Your AI Assistant is Your New Web Gateway

Google Gemini: Why It’s Not My Daily Driver (Yet)

How To Create Comic Strips with AI

New side project: An app that shows Linear tasks on a calendar view: Why? We manage content projects, and in meetings, we want to have a clear view of when content goes online and also see if the "flow of content" freshvanroot.com/blog/a-calen... #linear #prototyping #vibecoding #Replit

Lately, I have had a lot of fun playing around with image editing in #ChatGPT 1) Asked ChatGPT to create the image of Jony and Sam with my face on it 2) Pasted a screenshot of the announcement blog and asked to add the generated picture and different copy. Voila! #AI #ContentCreation #OpenAI

What if this is just a plan to build a huge email list :) I would not be surprised. #metaai #ai #facebook #instagram

Rapid Video Prototyping: Turn Images into Videos in Minutes with AI

Fresh van Root Is Not A Vegetable

Humans Cant Spot AI-Assisted Writing

Tell Me You Are an AI Without Telling Me You Are an AI

Fresh Blog: You Are Leaving LinkedIn freshvanroot.com/blog/you-are... #linkedin #web #linkinbio #socialmedia

Fresh Blog: AI: This is Your New Baseline freshvanroot.com/blog/ai-adop... #ai #productivity

@sachagreif.com Hey, FYI - password reset gives me Internal Server Error.

The buzz around #OpenAI potentially launching a social network has sparked an interesting question for me: What would a social network built from the ground up with AI really offer its users? freshvanroot.com/blog/social-... #genai

I am pretty sure that the US will block Deepseek and take measures against it like they took them against TikTok. Only a question of time.

Prototyping Products Fun: I tried Replit and liked it. Built a simple app that turns images into a PDF. The user experience / AI integration works very well. I shared my learnings in this blog post: freshvanroot.com/blog/review-... #AI #prototyping #replit

Prototyping with AI - I tested #Replit - liked the building experience. Created an app that creates a PDF based on uploaded images. Needed for LinkedIn sliders. With one prompt and a few iterations. #prototyping #genAI

And on the eighth day god invented Microsoft Teams and said "Have fun using this, humans"

First blog post of 2025 published - on the topic of AI chatbots on websites. I evaluated two services and am now sharing my learning. #customgpt #chatbase #sitespeak #aichat up on the @freshvanroot.com blog. freshvanroot.com/blog/ai-chat...

looks like a mug shot. #meta #zuckerberg

Logging back ON to the interwebz! #vienna

Browsing my #Midjourney creations of 2024. I can clearly see when my kids were in the room. #aiimages

Download Winamp from 1997, how cool is that :) www.oldversion.com/windows/wina...

I was just thinking about having a website that lists only "AI-free" software. ai-free-software dot com Like oldversion.com, which I used to get some old version of Winamp. #AI #Apps #Software

Remembering #Windows 95 and its famous "Safe to turn off computer" message. Turned to #Midjourney for recreating it (not bad). But not a replacement for the original. Found on #Reddit

Done :)

Is 2025 the year I can stop doing this?

My editing workflow for the @freshvanroot.com newsletter is too complex. The two-column layout drives up editing time, and starting out in #Obsidian, moving over to #Claude, and then finishing in #EmailOctopus... this needs to be simplified. #contentcreation freshvanroot.com

How #AI helped me today - forecasted traffic with #ChatGPT by pasting a screenshot from Fathom Analytics. (for @freshvanroot.com blog) #Analytics #SEO

@brianmc.bsky.social is showing up a lot on my #LinkedIn feed lately. It's a bit creepy, I have to say :)

I read a lot here about substack locking in people but as long as you can export your e-mail list you can easy move to different newsletter company!? Don't know about additional subscriber data like free vs paid accounts etc.

How #AI helped me today: We @freshvanroot.com got offered to work on a project in 2025 but for half the budget proposed. I turned to AI for some essential feedback/guidance.. which was helpful, before hopping on a call with the client. #agencylife #Claude

Dark Large Language Models!? I expect such LLMs exist. These come without limitations, and happily answer your qeustions about building a bomb or hacking etc. #llm #ai #claude

How #AI helped me today: I uploaded a pdf of new blog post I have written, and asked to suggest internal linking opportunities. I have a project in Claude I use for working on it, so it knows the other content on the site. #seo #blogging #marketing

AI diary: Yesterday I needed a teleprompter website to read a text from for recording a short video clip. Finding one via google took longer then creating that app for me via #Claude #GenerativeAI

Spent the evening with an #AI experiment: 1) Created an AI video avatar #HeyGen 2) Turned a blog post into a video script with #Claude 3) Created the video (AI video avatar combined with script) 4) Added captions with Capsule video editor The result is quite good, but has clearly an "AI-feel" to it

In November, I used AI chat tools for nearly 8 hours. I use Rize.io for tracking this. That is not including Gemini, which is embedded in Docs, Gmail, Sheets, and also not including Midjourney and RunwayML, which I used a lot in November. These 8 hours are #ChatGPT and #Claude only.

pre-christmas vibes.. sent this message on all client slack and teams channels today. so far no complaints :) #winteriscoming

Cool to see all these little tools popping up like in the early days of Twitter.

Dont forget to #SupportUkraine this Christmas. The war is going on for nearly 3 years. Working with people from Ukraine always reminds me that the kind of "stress" i am experiencing is nothing compared to what Ukrainians have go through. Here: u24.gov.ua/donors

1x newsletter 2x blog posts 5x social media posts (LinkedIn) all for @freshvanroot.com .. and continuing my exploration here on #bsky

This is a quick reminder that AI always has an opinion and changes the content you feed it, even if it already matches your desired quality. I just closed a chat session in #Claude using the same draft I initially uploaded because chatting with #AI did not improve anything. #genai

Doing something only to get better grades was never motivational for me. :) blueskyshots.com #bsky

In a 12-minute #Claude session, I created a short blog post. Copied the result into AI detectors by Writer.com and scribbr.com. Result: 93% human-generated content vs 100% ai generated. The story here: 100% briefed by a human; it's my thoughts. And AI used words that trigger AI detectors. #AI

If you need to download christmas songs (...) from youtube (audio only) to put on your kids tonies... This is one page that works for that: cnvmp3.com There are a lot of spammy pages that work randomly, this one works well.

A few uplifting photos. But mostly it was a depressing year according to AP photos. apnews.com/apyearendpho...

Blogged: Why ‘Let Me ChatGPT That for You’ Is More than Just an Alternative Way of Googling freshvanroot.com/blog/let-me-... #AI #GoogleSearch #Creators

I am thinking about launching a new content series called "One Prompt Apps". The idea is to show how to create "everyday apps" with #GenAI. Example: Timer like MacOs app, but with Techno... :) #prototyping #chatgpt Input & Result ⤵️

Christmas Dinner @freshvanroot.com team.

A hype any young product company is craving for.. .. Google missed this opportunity to ride the wave and keep the momentum going for Notebook LM. The only feature update I noticed was the option to prompt on which parts the audio conversation should focus on and adding support for more file types.