What would you do if it was cold and rainy during your holiday? Well, assuming you have a problem like me, you’d code of course! To make things better we’ve discovered an amazing place nearby that makes incredible cakes –they are really good in Poland overall, but this place is next level– and coffee. So …
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It’s been a year? What?!
My last post (literally a year ago) ended with: “Now that things are settling down, I expect bandwidth to increase – lots to come” Well, suffice to say that did not pan out the way I thought it would 🤦♂️. Turns out I would usually write during my evening downtime, but when you have a …
Settling down in the Bay & Starlight 1.0.4 is now live!
Back in August I posted about moving back to the Bay Area, and how that would temporarily reduce my bandwidth. Being honest, it was even more disruptive than anticipated. There was the move itself, but also searching for (and buying) a house, fixing its rough edges, furnishing it… And all that while working full time …
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Starting to code again :) on in app purchases :(
Although still very busy with the move from San Diego to Palo Alto I’m slowly but surely finding time here and there to code. Right now, working on finishing the in app purchase view for Starlight. I know, I know… Not the most exciting part, but still necessary. Here’s the latest screenshot, fresh off the …
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Moving back to the Bay Area
Some personal news to share. My wife & I are relocating from San Diego back to the Bay Area. Although its a positive move, it was not planned, so I will post less frequently in the next couple of months as we’re getting all the move complexities solved. And if you’re in the bay and …
Starlight – Soft launch, week 1 update
Soft-launch of Starlight going great – thank you for all the positive feedback and improvement suggestions! The app will remain free until I add final touches based on feedback. If you ran into any issues please let me know via the “Contact us” option in the Help menu bar, and if you love the app …
Starlight is alive!!!
It’s alive!! Go grab it now & Get Stuff Done 👊 The best part? Not only it will make you more productive, but its also free 🙂 More to come, Marc
Starlight has gone gold!
After over a year in the making – I’m excited to announce another signficant milestone: Starlight has gone gold! Its effectively ready to ship, what’s more, it’s also approved for sale by Apple — feels… pretty good With the app gone gold, I’m now switching to getting ready to ship! Among other things, that includes …
Building GPT from scratch
With all the talk & articles about GPT, a few weeks ago I decided to spend a couple days coding one from scratch. The training size can’t be the same (for $$$ reasons), but the model can follow a very similar architecture to the one used by GPT-3. As long as we narrow the training data, …
Leveraging Bing Chat as a development tool
Even though in their infancy, ChatGPT, Copilot & OPT are already impressive tools. The impact on how we work will be significant and, although expertise will still be critical, people who leverage AI will have an edge over people who don’t. I started increasingly using Bing Chat (which uses GPT-4 behind the scenes) to parse …
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