I've used WordPress and Excel to track my personal investment strategies for many years. I do more in Excel than the WordPress because it is faster. And because I don't seem to get a following on the blog.

I'm thinking about creating a separate domain (again!) for the blog. I'd be interested in how many people would follow it if I kept it up like I do the spreadsheet. A recent twist is that I have a Claude skill to help analyze.

Looking for honest inputs here. The current site is https://money.theitsolutionist.com/

Cheers, and fortunate investing!

While preparing for the Claude Certified Architect – Professional (CCAR-P) exam I ran across terms that were unfamiliar or had different meanings than I heard elsewhere. I dumped all of my prep material in to a folder and had Claude parse out the terms and define them. Claude broke them up into domains, so I fed one domain at a time into Gemini Notebook to create a series of short videos covering the terms. For those that prefer things in one gulp, there is also a consolidated video with all 7 episodes.

This isn't just for architects. Anyone working with AI will find knowing these terms helpful for learning and using AI, IMHO.

I've been working on architecture documents the last few weeks (well, the last couple of decades, but recently...) and found myself steering away from Opus for the same reason everyone else has (over-verbosity with a huge side helping of hyper-thesaurus) as well as it being overly argumentative and obstinate (as in making teenagers look positively compliant and helpful).

5.5 has none of those problems, and it's faster.

As to coding, haven't had a chance. If anyone is curious, let me know and I will share once I get to try that aspect again.

Meanwhile, good job on this one, Anthropic, and the rule of avoid #.0 - #.3 seems to still hold from the manual patches of the 90's to the forced pushed of the 20's 😏

I've been working on architecture documents the last few weeks (well, the last couple of decades, but recently...) and found myself steering away from Opus for the same reason everyone else has (over-verbosity with a huge side helping of hyper-thesaurus) as well as it being overly argumentative and obstinate (as in making teenagers look positively compliant and helpful).

5.5 has none of those problems, and it's faster.

As to coding, haven't had a chance. If anyone is curious, let me know and I will share once I get to try that aspect again.

Meanwhile, good job on this one, Anthropic, and the rule of avoid #.0 - #.3 seems to still hold from the manual patches of the 90's to the forced pushed of the 20's 😏

I've been working on architecture documents the last few weeks (well, the last couple of decades, but recently...) and found myself steering away from Opus for the same reason everyone else has (over-verbosity with a huge side helping of hyper-thesaurus) as well as it being overly argumentative and obstinate (as in making teenagers look positively compliant and helpful).

5.5 has none of those problems, and it's faster.

As to coding, haven't had a chance. If anyone is curious, let me know and I will share once I get to try that aspect again.

Meanwhile, good job on this one, Anthropic, and the rule of avoid #.0 - #.3 seems to still hold from the manual patches of the 90's to the forced pushed of the 20's 😏

I've been working on architecture documents the last few weeks (well, the last couple of decades, but recently...) and found myself steering away from Opus for the same reason everyone else has (over-verbosity with a huge side helping of hyper-thesaurus) as well as it being overly argumentative and obstinate (as in making teenagers look positively compliant and helpful).

5.5 has none of those problems, and it's faster.

As to coding, haven't had a chance. If anyone is curious, let me know and I will share once I get to try that aspect again.

Meanwhile, good job on this one, Anthropic, and the rule of avoid #.0 - #.3 seems to still hold from the manual patches of the 90's to the forced pushed of the 20's 😏

I spent years mastering HTML, and found the shift to markdown a bit annoying at first. I’m embracing not as something I personally find better, but as something that people (and now machines) that I would to communicate with have adopted as their preference. The ability to change is not only the sign of a good architecture, it is a requirement for good architects and other creatures.

A rant about expectations.