I was paying $240/year to host this blog. Now I pay $0. Nexcess was a solid WordPress host, but overkill for a casual wordpress blog. I’d been meaning to migrate to a static site for years, and I finally pointed Claude Code at the task. What Happened I described what I wanted. Opus 4.5 did the rest: Converted 60+ posts to Hugo markdown Preserved all URLs for SEO Set up the theme and config Configured Cloudflare Pages deployment My actual input time: ~5 minutes. The AI handled documentation, code, and debugging. ...

If you haven’t tried crypto yet, here’s why you should: 1) More private and secure than Zelle or Venmo 2) Option to hedge against inflation if you buy something like ETH or BTC (not financial advice) 3) Earn ~4%+ interest on USDC stablecoin balance in coinbase (as of September 2025) Easy Mode: Centralized Exchange The simplest way to start. Use a trusted exchange to buy and hold crypto. Create an account on a trusted exchange: Coinbase (Get $30 after trading $20) Robinhood (Get free stock worth $5+) Gemini (Get $75 if you trade $100 within first 30 days) Buy USDC: Search “USDC” in the app. Deposit $20 from your bank—the app handles the conversion. USDC is a stablecoin pegged to $1 USD. Send money: Once funded, send a test transaction (even 5 cents!) to any crypto address for free. Receive money: Tap “receive” on the USDC page to get your wallet address. Share it to receive crypto (comment below with yours for a test transaction). Optional: Buy $10 of ETH or BTC to track price movements over time. Intermediate Mode: Self-Custody Hot Wallet Control your own crypto with a software wallet. Best for amounts under $100—use hardware wallets for larger sums. ...

The AI and crypto landscape continues its rapid evolution, with major model releases, legislative breakthroughs, and infrastructure upgrades dominating the headlines. Here are the most significant developments from the past month (July 5 - August 4, 2025): 🤖 The AI Model Race Intensifies GPT-5 Release Speculation Heats Up High chance GPT-5 releases August 5 - YouTubers scheduling livestreams, pattern matching suggests imminent launch ( @testingcatalog ) OpenAI employee leak: GPT-5 superior to Claude - Internal testing shows it beats Claude in real coding scenarios, not just benchmarks ( @Yuchenj_UW ) Sam Altman: OpenAI solved programming - Claims GPT-5 can complete entire projects in 5 minutes ( @mark_k ) Open Source Breakthrough Moments Kimi K2 crushes coding benchmarks - Open-source 1T parameter MoE model achieves 65.8% on SWE Bench Verified ( @Kimi_Moonshot ) Kimi K2 on Groq at 185 tokens/second - Near-frontier model performance at unprecedented speed ( @GroqInc ) Qwen3-Coder-Flash runs locally - 30B parameter model with 1M context, requires only 33GB RAM ( @Alibaba_Qwen ) Mystery Models & Platform Launches Horizon Alpha hits OpenRouter - Third stealth model creating complete games in seconds at 130 tokens/sec ( @TheMattBerman ) Grok 4 with Polymarket integration - Built-in prediction markets for future forecasting ( @AutismCapital ) Claude officially joins X - @claudeai account launched with platform integration ( @AnthropicAI ) 💻 Coding Agent Revolution Claude Code Major Enhancements Custom sub-agents capability - Type /agents to create specialized agents for different tasks ( @sidbidasaria ) Multi-directory support - Work across multiple directories with /add-dir command ( @_catwu ) Platform Competition Intensifies Cursor 1.3 with terminal collaboration - Agent works directly in terminal, enhanced context usage tracking ( @cursor_ai ) ChatGPT Agent announced - Combines Deep Research + Operator capabilities ( @sama ) Figma entering coding space - Attempting to capture market share from Replit & Cursor ( @NickADobos ) 💰 Crypto’s Legislative Victory Lap Historic Congressional Breakthroughs GENIUS Act (307-122) and CLARITY Act (294-134) pass House - Historic bipartisan crypto legislation with comprehensive market structure rules heading to Senate ( @iampaulgrewal , @davidsacks47 ) White House crypto report released - Comprehensive regulatory clarity framework outlined ( @davidsacks47 ) Market Adoption Signals 14-year dormant wallet moves $2.4B - 20,000 BTC purchased for $15,400 in 2010 finally moves ( @Cointelegraph ) ETH ETFs record $717M inflows - Largest single day in history ( @sassal0x ) 🚀 Infra Speed & Efficiency Gains Base Chain 10x faster with Flashblocks - 200ms block times make it fastest EVM chain ( @buildonbase ) Mistral beats Whisper in speech recognition - Open source Voxtral models achieve lower error rates ( @MistralAI ) Ollama desktop app launches - Native macOS and Windows support for local AI models ( @ollama ) Developer Tool Evolution Google Opal no-code AI builder - Chain prompts, models, and tools with natural language ( @GoogleLabs ) Gemini 2.5 Deep Think for researchers - Parallel thinking and reinforcement learning capabilities ( @GoogleDeepMind ) NotebookLM adds video overviews - Veo 3 integration coming soon ( @OfficialLoganK ) 🌟 Industry Moves & Personnel Shifts Mira Murati launches Thinking Machines Lab - Former OpenAI CTO building collaborative general intelligence ( @miramurati ) Windsurf team joins Google DeepMind - CEO and R&D team acquired after deal collapse ( @haydenfield ) Perplexity launches Comet browser - Web browser built for today’s AI-enhanced internet ( @perplexity_ai ) 📊 Legal & Market Dynamics Anthropic wins AI training lawsuit - Federal judge rules AI can train on published books under fair use ( @rohanpaul_ai ) US caselaw open-sourced on Hugging Face - 99% of US legal data now freely available for AI training ( @EnricoShippole ) AI writes 50% of Google’s code - Internal milestone reveals extent of AI integration in development ( @ai_for_success ) 💡 Notable Developments Cloudflare “pay per crawl” model - Websites can now charge AI companies for content scraping ( @gregisenberg ) Pentagon becomes rare earth shareholder - Strategic move to reduce dependency on China for critical materials ( @RodDMartin ) This curated summary highlights the most significant developments from August 2025, focusing on breakthrough AI model releases, historic crypto legislation, and the rapid evolution of coding agents. ...

