July 2025 tech readings

Fabio Lalli describes the future rules of the Invisible UX in a world with devices, data, apps, AI where the user interface disappears and the software understands the intent of the user and makes things happen instead of asking the user to click, apply filters and perform actions. What I’ve learned: it would be a nice trip to implement a feature like that, for example, to pre‑fill some fields after the user has used it for a while. In my Timesheet app (Timy) it could understand the list based on the task description…

Here on the TED Talks site I’ve found a nice video list with important speech about Artificial Intelligence. There are videos with very famous AI developers and CEOs (Eric Schmidt, Sam Altman…). To keep in mind when you need to spend some time and want to widen your AI knowledge.

Neuron AI is an Agent Developer Kit in PHP. Can be used to implement AI agents/tools. For example this is a data analyst agent that connects to a MySQL database to ask and retrieve data in natural language based on Neuorn AI tools (MySQL Tool documentation): I’ve reproduced this small example to work on my timesheet project Timy, and it works! So I will write an extended article about it.

Using RAG with Ollama locally in PHP to implement a prompt that use own knowledge. The article linked is interesting because it also uses the local model Ollama to interact with data, so there are no data leaks towards external companies. (Localai.io is another model that can be run locally and its API are compatible with the OpenAI ones).

I’ve tested the HoloCraft-AirDrawing web application (html,css,js) that uses the camera to let the user draw on the screen using hand gestures. It recognizes gestures like 👌✌️👆 to interact. Very nice project by Rana Saad (other similar projects here, here, here).

For a client, I have been searching how to detect actions from an accelerometer on a device. Finally I’ve found a simple yet impressive tool made by Tiffany Tseng to recognize gestures with a micro:bit device. It allows you to record samples of gestures, train a model, save it and then run it to classify the gestures in real time. Everything in a web based application paired through Bluetooth with the micro:bit.

GEO is coming: Generative Engine Optimization is a new branch of site optimization to bring visitors to your site from tools like ChatGPT. Since more people are using ChatGPT to search the web, what we should to to improve traffic from GPT chats? Extract content in .md files and serve them to OpenAI bots for example. It’s evolving. llms.txt will come after robots.txt? Maybe.

Mistral is a French large language model. Mistral has also released an API to handle voice recognition.

When we open a weather forecasts app (meteo) and watch a radar map, what are we looking at? The radar data measure reflectivity so it’s really difficult to understand what we are watching. It’s not the rain. So sometime it’s misleading.

Mirage it’s a 3D engine that creates 3D worlds with AI in real time.

Insane Minecraft world made with just CSS and HTML. No js.

With ChatGPT people the text quality is flatting and we are losing creativity in written articles. You sound like ChatGPT is am article by Sara Parker.