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Writing toy software is a joy
Why you should write more toy programs
Joshua Barretto
A blog about software, safety, and politics.
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Writing my own text editor, and daily-driving it
A programmer's text editor is their castle
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My Favourite Laptop
I’m not a big owner of things, but the best laptop I’ve ever owned is a roughed-up 2015 Thinkpad X250.
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I Remain a Skeptic
I still do not use LLMs for anything I actually care about. There are a lot of reasons I could give: environmental, social, political. I could talk about ecosystem lock-in, learned dependence, self-soverignty, philosophical concerns, the intentional dismantling of labour bargaining power, and more. But before all of…