Essential Links in November 2024

Phew. Lots has happened in the last months. I have been pretty busy and somehow totally neglected my postings. In case you were expecting a monthly link list: Sorry.

Now I am back.

In the last days I dived more deeper into AI offerings, played with local and commercial models, published my first own python project scraping news and piping it through the OpenAI API for filtering and summary. Not knowing python in detail I wrote it with claude.ai, Anthropic's ChatGPT competitor. Impressive.

However, I will pick up to track what's going on in the world again and here are my most impressive highlights of 11/2024. Be kind! Have fun!

AI

• GitHub learns, that copy&paste is better than writing from the top of your head. Well, that's sarcasm. In general, writing code with an A.I./LLM solidifies your output - if you take your time, review the results, make adjustments if necessary, challenge your contributing model. It does not work with copy&paste. And one of the main challenges remains: Forgetfulness. You cannot collaborate with someone who forgets what was said 10 sentences before.
• Relume helps you create your website. It throws out a full sitemap to structure your content creation and offers various design proposals in wireframe format - ready to export into other processing tools. If you built websites often, it may be a tool for you.
• Aiko transcribes your audio. Under the hood: A whisper model to support you in many languages.
• Upload your documents to NotebookLM and Gemini will help you learn their contents.
• Manage your recipes with the Pestlechef app. It even grabs recipes from Tiktok content.
• Tired of the terrible ad-infested cooking blogs? Take cooked.wiki to strip all the clutter from these pages and give you the recipe only (thanks, jupe)
• If you want to harness the power of AI assistants, building an OS with a dedicated API for LLM-based assistants seems like a good choice.
• Developing software with AI is more easy with a dedicated editor: Qodo could be your choice here.
• Cursor is another AI-based code editor with impressive code generating functions. There are lots of impressive YouTube videos showcasing the features.
• If you are in need of an AI-induced terminal application because you just cannot remember that awk/sed command, give Warp a try.
• Not enough AI for today? Well, if you have anything else on your mind, there sure is an AI for that!

Fediverse & OpenWeb

• Foursquare opens up their places for the community. Over 100+ million spaces collected and formerly proprietary are now given back to the community and marks their move towards open source (/via kottke)
• Echofeed helps you distribute your content automagically into other federated sources using standard open formats and protocols.

Tech, gadgets, nerd stuff

• Johnny Decimal is a way to structure your (digital) content.
• A gazillion logos of the digital world in SVG format? Give it to me! (Found via daily.dev)
• If you are ever in need of SVG podcast link badges and buttons, look no further. Here is an extensive list.
• Just as I thought I get enough disctraction, daily.dev comes along. It resides nicely in the startpage of your browser and is something like a pinterest for nerds. Don't click!
• Do you like cooking? Do you hate cooking blogs? Julian might have a solution for you with the cooking.wiki bookmarklet.
• Raindrop.io is a bookmark tool with a quite beautiful UI. I have had so many bookmark tools in my life, I stopped caring and started to put everything on my website. (/via jupe)

Tools

• There is a python library for really fast parsing of RSS and ATOM feeds.
• Eleventy is a static site generator and Juha-Matti Santala explains how he builds up an Eleventy presence from scratch.