I think the idea that has informed my thinking about LLMs as tools the most so far is that LLMs answer the question “what does an answer to this question look like?” Instead of the actual question. This has been on my mind whenever I have to engage with anything LLM-related.

Whoa, Ricoh updated their GR app, and it’s actually pretty nice now! apps.apple.com/gb/app/gr-wo...

Gotta love the French bureaucracy and it’s friendly copywriting

Doom Emacs randomly decided to stop opening large-ish Clojure files (we’re talking sub-100kb). Oh joy, oh happiness.

Any UK small business owners who are using Wise as their only business bank account? Thinking of switching to that (from Revolut) because of lower costs, would love some feedback!

Wow someone on bluesky has built a digital version of the “they are disgracing our neighbourhood” billboard from my Soviet childhood

Okay I guess I’ll still keep an eye on this space. @danabra.mov’s open socials piece got me interested, found out about @tangled.org through it. Exciting stuff.

Back in the 90/00s, you’d go for a Mac as a way to rebel against the beige box PC hegemony, you’d go for Lotus 1-2-3 to protest against MS Office, and you’d get a Matrox g400 to show you had more taste than the average Quake-loving 3DFx-er. What are some parallels today?

Chat, how can I access my mp3 collection on my work laptop without actually copying it over (it has bitdefender on it and I don't want to trigger any alerts). At home I guess I can just mount a network drive and point cmus/doppler at it, but what if I'm outside or travelling?

Now that I'm no longer looking for work, I should turn my Hire Me website (hire.gosha.net) into a page on my homepage I think. It's a nice collection of past projects and kind things people have said about me.

UK friends: please recommend me your favourite accountancy. Must be friendly to contractors/small tech businesses 🙏 Thank you!

Seems like I’ve successfully optimised that part of my life: I’ve joined a small but super smart team building some seriously cool tech using Clojure!

Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldn’t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out

Wrote up how to set up the Effect-TS language service to work properly in Emacs: gosha.net/2025/effect...

Catching up on frontend innovations: #WASM is fun, and #Rust is nice.

mood these days youtu.be/d_3fBxVewj8

I've been taking daily instant photos of our son with my massive Mamiya RZ67. I've done this for the first year of our daughter's life, too, and now it's his turn 🥰 This is when we went to register his birth today! #mamiya #rz67

We named our son Ezra, not after Mr. Pound (or anyone else famous), but now I feel like I should at least be familiar with the work. It's lovely stuff.

👧🏻👶🏻 life with two kids, three weeks in: it felt like we had child wrangling logistics figured out with our 3yo, but adding an extra kid to the mix threw that notion right outta the window. and this is with a newborn, who’s not doing much yet! well, we will figure it out.

If I had 10x the agency I have, what would I do?

unfortunately, circumstances are such that i have to be super conservative with money, and cancel my trip to #railsworld in amsterdam. if anyone needs a ticket, please let me know, i’m happy to transfer it for the original price 🙏

hey #typescript folks, please hit me up with links to projects that you think are genuinely good when it comes to best practices (eg type safety, code quality, testing coverage, tooling setup, etc)

i promise I’m not being held hostage and forced to write this, but the dx on modern fullstack typescript is nice??? bun, elysia, vite, drizzle, etc questioning some stuff!

chat, give me your best advice for making sure your first kid still feels loved after your second is born (and needs tons of attention as newborns do)

We didn’t have the time to go to the hospital, and he was born right there, in our kitchen. Both baby and mum are well. @tingyilai.com was absolutely incredible! Welcome to the world, little guy.

That's it, local repos deleted, signed out of Slack and all other accounts. 4.5 years! Done. On to the next thing.

adding lil details to my personal website is one of my favourite small joys in life 🥰 gosha.net

some folks rightfully complained that my "hire me!" website didn't work when JS was turned off, so i quickly went and fixed it. phew! hire.gosha.net

I finally finished my "Hire me!" website! This was a lot of fun to make, and it gave me a chance to revisit a bunch of all adventures in that crazy industry of ours. Check it out, and let's talk! hire.gosha.net

haven’t watched the apple thing, is it time to switch to linux/android yet?

Intense times, lately: - Getting ready for our son to be born (due date is this week) - My parents are staying with us - Last week at current job - Hunting for my next role - Trying to get my portfolio website ready - And all the other ✨Things In Life✨ We will manage!

yesterday was my daughter’s first serious birthday party: we booked a softplay venue, invited all her nursery friends (and their parents), got cake, lil sandwiches, balloons, it was a lot of fun, but exhausting, too 😁

the lovely thing about earnestly hunting for a job is that you get to suddenly meet some really cool people doing really cool things ❤️ grateful for this!

Dear internet, do I use this in conjunction with Mastodon every time I have some urge to talk to someone or do I need to choose one and let the other go. The opportunity cost seems humongous. Why does decentralizing feel like shit, tell me.

i'm building a "hire me" page and i'm planning to use this photo of me on there. would you want to work with this guy?

friends, any tips for getting out of toptal's waitlist purgatory? i applied like 18 months ago, and my skillset has changed a lot since then. how do i get unstuck?

i spent the whole weekend networking and i'm pretty energised from all the conversations, and really grateful to everyone who reached out with intros and other help. i have a couple of promising leads now, but still looking for more.

Hi friends, I need your help. My contract just got caught in a round of layoffs, so I'm open for short/medium-term fullstack work: Clojure, Rails, React, etc. If you know anyone looking for a senior dev who can ship fast, I'd love to hear about it. My LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/goshatch Thank you! 🙏

Hey #haskell people, is there any way to fix how hilariously bad ghci is with multiline input? it's just painful pain at this point.

I need some kind of computing weirdo brain trust, a nerd coterie of sorts, that will push me towards doing more esoteric work

Some reflections on attending #reClojure yesterday: gosha.net/2025/recloj...

A day at #reClojure, listening to inspiring talks & talking to inspiring nerds, made me realise just how burnt out I am on the whole field of CRUD-adjacent webdev. I feel I need some kind of reset, to start working on more challenging, more meaningful problems 🤔

made a little page with links to all my socials, will have a QR code with a link to it at #reClojure tomorrow

phenomenal engineering

I’ll be at #reClojure2025 tomorrow! If you see me, please don’t hesitate to come say hi. Looking forward to meeting y’all!

I have spent way too long on this landing page for Parts. I think I'm gonna call it done and ship it soon, just need to adjust a couple of more things in the playground. #InternalFamilySystems

is there a children’s song that goes like “I am a smelly en-glish-man”, or, hopefully, something that sounds similar? it’s a new thing my daughter sings and I am wondering how worried I should be 😂

Folks who are using #Emacs to work on #Ruby/#Rails projects, how do you make the Sorbet language server start up only if Sorbet is actually present in the project bundle? I mean I could write some gnarly elisp hack for it, but surely there's a nice, clean way to do it?

Oh Doom Emacs has integrated the amazing gptel, nice! Protip: set `gptel-display-buffer-action` to a non-nil value to prevent Doom from turning the gptel buffer into a popup (why does Henrik like popups so much?!) The Doom module: github.com/doomemacs/d...

I've been working on a new version of the Parts landing page with a playground in it, as a way to get some feedback about the UI before I'm ready to ship the full tool. This work is going slowly, sharing here to keep myself motivated! #Clojure #ClojureScript