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Apr 10, 2025

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Run LLM Models Locally with Docker

From Docker’s new Model Runner to Google’s AI Overview shaking up search and a brewing A2A standards battle — this week was a marathon. Toss in some DIY ChatGPT action figures and you’ve got the perfect mix of chaos and creativity.

Brian Christner

Business

🧠 Future-Proof Jobs, Free LLM Course, & a $10K Kickstarter That Blew Up

May 2, 2025

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🧠 Future-Proof Jobs, Free LLM Course, & a $10K Kickstarter That Blew Up

AskNature is like Google for Mother Nature’s design secrets — an open library of biomimicry where ants teach algorithms, whales shape turbines, and cacti school us on water hacks. Innovation straight from 3.8 billion years of R&D.”

Brian Christner

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Pry my Em Dashes (— ) from My Cold Dead Hands ✍️

May 16, 2025

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Pry my Em Dashes (— ) from My Cold Dead Hands ✍️

Em Dashes (— ) were hip and cool until LLMs inserted them everywhere.

Brian Christner

🤖 AI Goes Rogue: Fake Presidents, Smart Containers & Jony Ive’s Big Bet

May 23, 2025

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🤖 AI Goes Rogue: Fake Presidents, Smart Containers & Jony Ive’s Big Bet

AI is everywhere this month — writing your code, impersonating U.S. officials, running your Docker containers, and now, possibly living in your pocket. May has been wild, and here’s what you need to know.

Brian Christner

Business

Oct 28, 2020

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Hacking McDonalds API 🍔

A hacker reverse-engineered McDonald’s API to check every ice cream machine in the US—placing fake $18,752 orders a minute to find out which ones were broken. The result? A live map that’s more reliable than the golden arches themselves.”

Brian Christner

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🔓 AI Endpoints, Vapes, and Browsers... Who Let This Happen?

Sep 19, 2025

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🔓 AI Endpoints, Vapes, and Browsers... Who Let This Happen?

Tech is showing up in places it has no business being. A vape turned webserver, Chrome sneaking in AI, Torvalds dropping F-bombs on bad code, and over 1,000 Ollama endpoints left naked on the internet. This week’s stories prove: just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

Brian Christner

⚡️ Ice Batteries, LEGO Loops & Claude’s File Magic

Sep 11, 2025

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⚡️ Ice Batteries, LEGO Loops & Claude’s File Magic

This week is a buffet of the bizarre and brilliant: scientists bent ice into electricity, Redditors built a hypnotic infinite LEGO domino loop, Kevin Kelly’s 1,000 true fans resurfaced, Google sounded the alarm on the open web, and Claude learned how to save files.

Brian Christner

🔥 The Only Rule You Need: Hell Yeah or No

Sep 5, 2025

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🔥 The Only Rule You Need: Hell Yeah or No

From Siri’s stalled glow-up to the UK Gov’s underwhelming AI trial — plus Derek Sivers drops the only rule you’ll ever need: Hell Yeah or No.

Brian Christner

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Aug 29, 2025

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🌮 From Tacos to 9GHz: This Week's Byte.

This week: CPUs hit 9GHz, Taco Bell’s AI drive-thru gets trolled, Google drops a new image editor, and one developer codes his way from prison to innovation.

Brian Christner

Productivity

🪑 The IKEA Effect: Why We Love What We Build

Aug 22, 2025

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🪑 The IKEA Effect: Why We Love What We Build

OneUptime ditches AWS for big savings, N100 Mini PCs prove the cloud isn’t always king, AGENTS.md sets a new AI standard, the IKEA Effect shows why we overvalue what we build, and yes—someone is making a Lego-powered submarine.

Brian Christner