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May 31 • 🤔 Thinking about
Apple’s Potential Strategy with OpenAI

Apple’s Potential Strategy with OpenAI

Like others, I'm reading about the alleged Apple and OpenAI deal. Reflecting on Apple's past, particularly a rumored $1 billion deal with Nuance for a perpetual license to self-host and privately fork their speech technology for Siri's iOS launch, a pattern emerges.
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Apr 15 • 🪩 Reflecting on
Leveraging AI Assistants for Personal Growth

Leveraging AI Assistants for Personal Growth

Over the past year, I've found myself occasionally turning to AI assistants for discussions that have helped deepen my understanding of interpersonal relationships. Not long ago, the idea of discussing my emotions with a computer seemed bonkers!
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Apr 10 • 🪩 Reflecting on
Learning to Drive Stick

Learning to Drive Stick

My wife and I travel abroad frequently and when we do we always have to rent vehicles with automatic transmissions. This summer, we are cycling through the Dolomites and then driving across Italy. This seemed like the perfect excuse to finally learn how to drive a manual transmission.
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Apr 04 • 👨‍💻 Software
Installing Cloudflare Tunnel on Ubuntu Running on GCP

Installing Cloudflare Tunnel on Ubuntu Running on GCP

After configuring Cloudflare Tunnel on several Ubuntu servers in Google Cloud, I've developed a simple bash script I use to streamline the process.
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Mar 27 • 👨‍💻 Software
Auto-Summarizing Bookmarks with Gemini 1.5

Auto-Summarizing Bookmarks with Gemini 1.5

Recently, I've been using the Gemini 1.5 Pro API. Today, I was pleased to learn it's now integrated with Open Router. I'm using Gemini to auto-summarize bookmarked content I've added to Omnivore.
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