Ian Tan

Ian Tan

Newsletter 35 – Fakes and Averages

I’m conducting a fun weekend poll (you can still vote!) and the results are interesting: I’ve never liked heavily edited photos. In the old days, we used to say “Photoshopped images”, but now we have lots of apps and filters…

Rainbow Centre keynote speech

I was honoured to be the keynote speaker at Rainbow Centre‘s Learning Day on 27 June 2025. Rainbow Centre is a Singapore charity that supports around 1,400 children and youths with moderate to severe developmental needs – such as autism and…

Google Gemini – Invoice Extractor app

Hey Ma, Look What I Vibe-Coded: Ever wanted to automate the filing of your receipts and invoices? Yesterday, I made it happen by “vibe-coding” a web app with Google Gemini Pro. ❌ Problem: Our purchase receipts come in varying paper…

Newsletter 34: Talking to machines

In this week’s newsletter, I explain why you need to talk to the machine like a human. I also share what I wrote earlier about my views on teaching, dealing with perfectly-written emails, new Claude Artifacts, how Perplexity delivers news…

AI projects at Victoria Junior College

Yesterday, I was invited to be a panelist at Victoria Junior College’s Professional Learning Community (PLC) Fair, where teachers presented their projects that implemented educational technology for teaching and learning. It was great to see how teachers were experimenting with…

Claude AI-powered Artifacts – Rhythm Machine

Claude AI-powered Artifacts: Making your own apps with Gen AI just got easier with Claude. Anthropic just launched a dedicated space for building, hosting, and sharing artifacts, and the ability to embed AI capabilities directly into them. I tried out…

Perplexity as News Media 4.0

I was trying out Perplexity on WhatsApp today and was struck by how it delivered a daily news update: 🔵 There was an AI-generated cartoon image of the top 4 stories. It appears to be created using the ChatGPT 4o…

AI proficiency is low in the workplace

“54% of your employees think they’re good at using AI. Only 10% actually are.” – Greg Shove, CEO of Section. Section surveyed over 5000 knowledge workers in US, UK and Canada in March this year, and tested them on their…