Welcome to Tech Updates: #10.
This Newsletter is a deep dive into the tools and AI workflows shaping the digital frontier. I’m sharing my process of building and exploring in the open so we can navigate the future of tech together.You can read the updates below, or watch the video version on YouTube. Embedded here for your enjoyment!
Research and Learning:
Apple M5’s were announced just a few days ago, and their CPU/GPUs are being AI-ready
https://x.com/aakashgupta/status/2028909261540270085
Related to the M5’s, this is an interesting project regarding training Neural networks.
https://github.com/maderix/ANE
The goal was to demonstrate that training on the Apple Neural Engine — and potentially other NPUs — is possible, and that the barrier has always been software support, not hardware capability. The ANE is a remarkably capable piece of silicon that Apple restricts to inference-only use through CoreML. This project bypasses that restriction using reverse-engineered private APIs to show what's possible when you give the hardware a chance.Letting go of Code review
https://x.com/swyx/status/2028795270306079156?s=20
List of 315+ free APIs
https://x.com/alifcoder/status/2028172982850654550?s=20
Shameless plug for Claude
https://x.com/GregFeingold/status/2027904566696788225?s=20
Sitdeck.com and worldmonitor.app
Open source dashboards for world events.
https://x.com/danushman/status/2028007602391540026?s=20
https://x.com/DanielMiessler/status/2026792958775931362?s=20
The Great Transition
Future Research to do:
Anthropic launched free courses to learn AI and Claude
https://x.com/baba_Omoloro/status/2028135009098351074?s=20
Almost ready to attempt WordPress to Hugo/Cloudflare migration
More models drop every day…
https://x.com/RoundtableSpace/status/2024638883078570193?s=20
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2029620619743219811
commands to remember:
This AI video is just funny:
https://x.com/charliebcurran/status/2027561041849446722?s=20
Improvements:
Been building a lot of pages, services, walkthroughs, etc for consulting services and digital products. Not quite ready to share them yet.
Started 2 different lead magnets for separate projects.
worked a lot with AI on those projects.
Gathering documents for taxes. barf.
PAI upgraded to 4.0.3.
switched all my shells on my boxes from bash to zsh for the default.
Mistakes:
learning escape characters vs quotes for ? in zsh shell.
That’s it for this week’s Tech Update. -Derek
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