As I’ve been closely following AI and crypto developments, I am sharing some of the most interesting updates from the past few weeks (June 16 - July 7, 2025). Here’s what caught my attention: 🤖 AI Development & Tools Claude Code Evolution Claude Code Pro Tip: Custom Slash Commands - Track todos, file changes, learnings, and next steps ( @iannuttall ) Using Gemini CLI with Claude Code - Leverage 1M context window for codebase research ( @iannuttall ) Background Tasks in Claude Code - Enable background tasks with ENABLE_BACKGROUND_TASKS=1 ( @iannuttall ) Claude Code Creators Join Cursor - @bcherny and @_catwu leave Anthropic for Cursor AI ( @ryancarson ) OpenAI Updates O3-Pro on Genspark (~$20/mo, paid annually) - OpenAI o3-pro now with unlimited use on Genspark Plus. They also give you 1-2 o3-pro queries per day on free plan, which is what i’m using. Only place I found with free access to o3-pro. ( @genspark_ai ) ChatGPT on WhatsApp - Image generation available via 1-800-ChatGPT ( @OpenAI ) API Primitives Update - Centrally manage, version, and optimize prompts across Playground, API, Evals ( @OpenAIDevs ) OpenAI DoD Contract - $200M contract to provide AI tools to Department of Defense ( @unusual_whales ) Google/Gemini Breakthrough Gemini 2.5 Pro Free Tier - Back in the free tier of the API ( @OfficialLoganK ) Scheduled Actions in Gemini - Pro/Ultra users can now schedule recurring tasks ( @GeminiApp ) MCP Support for AI Studio - Google working on Model Context Protocol support ( @testingcatalog ) 💰 Crypto & Finance Evolution Trading Infrastructure Coinbase Perpetual Futures - Launching July 21 for BTC and ETH, CFTC compliant, 24/7 trading ( @brian_armstrong ) Real World Asset Tokenization - Robinhood Chain: First Ethereum L2 optimized for trading real-world assets via Arbitrum ( @vladtenev ) Figma’s Bitcoin Strategy - $70M in Bitcoin ETFs, board approved for $30M more ( @tier10k ) Mainstream Adoption Signals Bitcoin as Mortgage Asset - Federal Housing Finance Agency officially recognizes crypto for mortgages ( @BitcoinMagazine ) Satoshi-Era Wallets Awakening - 8 dormant wallets move $8.6B in BTC after 14 years ( @WatcherGuru ) 🛠️ DevTools Cursor AI Revolution Cursor Mobile View - Create tasks, manage projects from phone ( @kregenrek ) Community Explosion - 29 meetups planned through mid-August ( @ericzakariasson ) Practical Dev Tips .gitignore Pattern - Use *.local.* for temporary files and outputs ( @mattpocockuk ) Use Bun for Speed - Faster compilation than npm/yarn with parallel package installation ( @claude_code ) Desktop Notifications - ntfy: Send notifications via simple HTTP/REST API ( @tom_doerr ) 🚀 Product Launches AI-Powered Creation Tools Nvidia PartPacker 3D - Generate editable 3D objects from single image with separate parts ( @victormustar ) OmniGen2 Image Editor - Open source Photoshop-grade edits without affecting rest of image ( @deedydas ) Firecrawl’s Perplexity Clone - Open source AI search with cited sources ( @firecrawl_dev ) Platform Integrations ElevenLabs MCP Support - Connect AI agents to Salesforce, HubSpot, Gmail instantly ( @elevenlabsio ) Anthropic Desktop Extensions - One-click MCP server installation for Claude Desktop ( @AnthropicAI ) 📊 Infrastructure & Performance Major Technical Achievements macOS Container Support - Native container support without Docker in macOS 26 Beta ( @jaydrogers ) and h/t James Qualls for the notice. Ethereum Gigagas Era - Justin Drake unveils roadmap targeting 10,000 TPS ( @WhaleInsider ) Helium Network Milestone - 1M daily active users, $300k HNT burned ( @amirhaleem ) Cost Revelations Figma’s AWS Bill - $300k/day AWS costs revealed in S-1 filing ( @DanielLockyer ) 🌟 Notable Industry Moves Nikita Bier to X - Joining as Head of Product after “posting to the top” ( @nikitabier ) Meta’s Superintelligence Team - Zuckerberg announces new team with hires from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google ( @kyliebytes ) Jack’s Weekend Project - bitchat: Bluetooth mesh network chat with IRC vibes ( @jack ). I tried it out but need someone else in range to fully try it. 💡 Randomness Mosquito Laser Defense - Startup using lidar and lasers to eliminate mosquitos in homes ( @ritwikpavan ) This curated summary focuses on the most impactful developments from my X likes (June 16 - July 7, 2025), emphasizing actionable insights in AI tooling, crypto infrastructure, and developer productivity. Hope you find something useful here! ...

