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# Links: October 2025
- URL: https://nickrroberts.com/links-october-2025/
- Published: 2025-10-07T16:16:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-07T16:31:28.000Z
- Description: Recent reading and watching over the past few months.
- Author: Nick Roberts
- Tags: Link Roundup

- By me:
  - Thoughts on building things in August of 2025 ([Link](https://nickrroberts.com/how-im-building-things-in-august-of-2025/))
  - Content is slurry ([Link](https://nickrroberts.com/content-is-slurry/))
- Flying a drone into a tornado is as awesome as it sounds. ([Video](https://youtu.be/NGD2e741Riw?si=umKn2xWdqwpEpjyz&ref=nickrroberts.com))
- In praise of Midjourney: These are pretty cool images. ([Link](https://andymasley.substack.com/p/a-ton-of-ai-images-ive-made-that))
- Same guy, Andy Masley, on how to learn more effectively. He inspired me to pick up the book *The Science of Accelerated Learning* by Peter Hollins. Some tidbits: If you actually want to internalize information in a lasting way, you have to engage with it often. Simple as that. It's also more effective to learn the abstractions of a subject before atomic facts. Having a mental model of a domain before you learn its particular syntax lets you connect disparate items into a cohesive narrative, which is how humans hold onto things longer-term. ([Link](https://andymasley.substack.com/p/strategies-for-learning))
- Masley also recommended Andy Matuschak and now my pal Andrew and I are obsessed with implementing his concept of "Evergreen notes." It makes me want to bring entry linking into [Lucive](https://www.lucive.app/?ref=nickrroberts.com) soon. ([Link](https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Evergreen%5Fnotes?ref=nickrroberts.com))
- In the vein of my piece above on building software with LLMs, here's an interesting (if not a bit heavy) CLI tool from GitHub that formalizes the spec-driven development process with Claude Code and other tools. While I think this is awesome, I'm still evolving my own homegrown system that's more lightweight and so haven't been using it much lately. Another writeup to follow on that. ([Link](https://github.com/github/spec-kit?ref=nickrroberts.com))
- One of the reasons I've used the Specify prompts less lately is that I find Sonnet 4.5 to be extremely capable without all of that overhead. Well done to Anthropic, yet again. ([Link](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-5?ref=nickrroberts.com))
- Another related work on getting more out of coding agents. ([Link](https://blog.fsck.com/2025/10/05/how-im-using-coding-agents-in-september-2025/?ref=nickrroberts.com))
- Make decent music with AI. ([Link](https://suno.com/home?ref=nickrroberts.com))
- Naval Ravikant (who I've followed for a long time) always plugs [David Deutsch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FDeutsch?ref=nickrroberts.com), but also recently, Arthur Schopenhauer. It's because these authors write in high-density. High-density material respects the reader's time. This line of thinking inspired me to pick up [*Essays and Aphorisms*](https://www.amazon.com/Essays-Aphorisms-Penguin-Classics-Schopenhauer/dp/0140442278?ref=nickrroberts.com). I've been attempting to process very short passages before bed, Marcus Aurelius-style. Here's Naval on the topic of density. ([Link](https://nav.al/density?ref=nickrroberts.com))
- One of the most raw and honest accounts of going to war in Ukraine that I've read. From the perspective of an American volunteer. ([Link](https://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/your-review-the-russo-ukrainian-war))
- A kickass variant on Cacio E Pepe. ([Link](https://littlefatboy.com/recipes/cacio-e-chili-crisp?ref=nickrroberts.com))
- Where does Iran go from here? ([Link](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/10/iran-axis-of-resistance-israel-us/683973/?gift=JVBFw4prAGLDDaC8P3DrSaruj2JuuehQt5p3mecn%5FCQ&ref=nickrroberts.com))