Blake Merryman
Blake Merryman
Blake Merryman
A blog that meanders along my path of adventure, creativity, and life.
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From a Github Gist by Andrej Karpathy (local copy for posterity): A pattern for building personal knowledge bases using LLMs. […] Most people’s experience with LLMs and documents looks like RAG: you upload a collection of files, the LLM...
From the mouth of the late Dean Potter in the trailer for The Dark Wizard (YouTube) (via Climbing Magazine ): When I was a little boy, my first memory was this dream of falling. […] My whole life, I’ve been obsessed with the dream. But...
From a post by ColdPlankton9273 on r/ClaudeAI : Everything I do runs through Claude Code. Not just coding. My morning routine, my CRM, my content pipeline, my lead sourcing, my follow-ups. All of it. I built a system that runs my entire...
From the depths of the Daring Fireball archives: New feature at Daring Fireball: the Linked List, a daily list of interesting links and brief commentary on DF-related topics, updated frequently but not frenetically. Call it a “link log”,...
From the blog of Shubham Bose : I went to the New York Times to glimpse at four headlines and was greeted with 422 network requests and 49 megabytes of data. It took two minutes before the page settled. And then you wonder why every sane...
From (the ironically now defunct) Andy’s Blog (via The Internet Archive): Let’s tell the truth, then: Nobody reads your blog. […] At least, not as many as you’d like. This is not meant to be a mass market blog. Thank you for tagging...
From a post in Coding Horror Discussion : Daniel_Langworthy (April 13, 2025): @codinghorror do you know what happened to WASDKeyboards? I am so sad, I love my keyboards I got from them but they seem to just be gone JimPas (April 13,...
After a decade of building software for other companies, I’m going indie! I’m launching Merryman Technology to focus on the problems that I find most interesting. This is a one-person operation: it’s just me, building software for Apple...
The month of March was a busy one for me. I recently started trail running and have really been trying to log some miles. Kellie and I are gave up on our backpacking training program . It was just too repetitive. We’ve since moved on...
For my book posts , I was looking for an easy way to export my Kindle Highlights. I was hoping for a true export but the best I’ve found so far is Amazon Kindle Notebook . This gives me a relatively clean page to copy and paste from but...
This morning I completed a Boulder classic: solo climbing Freeway on the Second Flatiron. Special thanks to my friend Brooke for talking me into this excellent climbing experience and capturing my epic leap from the “diving board”. Aside...
My Sun Eater journey continues with Demon in White . Despite taking place over many decades (thanks to the intricacies of space travel), this book kept things interesting: court intrigue, assassinations, an ancient mystery, a little...
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A simple run around the neighborhood to get more miles under my feet. I just walked outside and started running towards the mountains. Trail Details: Trail: n/a Distance: 3.6 miles Elevation Gain: 129 feet Workout Details: Start Time:...
My recipe for a delicious cup of pour over coffee. When done well and with fresh coffee, this will be the cleanest and brightest cup of Joe you’ll ever have. Prep Time: 5 min | Cook Time: 5 min | Difficulty: Easy | Servings: 1...