I was about to write a post about the current state of the art in LLM/agent "memory". But before I publish that and the ensuing who-knows-many follow ups, I have to admit I was one of those people who, two years ago, said LLMs were just yet another annoying hype cycle. […2 min read]
One of my favourite blogs on the internet is Simon Willison's Weblog. I recently read this post of his about link blogging and love the idea. I occasionally post longer-form articles or essays on my blog, but usually only one or two per month, and I have a totally chaotic and unorganized web of ways to keep track of other interesting things I'm learning about or doing, but a lot of them are things I would love to share or connect with other people about.
I think his style of blogging is a great fit for the ways I use the internet and keep track of notes. I'm already working on refreshing my website (again), and I think this way of thinking about what to publish and how will really work for me. I'm still enjoying the experience of writing in Obsidian, and I find the built-in daily notes functionality makes it really easy to keep things organized. Now I just have to turn all the content into a website :) I'd like to also eventually migrate all of my various prior attempts at blogging, at least on technical topics, to this system so it's all in one place.
Every year around this time I get an uncontrollable urge to redo my personal website. It's total madness but I don't know how to stop it. I am very inspired by other bloggers who are able to sustain a coherent presence on the internet for decades, and I want to be one of them. I always think I've narrowed down the problem and have a reasonable solution in mind, but really it's just the same cycle repeating itself. […2 min read]
I am perpetually annoyed at how frustrating it is to build simple websites. Fair warning, this post is a bit ranty. I will explore technical solutions to these problems in a follow up post. But this one sets the stage first to explain why I spend so much time working on and thinking about things that appear to be easy, solved problems. […3 min read]