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  • Drop #427 (2024-03-15): Beware The IDEs Of March

    Today, we have a (somewhat) light and (hopefully) informative overview of modern and past integrated development environments (IDEs). It introduces Theia IDE, an open-source environment for building custom IDEs, and Replit Desktop, a standalone application offering a distraction-free coding environment. It also reflects on the evolution of IDEs over the past 30 years and the…

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  • Drop #423 (2024-03-07): Happy ThursdAI

    Today’s Drop has 3 main topics: the introduction of the CLI tool Dripgrep, a debate on AI understanding, and the impact of generative AI on creative industries. Dripgrep combines ripgrep with ChatGPT for experimental use. Robert Wright challenges skepticism about AI understanding, noting that large language models exhibit elements of understanding. And, Ethan Marcotte examines…

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  • Drop #429 (2024-02-29): Multi-Threaded Edition v2024.02

    The Missing Semester of Your CS Education by MIT offers practical coursework covering essential tools for computer science students and professionals. Positive feedback highlights immediate applicability in internships and jobs. WARC-GPT is an AI tool for exploring web archives, enabling accurate and contextually relevant responses. Web-Check analyzes and secures websites, providing valuable on-demand intelligence.

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  • Drop #415 (2024-02-06): Typography Tuesday

    TextDiffuser; Typography.js; Featured Foundry: Open Foundry Looks like this is going to be one of “those weeks”. We’ll still get all the editions out, but I’m a day behind thanks to an unexpected surge in fam needs and work-work. TL;DR This is an AI-generated summary of today’s edition. Aside: Perplexity goes back-and-forth between not having…

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  • Bonus Drop #39 (2024-02-05): Perplexing Throughline Arcs

    Rabbit R1 (Privacy); Stract (Search); Arc’s Dystopian? (Future) Today’s Bonus Drop is also Monday’s regular Drop as one of the clan had a bit of a serious health scare at the start of the weekend, and it drained all mental compute resources. (In other news, I’m still fighting with Substack + Stripe + WordPress…the non-technical…

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  • Drop #413 (2024-02-01): Happy ThursdAI

    The post discusses the AI Content Declaration by Declare-ai.org, bringing transparency to generative AI in content creation. It introduces AIfont and AImoji, AI-driven typefaces, and Galah, a web honeypot powered by OpenAI, keeping attackers occupied longer. Potential downsides to the declaration are also outlined. The summary aims to foster trust and understanding in AI content…

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