There are two outcomes in programming: getting less than what you want or never getting what you want

There are no breaking changes between 1.1 and 1.2, only corrected bugs in our original thinking

His theory was contrasted with colleague Robert Gordon and they debated for audiences at Northwestern. I am more inclined to Gordon's "the party will stop" take but the Nobel committee understands economics better than I do. Both could be right news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025...

Now that we have moved we are selling our home in Evanston. It is in the Washington school district. Here is the listing.

This is the complete packet I sent to the media regarding Heartwood filing taxes as a church when in reality they are a holistic healthcare and alternative medicine provider. The complaint is 7 pages with 46 pages of evidence. It is okay if I am the bad guy here. drive.google.com/file/d/1finL...

FAFO. their tax exemption came under question only because of their nimby tactics

Before I say anything else I want to make clear I support Daniel Biss for Congress. We need justice. We need dignity. But we need truth. I have personally worked with him. If you appreciate what I stand for, let us stand together secure.actblue.com/donate/dkb-web

The People’s Paperwork Paradox is people get mad about doing paperwork, people get mad about paperwork not being done, people get mad about not firing people for paperwork not being done, people get mad about firing people for paperwork not being done, and people fire people for paperwork being done

When you stay too long you leave salty

Computing at scale is configuration management

Because you are allowed to do whatever you want with it, the sandbox should be a shining city on a hill, not a spaghetti wasteland

As AI integrates into our lives, the word of the future will be “context.” Does the machine have the right context? Do you? Today’s knowledge worker is tomorrow’s context worker. Society is a shared context (much of which is imaginary)

“There are only two hard problems in Computer Science, cache invalidation and naming things.” The joke is that naming things is hard. That is actually not a joke. Either is cache invalidation.

Why always one-shot from a prompt? 1. It gets worse as the context grows 2. We will learn more and get faster by the machines getting it right from the start 3. We can commit the prompt as an artifact of the repository. “Context as Code”

When I’m watching my TV and a man comes on and tells me how expensive my shirts can be

Guess coworking neighbors occupation. Has a sign up that says “love is love, science is real, no live is illegal, etc.” Puts coat hanger outside their office in the common area. I used it by mistake but they set me straight. My guess “Evanston therapist working through their own control issues”

Today President Trump said it’s a great time to get rich. That means those shitty times to get rich are behind us. I think we have all put off getting rich for too long

What is the process to change the name of a state? Looking at you, New Mexico, er, New America

Minecraft is a game primarily about sorting things

Keeping with tradition, the primary focus of the LWV Evanston candidate forums is adherence to the League’s rules. Also discussed, issues facing the Evanston community

Bats frighten me. It is time my enemies shared my dread

The tl;dr is networking is about copying the right values and pasting them in the right place. But first, there is a perilous dungeon you have to traverse with this data on your clipboard. Dora the Explorer would be an ideal network engineer. She brings a map and she follows it

Typing "According to the Chicago Manual of Style," into ChatGPT felt bad

My daughter very loudly on the phone, “we should name the group chat something that isn’t suspicious”

You can’t spell Chicago without chicanery, even in Evanston elections evanstonnow.com/candidacy-ch...

Tooling needs to be a first epoch consideration. You don’t have to have conviction about your product direction but you have to have conviction in your tooling

An origami of multitudes, at least in my own mind

Sometimes I wonder what % of ChatGPT is actually read. I know for me it gets to my answer quick but drones on about nonsense while I compose my follow-up question