A surprising problem I'm seeing with maintaining a link blog is that articles from it occasionally get submitted to Hacker News, where people inevitably call them out as not being as appropriate as the source they are linking to - which is fair enough! That's why I don't tend to submit them myself.
This particular post quickly turned into a very thinly veiled excuse for me to complain about PDFs, then demonstrate a Gemini Pro trick.
That's pretty neat! I like that it's run by a GitHub employee too (presumably as a side-project, but still) - makes me less nervous about the domain name blinking out of existence one day.
This particular post quickly turned into a very thinly veiled excuse for me to complain about PDFs, then demonstrate a Gemini Pro trick.
In this case I converted to HTML - I've since tried converting a paper to Markdown and sharing in a Gist, which I think worked even better: https://gist.github.com/simonw/46a33d66e069efe5c10b63625fdab... - notes here https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/27/distro/