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So management can cancel all of last week’s projects when they told us all we had to be using skills because the CEO read about them in the in flight magazine. Routines are the fut…

First I went to the Claude web site, because we've all been trained not to click on links promising things, right? Couldn't find anything there so I checked the domain carefully an…

When I was in my 20s I was an insufferable know-it-all who found fault with everything. I still spot problems and “push back”, but I have the experience now to know how to get peop…

“Cloud to butt” was popular in the early cloud days. It went around Google internally, and caused some… interesting issues.

I’ll express my personal preference for VS Code with Cline. I don’t know exactly why, but its workflow feels right even though they’re all almost the same interface. I do like the …

I enjoy reading about other people’s approaches to motivation and creativity. But I very much dislike when they phase it as “you need to” or “this is how it works”. Thinking everyo…

I found a tiny bug in a library. A single, trivial, “the docs say this utility function does X, but it actually does Y”. I’m not even allowed to file a bug report. It took me some …

LED matrix panels are tons of fun! I strung a bunch of them together to make a marquee across my basement soffit: https://youtu.be/W0_3rzvq9Ks?si=aTT_uOZfOYh9NLUi I have to resist …

On rare occasions, I use it for the virtual display; it's actually usable to sit outside and work with a giant display on the deck, or to dial myself onto the beach. But it's not e…

I've been using Clerk and it seems fine. I'm sure there's some drama, because everything comes with drama, but I just want to get on with building stuff.

Sometimes I spend half an hour writing a prompt and realize that I’ve basically rubber-ducked the problem to the point where I know exactly what I want, so I just write the code my…

I don’t know if this counts as experienced, but I’ve spent about a year exploring Next.js, the last 6 months of which transitioning from exploring to building a serious project. I …

This is literally the same mistake that has been made many times before. Of course it will be made again. “New feature is rolled out carefully with a bug that remains latent until …

First some feedback (I see the author is interested), and then a personal take on how I deal with this stuff. As someone who has spent decades procrastinating, reading about system…

I jumped in to the TypeScript deep end a few months back. I build a lot of web applications back in the 2000s, then disappeared onto a big tech island where everything was a little…

Teaching myself BASIC on a Commodore 64 in elementary school made me a programmer and set the direction for the next 40 years. Different strokes I guess.

I remember RPI had something like this in the 1990s. I can't remember what it was called though. But I do remember how impressed everyone was: if you call this phone number, they c…

I think it is the permanent end of American economic/political/cultural dominance, which is a long-term gain for the world, but it's going to put the hurt on a lot of people (mysel…

Python is in a category of things you can't just use without being an expert in the minutiae. This is unfortunate because there are a lot of people who are not Python developers wh…

Adding `-p 3.12` made it work. Leaving that here in case it helps someone.

Ran it and it crapped out with a huge backtrace. I spotted `./build_bundled.sh: line 21: cmake: command not found` in it, so I guessed I needed cmake installed. `brew install cmake…

Ours is a Fisher & Paykel dual dishdrawer, which does exactly that, in the space of a single unit.

I'm surprised this Jon Richardson bit hasn't been posted already. It's an incredible piece of comedy, even moreso given that it's about loading the dishwasher. https://www.youtube.…

The C64 starts up straight into BASIC from ROM. Unlike some other contemporary computers, it doesn't attempt to boot from any external devices (except the cartridge port). There is…