https://aaron.ng/posts/Recent content in Posts on Aaron NgHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usSat, 01 Feb 2025 01:36:19 -0700https://aaron.ng/posts/ai-companions/Sat, 01 Feb 2025 01:36:19 -0700https://aaron.ng/posts/ai-companions/Character AI, dubbed an ‘AI girlfriend app’ by the media, now processes 20% as many requests per second as Google.https://aaron.ng/posts/ai-independence/Sat, 30 Nov 2024 01:36:19 -0700https://aaron.ng/posts/ai-independence/On a recent episode of the Joe Rogan Experience, Marc Andreessen revealed a series of the “most alarming meetings” he’s ever been in, where US regulators laid out their plans to centralize AI into a few massive companies that they could control.https://aaron.ng/posts/lutein-zeaxanthin-test/Mon, 03 May 2021 01:36:19 -0700https://aaron.ng/posts/lutein-zeaxanthin-test/Lutein and zeaxanthin are two compounds called “carotenoids”. These are organic pigments usually responsible for red / orange colors in nature.https://aaron.ng/posts/switch-mod-phantom-white/Mon, 07 Dec 2020 01:36:19 -0700https://aaron.ng/posts/switch-mod-phantom-white/My custom Nintendo Switch build. I recently built a custom Nintendo Switch. This custom Nintendo Switch build goes from an opaque white to clear, and has white accent buttons.https://aaron.ng/posts/drfpasswordless/Wed, 19 Aug 2020 01:36:19 -0700https://aaron.ng/posts/drfpasswordless/drfpasswordless is an open source package for building passwordless logins quickly into your app’s django-rest-framework backend. I made it because I was inspired by the login flows on Square Cash (where I formerly worked) and Medium, both of which use paswordless-style logins.https://aaron.ng/posts/grow-broccoli-sprouts-harvest-sulforaphane/Sun, 02 Aug 2020 01:36:19 -0700https://aaron.ng/posts/grow-broccoli-sprouts-harvest-sulforaphane/I’m not sure how much total time I’ve spent stabbing myself with sensors, building apps to track my biology, concepting brain training games, or how many thousands of pills I’ve taken to tweak a particular aspect of my cognition— but I reckon it’s all quite damn high (at one point my daily nootropic stack was ~20+ pills).