notes on China"
On scale, construction, youngsters, public opinion, censorship, tech, and AI
www.dwarkesh.com/p/notes-on-c...

Very cool overview on how to use lexicon in atproto apps.

The End of Programming as We Know It

Well-written perspective of how programing could change in the future by @timoreilly.bsky.social

"The End of Programming as We Know It"

www.oreilly.com/radar/the-en...

Clean code discussion about decomposition, use of comments and TDD
github.com/johnousterho...

A Vision For Product Teams | Silicon Valley Product Group A partnership dedicated to teaching best practices to product teams and product leaders

Interesting article by @martycagan.bsky.social

A Vision For Product Teams

In this article, I want to talk about where I believe generative AI is going to take the roles on a product team, and the team topologies of product organizations.

www.svpg.com/a-vision-for...

YouTube video by NDC Conferences .NET and Containers - each layer of abstraction indistinguishable from magic - Scott Hanselman

Wow I just loved this talk from Hanselman!
youtu.be/KqhhaMgbGhU

I learned to
- create a VHD from Disk Mgmt 😮
- build a container from a csproj 😎
- switch Docker to containerd 🆗
- build a WASI container! 🤯

Thanks @scott.hanselman.com! 👏

1/ In March 2023, I received a lumbar puncture. This was key to receiving my chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy #cidp diagnosis. This 🧵 is on my experience with identifying and treating #autoimmunedisease. I'll also be sharing some 🧵s I posted previously on the Other Place.

Very interesting thread with some good insights. #llm

YouTube video by Flux Academy Relume's mind-blowing AI Site Builder: Crash Course

Here is a YouTube video that inspired my to give this approach a shot: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1ah...

Relume — Websites designed & built faster with AI | AI website builder Use AI as your design ally, not as a replacement. Effortlessly generate sitemaps and wireframes for marketing websites in minutes with Relume’s AI website builder.

🚀 Overall, this workflow works very well to quickly build landing pages and static websites.

Relume.io AI features efficiently generate a site skeleton, while the components allows fast assembling of pages. Once understood, the separate style guide made it easy to have a consistent page design.

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In the last step, I manually built the Webflow page by using the Relume components via copy&paste from relume.io/free-compone....

That was pretty easy after designing everything in Figma using the same components.

Unfortunately, the free version only supports a small subset of components.

Screenshot of Webflow with the a page called "Style guide" containing some buttons with green styling

Next step was tuning various components on the "Styleguide" page for a bit of custom branding:

Screenshot of Webflow variables defining a set of base colors

Screenshot of Webflow variables defining a set of semantic colors

As the next step, I adapted the global color variables to match my custom color palette, defined using the excellent uicolors.app tool.

The Client-First style guide distinguishes between primary colors (the palette) and semantic colors (what they are used for):

Relume Style Guide - Webflow Client-First V2.1 • Last updated Sep 03, 2024 The Relume Style Guide is the official starter project for the Relume, the largest Webflow component library in the world. This project contains a styl...

The paid version allows you to automatically export everything into Webflow.

As this was not possible for me, I started by cloning the Relume Style Guide into a new Webflow site:
webflow.com/made-in-webf...

Screenshot of Figma with the same wireframe open as in the previous post but styled properly

Next, you can export the wireframes to Figma.

The tool auto-generates a style guide, making it easy to define a custom color palette and fine-tune the component library.

It is based on the well-documented "Client-First" library: finsweet.com/client-first...

Screenshot of a wireframe auto-generated from the AI tool Relume.io

That worked surprisingly well!

Once satisfied, you can let it auto-generate wireframes for the various pages. Using the free version, I could only generate the main page:

Screenshot of a sitemap auto-generated using the AI tool Relume.io

Since we used Figma and Webflow in my previous company, I checked those out first. While searching for a reusable component library, I came across relume.io, which amongst being a component library als lets you create a sitemap from a prompt:

Screenshot of Webflow with a page tree that I build using the tools described in the thread.

Building a static website as a developer using #Webflow & #Figma & #Relume.io:

Coming from a development background, I am not often building static marketing websites. However, for my local badminton club, I wanted to see how far I could get with the latest tools.

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Understanding Multimodal LLMs An introduction to the main techniques and latest models

This great post by @sebastianraschka.com helped me understand, how multimodal LLMs work.

magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/understand...

I'll get straight to the point.

We trained 2 new models. Like BERT, but modern. ModernBERT.

Not some hypey GenAI thing, but a proper workhorse model, for retrieval, classification, etc. Real practical stuff.

It's much faster, more accurate, longer context, and more useful. 🧵

Interesting post about the challenges building a Terminal UI (TUI)

I'm excited to announce @skyseed.fund, the world's first incubator & fund exclusively focused on Bluesky and @atproto.com.

We're just getting started but have $1 Million in committed capital, and will be doing developer grants as well as pre-seed/seed funding.

www.prweb.com/releases/ope...

Me too! Really liked the ones about Nvidia and the early days of Microsoft.

Current status - Importing 17 years of Tweets into BlueSky github.com/marcomaroni-... (minus replies and RT's and dumb stuff)

Are the "show more/less" signals accessible to 3rd party developers (e.g. for feed generators) or are they stored in the AppView layer?

sqlite-vec now supports metadata columns and filtering Metadata, partition key, and auxiliary column support in sqlite-vec

sqlite-vec v0.1.6 is now out, with metadata support!

SQLite vector search w/ metadata filters 👀

- Perform extra filtering w/ WHERE clause in KNN queries
- Internally shard vector indexes with partition keys
- Aux columns for easy lookups

read more: alexgarcia.xyz/blog/2024/sq...