The stochastic parrot is dead (and it was killed by its own map)
For years we dismissed them as "stochastic parrots". Then we looked inside the black box. Here's what we found.
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Field notes on Apple platforms, Swift, AI and everything else.
Building a Filterable Portfolio for the MONOIDX Landing
A data-driven portfolio with type filtering and pagination, a résumé HUD that links into it — and two scroll-related bugs (a pinned-scroll cancellation and a classic-script function collision) that were more instructive than the features.
Generative UI on iOS: the model composes, you set the grammar
Foundation Models and the @Generable macro make it possible to build interfaces an on-device model assembles at runtime. Here is what that actually means, and where the wall is.
Adding a Background Music Player to a Static Astro Site
How a minimal play/stop/volume player streams a YouTube playlist's audio on loop — using the IFrame API, a hidden iframe, and view transitions to keep the music playing across page navigation.
Why a cow falling in a dream made me rethink artificial intelligence
I dreamed of a cow falling off a mountain. The scene was entirely made up, yet it held together. That led me to an uncomfortable question about AI: is predicting the next word really the opposite of understanding? Maybe not, and maybe the stochastic parrot is a fair critique but not a sufficient one.
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Hello from Notion
The first post written in Notion and published to monoidx.dev by the automated sync — covering how the pipeline works end to end.
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Building the MONOIDX Landing and Blog
How the MONOIDX site went from a single scroll-driven HTML page to a lean Astro project with a bilingual blog — without losing the canvas sequence or the design language.