If you've ever used Anthropic's Claude LLM, and in particular, Claude Code, to discuss and plan software architecture and systems you'll definitely start hearing some canned terms. LLMs have "tells". It can make reading some supposedly-human authored things like tech blogger posts somewhat amusing, but hey I still have unwavering respect for Sam and his [ ]
Stir the juice, syrup and bitters in a cocktail shaker until well incorporated. Add Cynar and gin, then some ice and shake vigorously for 10 seconds. Double strain (with a mesh) into a chilled coupe glass and garnish with the blood orange peel.
The Algorithms recently flung this article my way which crystallized the idea of "serious leisure" for me. It brought to mind Dungeons Dragons and Role-Playing Games, but it also made me think about my experience with Software Engineering. The study's hypothesis is that involving yourself in an intense hobby over the course of years/decades [ ]
I took over stewardship of the Spaces Chrome extension recently (open source repo). Dean, the original developer, no longer wanted to maintain it. Chrome Extension Manifest V3 had caused the extension to be broken for a couple years, and then eventually taken down from the Chrome Web Store. I have been a heavy daily user [ ]
I think we're at peak LLM usefulness here. A succinct answer I'm willing to trust, no ads, nothing seeking my further engagement. Basically I can't see a way for Gemini to get any better for this type of dead-end query than where it's at right now. Prepare thyself for the crapwave. This is a great [ ]
Once upon a time, I ported a turn-based strategy / tactical combat game to the web. The average play time for the game is quite long (many hours), so saving games is an important feature. PC/Console games have two ways to do "game saves": 1) is easy to implement (writing and reading a file to [ ]
I am a big BIG fan of Bethesda's Elder Scrolls and I consider Morrowind one of the best games ever made (my top 2 are Morrowind and Doom in no particular order). I have put in only a few hours into Starfield (so far), and I have to say I like it less and less. [ ]
Apropos of nothing, to the person who once said to me that the 1990s had no good music, I offer a list of 40 albums worth owning. This list has a good drubbing of obvious Alternative Rock and Brit Pop picks, but banks and dips into Shoe Gaze, Noise Pop, Trip Hop, and Electronica, which [ ]
Back when I first wrote my unzip implementation in pure JS using Web Workers (code here), JavaScript runtimes were a very new thing (NodeJS had been released less than a year before). Ok, I had played with C++ bindings to the V8 JS engine for a hobby video game engine I had been writing, but [ ]
Oh, remember that time six years ago when I said one day soon we'll be able to use ES Modules everywhere, even inside Web Workers and Service Workers? Well that day is next week when the last browser ships support for ES Modules in Workers - finally! Yes, I know that ES Modules are terrible, [ ]