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Catalog spec table aggregator
ISC West is a month away. Which reminds me one of the most painful assets to make: catalogs. More specifically, the spec table. Somehow typos are endless. This is my 2026 prompt to aggregate all specs and find discrepancies. It’s an extension of the datasheet rebrand project.
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Board write in voice (Wispr Flow + Gemini Image)
To board write and explain is difficult. It requires deconstruction of the concept. It requires voice and writing to synchronize. It requires practices. AI tools gave us an opportunity to leapfrog, fully utilize separate tools to handle voice and visual. Create a pattern with micro processes. Here’s how.1> Open Gemini and select image.2> Express the…
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Remove Gemini Nano Banana watermark for free
Gemini images are amazing for sales kit. The watermark isn’t. Cropping sometimes cuts off information. Turns out Windows and Mac both have free AI erasers built in. Windows Mac
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Dynamic filtering is connecting 2 categories
Very often we over categorize things, usually at the start of the project, and that is unsustainable. For reasons: 1. Duplicated files: a file, or type of file, falls into two or more categories. 2. Unsearchable: everyone has a different category logic. I see apples in red and green, he sees apples from Japan and…
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Pipeline vs orchestrate workflow
Completion of a project requires multiple SME, in the form of individual or group, to each handle a piece of it. But AI is the best SME, it made me rethink how I should recruit. I think the future of work is about how minimize cost and efficiently link the task-specific LMs. First competitive factor…
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Revisit metadata
My first encounter with metadata was 2021, during the pandemic and the rise of CNN in SoC that performed much more efficient than machine learning. In short, the metadata in video surveillance focused on people and vehicle (often called ‘objects’): detecting and not detecting, the path, the appearance color, facial attribute, etc. All in all,…
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SharePoint per-location view alternative
Database structure doesn’t have to be the UX. When Jennifer called, during pilot, about the flat view list of network cameras too long to navigate. It’s a valid point. The problem was it only applied to ONE layer 2 folder, it’s an outlier so changing the default view effect all the other folders. There seem…
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Wispr Flow (or other AI voice-to-text apps)
I discovered this from Tiago Forte’s YouTube video. The benefits are immediate. The opposite takes a few weeks to realize.
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Benefits of an actual radio
Radio has become the staple for family meal time. It’s an outdated, single purpose technology, but it reminds us to live in the moment, even if it’s imperfect or unpleasant.
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Fountain pen lesson 2: laziness
Spin caps are great for night journals, the seconds it takes to spin the cap off provides a time to recap the day. It enhances the ceremonial process. Snap caps are great for work. The reality is, the time to spin the cap off and adjust the grip is enough to cost an idea or…