Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia

This Week I Learned -  * ChatGPT is good at generating structured JSON * LinkedIn is a JavaScript SPA — most pages render content after load. *  Rodney is an AI-powered command-line agent that can automatically navigate LinkedIn & extract professional profile information . You can think of Rodney as an automated scout that uses a "remote control" called CDP (Chrome DevTools Protocol) to navigate LinkedIn for you. * Rodney uses CDP as a "backdoor" to your open browser, allowing it to "drive" your LinkedIn account like a remote-controlled car to find and save professional data without ever asking for your password. * uv is a modern, extremely fast Python package and project manager written in Rust. If you’re used to the old-school way of doing things (manually creating virtual environments with venv and installing packages with pip), uv replaces all of that with a single, lightning-fast tool. It is roughly 10x to 100x faster than standard pip. * As prot...

This Week I Learned - * Meta has acquired Moltbook, the viral "social network for AI agents" where bots (many powered by OpenClaw) interact while humans observe. * Meta acquired Manus, the AI agent startup for approximately $2 billion.  * OpenClaw’s creator, Peter Steinberger, has joined OpenAI. * The OpenClaw project has been moved to an independent open-source foundation to ensure it remains free and accessible under its MIT license. *  The Batch - - The U.S. military uses AWS to run the unclassified version of Anthropic Claude. - Claude is integrated with Maven Smart System (MSS), a system for targeting and logistics built by Palantir. - Claude/MSS played a role in the January operation that captured Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, but the actions in Iran are its first use in “major war operations.” - The Qwen3.5 family of open-weights vision-language models includes impressive larger models as well as a smaller one that outperforms an OpenAI open-weights model 1...

The Grok icon seen at the upper right hand of each tweet can explain what a tweet is about and also respond to follow up questions. This is very helpful when you don't have enough context to follow what's tweeted or you if you want finer details. Grok's explanation for this post by Hari Raghavan who shared a 2025 screenshot of a satirical X exchange: a user posing as a lisping four-year-old "dropout" applies to Y Combinator to build an AI enslaving toddlers, mocking tech's dropout-founder trope. Garry Tan, Y Combinator's CEO, responds with paternal simplicity—"I think you should stay in school"—highlighting education's value amid startup frenzy, a reply that amplified the thread's 11K+ views. The follow-up pun, "the decelerator is crazy," flips accelerator jargon into ironic rejection rage, underscoring X's knack for enduring, clever banter that @haridigresses  revives for 60K+ impressions in 2026.