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Matt Sayar March 11, 2025

I didn't want to pay for a newsletter email service so I built my own

I wrote a whole post about setting up free newsletters for your website but it was all a lie. Sure, after your free trial runs out, you can still technically send newsletters for free. Manually. Painfully. All these newsletter-management companies paywall the one vital feature I…

Matt Sayar February 12, 2025

Where are the best restaurants in my city? A statistical analysis

Everyone wants to know the best places to eat, but the "best place" is inherently subjective. Sure you can read the multitude of "Best Restaurants in Town" lists (which are usually pretty good!), but I wanted to use data to answer the question: "What are…

Matt Sayar February 3, 2025

Building games with LLMs to help my kid learn math

I used ChatGPT to help my kid learn Left from Right, and now I'm turning LLMs into math teachers. I made this game to help him understand the magnitude of numbers between 0 and 20: Then I made the following game with Claude and its…

Matt Sayar January 27, 2025

Why is AI slop so easy to spot but hard to detect?

Recently, my employer posted a story to LinkedIn about our Copilot product. It was a typical release announcement about new features and a link to the company blog. Shortly after posting, I received a Slack message from our Marketing team: "Hey Matt, can you please…

Matt Sayar January 21, 2025

How much does the "new BMI" say you should weigh?

This tool uses the "new BMI" from an Oxford guy whose provided calculator needed some TLC. I don't really care what my BMI is, I just want to know the range of weights for my height. Weirdly challenging to find that easily online. And now…