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Another thing that I feel is underappreciated about agentic coding is that you can actually learn from it. I am a programmer with 25+ years of experience and I tend to do a lot of …

Usually when I see a project flaunting its language like this it elicits a sigh. (You probably know what I am talking about.) This is a happy exception since this project actually …

Solve this and you probably have a business. :)

And full of marketing hyperbole. When I have an AI produce a README I always have to ask it to tone it down and keep it factual.

I actually encountered this pretty early in one of these user tuned GPT's in OpenAI's GPT store. It was called Sommelier or something and it was specialized in conversations about …

Fair enough. But I am talking about 50 years ago or so.

Tangential, but I was once told a story that seems fitting here. It was told to me by a mechanical engineer who was educated at Eindhoven Technical University in the Netherlands. H…

Tangential but interesting tidbit: Botulinum toxin messes with your motor neurons, which is bad news for your heart. For the same reason (but at lower dosage) it eases wrinkles and…

Actually Dobelli was the one who got me thinking about this. I tend to agree with him, although eschewing all news is a bit too extreme to my taste. I tried scaling back my intake …

A corollary of this idea that also the bad stuff that you read leaves a trace, and not necessarily a good trace. To continue the food metaphor: like junk food there is junk reading…

Nice work! Does the trick for me. Tangentially, I would love to have something like this in which I can "program" my own breathwork routines (reps and sets including breath holds).…

I was slightly older but just as fascinated. I knew some programming and it blew my teenage mind how they managed to cram all those universes inside a freaking C64. Mostly I just e…

Tangential. A file lock is released if the locking process exits. This can be leveraged to make a poor man's semaphore that is automatically raised if the process exits. Slow but s…

I am now reading _Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution_, Cat Bohannon's fascinating book on the female body from an evolutionary perspective. Only th…

I have been a correspondent all my life, starting long before computers and e-mail showed up (at least in my life). Thoughts would be exchanged on paper and in handwriting and thro…

I like the Wittgensteinian image of language as an old city shared by thousands (millions) of people. In its center a large common square that is used by everybody, and radiating a…

Haha, high five to your wife. Part of the challenge and fun of being a sesquipedalian is finding the perfect opportunity to casually drop that six syllable word that you have been …

Youglish.com is your friend

It also great in cocktails. https://lundsandbyerlys.com/rhubarb-margarita-a-tangy-twist-...

Same here. My girlfriend is not impressed by GPT and its ilk at all. But I guess that for a non-technical person most things digital are a form of magic, and it is probably hard to…

I regularly look at code and think "what idiot wrote this?" and then realize that idiot was me.

Cheers, mate.