Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are aggressively against LLM usage
Whereby I discuss why we're seeing an increasingly aggressive rejection of LLMS by niche hobby communities...
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Mind the van Emden Gap
Whereby I read a paper about Intelligence Augmentation written in 1982 and talk about how it relates to today...
As Presaged in March 1993
Whereby I read the March 1993 issue of Byte and talk about it...
LLMe
Whereby I talk about why LLMs have not yet helped me terribly much in my work...
As Presaged in January 1996
Whereby I read the January 1996 issue of Byte and talk about it...
The Best Things and Stuff of 2025
Whereby I talk about my favorite media/people/ideas that I encountered for the first time in 2025.
The Bird-Poker Deck
Whereby I talk about turning a common American Checkers set into an "arcade" for deep games of abstract strategy.
The Bird-Poker Deck
Whereby I talk about a truncated pack of playing cards called the Bird-Poker deck...
18XX: A System of Systems
Whereby I talk about 18XX -- the fantastic family of economic tabletop games...
The long season of langdev
Whereby I talk about programming language development and why, and where it might go...
Arities as pseudo-protocol
Whereby I talk about an under-appreciated technique in Clojure where function arities serve as a pseudo-protocol...
An Appearance on Apropos
I was fortunate to appear on the April 22, 2025 episode of the Apropos podcast...