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How AI is saving my life without magic spells

This kind of story isn't new, I know of at least two others. One is by Sid Sijbrandij, founder of GitLab, and his fight against cancer. The media picked up the story as being AI-driven, but Sid clarified that, explaining that ChatGPT served as an assistant for

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.

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?

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.

Lost Post is the app the Web needs right now

Lost Post: Daily World Stories App - App StoreDownload Lost Post: Daily World Stories by Daydrift B.V. on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Lost Post: Daily…App StoreDaydrift B.V. There is plenty of awful going around the web lately, which

Getting High on AI

I have been burning through my usage quota on Claude CoWork, fast.

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.

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.

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.

How I am using AI for academic work

I published a guest article on the AI-HED project website about how I work with AI. The secret isn't better prompts or chasing shiny tools. It's in how you prepare the information you use for context in your prompts. Eighty per cent of my workflow

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?

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.

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.

Moral Ambition

"But you have to get down to earth and realise you need a team to get stuff done. You need a community."

AI Darwin Awards

The not-so-beautiful web and the importance of anchoring the hype cycle.

Affordable AI for Clinical Trials, the story of João Nabais

João proved that small organisations can train effective AI models to save time, and reduce costs. His work is opening possibilities for open science and clinical research.

Do you need analytics on your site?

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The things AI can't do

There's a quote attributed to Thomas Edison. "I found 1000 ways that didn't work", and he only told us the 1001.

Does AI dream of electric sheep?

LLM's aren't human but that doesn't mean they shouldn't have human values

Paper cranes and coffee cups

I learned how to fold the traditional paper crane when I was a teenager, from a guy I met at a random summer camp. It caught my attention because I had once seen a cartoon telling the story of 1000 paper cranes. Folding the cranes became something I would do