miniblog.

I find myself just taking photos of documents for submitting forms, rather than scanning. Scanning still feels more 'official' (a PDF instead of a JPG) but the sheer convenience of using a phone wins every time. I've rarely seen organisations complain about photos.

I like that most LLM UIs show your previous queries prominently. When figuring out where LLMs are useful in your workflow, it's nice to see what worked well (or not) in the past. Web search doesn't have this property. I rarely look at what I've previously googled.

Writing a parser that is resilient to syntax errors, and why a parser should always return something: https://duriansoftware.com/joe/constructing-human-grade-parsers (The latter property is important in e.g. IDEs and it's rarely discussed!)