I'm at GitHub Universe this week (thanks to a free ticket from Microsoft). Yesterday I picked up my conference badge... which incorporates a full Raspberry Pi with a battery, color screen, WiFi a…

Claude doesn't make me much faster on the work that I am an expert on. Maybe 15-20% depending on the day. It's the work that I don't know how to do and would have to research. Or the grunge work…

The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program The Python Software Foundation was recently "recommended for funding" (NSF terminology) for a $1.5m grant from the US…

It seems like a cliché for a drug dealer to be working his stash out of a Burger King bathroom, but I hadn’t personally encountered it before. Or if I had, the operation was more subtle than thi…

Everardo Gout, 2021, ★½ Maybe the best thing you can say for The Forever Purge, which was originally slated for release in July of 2020, is that it cleverly predicts January 6th, at le…

Besides the name, the entire core foundation has changed. This question came up recently by someone who had either attended back in the early days or that knew of our event, but they (understandably)…

GenAI Image Editing Showdown Useful collection of examples by Shaun Pedicini who tested Seedream 4, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Qwen-Image-Edit, FLUX.1 Kontext [dev], FLUX.1 Kontext [max], OmniGen2, and O…

Sora might have a 'pervert' problem on its hands Katie Notopoulos turned on the Sora 2 option where anyone can make a video featuring her cameo, and then: I found a stranger had made…

Added to the music library:Headhunter/CarouselBig Bite, 2025Charlotte Song / Hand to the EmberBig Bite, 2025TouchTortoise, 2025 Tagged: October 2025 Reply via email…

Someone on Hacker News asked for tips on setting up a codebase to be more productive with AI coding tools. Here's my reply: Good automated tests which the coding agent can run. I love pytest for…

If you have an AGENTS.md file, you can source it in your CLAUDE.md using @AGENTS.md to maintain a single source of truth. — Claude Docs, with the official answer to standardizing on AGENTS.md…

Gerard McMurray, 2018, ★½ Like the other films in the franchise, The First Purge’s clear polemical ambitions are paved over by commercial ones. But this one’s blaxploitation reviva…

Visual Features Across Modalities: SVG and ASCII Art Reveal Cross-Modal Understanding New model interpretability research from Anthropic, this time focused on SVG and ASCII art generation. We f…

claude_code_docs_map.md Something I'm enjoying about Claude Code is that any time you ask it questions about itself it runs tool calls like these: In this case I'd asked it about its "hooks" fe…

Gotta print some zines. Off to FedEx I go. The self-service printer/copier takes credit cards. I’m prompted to pre-authorize a payment amount. Look at the sticker on the machine with the printing…

“Marriage as a long conversation. – When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a m…

I want to be friends with photographers Anna Devís and Daniel Rueda. I bet it’s fun to walk around with them and see what they notice. Check out their work over on annandaniel.com/…

“I am not telling you to make the world better. I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at…

A lot of people say AI will make us all "managers" or "editors"...but I think this is a dangerously incomplete view! Personally, I'm trying to code like a surgeon. A surgeon isn't a manager, they…

Hello, Amigos. Here's issue #55 of Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🌶️ I like hot sauce. But not if it's too hot. There has to be a good…