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I’ve been reading the 1977 Bell Labs Journal that collected everything written about UNIX up to that point. Seeing how much of its history was intimately tied to text processing an…

Author here. I don't know if we'll be writing shell scripts in five years for our jobs, but I do know that spending a few minutes writing sed makes me feel connected to my tribe of…

We’ve been hearing the drumbeat that these models are already better than $INVENT_A_NUMBER percentage of developers at $SOME_SMALL_TASK for several years. I haven’t seen that it’s …

Why would we trust a screenshot from Claude as evidence of how to deal with mental health issues? Surely Claude’s training matter is dominated by magazines and pop-psychology rathe…

This reminds me of when wobbly windows were the big thing in linux. It was good plain fun back then, it seems fun again with this. Drawing apps do regularly allow for canvas rotati…

I think I'm finally understanding what bothers me in LLM usage: it's the people who just want a nice little human-ingenuity community seeing it get further away from them. I wrote …

I imagine the author's using OpenSIMH ( https://opensimh.org ) or something similar, so it'd be an emulated CPU running the userlands. I have a container that runs a 4.3 BSD userla…

Of course it can be that this is the case. There are predictions from the dark matter hypothesis, though, that have been testable. For example, there're some of the asymmetries in …

Honestly, the post itself reads very generated, very rage bate. I have so much more faith in us and our hobby/industry than this blog post. There are reports of industries trying t…

I had the unusual experience of Claude encouraging me to give up, so I wrote about what I think of that.

That site's so damn responsive! What are you using to build it?

More options in the ecosystem seems better, but I was surprised to see this in the linked vitest docs: > However, to run tests in CI you need to install either playwright or webdri…

I keep seeing those "I vibe coded with Claude using this one simple trick..." blog posts. I decided to write a useful one that tells you how I made progress with Claude.

What's the conversation that you're looking to have here? There are fairly widespread claims that GPT-5 is worse than 4, and that's what the help article you've linked to says. I'm…

I've been seeing teammates go from promising juniors to people who won't think, and I've tried hard here to say what I think they're going wrong. Like the great engineers who came …

I read over the author's analysis of the `mkdir` error. The author thinks that the abundance of error codes that mkdir can return could've confused gemini, but typically we don't c…

It’s legitimately fun to see people gaining hope something would happen about this and then losing hope, again and again. Thanks for the laugh. This is how you can tell that people…

I’ve worked with Azure for a few years now, AWS and classic data centres for 15 years before that. It’s pretty clear if you check github that Azure’s services and documentation are…