December 2024 bakery

I've become persuaded by the idea that we are the product on most social media apps. The thoughts and links that I would have shared on these hellsites, I now aggregate in a monthly post I call the "Bakery."

Half baked

Some written thoughts, but not enough for their own post.

I released my annual reading post this month: What I read in 2024.

I also released a guide on deploying Rails with Kamal to Google Cloud Platform. The post is called Rails Deployments for Mere Mortals.

LLM purchasing

A new use for Claude is to paste in terms and conditions that I have to accept to purchase something and ask for a summary.

Another fun use for Claude that makes me feel like an absolute hacker is automating repetitive tasks in the browser. For example, on Youtube I maintain a playlist of videos for my son, but periodically I like to remove videos he's watched so the list is easy to scroll through. There is no bulk remove videos from playlist function in Youtube. But with a few prompts, Claude wrote a script to do it for me and I am a hero.

App recommendations

I installed the Fender guitar tuner android app. It is free and does not bombard you with advertisements. Strongly recommend. The one I had been using had an absurd per-year subscription. I'd be totally willing to pay a few bucks for an app, but subscribing for a guitar tuner just landed wrong. Without the subscription the advertisements made using the app so odious that I just decided to play an out of tune guitar, or not play at all.

Best meal

My hands down best meal this year was at Sushi Yasuda. Unforgettable. Easily in the top 3 meals of my life.

Favorite coffee shop of the year

Hearth Denver

Raw

Naked links.

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