Constantin Gonzalez (he/him)

Reading this article reminded me of J.R.R. Tolkien’s quote: “Short cuts make long delays.” alifeengineered.substack.com/p/on-the-dea...

Celebrating the launch of my own, cloud-based Bluesky-to-Mastodon sync service with this beautiful picture of today morning’s blue sky with clouds over Munich.

If you’re near Werksviertel (Ostbahnhof) in #Munich, I recommend stopping by Khanittha for some delicious, authentic Thai street food! khanittha.de

A while ago, a friend asked me whether #Claude could keep memory per project only. My answer grew into a blog post starring Leonard from the movie “Memento” 🎞️. What’s your take on AI assistants and their memory? constantin.glez.de/claude-memory-memento/

Working from #WERK1 Coworking Space in Munich today. Beautiful weather! www.werk1.com

PSA: static websites are awesome.

Weather in #Munich is quite on the meh side today. openweathermap.org/city/2867714**

Working on my own Bluesky-to-Mastodon sync tools, running automatically on AWS Lambda. Lots of tests, guards, and circuit breakers included.

Cleaning my ears before the weekend with some Battle Beast 🎶🎸🤘 battlebeastband.bandcamp.com/album/steelb...

Lunch at Khanittha in Munich. 😋🍛

I love Bullet Journaling. I went from paper, to ePaper, now iPad. But: Which app? Very happy to see that Manuel Welsch just launched Dotted Mind. (I’m a beta tester.) Just the right mix of features, helping you stay focused on thinking with your hand. Congratulations, Manuel! dottedmind.app

Love this game!

If you hand work to AI agents, you end up reading a lot of Markdown: briefs, reports, plans. Hat tip to indie dev Arthur Teboul’s neat MacMD Viewer for Macs: Quick Look via space bar, nice outlines, Mermaid support, auto-reload while the agent writes. 👇 macmdviewer.com

🎶 It’s raining again… 🎶 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_... #Munich

1. Anthropic is adding more IDE stuff into the Claude App (Editor, Terminal, etc.). 2. The Claude App (according to sources) still runs on Electron (not optimal). 3. Zed is a really, good and fast (Rust!) code editor with IDE features. ❤️ Now I’m thinking: wouldn’t it be cool if both apps merged?

Hello, autumn!

Watched ”Backrooms“ yesterday. Great psycho horror movie. I read an explainer afterwards and that made it even better. Recommended! www.imdb.com/title/tt2665...

If you ever wondered where all this hate speech on the internet comes from, the answer is more simple, even innocent than you may think: youtu.be/zCvPPaIN5Ew The irony behind all of this just blew my mind.

Looks like Jev is quite diplomatic.

Starting to read Dungeon Crawler Carl. Think Hitchhiker meets Hunger Games meets D&D. Yes, fun! www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

Sitting on a couch in a Subdued store, waiting for my girls to find something they like. This may take a while.

Awesome print-to-e-ink project. Wat a simple and obvious, yet rare idea! Makes me want to build it myself. nishantjosh.dev/blogs/how-to...

wait... geometry is amazing....

Oklab solves a problem I always felt but never could quite articulate well: RGB colors make sense technically, but our eyes see differently. One of those concepts that you can‘t un-see, once you learned about them. bottosson.github.io/posts/oklab/

Breakfast in the making.

Just finished building my friends page: constantin.glez.de/friends/ Do you have a friends page, too?

For a new pet project, I need a reproducible pseudo random number generator. I don‘t like dependencies, so I‘m reading up on how to implement them here: prng.di.unimi.it

La thèse de l'article : les LLMs récompensent l'expertise. Sans elle, vous obtenez du correct. Avec, vous orientez, vous virez ce qui sonne faux, vous proposez mieux. Le goulot d'étranglement, ce n'est pas le modèle, c'est vous. ⬇️ https://www.seangoedecke.com/llms-reward-expertise/

Just finished reading @art.camilleroux.com’s article about generative art (art.camilleroux.com/writing/algo...). And then I opened Bluesky and found out he decided to follow me there just 8 hours ago. What a coincidence! Thanks for the article, Camille, and thanks for following, too!

@raydalioofficial.bsky.social’s Economic Machine video finally helped me make sense of world economics. So I built myself a weather station for it. Turns out the model is simple, but the data behind it is a swamp. Here’s the story and the tool I built: constantin.glez.de/posts/2026-0...

Breakfast today, prepared by my wonderful daughter:

Who could have predicted that turning PDFs into Markdown is a killer app for AI? lnkd.in/eAiG4Y96

Good evening, Munich!

Baking some home-made breakfast rolls (”Brötchen“ in German), while Claude Code on my mobile is building software for me. Livin’ la vida Claude-a, I guess…

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For over fifteen years I thought I was doing my taxes. I wasn’t. I was working an unpaid shift for the tax office. Illich called it shadow work. This summer I handed my tax shift to an AI. constantin.glez.de/posts/2026-0...

Perplexity is encouraging a move to their Agent API over the old Sonar API, and it’s indeed much better. So I built myself a new Perplexity Agent MCP and an llm CLI plugin (there wasn’t any) with Claude Code. Both work great! Full story, repo, lesson, etc. here: constantin.glez.de/posts/2026-0...

Everyone should know SIMD: mitchellh.com/writing/ever... Great article by Mitchell Hashimoto, read it!

If you feel tired after a day’s work of working with agents, you’re in good company: lots of people agree that the very thing we invented to make our work easier is… more exhausting? Some thoughts (and recommendations): constantin.glez.de/posts/2026-0...

Wocheneinkauf im #FoodHub.

Elvis the dachshund is chilling against some @somafm.com Groove Salad beats…

Dinner for the family tonight: