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this is the tracking doc for my talk on "Engineering AI Agents" for OpenAI DevDay Singapore. I'll add photos and notes and stuff when i'm done. note that the full slides contain a lot more info that i had to cut out of the ~~10~~ 9 minute talk.

Busy, busy, busy. But apparently not on this blog. I’m still making time for this month’s stats post, however. I only manages to two posts this month: ChatGPT Slow Cooker Chicken Curry October 2024 Book Reading List Google Analytics Users → 1,900 Sessions → 2,300 Views → 2,300 Google Analytics Graph for November Google Search Console Clicks → 1,330 Search Impressions → 78,200 Average position → 31.4 Google Search Console …

[] Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best. —Robert Baden-Powell One Foot Tsunami has always been a labor of love. Since 2009, I’ve been proud to amuse, entertain, and inform tens of thousands of readers just about …

This weathervane was photographed at a rest area on the New York Thru WayIn September we traveled down south to see the Shenendoah National Park and the Blue Ridge Parkway. On the way home we traveled through New York state on the Thruway and the Berkshire Connector. The NYSTA (New York State Thruway Authority) calls the rest areas here "travel plazas". There are 27 travel plazas. A redesign project was …

A huge ✨Thank You️✨️ to those who let me know they can not see my Fanciful Utility Holiday Boxes in my Etsy shop. I have no idea what is going on. As an attempt to put a bandaid on the problem, I am going to list all of my current items here. Fanciful Utility Holiday […]

A great recent talk by Dr. Stefan Rahmstorf on what is going on with the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Surfaced on Bluesky through The Ocean Commotion feed.

I was really happy to join Mal Minhas and Chris Evans on a panel at The SaaS CTO conference. Moderated by the excellent Jon Topper, we covered what criteria we use to differentiate between genuinely transformative technologies and overhyped trends, how we communicate the value and risks of adopting new technologies to stakeholders outside of technology, and what advice we’d give to a tech leader on how to get started …

One could argue for Star Wars: Visions as the best post-Disney acquisition work next to Andor. So, suffice to say, I am excited about a 3rd season.

I just finished my fifth driving lesson in Taiwan.500 minutes down; 1,000 to go.For my first two lessons, the English-speaking instructor rode with me. But since then, I’ve been on my own: repeatedly, mindlessly circling the test track at 2km/h.During each 100-minute session, the odometer has never risen by more than 3 clicks. Three kilometers in an hour and 40 minutes.I’m yet to touch the accelerator.Aside from one 45-meter stretch, …

The VitalsRelease date: 7 June 2004UK chart peak: #1Running time: 46:42Singles: Mr Brightside (#10), Somebody Told Me (#3), All These Things That I’ve Done (#18), Smile Like You Mean It (#11) Now considered as one of the best debut albums of all time, Hot Fuss also reached number 1 in Australia & Ireland – and hit the top ten in Canada (#4), New Zealand (#5), Greece & the US (#7), …

They’re introducing some incredibly draconian changes to their API agreement, which will severely hamstring many apps, and kill off many others. DC Rainmaker has more details, but in short, apps aren’t allowed to show activity data to anyone other than the user, not even coaches; apps can’t do any analysis, analytics, or train AI models on data obtained from the Strava API; and on top of everything, all these third-party …

Blowing Cave Mill. A jpeg file straight out of the camera.I'm a jpeg shooter. Most of the time my files come out of the camera ready to use, with maybe just a little massaging in Photoshop's Curves and Brush tools.But I'm a piker. I hedge my bets. So my cameras are always set to shot both jpeg and RAW. I know it's heresy, but most of the time, if the …

Jetpack Compose's Navigation library has introduced long-awaited type safety, making navigation between destinations more robust, intuitive, and of-course safe. But what happens when you need to pass custom classes as arguments? Luckily, the library supports this functionality - with some additional setup. Here's a complete concise example to guide you.Consider a CheckoutFlow sealed interface with a Calendar destination accepting an Offer object as an argument:fun NavGraphBuilder.checkoutGraph(navController: NavHostController) { navigation<CheckoutFlow.Start>( startDestination …

"A 73-year-old Japanese artisan crafting model trains for decades" I am rather envious of this makers shop. It contains a lot of specialized tools and apparatus. Tools of the trade.

For the 9 inch animals... And for the 7 inch animals... Hello there, I'm just emerging from my cosy little corner, where I've been ensconced for the last few weeks knitting away every spare moment in my days, and I'm happy to let you know that I have a couple of new patterns ready to share. This is an animal outfit that I've wanted to work on for a while …