The Hanukkah Coffee Box was made using Hugo, a static site generator. This means it creates static code you then deploy to the web. There is no server-side execution part of the code base. This is fine if you want to show content, but if you want to interact with the visitor to your site and collect feedback on a great coffee box, you will need to do something a little creative. ...
I have a running conversation with my friend Scott about how good modern generative LLMs are at solving problems. What roles will they replace? Will we be out of work in the next couple of years? It is true; Copilot is a must-have in VSCode. It often saves time when writing repetitive code in commonly used programming languages. When I want to know some piece of information, better and quicker results can be had by asking an LLM than searching and reading through all the ad-dense articles on the internet. ...
Continuing with Personal Knowledge Management Systems (PKMS), we all have them, whether we realize it or not. Some are in our brains, and others are more explicit, created with external tools. We live in an age where large quantities of information bombard us. These include emails, phone calls, text messages, news, magazines, and letters. They come from many different avenues and pass through our consciousness. Because of our brains’ nature, retaining all the information we receive is impossible. We do our best to cull and surrender the information we process to keep what we need. ...
As we narrowed our focus on Gluino, we came across another term for digital second brains. Some people call them Personal Knowledge Management Systems (PMKs). These systems are a way to collect and manage the information in one’s life for reference, research, and retrieval. When discussing Taigo Forte and Second Brains, you discuss organizing and building your PKM. There are a bunch of tools out there for doing this: Notion Obsidian Evernote BearApp To name a couple. Each of these tools has two primary components: ...
Welcome to the year 2025! This is my annual report on the year and a refocus on the upcoming year. This post is about my life and, therefore, is personal and not scientific. The past year (2024) was both excellent and challenging. It’s awesome because I got to start working with one of my favorite people again, and it’s challenging because I’m asked to do a bunch of new things at work, and the world around us has shifted in a way I wouldn’t prefer. ...