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Highly unproductive to write off the entirety of Texas like this. Have you visited Brewster or Presidio County, where this is happening, or spoken with the people who live there? B…

It has certainly made it easier for me to put down my phone in bed and read something else. So, doomscrolling is gone for that part of my day. The biggest win is not caring if I ge…

From personal experience, there's still a considerable chunk of rural America that isn't wired. I'm currently looking at an area to buy a house, and the only option around is Starl…

Is Opus 4.8 equally or more capabale for the actual mechanics of the coding work? It seems to me that having a powerful Fable layer for the planning, coordination, orchestration-ty…

LLMs are stateless. But given an actual database of task-shaped items and some work, I could see the potential. With a canonical source of truth, and set input/output expectations,…

Critical thinking as a skill unto itself was held as incredibly important in my early education. At school, and at home. It continued through undergrad (obviously, I think). In the…

For my part, the code quality of the next.js dashboard isn't even something I'd evaluate. I instantly get a quick, functional-appearing view of the offering. I can picture how I mi…

Is this not a greater loss for the government than for Anthropic?

This is where my mind went. A curious person or two poking around is one thing. A few hundred, or thousands, of "AI enthusiasts," or however you'd like to imagine OpenClaw users, c…

Well, there are still many overly complex spreadsheets in the SMB sector waiting to be turned into products.

There is no shame in having your work - even software development - be a means to an end. You are well within reason to work to survive, tuck a little away, and use the rest (of bo…

Is ChatGPT down the new GitHub down?

So, my client (an HVAC company) is in a more secure position than a government agency. That is disturbing, but not surprising.

This is my biggest complaint when i reflexively type `git log` to get some context on a branch.

There’s something to be said for having a “local.” Lots has been written about having a “third-place,” though I can’t remember who coined the phrase. There’s a bar and grill near w…

> Imagine if you could take a picture of anything, add a little note, have it filed away. I'd use that regularly while working on my truck. It'd be a lot easier than stopping durin…

This article is brimming with nostalgia for me. I vividly remember sitting at a workbench my father had fashioned from an old door, recreating circuits from Mini-Notebooks.

Having been fortunate enough to ride in Cruise vehicles multiple times in the Austin area, my impression is that they behave better than the average Austin driver. For trickier sit…

I have Verizon for my personal phone, but opted for T-Mobile for my home (5G) internet and a new iPad. I made this decision after using T-Mobile for my company-paid phone with zero…

IMO, Texas Tribune is about as good as it gets for news in TX. I tend to trust their reporting. I do make a small monthly donation, as they’re non-profit.

I use Copilot via the VSCode plugin. It really does help, but most every code review reveals some slight issues with something that it has generated, be it syntax, nomenclature, wh…

I’m a solo dev for a medium-sized (but safety-critical) enterprise. So, I’m always “on call.” My 10th-gen iPad with a keyboard, alongside the Amazon Workspace app is a game-changer…

Honestly, I’m probably going to update my own (mostly node) apps to dump such information to `stdout` when they’re first fired up, at the very least. It would have saved me time to…

Of course that is good. However, what happens when the so-called “criminal” is actually a non-criminal person that the government/powers-that-be deem a threat. Perhaps that person …

Editing perl in BBEdit. What a wonderful tool!