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Wow. It’s been over fourteen years since the last time I wrote a post on this blog. In those fourteen years, the world has changed, and so have I. So this isn't going to be a technical post, it's going to be personal. One of those subtle changes that quietly crept into my life over
On a small Japanese word that everyone has heard and almost everyone has misaddressed, and what changes when you find out who it is for.
Ten years and one day ago, on August 9, 2016, I abruptly quit my job. I mark this occasion as the beginning of my indie software developer career. Happy anniversary to me and to my customers!
He is young – twenty four – sitting at the black computer table by the wall of his living room. I’m looking at him side-on. He’s silhouetted by the huge window with a gorgeous view of the neighbourhood church. Green trees outside. The sun is shining brightly. It’s summer. Probably “The Hot Summer”, when our friends G…
If you haven't had Belvita breakfast cookies, you have probably had Biscoff cookies, which are similar. These are a classic airline snack. You've probably ha...
LLMs are used for any things. Learning new things is one of the top use cases.
Last week I launched a project called Dark Hours, which was a website utility to give you an idea of what could be seen in the sky that night. A developer who …
I found my old reMarkable 2 paper tablet, bought in 2021, it had sat unused for ~4 years or so. The device was in a sorry state:
I hated picking berries as a teenager. Now the solitude it gives me is something I plan my whole summer around.
Your brain needs to offload just as badly as your butt does. I know it sounds boring to sit in there, alone, naked from the waist down, staring at the wal...
Since Android is becoming increasingly more locked down and slopped, I'm jumping ship.
In remembrance of his beloved and brilliant wife, Elise Cawley, and their 36 years together, Stephen Wolfram shares memories of their family and home and relates Elise's many accomplishments and contributions to mathematics.
If you’re willing to use AI-generated images, how do I know the text isn’t AI-generated?
The concept of recursive self-improvement (RSI) dates back to I. J. Good (1965), where he defined an “ultraintelligent machine” as a system that can surpass humans in all intellectual activities and design better machines to improve itself. Yudkowsky (2008) used the phrase “recursive self-improvement” for a specific…
A blog about software craft and quality
Too often I ask a question in Slack or leave feedback under a merge/pull request or argue with friends in a WhatsApp group and get back:
I just wanted to do an internship in Europe so it would be easier to find a job after graduation. That internship completely changed my life.
Ursula K. Le Guin on the presence of technology in her work
Here’s an experiment for a true daredevil. Sit there for a three minutes, following two rules:
How tracing words can illuminate history
A few days ago I booked my flights to not only attend a professional event, but also visit and stay with one of my best friends next month. This will be the ...
We knew this day would come. Some of us have known for decades, have been writing and pontificating about this since Ken Jennings lost at Jeopardy and Kasparov lost at chess. The writing was on the wall, and now the writing is everywhere. Literally. Artificial Intelligence is writing about as well as humans — at […]
At some point, “moving fast” stopped being a practical concern and became a moral position. You see it damn near everywhere now. How fast can we ship this...
A blog about software craft and quality
What I once thought about programming productivity was wrong
I authored 1 the announcement post on the Superlogical homepage , which describes the problem statement and what we're building. 2 Read that to learn more. This post is more of a personal statement about what led to this, how it relates to my recent work, and what comes next.
