Antoine Finkelstein's blog

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Antoine Finkelstein's personal blog about software, AI experiments, business, language learning, health, and games.

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Using Opus 4.8 to get a second opinion on an MRI and where it leaves me #AI #HealthTech #Science
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Jun 28, 2026
Reviewing 007 First Light #Books #Reviews #Fiction
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Jun 20, 2026
One-shotting an incremental reading app in June 2026 #Software #AI #Productivity
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May 31, 2026
What is the point of having a blog in the age of LLMs #AI #Blogging #Content
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May 1, 2026
Should you learn some Japanese before visiting Japan? And how? #LanguageLearning #Travel #Japan
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Dec 22, 2025
Why and how to sentence mine with Migaku (to Anki) #LanguageLearning #Anki #EdTech
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Dec 4, 2025
Should you switch to GCP's C4A CPUs? And charts from our AlloyDB migration #CloudComputing #Databases #GCP
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Oct 1, 2025
Self-hosting the Anki sync server with Tailscale #SelfHosting #Anki #Tailscale
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Sep 24, 2025
Building an N+1 language deck using LLMs, TTS and image generation for Anki #AI #LanguageLearning #Anki
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Sep 18, 2025
Lessons learned from building a sync-engine and reactivity system with SQLite #Software #Database #Programming
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Aug 15, 2025
Learning a foreign language when you do not need to #LanguageLearning #PersonalGrowth #EdTech
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Aug 6, 2025
Trying out Cursor's BugBot PR reviewer #SoftwareDevelopment #AI #CodeReview
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Jun 4, 2025
OpenAI's Codex: A review after a dozen AI generated PRs #AI #Software #OpenAI
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May 19, 2025
Duolingo's engagement tricks #AI #Business #LanguageLearning
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Apr 14, 2025
Reviewing OpenAI's Deep Research: A good starting point #AI #Research #Tech
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Feb 4, 2025
Accessing OpenAI's Operator outside the USA #OpenAI #AI #Tech
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Jan 29, 2025
OpenAI Operator review: Currently too limited but reasons to be hopeful #AI #OpenAI #Software
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Jan 29, 2025
Building an offline first E2E encrypted web app with PGlite and Electric #Software #WebDev #OpenSource
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Jan 26, 2025
Enriching or modifying an Anki deck with LLMs #AI #LLM #Anki
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Jan 3, 2025
Thresholds, not goals #Productivity #Mindset #SelfImprovement
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Dec 28, 2024
Using OpenAI's o1 models for code reviews (and my custom rake task) #AI #CodeReview #SoftwareDevelopment
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Dec 18, 2024
Trying out the paid Bug Finder in Cursor #Software #AI #DevTools
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Dec 12, 2024
Setting up a free private Docker registry for deploying with Kamal #DevOps #ContainerRegistry #Kamal
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Nov 25, 2024
Running Windows 98 on an Apple Silicon Mac: A practical guide and some thoughts #RetroComputing #Tech #Apple
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Nov 12, 2024
Potato Analytics: Minimalistic, privacy-conscious tracking for your website #WebAnalytics #Privacy #OpenSource
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Nov 8, 2024
First rule of server security: Zero access #Security #Server #Tech
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Nov 5, 2024
PSA: Don't use Cloudflare Fonts in production #WebDev #Performance #Privacy
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Nov 3, 2024
Using embeddings to display related articles with Supabase in Ruby on Rails #RubyOnRails #Supabase #AI
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Oct 31, 2024
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 campaign review -- Delivers the fun #Gaming #Review #CoD
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Oct 27, 2024
You're using your AirPods too much #Health #Tech #Gadgets
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Oct 24, 2024
Building Integral Review v2... and a blogging platform #Software #Blogging #OpenSource
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Oct 20, 2024
Reflect Notes review (as my primary notes app) #Software #Productivity #AppReview
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Jun 19, 2024
Why players love WoW Classic and why older games seem better #Gaming #Nostalgia #RetroGaming
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Jun 1, 2024
The uselessness of lying #Philosophy #Ethics #Communication
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May 10, 2024
The negligible impact of purchasing green electricity #Environment #Energy #Sustainability
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Apr 10, 2024
Using Time Machine and Tailscale for remote backups #Tech #Backup #RemoteWork
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Apr 8, 2024
Star Trek's beautiful praise of professionalism #StarTrek #Professionalism #Ethics
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Feb 19, 2024
Should you localize remote workers' compensation? #RemoteWork #Compensation #HR
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A principled approach to when businesses should or shouldn't engage in politics #Business #Ethics #Society
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There's no problem: Understanding and dealing with stress #MentalHealth #Wellbeing #StressManagement
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