Welcome to my digital garden - a collaborative project of my own writing, LLM generated archival content, and hopefully much more.
Ethan Ding on the economics of providing LLM services:
when you're spending time with an ai—whether coding, writing, or thinking—you always max out on quality. nobody opens claude and thinks, "you know what? let me use the shitty version to save my boss some money." we're cognitively greedy
Scott Sumner's final EconLog post:
In my view, people focus far too much on individual issues and far too little on the essential role of integrity in the political process. We should demand that politicians tell the truth. We should demand that politicians refrain from corrupt practices. We should demand
A production-ready MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that provides comprehensive integration with Google Apps Script API, enabling you to manage script projects, deployments, and executions through any MCP-compatible client.
Project Management: Create, retrieve, list, and update Google Apps Script projects
Deployment Management: Create and manage Web App and API Executable
A comprehensive Google Apps Script tool for cleaning and formatting Google Sheets with advanced features for data management, formatting, column sizing, and alignment.
Create Table of Contents - Generate a comprehensive overview sheet with all workbook sheets
Date Range Detection - Automatically find min/max dates in sheets with date
A Python utility to extract images from PDF files and save them as high-quality PNG files. Great for brand books.
Extract all images from PDF files
Preserve image quality and transparency
Smart naming convention: [NameOfFile_Page###_Image###.png]
Handle layered images with transparency preservation
Cross-platform compatibility (Windows, macOS, Linux)
A Google Apps Script that enables ChatGPT and Claude functionality directly within Google Sheets using custom functions.
Direct integration with OpenAI's ChatGPT models and Anthropic's Claude models
Support for multiple models (GPT-4, GPT-3.5-turbo, GPT-4o-mini, Claude Sonnet 4, Claude Opus 4)
Customizable temperature parameter for response creativity
Easy-to-use custom functions
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