A couple of days ago I found an interesting post on my country’s subreddit, where people shared the most common childhood myths they remember growing up with. These were things that our parents, grandparents, and uncles, would say to us to discourage certain things. It was a fun read because I was familiar with most […]
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October in Review
October was a “disaster” if I would rate it by the standards I had set in place in September. But I’m giving myself some slack here since lots of things have been going on. I started a new job at a different company, and that, by itself, was a big thing. Well, half because of […]
September in Review
What I read this month The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals (Oliver Burkeman) Four Thousand Weeks made it to the top of my all-time favorite books. I’ll need to write it it’s own post. Random Interesting Links I made Minecraft in Minecraft with redstone! – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BP7DhHTU-I Figr.app […]
AI that expands its features by writing its own source code
When I finished reading David Shapiro’s “Natural Language Cognitive Architecture”, I got very excited with GPT3 because I finally grasped how powerful a LLM (large language AI model) can be. David’s contributions to the OpenAI community and his youtube videos have helped fuel my interest and desire to experiment with things for myself as well. […]
My productivity system in 2022
In this past year, I’ve done significant changes to my whole “productivity system”. These changes were impulsed by two major life changes. One, I abandoned my work life as a freelancer, switching to a full-time position. This greatly reduced my need to track many independent projects and endeavors to explore work opportunities (which I’m very […]
Getting back to writing more
A few days ago I was revisiting my old blog and found it funny that one of my last posts was about going more offline, less dependent on cloud services, and having more time for important things. It is funny because I feel that 3 years after I’m reliving the same thing again. Well, perhaps […]
Advent of Code Day 2
Reminder: my challenge is to attempt to solve the problem without writing a single line of code. Ideally, just writing an initial prompt and get the whole code in one go. You can see the full source code (and the respective prompts) in my repository at https://github.com/nunodonato/advent-of-code-2021 Part 1 Today I decided to try and […]
Advent of Code Day 1
Part 1 The challenge begins. The first puzzle was quite easy to solve, but posed some challenges to write an efficient prompt. Reminder: my challenge is to attempt to solve the problem without writing a single line of code. Ideally, just writing an initial prompt and get the whole code in one go. You can […]
Using a telegram bot to help me manage a solar off-grid setup
As some of my reader might know, I live off-the-grid, using solar power for electricity. My setup is quite small, a 9-panel ~2800W array, with 9.9kWh of battery capacity. However, we do have a lot of electrical needs, since we cook with an induction cook-top, have a dishwasher and an electrical water heater. Back in […]
A Personal Assistant bot for Telegram
My favorite part about being a developer is being able to “scratch-my-own-itch” in a variety of ways 🙂 For a long time I had this dream of developing a digital personal assistant, and finally got started! In these day and age, a personal assistant makes sense to live in a communication app/platform, and Telegram was […]