Years ago we had bulky GPS watches that we wore only when we were hiking or doing sports. They only tracked our speed, location, and elevation. With time they were made less hideous and more socially acceptable. We could go from wearing them when doing sports, to when doing nothing....
Posts tagged “ai”
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A Fitness Discussion with MyAI about Silos, Running, Cycling, and Strava — Apr 13, 2026 -
Refactoring Eleventy with Swisscom MyAI — Mar 24, 2026Yesterday afternoon I decided to experiment with MyAI and Eleventy because I was getting an error message. The issue is that when I refactored my Eleventy files with Gemini it removed code that broke the build process. I asked MyAI for help and it went beyond what I asked of it. Specifically, not only did it help me to fix the bug but it also helped me go from a build time of 35+ seconds, down to 25 seconds, and eventually down to 15 seconds. When you’re running build for each blog post that soon saves a lot of time....
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Refactoring and (A)I — Mar 15, 2026For two days I have been migrating my blog from Hugo to Eleventy via the markdown pages, and the photos via Ghost Export for Wordpress. In the process I achieved a goal, and then AI broke things, so I achieved them again, and then AI broke them again.... -
WordPress, AI, and the Human Niche — Mar 14, 2026Every day I spend one to two hours thinking about what to write for my blog. Yesterday I noticed that Wordpress wants to get AI to draft the first version of posts using the AI model of our choice, as long as it’s American, and take away the hours of blank page syndrome....
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On Immich and Gemini Help — Mar 8, 2026It’s interesting that my use of Immich has evolved with my adoption of Gemini. I know that the cool thing would be to vibe code an Immich clone, and then show off about it to the world. I don’t want to do that. I don’t find it interesting to re-invent the wheel. I think it’s more interesting to get a model such as Gemini to help me make Immich stable on a Pi 5.... -
Playing with Meta AI in a Sandbox — Feb 27, 2026Today I decided to download and play with Meta AI but I didn’t use my Facebook or Instagram accounts. I used a brand new account with no connection to me. I don’t trust Facebook and the Meta “pattte blanche”, especially with AI, given how AI can manipulate us without us realising.... -
Gemini and Context Splicing — Feb 26, 2026Imagine that you’re out for a walk. You’re looking at the landscape and taking photos with your camera or phone. At the same time your GPS watch, or phone app is recording your location every second. What remains of the walk is a gps track that has a resolution of one set of gps co-ordinates per second, and photos when you took photos. Most of the walk is “lost” because to record video of the entire walk would be too consuming.... -
On AI Coding Tools and why Freemium Apps Still Have a Future — Feb 24, 2026Nine to Five Mac wrote an article about “AI coding tools may be the end of freemium utility apps”. If the last three weeks are any indication of whether AI written apps can replace freemium apps the answer is both yes and no....
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A discussion with Gemini about Google AI Plus — Feb 23, 2026Last night and this morning I have been toying with the idea of the paid tiers and whether they’re worth it. In the proces I told Gemini about my context and it went from advising me the pro tier at 170 CHF per year, to going for the “free” Google AI studio option.... -
Sorting Photoprism Photos With the Mistral Cat — Feb 6, 2026I chose to experiment with Le Chat by Mistral, the French AI alternative to Gemini, Claude and CatIFARTED (ChatGPT). For the experiment I copied my Photoprism photos from the drive I use that is connected a Raspberry pi to a laptop before running scripts to sort and remove duplicates. It worked well, with a nice little bonus which I’ll expand on later.... -
Flickr Backup Automation and Video Export — Feb 4, 2026Let’s begin by saying that Flickr is not intended for video. It’s meant for photographers to backup and share their photos with like-minded individuals. When you use the Flickr app for iOS and Android it automatically backs up videos, and photos.... -
Vibe Coding a Flickr Export Tool with Google Gemini — Feb 1, 2026Recently I decided that I would backup my Flickr library locally despite having over a year left on my pro account. In so doing, when the decision comes whether to dump, or keep using flickr, I will know that my data is safely backed up locally. Of course I decided to play with the archive but came upon a snag.... -
A Year to Experiment with Swisscom MyAI — Jan 24, 2026A few days ago I was looking at MyAI and I was going to unsubscribe from the “Pro” account before they charged me, before realising that as an early adopter I have a year to play with MyAI for “free”. When I say that I can play with it for free I mean that I have been a Swisscom client for decades by now, so I paid for it through years of loyal custom.... -
