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Mine just beeped a lot
At some point, logic would dictate, your music system should actually play music.
Apr 16
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Matt Tillotson
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Apple Music Wants to Create Your Playlists
But can it build better than you?
Apr 12
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Matt Tillotson
3
Against the Algorithm: Find Music the Messy Way
Most of us still listen to the same music we listened to when we were younger:
Apr 8
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Matt Tillotson
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March 2026
Still spinning
Some albums I've been living with lately.
Mar 27
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Matt Tillotson
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A Mixtape That Never Ends
At first, it was a couple of mix tapes, in the true sense, on cassette.
Mar 17
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Matt Tillotson
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Building the Wrong App Taught Me the Right Lessons
It’s a functional music player, without a line of code written by a human.
Mar 12
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Matt Tillotson
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Ads, Price Hikes, and AI Slop: You've Been Served.
We were promised everything.
Mar 3
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Matt Tillotson
3
February 2026
I Didn't Learn Everything. That Was the Point.
I didn’t build this AI course because I was afraid of AI, or felt hopelessly behind.
Feb 25
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Matt Tillotson
2
Beyond the Big 3: What I Learned Testing 5 AI Models in One Afternoon
A Chinese AI model just outperformed ChatGPT in my latest AI lesson.
Feb 20
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Matt Tillotson
3
Building a journal that talks back
I built a RAG system.1
Feb 19
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Matt Tillotson
2
I built an AI trainer that automatically emails me feedback
Today my first-ever automation crossed the finish line.
Feb 17
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Matt Tillotson
2
I Built My First Automation (And Read The Wrong Log For an Hour).
To learn to build an automation, I chose a simple but annoyingly repetitive task to automate.
Feb 16
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Matt Tillotson
2
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