SOMEONE STOP HIM!!!!!

There's lots of things that irk me about C, but I think I'm unreasonably bothered by the lack of named parameters to functions. How do people live like this?!

It'd be really cool to have a text editor that is hyper-malleable but also has a lot of training data in the LLM learning corpus so that Claude could make project-specific editor UIs for me while I code. Wait, that's Emacs isn't it? I take it all back.

I’m so happy that I managed to completely remove Windows from my development and personal computing use. Every time I see sometime from Microsoft it’s like Ha Ha, we’re making it worse!

A poor craftsman blames his tools. Wealthy craftsmen also blame their tools. Lots of tool-blaming going around.

It’s kinda weird that the words “fiction” and “nonfiction” imply that “fiction” is the default for stories

I echo this sentiment and would like to extend it to “implementing testing harnesses”

It’s actually just air escaping the tape

Millennial cultural domination can’t come fast enough

Claude keeps winning

As an occasional Windows user, my relationship with this software is one where Windows tries to trick me and I need to constantly be on guard.

AI coding tools are safe and useful because version control give you branches, diffs (review), and reverts. Why don't our other tools have the same guardrails and affordances? Would it be crazy to stick everything in git?

Cafes should allow me to start a tab and order more coffee and snacks to my table

Learning about keyboard interrupts in school like “that can’t possibly be how it works”

inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment

claude "my github actions are failing, fix plz 🥺" by itself is easily worth $200/mo.

Claude wrote this short about what it would do if it had the power to do something about Grok. Just thought it was an interesting generation.

Getting real tired of the "blue states are lawless hellholes" rhetoric. If you have a choice on where to live and you'd like to avoid being assaulted to death, you could do worse than just checking how they voted in 2024. (data sourced from CDC)

Wasn’t expecting to have my views on the death penalty changed, but here we are I guess

The Duality of Man

I was up till 3 AM forking go's crypto library. Here's a fun lil debugging story for about why: eieio.games/blog/ssh-sen...

While I was eating dinner, Claude updated a ~7 year out-of-date project of mine to the latest OxCaml + Jane Street libraries. github.com/TyOverby/imp...

Get this cow a prongler, stat!

Every time that a pilot tells me the wind speed and direction at the destination airport, I assume that he’s looking for input on how to land the plane

Learning a lot about myself during this sabbatical

How your email finds me

Flight time: 6d 2h 😭

Back in the day, no one needed an app for this, everyone just knew to steal from the duty free.

My workout schedule is currently limited by the number of times that I can listen to Dynasties and Dystopia before it gets boring

This must be what it feels like to be a baby boomer and have all media tailored to your generations sense of humor

When you first learn about svg filters, you think “wow, this is incredible! I can do anything” but you are wrong because you forgot about Safari

In 2014 while I was an intern on the Dart Language team, Google hired Erik Meijer as a consultant to work on the async / await compiler. Erik is an world class expert in this domain, but was unfamiliar Dart, so they... (continued in blog post)

This mirrors my views on open borders: Other countries: eh, maybe good, I don’t really know USA: unambiguous win, anything less is unamerican

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Client side perdition

Liked playing video games. Wanted to make video games, but the tools all sucked, so I switched to improving those until they were good enough that I could go back to making games. It has been 15 years

Time to finally figure out what all this “AI” stuff is about!

I prefer the fantasy world version:

I’ve been a big fan of the sunk cost fallacy for a long time, and at this point it feels like it’s too late to change my mind

Today is a good day to virtue signal

Anyone know of a good resource for learning modern gpu programming (graphics and/or general purpose)? Books, video series, tutorials, etc…

Claude code isn’t actually connected to an llm on the backend, it’s really routing problems to all the people doing Anthropic take-home interviews.

"psychological safety was the number one factor differentiating their best teams" "When people are afraid to speak up, errors fester"

OxCaml: safe control over program behavior gavinleroy.com/oxcaml-tutor...

Yesterday, after spending ~5 hours watching youtube shorts against my will, I finally deleted youtube off my phone. Turns out nebula.tv has ~90% of the videos that I want to watch, and 0% of the content that will trick my monkey brain into wasting an entire weekend.