5 things we can learn from OpenAI's use of tools

A new leak tells us about how to properly code agents

Delivery!

On December 12th 2025, a tweet demonstrated that ChatGPT would deliver files from its home directory when asked.

Beyond security concerns, what does this reveal about OpenAI’s use of tools and agents for GPT 5.2 Thinking?

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Netflix acquires Warner Bros

A new era of multimedia might be around the corner, and we're watching it happen

Lots of Movies

Aside from the jokes of the future one-single-corporation that runs every piece of media, I think we’ve all been surprised that Netflix has acquired Warner Bros., and while I have a lot of opinions on what that might mean for the multimedia world, there’s one aspect that has been brought up, not confirmed, that has been making the rounds on social networks.

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Atomic Habits

A review on James Clear's book

Alpha resting

I recently finished reading Atomic Habits, from James Clear, a long time recommendation I have been putting off. It definitely was a good recommendation, but maybe the expectation was a bit high for this one.

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Alpha's Micrograd in Rust

I ported Micrograd to Rust

Neural Network Nodes

You might remember that I was doing small applications in Rust to try out the language, learn about it and eventually become a pro at it. That’s… in progress. But in the meantime, I’ll tell you about which things I’m finishing up and I’m learning.

I ported Andrej Karpathy’s Micrograd into Rust, but then I took a few design choices of my own.

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The "bags of cats" organization method

A spectrum of organization techniques

Yeah, whatever!

If you read this blog, you know I’m a productivity junkie. Yeah, I’m one of those that will test different organizations mechanisms, applications, and approaches to life and tasks. However, there are a few patterns I’ve been noticing over the years and here… sometimes, less is more.

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A personal media server

How to choose, set up and use a personal media server

Dance to the music!

In the last few weeks, I set up my own media server to replace a particular service I did not want to pay anymore. It felt like a huge chore with lots of options but it’s not so difficult once you get into it.

Here’s my journey and hopefully it’s useful to you too.

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Obsidian-iCloud sync

Keep your notes in sync

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For a few years now I’ve been using Obsidian as my second brain. The magic of Obsidian is that it’s only a bunch of markdown files and a clever editor on top of it. This means that any file-syncing solution should be good enough. But the truth is a little bit more complicated than that.

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AI Search has made me more human

Natural language is hard!

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This whole shebang about AI and AI-enhanced products has led me to one of the products that have become part of my daily usage: Perplexity.AI. It’s a search engine where you ask questions and it gets your answers from the internet.

Let me take you back a couple of decades before we go back to it.

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