miniblog.

I'm adding uptime data to my personal LLM bot. Does this information belong in the system prompt? That was my initial plan, but I'm thinking that a tool would be better. Tools let me see information provenance ("queried the uptime tool"). There's also a small caching benefit.

Date of birth pickers are a surprisingly nuanced UI problem. What do you pick as the initial value? How do you allow users to easily move by large amounts (years) as well as small amounts (the exact day)? Defaulting to today and even allowing future dates is funny though.

LLMs are great at style transfer, and this works surprisingly well for syntactic transformations too. I rewrote a small website's EJS templates to 1500 LOC of TSX with a oneshot in Claude. It took ~12 minutes, but it just worked. (TSX seems nicer than EJS for static analysis.)