With the right language, everything is a toy. […] Two conversations I've had in the past week dovetailed perfectly. One focused on the perils of one-shot development, the other on the challenge …

Keeping current is hard. It's even harder remembering what you were current on last month. A recent post that flitted by reminded me about Obsidian Vaults, Claude, and the fervor of second brains - …

Oh what I would do, if only I knew... […] Logging has been a continuously evolving practice for me. When I started writing code, I leaned heavily into debug/log/assert hack based strategies. I …

I recently came across this rethinking of the Amazon way and this interview where we hear that Spotify is pushing ~4500 production releases a day. Both are worth a dive, but they dance around the …

I’ve never met anyone who loves pulling weeds. I’ve met plenty of people who love to garden. Some people enjoy the design, the selection of what to grow. Others enjoy watching the transformation as …

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 …