Musing from a normal person doing normal things
My name is Harper Reed, and this is my blog. If you want to know more about me, visit my website: harper.lol.
Here you will find longer form blog posts, and some short form notes.
I typically post about hacks I am building, general thoughts on technology, and some snaps of friends.
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Reflecting on the unsettling state of the world and feeling a deep sense of uncertainty, I find some solace in reading — here’s a list of books that have helped me process where we’ve been and where we might be headed.
Too many contacts, apps crashing. Ditched fancy solutions for old-school vCards and vdir. Wrote scripts, used khard for CLI management, vdirsyncer for syncing. Deduped, sorted, version-controlled my digital Rolodex. Google's still a pain with UIDs. It's messy, it's overkill, but it's mine. Command-line junkies, this one's for you!
I built a magical meme search engine using siglip/CLIP and vector encoding images. It was a fun way to learn about this powerful technology. I'm sharing the code so you can build your own and discover forgotten gems in your photo library. Let's unleash the power of AI on our images!
I used sensors and an LLM to make my office talk. We used this to generate a humorous LLM-generated commentary - creating an interactive, profanity and personality-infused office space.
Some really bad advice on owning and using a Leica camera. Also, some general photography advice.
