A summary of my experience learning some Japanese before a trip to Japan and why I recommend giving it a try.

A guide on sentence mining where I discuss why it makes sense to do it and how using Migaku can speed up the process.

TLDR: C4A CPUs are a significant and free improvement for AlloyDB that is well worth enabling. In this article, I share some graphs from our migration.

A guide on how to self-host the Anki sync server and on using Tailscale to secure this setup.

An overview of the approach and learning from building an N+1 language deck using AI tools, including LLMs, text-to-speech, and image generation.

This post distills the minimal sync engine and BroadcastChannel-powered reactivity that I built to power the offline-first E2E encrypted Interleave application.

My current process for learning languages for fun and why managing motivation is most essential.

I tried creating some PRs to see how useful Cursor BugBot actually is.

Some thoughts on Codex after having used it for two days to generate a dozen production PRs.

A collection of the tricks Duolingo uses to keep you engaged and returning to the app.

Deep Research is an interesting first implementation that can provide highly engaging outputs. However, it's not yet anything near what an analyst would produce, especially due to the suboptimal research process.

A simple approach to accessing OpenAI's Operator and Sora outside the USA, and especially in Europe.

OpenAI's Operator is an interesting product/research preview. It has a lot of potential and it's only a matter of time before it provides significant value to its users. But for now, its reasoning and browser skills are too limited.

This is the approach I'm currently taking to build an offline first web application suing PGlite and Electric.

If you want to make large-scale changes to an Anki deck, OpenAI's GPT or Perplexity are great options. As there are no native integrations yet with those tools, I share a small script to get the same result.

Some thoughts on using daily thresholds instead of goals as a way of ensuring consistent progress while minimizing cognitive load.

With a simple rake task, you can generate a prompt to have o1 provide a comprehensive review of your code.

Cursor has an experimental Bug Finder that's quite expensive and is paid for at every run. I was curious to try it out and share in case anyone's curious.

Using Cloudflare's R2 and Workers to set up a Docker registry in a few minutes to use with Kamal. This approach has the advantage of being low maintenance and within a free quota.

A guide on how to run Windows 98 on a modern Mac, install old games and applications, and what lessons to take away from it.

Potato Analytics is a minimalist, self-hosted solution for tracking unique pageviews with minimal maintenance and zero data collection—all thanks to the efficiency of the HyperLogLog algorithm

Most horror stories I read about unauthorized server access could have been prevented if the server had been locked down. Here's how to do it in a few minutes.

Seeing features in the Cloudflare dashboard used to be great. You pressed a button, and your website was now slightly better. Sadly, this isn't the case with Cloudflare Fonts, and I would recommend staying away for now.

A short tutorial on how to use Supabase to store embeddings on blog posts to display related articles.

This weekend, I went over Black Ops 6's campaign. They are cliché, but for a couple of hours, experiencing those action-packed games is a guilty pleasure of mine. Overall, this latest game delivers the goods, albeit with a bit more eclecticism than expected.