Everyone learns differently. I didn’t realize this during my ~18 years of traditional classroom education, where I found it very challenging to grasp complex topics through books and lectures. For many years, I thought I was just bad at learning, and my poor memory for abstract names exacerbated that feeling. My mind works best when solving problems, and I was inspired by my own shortcomings to develop an experiment to help people use AI to learn about topics in the most personalized way for them. ...

I follow the latest developments in LLMs very closely. There is a lot of noise out there and very little signal. I decided to make one easy-to-follow list for anyone who feels overwhelmed by AI or who knows they should be doing more with AI but hasn’t gotten around to it yet. The only manual for AI is AI itself - AI is changing rapidly; written instructions for AI are quickly outdated. The only instructions you need to remember are where to type your first question. Form AI habits - The hardest part of learning AI is developing muscle memory. Try to ask it something every day. Get your ideas in writing - AI’s only weakness is that it can’t read your mind. Use speech-to-text tools like WisprFlow to get ideas out of your head into text. Use AI to organize those thoughts. Talk to AI naturally; it fills gaps. Unlike traditional software, interacting with AI is conversational. Don’t worry about perfect sentences – AI generally understands you even with typos and omissions. Partner with AI, don’t outsource to it - Use AI to draft and structure, but always add your own voice; people can tell the difference. Use AI to be more social, not less - Ask it how to ask better questions and how to say things so they’ll be well-received by your intended audience. It doesn’t matter what you say if it’s not received well. Learn about AI blind spots - AI is only as good as the data it’s trained on. AI is just as susceptible to bias as people. Try to include AI Summaries when you share content links with friends and colleagues. It’s good practice with AI, and it helps the recipient gain context. Bonus, a few more technical points: ...

It all started with this tweet that came up on my feed. OpenRouter.ai – I haven’t used OpenRouter much, but I did have an account there. So I immediately went to it to try this out. What’s interesting about OpenRouter is that, in some cases, it lets you chat completely for free with AI models. This particular model, Quasar Alpha, which is on par with—if not better than—some of the best foundational models I’ve tested, is currently in stealth mode. We don’t know which company created it. Still, it’s making waves in AI circles on X thanks to its generous 1M token input window and a reasonable 35k token max output window. ...

It continues to be quite overwhelming to keep following all the updates in AI. It’s both exciting and stressful because just when you think you’re going to have a quiet week, all the major AI providers release significant updates that rock the entire world that you previously knew. Here are the biggest AI updates that have happened in the last few weeks, with sources so you can learn more about each innovation: ...

Wispr Flow has completely changed the way I work. It began with their Mac app: you simply press a hotkey, speak naturally, and your words appear almost instantly with remarkable accuracy. It reminds me of Dragon NaturallySpeaking from the early 2000s—exciting but never quite delivering its full promise. Wispr Flow fulfills that promise and more. Do you prefer to listen instead of read like me? Lucky for you I used NotebookLM to create a podcast out of this post. Listen below: Listen to this post Your browser does not support the audio element. ...