Hi, I’m Chuck Grimmett.
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Pretty soon Cloudflare will block all crawlers just to make you pay to use their crawler.
Links I like
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Likes A week of notes by .
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Likes Gros Michel Banana.
I thought the Gros Michel went extinct, but apparently not! Just grown on a very small scale due to its susceptibility to disease. I want to order some!
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Likes iPhone dumbphone.
I don’t think I’m going to do this yet, but thinking about it. Might also be a better way to handle child device restrictions.
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Likes A week of notes by .
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New local literary magazine in the area! I’ll try to get down to Transom next weekend to pick one up.
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I like this and want this for all podcasts I listen to. In particular Conversations with Tyler.
It strikes me that this may be a good use of local AI models: Have a recurring job to monitor a podcast feed, pull down the transcript of it (or generate one on the fly with Whisper), list the recommended books from that episode, and stitch together a feed of just the book recommendations.
Here is the creator’s blog post about it: https://sippey.com/2025/08/26/three-books-dot-net.html
This is the kind of AI use I prefer: Fast information processing on something that would be very tedious and not fun for a human. Writing a custom parsing script for different episodes would be tedious and fragile, too. Keep the fun creation for humans, leave tedious processing to the bots.
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Likes LLM Visualization.
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Good reminder to delete the social apps, put down the phone, turn off the podcast or audiobook and be bored.
h/t Chris Glass
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Likes Life Lessons From a Rebellious River by .
h/t Chris Glass
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Likes https://snarfed.org/2025-09-07_55736 by .
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Likes WordPress for newsrooms.
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Likes What to do with an old iPad.
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Likes Typepad Site Death by .