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Aura Weather 24: a 24/7 news channel with a live female anchor every half hour. Built in a day. I pay for exactly one thing — the music license — so that an audience of one person (me) can have chill ambient weather. Worth it. xAI scripts to sad talker are really cheap. Oh and I had to pay for wsv3. @auraweather24?si=n0uHeYNggTbPLNaB" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@auraweather24…

Show me your project that costs money and makes nothing — but you’re still doing it

@per_simmons_ Hi thanks. I am now a video game designer.

Claude just became a craacked video game designer. With the launch of Unreal Engine's MCP server last week, you can now build entire video games just by talking to Claude. I spent the past few days building with it, and I'm telling you, this is going to forever change how video games get made and who gets to make them. In this video I show you exactly how to set up the Unreal Engine MCP yourself and run through three demos: building a full playable city, cloning a real city from Google Earth, and creating custom buildings in Blender. Here's the agent harness I mention too: github.com/per-simmons/un… Intro What I built in a few hours Setting up the Unreal MCP server Fixing the port 8000 connection issue The agent harness that avoids the pitfalls Demo 1: Building a city with City Sample Demo 2: Cloning a real city from Google Earth with Cesium Demo 3: Custom buildings with Blender headless Outro

The semiconductor boom is no longer a forecast. April sales hit $110.5B, and 2026 estimates jumped to $1.5T. AI demand is locking in foundry, HBM, and capex decisions. The real constraint is physical supply. More at readalchemist.com/articles/the-1…

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The local AI stack is no longer a compromise. Open models can now handle most engineering work at a fraction of frontier API costs. The winning setup is hybrid: run local by default, then escalate only the hardest tasks to closed models. readalchemist.com/articles/the-2…

I really identify with this and we put screens away as a family every day. My kids are 5 and 7, my daughter is writing code, translating other languages, and learning math all with parental guided AI. I teach her math but she likes to keep going. It’s fun in moderation. Respect though.

i'm battling a serious dilemma, help my daughter will be 3 yrs old in september. she doesn't use screens at all in any way shape or form. she is completely fine without them. she has a super happy childhood and a WILD imagination. loves playing outside, loves playing on her own, loves books (both when we read to her and she likes flipping them on her own) her vocabulary is super developed and we have conversations about things. my dilemma is about screens tho computers and tv were my childhood. even tho it was wrong, unlimited, and we saw things that were not appropriate for our age. i'm dying to show her cartoons, concerts, music videos, making music, creating art, sports, nature documentaries and computer games. i'm like, if she doesn't see this on a screen where tf will she see MOST things? we take her to museums, theatre plays, she traveled like 11 countries so far, she plays with kids etc etc but when we were kids we learned MOST things (including learning languages) from the tv being on 24/7 (which we don't do now obviosuly) i am very aware of what modern cartoons/movies can do, so i would def start oldschool and very slow and very limited. i'm planning to get old crt tv with vhs/dvd and have a very small collection on rotation, instead of sitting in front of a 138" screen to watch pokemon in HDR lol also we would start with super oldschool retrto nintendo games i just knows screens+vr+ar+ai (whatever tf this combo gonna look like) will be literally her entire life, so i'm really not sure if it's better to: 1. let her enjoy a screenless childhood as long as possible 2. slowly start preparing her and showing her how computers can be used as creative tools, and see how her creativity just to be clear again, i'm not talking about giving her her own device, that's not even crossing my mind. i'm talking about supervised time using a device TOGETHER as an educational/entertainment tool

@NateMatherson Sick Excel setup bro.

If your WFH desk setup doesn't cost more than a used Honda Civic, you aren't serious about your pipeline. My ergonomic chair is built from the salvaged suspension of a 2019 Tesla Model S. My primary monitor is a converted IMAX screen I bought from a bankrupt theater in Oakland. When I drag a cell in Google Sheets, I physically have to rotate my entire torso. I burn 400 active calories a day just searching for the Slack icon. Stop complaining about back pain and optimize your environment.