Gemini and Mobile Telephony - A Quick discussion — Jan 18, 2026Yesterday I had a chat with Google Gemini about mobile telephony. Specifically I was discussing Galaxus, Wingo and Coop Mobile. I told it that I was interested in a mobile plan in the same price range as Galaxus but using Swisscom as the mobile network rather than Sunrise.... -
AI and the Cult of the Lazy Amateur — Oct 31, 2025We are all familiar with the phrase. We learn better when we write things by hand, rather than when we type them on the keyboard. For decades people have been against typing, saying “It’s cold, it’s dead, it’s impersonal”. Those same people will then say “you have awful handwriting” and yet still feel nostalgia for hand written notes. In the age of AI more is being lost.... -
Offloading Locomotion to Cars and the Transition to AI — Sep 23, 2025Recently I was thinking about how some people want to offload their work to AI and it got me to think about how people already offloaded getting around to cars. When is the last time that you saw a group of people walk from Nyon to St Cergue via La Dôle, rather than take the train most of the way, and walk a short loop at the top?... -
The Importance of Trying AI — Sep 18, 2025From what I see the aim of AI companies is not to provide human beings with great tools to speed up work flows, to automate menial tasks, and to enhance our daily work lives. It is to replace us. For this reason I don’t like that there is so much hype about AI.... -
Playing with AI Agents — May 28, 2025Yesterday evening I was at a talk about AI. The person had written an AI agent that scrapes news sources for information, and reads reports, and then provides a summary of this information as a report.... -
Swisscom MyAI as tutor — Mar 28, 2025Yesterday I asked MyAI by Swisscom, which is still in Beta, if it could help me write a JavaScript app to generate passwords and it did, with ease. It provided me with the javascript code I needed so I could cut and paste it, and then use node to run it straight from terminal.... -
Playing with MyAI by Swisscom — Mar 27, 2025If we use Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT or a few other AI models we are using AI that has data centres in the US. If we use Le Chat by Mistral or MyAI (Beta) by Swisscom we are using AI that is based in Europe, or Switzerland. The data stays here.... -
Getting AI to Write an App — Mar 20, 2025Yesterday I went to a talk where Claude and Cursor were used to write a Flutter app for Android. The idea is quite simple. “Claude help me write a to-do app and a shopping list app” before following the instructions produced by AI to write the app....
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The Absurdity of AI in Creative Writing — Mar 13, 2025The Absurdity of AI in Creative Writing... -
On AI and Corporate Social Responsibility — Feb 18, 2025This morning I went for a run. During this run I listened to Systems Crash and the discussion about AI, about the US attitude, and the European/International attitude and it convinced me that I much prefer to use EU/International projects rather than American ones for a simple reason. Corporate Social Responsibility.... -
Apple Intel Macs and FireWire — Jun 21, 2024If you bought a Mac Book Pro in 2007 or so you could get it with firewire 800, Thunderbolt 1 and a number of other connectors. A few years later they did away with every connector except USB-C, for charging and devices. The result was a thin laptop that needed dongles, and breakout boxes, for everything.... -
Feeding AI via Communities — May 9, 2024Everything we do is being used to feed AI models. From the way we write our blog posts, to the pictures we take, and even the way we talk to each other. Everything is being hoovered up, and being turned into a model.... -
Conversing With Google Bard — Jul 20, 2023Two days ago I was given access to Google Bard and since then I have been experimenting. The key feature that sets Google Bard apart from ChatGPT is that it can answer questions about what is happening at the moment, rather than before September 2021. By being current you can ask it about yesterday’s news or the upcoming weather for a location, and it will give a useful answer. This is useful for time sensitive questions.... -
Disinformation and Education - Social Media and AI — Jul 18, 2023Disinformation and misinformation work for a very simple reason. People who did not study history, and do not follow current affairs do not have the background information to spot what is true from what is untrue. They are unable to use history’s lessons to see the warning signs and act accordingly.... -
Personal AI - Your Personal Language Model — Jul 13, 2023Yesterday chatGPT was down, yet again, so I browsed through the web looking for other Large Language Models to experiment with. In the process I came across personal AI. Personal AI is an app, at the moment, that runs on your laptop, but will eventually come to mobile phones and more....
