273. A Pile of Chairs 中
The cover was shot outside a shop in Tianmuli, where a pile of chairs sat with a line written next to them: use objects as the medium, embrace tradition. Compared with the AI world I still like the real world more, and I long for real feelings more too.
Recording down-to-earth trending tech I see every week, filtered and published here. Follow this weekly newsletter to get update notifications
Trending Tools
A subway background sound I’ve been loving lately
https://www.yamanote.fun/
The author blends the Yamanote Line’s station melodies, announcements, door chimes and train sounds into one complete listening experience of Tokyo’s most beloved loop line. It’s really interesting, and I love having it as background music. It feels exactly like when I was riding it.
Kill AI slop
https://killaislop.com/
Haha, I also really dislike those ugly things that AI churns out. I found this site made by yetone, which is quite fun. It lays out a lot of the ugly cases for you, and it also gives you a skill to help you clean things up. I used it to check over everything I’ve made, and thankfully nothing got flagged.
AppPorts: move your big Mac apps to external storage
https://appports.shimoko.com/zh
This tool suits friends who run their Mac with an external drive, so you might want to give it a try.
One command to find out which models your hardware can run
https://github.com/AlexsJones/llmfit
A terminal tool that matches LLM models to the right specs based on your system’s RAM, CPU and GPU. It detects your hardware automatically and scores each model across four dimensions, quality, speed, fit and context, telling you which ones will run smoothly on your machine.
Some nice loading effects
https://dotmatrix.zzzzshawn.cloud/
Although in the AI era this sort of thing has an old-school feel to it, it’s still worth looking at more of these aesthetic-leaning things, which teach you a bit more about design.
Just Looking Around
Spent a day rebuilding Mole’s website
https://mole.fit/
I’m not pitching the product, I’d rather talk with you all about how I think about this site’s style: quiet, undisturbing, safe, something that feels trustworthy. I then spent a day rebuilding it, and I have to say I prefer Fable 5’s kind of clever, resourceful AI. Feel free to take a look at this video. Haha, the background music is my favorite Ryuichi Sakamoto piano piece, “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence”.
Git commands you can have your AI run before reading a repo
https://piechowski.io/post/git-commands-before-reading-code/
The original title is The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code. It lists a few commands you can try running, and you’ll come across plenty of interesting findings. That said, I’d rather recommend letting your AI learn them and then read your repo, which is more fun.
Getting started with loops
https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2074208949205881033
A piece on Loop from the official ClaudeDevs X account. It’s well written and worth a read, and it’ll help you better understand this concept in AI.