@Selene_Mariposa As a native Texan, this is all checks out

I was curious once too. I have never lived in Texas. But I worked remotely with Texans for years, and I spent so much time in the DFW area twenty years ago that it remains one of my favorite places on earth to visit. So let me try to explain what I learned. Start with this. In America, everyone is proud of their state. But Texas is different, and here is the tell. You never have to ask a Texan where they are from. They will tell you. Usually within the first two minutes. Part of it is size. Texas is enormous. You can drive for a full day and never leave it. Part of it is the sheer variety. Real mountains in the west. Pine forests in the east. Beaches on the Gulf. Ranch land, oil country, desert, hill country, and some of the biggest cities in America. Almost every kind of terrain on the continent exists inside one state line. But the real root is the history, and Texans know their history. Texas was its own country. A fully independent republic with its own president, army, navy, and embassies. It fought Mexico for its independence and won it on the battlefield, then chose to join the United States as an equal. Six flags have flown over that land. Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the Confederacy, and the United States. That was real history long before it was a theme park. And here is the part outsiders miss most. When the rest of the world pictures America, they are very often picturing Texas. The ranches. The boots. The oil. The swagger. The TV show Dallas ran for twenty years and exported that image to the entire planet. Texas became the shorthand for America itself. But here is the thing I love most about Texans. As much as they love Texas, they love America more. It is, by almost any measure, the most patriotic state in the Union. That is the answer. Texas pride is not arrogance. It is a country that remembers being a country, and chose this one anyway. 🦋

@readalchemist Love this!!

Intelligence is getting cheaper and more interchangeable. The real moat is autonomy: AI that can use tools, make decisions, and finish the job without constant supervision. The winners will not just have smarter models. They will have agents people can trust to actually execute. Intelligence Is a Commodity. Autonomy Is the New Moat. readalchemist.com/articles/intel…

I genuinely don't understand why everyone isn't using this yet Andrej Karpathy, a co-founder of OpenAI, posted a simple idea that hit 16 million views: stop using AI to write code, use it to build a second brain. You point Claude Code at a folder, drop in any source, an article, a transcript, a PDF, and Claude reads it, links it, and files it into a living wiki of everything you know. It compounds like interest, the more you feed it, the smarter it gets. Here's the whole thing: > Install Obsidian, create a vault, open it in Claude Code > Paste Karpathy's wiki idea file and tell Claude to build it > Claude makes three folders: raw for sources, wiki for its pages, a CLAUDE.md that runs it > Drop any source into raw and say "ingest this" > Ask questions across everything, forever Five minutes to set up, and you never start from a blank chat again. Full step-by-step guide with Claude and Obsidian, link below. Bookmark this

Most AI SQL tools hallucinate your tables. Mine doesn't. Here's why context matters more than the model:x.com/_chrismdavidso…

Claude’s $30B run rate is not just a strong quarter. It shows businesses are building Claude into everyday workflows, making it harder to replace. The AI race is becoming a battle for long-term market control. readalchemist.com/articles/claud…

Everyone is watching Anthropic’s $30B run-rate headline. The bigger signal may be the compute. The Digital Alchemist argues the 3.5GW Google TPU deal is not just capacity, it is infrastructure lock-in that could become a long-term moat. In frontier AI, model quality may matter less if you cannot serve demand at scale. readalchemist.com/articles/anthr…

@buperac I bet they use the health kit data to sell to Euthanasia clinics. Mark it.

Told all 50 employees today things are going to change. Heard someone came to work and may have had some alcohol in their system. So I told them that everyone now has to allow me full access to their personal devices all the time and I must be able to login to them and go through all their personal stuff to make sure no one is using any drugs or alcohol at work. I told them if I can’t snoop through all their stuff I will let other people do it for me, literally anyone can access all their personal stuff on their electronics, phone or laptop. It was not up for discussion, policy would be changed by midnight. They said “why don’t you just breathalyzer or drug test us instead?” I said I was doing this for their protection and not mine and that I want them to backup their phones daily on their hard drives and keep it for a year just in case I need to go through it later. They called me a fucking psychopath and they all quit, not before pissing all over the door handle of my car. Does this sound a little extreme? Well this scenario is exactly what Mark Carney and the Liberals have pushed through with Bill C-22. Anyone of “authority” gains access to your devices if you live in Canada. Canada is a fucking surveillance state.

Meta’s reported $100B AMD commitment isn’t an Nvidia divorce. It’s a procurement strategy. The article argues hyperscalers aren’t trying to replace Nvidia. They’re trying to create negotiating leverage and reduce supplier risk. The biggest GPU deals aren’t just about compute. They’re about bargaining power. readalchemist.com/articles/meta-…

@appwrite I made a button with an input box. If we are talking about any subject, say honey bees, I type that in and the bots make a full book and put it on Amazon, with me as the author. So all my conversations can now say, well I published a book recently on this so let me weigh in.

What are you building right now?