As a long-time coder and tinkerer, who views computers as deterministic if we understand them properly, modern tooling feels wrong to me. ...

If one has an LLM “do the work,” then one does not actually learn anything.  Taking notes improves recall, and so does trying to remember t...

Two things came across my radar recently; cks talking about Job Vs Career , which is an old post, and apenwarr talking about Billionaire Mat...

I don’t know who needs to hear this today, but there’s no single number that defines “healthy.” Weight and BMI don’t work.  Total cholester...

I temporarily displaced my misgivings about the Plagiarism Machine That Also Destroys Earth.  Since I haven’t yet spent a full week working ...

When I was young, my father owned a series of Commodore machines, the last one being an Amiga 500 .  BASIC was for chumps, and our only othe...

I am late to the party, but I have been playing with Generators in PHP more, and running into the limitations of module boundaries. Some m...