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Perhaps! But I do think the vocabulary issue is real and I think LLMs are still sycophantic enough that they won’t really challenge someone or offer alternative ideas on how to imp…

With the way subscription models and terms of use have been evolving over time, even if you buy a futuristic robotic assistant outright, you won’t really “own” it.

Excuse me! I hide them in a rats nest under my desk like a civilized person.

I built something similar awhile back [1] and used OpenAI’s tokenizer playground [2] to recalculate tokens on a giant block of lorem ipsum text. I feel like this gives a much more …

Dear Cliff, I'm sorry to hear that you must have died right after we visited you in May of 2024 [1]. But I'm glad that you've figured things out and that you are now alive again! I…

Haha! Instead, you’ll get a robot that will make you art, music, and tell you stories and you get to toil away cleaning the house.

> With Airdrop you have trivially easy, "just works" sharing with people in proximity. Funny enough, I encounter so many problems trying to share things via AirDrop with friends, f…

I’ve been on the Claude Code train for a while but decided to try Codex last week after they announced the $100 USD Pro plan. I’ve been pretty happy with it! One thing I immediatel…

I’d be interested where you’re getting your data. SteamDB shows an accelerating trend of game releases over time, though comparing January 2026 to January 2025 directly shows a mar…

Oh my, this brings me back! One of my fondest gaming memories involves a massive Civilization 3 PBEM match between a number of Civilization fan sites, where we all had private foru…

Point of clarification: llama.cpp is MIT-licensed. Using it downstream (commercially or otherwise) is exactly what that license allows, so calling it a rip-off is misleading.

I've been using GLM 4.7 alongside Opus 4.5 and I can't believe how bad it is. Seriously. I spent 20 minutes yesterday trying to get GLM 4.7 to understand that a simple modal on a w…

This is a bit reductive. For what it’s worth, I’ve used Vue and don’t like it (stuff like custom directives that are nonstandard html, not as explicit about event handling and data…

I work on a React based web app in my Day Job and have genuinely enjoyed it. That said, it always feels like so much boilerplate to get up and running for a greenfield project (and…

Been going at it since 2003! It's a blog but links to all my open source work, and as of late, I talk a lot of various projects I work on and random rabbit holes I fall into. https…

This number can mean wildly different things depending on the size of your house (and location). I live in the Bay Area, CA in a 1,500 square foot house and consumed 7.8MWh in 2025…

It seems fine? After all, Claude, codex and Gemini-cli are all distributed via npm.

Hah! I’ve done something similar. I created a bunch of pre-defined voice messages with Eleven Labs and then have a script that randomly calls them via the same hooks. https://githu…

I’ve long felt the same way. I think this will eventually happen but there’s going to be a lot more starving artists and other producers of emotionally meaningful works before we g…

Claude Code provides a headless mode that you can do this exact same thing with: $ claude -p “fix the eslint in file XYZ”

While I personally find that generative AI has helped me be more productive and even boosted my ability to learn things, I really _dislike_ that we’ve normalized this behavior: Whe…

I gave a talk in 2015 that did the same thing with my tweet history (about 20K at the time) and how I used it as source material for a Twitter bot that could reply to users. [1] It…

Hah. I wonder how someone could miss that, but it does kind of look like one of those “sign up for our newsletter” types of elements. Maybe many of us are just subconsciously block…

Apple’s screen time parental settings are some of the most obtuse and frustrating features I’ve had to navigate on their devices (so much, that I honestly wonder if the people behi…

About a month ago, the mobo for my 5950x decided to give up the ghost. I decided to just rebuild the whole thing and update from scratch. So went crazy and bought a 9800X3D, purcha…