Create Missing RSS Feeds With LLMs

It used to be that blogs all had RSS feeds. Somehow there are more blogs than ever before, but some people do not bother with setting up an RSS feed. The following blogs have nice content, but are annoying to follow without RSS. https://aider.chat/blog/ https://jkatz05.com/ https://getreuer.info/ Every time I stumble on one of these, it takes me a while to remember a fun workaround. I decided to write this down as a blog post so I have an easier time looking up the details....

April 27, 2025 · 2 min · Taras Glek

Fast groq-hosted LLMs vs browser jank

TLDR: chatcraft.org is now smooth as butter and maximally performant thanks to throttling LLM chat-completion rendering via requestAnimationFrame(). ...

May 19, 2024 · 3 min · Taras Glek

Overlooked on HN: Discovering High-quality Technical Content

I’m gonna start a column on cool blog posts I found, that got 0 or minimal traction. I suspect I will also have no traction doing that 🤦‍♂️. The Problem I really enjoy thoughtful writing on deep technical problems. It’s even better when one sees thoughtful comments, that further contribute new directions to throughts presented. HackerNews is where most of that writing tends to land. Unfortunately it tends to not do well vs trendy, click-baity, etc content. Twitter is even worse. First, a blog post on my tooling for reading HN. ...

August 7, 2023 · 2 min · Taras Glek

Always Bet on Geohot: Tinygrad Will Win

George Holtz (geohot) just raised $5M for tinygrad and plans to sell a $15,000 Machine Learning AMD Epyc box with AMD 7900 XT video cards. At first glance, this seems like a really risky investment into a low-margin commodity hardware company. AMD can’t compete with NVidia, so how can we expect geohot to compete with NVidia on AMD hardware? Well, I’ve been following geohot for a long while. He delivers what he promises, but does it years later and on different hardware than initially promised :) Here’s the timeline of my evolution alongside George that informs my conviction:...

May 25, 2023 · 3 min · Taras Glek