Sun, May 17, 2026

Weekly Notes and Discoveries | S Anand

flipbook.page is a fascinating generative UI exploration. It's a visual browser, i.e. it generates an image based on text, you click anywhere, it generates an image interpreting based on where you clicked, and so on. A very different style of exploration! #html #image-generation #web-dev

Vercel's deepsec uses Codex / Claude to search for vulnerabilities, but "scans can cost thousands or even tens-of-thousands of dollars for large codebases". #ai-coding #code-agents #dev #github

I had GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.7 analyze a few of my conversations and learnt that I need to ask myself: "What must they take away? What must you take away?" in my conversations. That lets me speak with intention rather than instict. (Instinct has its place. I happen to over-use it.) #chatgpt #future #speech-to-text

Turns out there are several well-established taxonomies. It makes sense to align with these. Linked data is powerful and AI makes linkage easy. #database
- General Knowledge: Wikidata, DBpedia, YAGO.
- People: VIAF, ISNI, ORCID, LC Name Authority, GND.
- Places: GeoNames, Getty TGN, ISO 3166.
- Organizations: LEI, ROR, Wikidata.
- Books/Media: Open Library, WorldCat, MusicBrainz, IMDB.
- Chemicals/Biology: PubChem, ChEBI, GBIF, ITIS.
- Legal/Units/Math/Events: EuroVoc, QUDT, OEIS, PeriodO, etc.

BitWarden supports a bw CLI that seems handy for quick CLI access to passwords. It's a step towards me moving away from saving passwords unencrypted on my local file system.

Singapore has banned prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi. Pity. I was hoping to use AI coding agents to play them. Yahoo #future #prediction

When I charge my Lenovo Thinkpad (P1 Gen 7) with the 170W charger that came with the laptop, it delivers ~60W of power to the battery, charging the laptop in about an hour. A 65W laptop delivers half the power and takes twice as long.