Choosing Our Poison
(I wrote this on BlueSky. Posting here because I want to see how on point my analysis was, looking back from years hence) I saw the headline “American companies’ use of Chinese AI models …
My Standard Way of Working With Claude
The most fun thing about using Claude has been realising I have a standard way of working, one that I need to tell the agent because all too often the LLM’s default way of working is messy and …
Slop Bible
I am weary of the slopwords that LLM prose now becomes. It’s like they were trained on bad LinkedIn posts and TEDx talks, and now that’s all you ever get from them. So I asked Claude to …
The Powerups Marketplace
I’ve been publishing my Claude Code skills to a marketplace I set up. I call them powerups, inspired by Jesse Vincent’s Superpowers. Some are good. Some are held together with duct tape …
Simon Willison's Weblog ∞
The inspiration for this site’s redesign. Simon builds his blog with a custom Django app and publishes a mix of entries, links, and notes.
Nat's 2022 Technical Link Pile: C# and .NET
See the Intro for context. (We’re hiring WinForms seniors! Mail me: nat@ontempo.co.nz) [20221224] How to Structure Your .NET Solutions: Architecture and Trade-Offs – what it says on the box. …
Nat's 2022 Technical Link Pile: Dev, Architecture, APIs
See the Intro for context. [20221231] Temporal.io – With Temporal, you write your various complex, potentially long-running actions as normal, synchronous code, which Temporal …
Nat's 2022 Technical Link Pile: Front End/Flutter/Dart/UI
See the Intro for context. [20221231] React Admin – claims of a full-featured data grid, which is 50-80% of many of our apps. (As well as roles & permissions and validations) [20221224] …
Nat's 2022 Technical Link Pile: GPT-3
See the Intro for context. (Also, this was a late addition and I’m focused in my interest, so this is thin) [20221231] Reverse Engineering Notion’s Prompts – in Hacker News …
Nat's 2022 Technical Link Pile: Intro
I used to read a lot of the technical web and social media for O’Reilly Media, where I wrote the daily “Four Short Links” digest. I still read a lot of online content, but now for my …