Deep Research analyzes entire codebases, designing for print-in-place 3D printing, and GPT-4.1 for coders
Plus, another cool reader project, twisted Star Wars puppets, a super magnet, more Fallout TV, and a ginormous rubber band
I’m David Gewirtz. Welcome to this week’s Advanced Geekery newsletter. It’s been an exciting week. Let’s dive in.
My articles
Here’s a quick recap of the articles I published in the last week on ZDNET.
I test a lot of AI coding tools, and this stunning new OpenAI release just saved me days of work: It took ChatGPT Deep Research minutes to reverse-engineer my full GitHub repo, when I’d normally need days. Here's why this is a big deal.
GPT-4.1 makes ChatGPT smarter, faster, and more useful for paying users, especially coders: OpenAI's GPT-4.1 upgrade is more than just hype. Here's how this model outperforms GPT-4o in software development, long-form tasks, and accuracy, according to developers already using it.
This GitHub trick lets ChatGPT dissect your code in minutes - here's how: Want to use ChatGPT to review your codebase? Here's how I moved my project into GitHub and connected it to Deep Research for instant code analysis.
Must-watch YouTube
Moving on, let’s queue up some interesting YouTube videos for your entertainment and edification.
If you didn’t watch Season 1 of Fallout on Prime Video, you’re in for a treat (even if you never played the game). It’s a little more gory than you might think, but still awesome. And now, the trailer for Season 2 is out. It’s Vegas, Baby!
Continuing my trend of sharing deeply wrong Star Wars content, we have Jeff Dunham and his more than slightly twisted ventriloquist dummies playing Luke and friends.
Gabe Bentz at Slant 3D gives another one of his helpful 3D printing tutorials, this time about designing print-in-place mechanisms.
Tool of the week
I will admit that I’m not exactly sure why I have a fascination with giant rubber bands, but I do. This is a 23-inch band, intended to be used to hold a trash bag in a garbage can. Of course, in my mind, I’m thinking catapult. To be fair, at least part of my mind is always thinking catapult or trebuchet, so there’s that.
In any case, you get six in the pack. The price per band is low enough that you could make some sort of catapult as well as some wind-up motive power. The possibilities are endless. They’re green, so I’m thinking slingshot for the Incredible Hulk. Who’s with me on this? Raise your hands. You know who you are.
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Interesting reads
And now, some good stuff from around the Internet, well worth checking out.
ZDNET’s Adrian Kingsley-Hughes on why resin glue is “way better” than super glue.
This story talks about a giant magnet that can “lift an aircraft carrier.” Of course, that’s hyperbole. It’s actually a magnet that can trap plasma for fusion reactor research. Still, it’s cool.
Reader projects
We have another reader project this week. Miquel Palet López is the founder of Get-Invoice.com, an invoice processing software that collects invoices automatically from email.
He says, “I founded the company because when managing a previous company I was running, we were losing a huge amount of time on all the pre-accounting things that we needed to do.
“I was actively looking for software solutions that were already in the market, but I did not find one that was suitable to what I was looking for. So, I started building it myself as an internal tool for our team to be more effective. This was around a year ago.
“After some time, and telling people what we had built, they were asking us to let them use it for their own companies. After onboarding some other users on the platform, and having a great experience, I decided to quit and start working full-time on GetInvoice around 6 months ago.
“We quickly gained some traction, and now we already have more than 1,000 businesses using us every day. It's still a very early stage, but we're having a lot of fun working on the project and the users are so appreciative of what we do, that it makes it much easier to keep going.”
For information on on Miki’s project, visit Get-Invoice.com. And if you have project you’d like spotlighted, feel free to reach out following the guidelines below.
Send in your projects
I’d like to regularly spotlight a reader project or two here. Your project doesn’t have to be a big Kickstarter launch. If you’ve built something cool, it has some pretty pictures, and you’re proud of it, I might be able to share it here.
If you have a photogenic reader project, send an email to me at david@zatz.com with the subject “READER PROJECT,” a few pictures, and a short one-paragraph description. If you have a social media link or a link to the project, include that, too.
Both my EPs are now streaming
Available on all your favorite streaming services.
More clicky
I’ve got a lot happening all over the web. Here are links to my various stuff:
House of the Head: home for my published music
ZATZ Labs: where I host my published software projects
Feel free to dig around, visit, and say hey!
Leave some comments
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Have a great week!