I love making cool little Claude artifacts to test something out. Silly idea for a novelty mortgage calculator? Why not try it! Need a tool to convert raw .ipynb to .py on the fly? Have I got the tool for you! (I know there are other tools for this, but knowing that the one I'm using is secure and local is handy when trying to quickly get up to speed with notebooks on github, occasionally on my phone) I recently vibe-coded a new feature onto my site that lets me paste these artifacts directly into an admin page accessed...
The curse of movie recommendations
Increasingly, I see people online unable to find something to watch. Or perhaps more accurately: people unable to choose something to watch. ## choice paralysis In a previous job I worked on recommendation systems and one thing that often came up during testing is that adding more would lead to more engagement. More clicks, everyone's favourite optimisation. Distracting? Maybe! But people are clicking it so it must be good! As users we know this isn't true. It sucks to see 40 options and then be unable to decide. More isn't more! The feeling of being paralysed by choice is not...