Tag: technology
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Rhythm AI
One of the key ideas to emerge from conceptual performance art is tearing down the proscenium. To define the term, the proscenium is the “window” of the stage that the audience is expected to sit behind and passively observe. An infamous example of this in action is the performance piece Rhythm 0 by Marina Abramović.…
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MuniMet.ro
Over the holidays I took my first real crack at “vibe coding” a project I’d wanted to build for a while: a webapp that lets you know if San Francisco’s Muni Metro subway is working or not. Using Claude Code, I had it build an image classifier and a script that scrapes the live snapshot…
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How I pack and travel light
Sometimes people ask how I travel for several days, weeks, or even a month with nothing more than one backpack. In this post I explain my methodology. Hint: it involves laundry. Traveling with minimal luggage isn’t something I ever set out to do because it was “trendy” or whatever. Like many people I kept bringing…
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Public notice: Beware of robots
The other day I noticed an inconspicuous flyer attached to a phone pole at 16th and Valencia. Upon further examination, this notice combines seemingly every stereotype about San Francisco circa 2017. Here’s the full text of the notice: NOTICE OF OPERATION From 5/23 to 6/5 automated delivery carts will be used at this location for…
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How (not) to think like a product manager
A Medium post titled Clouseau: A Postmortem has been making its rounds on the internet today. While the title isn’t particularly revealing, the subtitle gives you the gist of the story: “How I vetted and dumped a startup idea in ~20 hours and for under $1000.” For those who haven’t read the article, here’s a…
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Why it’s time to shut up about “wearable tech”
Lately we’ve heard a lot about wearable tech. It’s said to be an exciting new product category that involves smartwatches, Google Glass, and perhaps fitness trackers. But how many of the people talking about this future of wearable gadgets are wearing wristwatches, glasses, or contact lenses? And how many of them are wearing clothes and…
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What I learned from my HyperCard middle school digital portfolio
In middle school we were all required to build a “digital portfolio” of our work. They taught us HyperCard so we could link each essay we wrote and our photos into a personal HyperCard stack. It was a portfolio that “we’d add to until we graduated” because computers were the future, or whatever. But what…
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Merriment projector
How was your Christmas this year, if you could only use one word to describe it? Try and think of a word. Got it? Was the word “merry”? If not, perhaps it’s because you don’t have a Christmas tree technologically sophisticated enough to project the words “Merry Christmas” on the ceiling above. Yes, a merriment…
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