Let’s switch from Chrome to Brave, as it is a more privacy-focused browser and the ad blocker extensions don’t function anymore. I’ll also show how to make Windows start Brave when you type ‘chrome’ into your Run box. And let’s fix those profile icons.
Read the article Swapping Chrome for Brave on WindowsCreate a Slack app with an incoming webhook using a simple app manifest, then install it and generate a webhook URL.
Read the note Slack App shortcutsGPT-6 Astra was released last week. Every time a new model comes out, I find myself looking for the pelicans on a bike (bigger comparison for ChatGPT here). The ARC-AGI-3 test sparked my interest, as it shows that the harness matters greatly! This chart makes one thing clear: results depend on the combination of the…
Read the note The harness mattersIconify brings together more than 300,000 open-source icons and lets you customize and download them as SVG, PNG, or CSS.
Read the note 300,000+ open-source icons in SVG and PNGA short explanation of how watermarking could identify AI-generated text, shared by No Hype AI.
Read the note Why You Cannot See a Watermark in AI TextMake your terminal and editor more enjoyable with programming ligatures and patched Nerd Fonts such as Fira Code and CaskaydiaCove.
Read the note A nerd font can bring more happiness to the terminal or the editor‘Made in America’ label turns out to be some sort of a marketing scam, and that is what the bots at Amazon are now confirming. To be fair: an LLM may generate anything, so take their output with a grain of salt… but it looks like they have some extra data points the user has…
Read the note Amazon bots are snitching on Amazon?Yesterday, I watched a podcast featuring Gregor Hohpe. He shared some nice insights into how architects can function within an organization: as amplifiers rather than gatekeepers. A lot of what he described resonated with me, particularly in relation to how we approach pathfinding at Wehkamp.
Read the note Gregor Hohpe: architects as amplifiers, not gatekeepersThis is a great article about hiring a strong candidate, that fitted on the technical level, but not on the relational and organizational level: He simply operated on a model of engineering work that did not include the relational and organizational layer as part of the work. When working in teams the team output should…
Read the note About hiring for your teamSometimes you hear a story that stays with you. This is the story of how the Nintendo 3DS got hacked trough a buffer overflow in a game using a QR code! But that is not all… it set off an arms race between (an almost paranoid company called) Nintendo and the community to get control…
Read the note How the Nintendo 3DS got hacked…