📰 Dev.to · Alex Towell

I had GPT-4 build me a search interface for browsing saved ChatGPT conversations. Flask, Whoosh, a couple hours.

Encountering ChatGPT during cancer treatment and recognizing the Solomonoff connection. Language models as compression, prediction as intelligence. A personal i

The most dramatic possibility in AI might arrive through the most mundane mechanism. Not a beam of sacred light. A sufficiently good build system.

dapple is a terminal graphics library with one Canvas API, seven pluggable renderers, and eleven CLI tools for displaying images, data, video, math, and more.

A walkthrough of Posthumous, a self-hosted dead man's switch that monitors periodic check-ins via TOTP, progresses through escalating alert stages, and triggers

Controlled experiments on constraint satisfaction problems. MCTS beats best-of-N only when blind sampling hits a ceiling and the verifier provides a gradient.

I keep building the same thing. Not the same product — the products are different. One indexes a...

A walkthrough of Chartfold, a Python tool that loads your medical records into SQLite and exposes them to Claude via MCP for structured analysis, visit prep, an

pagevault turns any file into a self-contained encrypted HTML page. No backend, no JavaScript libraries. Just AES-256-GCM and the browser's Web Crypto API. The

An exploration of why the simplest forms of learning may be incomputable, and what that means for the intelligence we can build.

Define statistical models symbolically and automatically derive score functions, Hessians, and Fisher information.

A metadata index that lets LLM tools like Claude Code query across all your git repositories.

You can't compete with infinite compute. But you can find adjacent spaces where depth matters more...