tom lieber

Check out this video’s comment section and be amazed at how Zanzlanz got people excited about dot products. A mere 60-second explainer embedded in a 12-minute tale of programmer vindication has people saying, “Dot product is so cool” and “normalized vectors and dot products are truly OP lol”.

Screenshot of a playlist in Obsidian. It transcludes the Loop Hero soundtrack and "Feels Like Summer" by Donald Glover, but also includes notes about why each was added, links to artists and daily notes, etc.

My Obsidian vault is officially my music library :}

You know how ![[foo]] transcludes a note? Well in my vault, +[[foo]] transcludes media.

I wrote an app that lets me browse my vault and “play” a note, which recursively enqueues all its transcluded media.

I’m breaking free from designer GUIs!

I’m over here just speaking Obsidian features into existence daily

alltom.com finally has SSL and I want to shout about it!

It used to be hard, so procrastinated even after every major browser started throwing up scary warning messages about how hackers could see if you were reading my blog.

But now it’s a few clicks on AWS if your site’s just a public S3 bucket.

I asked Claude about structured logging libraries for Python and when I saw the options I was like “that is so over the top for this project, I love it”

The status changed to “Chuckling…” as it installed several deps, connected my 4-line script to jaeger, and wrapped every line in a separate span

workin’ on it!

Exchanges like this can actually be worth it…

I spent $15 and a whole day talking to an LLM like this in order to learn a new tech stack. ❤️

If the AI were actually a junior dev, we’d call it mentoring. ❤️

But this just looks frustrating for everyone involved. 😬

When a cable modem fails in such a way that it produces persistent loud-pitched squealing, that’s a pretty good Father’s Day gift. 😂

I love my Peak Design Everyday Backpack, but when I take it to work, the main compartment is almost always completely empty. I’d love to get by with less.

Can anyone recommend a backpack that’s great for days when all I have is a laptop? A laptop sleeve with shoulder straps? 😂

The frustrating thing about building AI software is how it’s like pulling an engine’s starter cord only for it to cough a few times without starting. “What’s the answer?” “42!” “Are you sure?” “You’re right, it’s 41.” You hear the engine turning over, but it won’t catch. I’m glad to be a mechanic! 🔧

I love asking AI to “find a restaurant that’s equidistant from these two places.” Stuff in the long tail of UX that FAANG teams are never going to get to.

I’ve still never vibrated my way to code I’m happy with, but I <3 tool use.

I expect an ollama-hosted LLM could do the structured data conversion part well

I wonder if it supports constrained decoding yet?

is it just for you, hosted locally? or on the wide web?

That’s so specific a call—but I’m in that group!

My favourite superheroes are Spiderman since he has all the powers of a spider, and Catwoman since he has all the powers of a catwo.