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Take back control of your digital life
Open Web

Take back control of your digital life

Social media is designed to keep you hooked, not informed. There's an old-school secret to take back control of what you read.
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Bruno Amaral
Vibe coding for fun and no profit
Artificial Intelligence

Vibe coding for fun and no profit

I wrote my first programme at 9 on an Olivetti PC1. Now anyone can build an app by talking to an AI. But when everyone solves their own problems, who's left to solve ours?
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Bruno Amaral
WordPress fighting Ghosts and EmDashes
Public Relations

WordPress fighting Ghosts and EmDashes

EmDash is the new content management system by Cloudflare, joining Ghost as another WordPress competitor. Both of them bring some important questions to everyone publishing content online.
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Bruno Amaral
Lost Post is the app the Web needs right now
Personal

Lost Post is the app the Web needs right now

Lost Post: Daily World Stories App - App StoreDownload Lost Post: Daily
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Bruno Amaral
Getting High on AI
Artificial Intelligence

Getting High on AI

I have been burning through my usage quota on Claude CoWork, fast.
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Bruno Amaral
Keeping up with the AI Hype
Artificial Intelligence

Keeping up with the AI Hype

Everyone stopped talking about AGI. Nobody agreed on a definition and reality wasn't meeting expectations. But agents are showing good results. One of them already wrote a blog post complaining about the humans who wouldn't accept its pull request.
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Bruno Amaral
I can't walk, but I am taking steps
Personal

I can't walk, but I am taking steps

As I write this, it has been 4 days since I left the apartment. 119 hours. Today, every action is a decision based on effort and return.
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Bruno Amaral
Vibe Coding an Apple Health Dashboard
Artificial Intelligence

Vibe Coding an Apple Health Dashboard

I rely a lot on the mobility metrics of the Apple Health app, but it's hard to reach a conclusion from those charts. So I asked Claude Haiku 4.5 to build me a small app with charts and a linear regression.
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Bruno Amaral
How I am using AI for academic work
Artificial Intelligence

How I am using AI for academic work

I published a guest article on the AI-HED project website about how
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Bruno Amaral
Can LLMs be a tool for Science Writers?
Artificial Intelligence

Can LLMs be a tool for Science Writers?

ChatGPT can't turn science papers into plain English—at least not well enough for the Science Magazine team. After testing it for a year, science writers found it missed nuance, overhyped results, and defaulted to jargon. Where does that leave projects trying to democratise medical research?
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Bruno Amaral
5 minutos de GregoryAi
Artificial Intelligence

5 minutos de GregoryAi

I was interviewed to tell the story of how I began developing an AI assistant for scientific research, and about the role of AI in teaching.
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Bruno Amaral
An Obsidian kick start for students
Personal

An Obsidian kick start for students

It's not about taking notes; it's about making notes as a way to help knowledge stick. Obsidian connects notes automatically, and the process of giving structure to loose bits while writing helps me learn better.
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Bruno Amaral
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