Visual InterDev 6.0's HTML editor. Screenshot via irt.org, used for historical commentary; Visual InterDev is a trademark of Microsoft. […] Further mutterings on finding joy in development. …

I've droned on about this in a few formats, but I keep stubbing my toe on it. This paper covers an approach to accelerate model capabilities by expanding the data available for re-training through the …

I haven't done this for a while, so it's probably time to see where it goes. I love telling stories. I'm well past the point where I want to sit on a porch, jibbering away about "In my …

"Book display highlighting neurodiverse authors and books about neurodiversity, at University of Otago Central Library" by DrThneed, licensed under CC BY 4.0. […] A real benefit to …

One of the things about the job hunt that makes it more daunting is the number of scams. Like a lot of phishing these days, the quality is definitely high. Enough so that my juvenile instinct to put …

I’ve always leaned into a build flow that emphasizes working software. I like iterating on an experience and shaping the architecture at the same time. This is core to Agile: it reduces wasted time on …

I was fortunate enough to take two sabbaticals at my last company. Five weeks each, the first at the ten year mark, and the second at fifteen. […] When I joined the company, sabbaticals were …

This LinkedIn Post poking fun at the #GreatAIReplacement reminded me of this now ancient paper (2022) Redeeming Intrinsic Rewards via Constrained Optimization on mathematical approaches to governing …

Today’s musing centers around this response to Steve Yegge’s Opus 4.8 critique. I’ve pulled back to Sonnet for most of what I do these days; partly that’s a cost choice and partly because I don’t have …

One of the useless things I spend time on is mtn-aqi.com and a bunch of its siblings. I have a few air quality monitors and I occasionally like to play with the data they collect. The data itself …