Personal blog by Erik Craddock
Because I am known to write using a fountain pen on paper, a number of people have pointed me to this post and its underlying research. I won’t rehash what is said in those sources, but the gist of it is that when you write things down by hand you’re recruiting more of your brain, which is a good thing.
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This is not about grammar. It is about speed, clarity, and judgment.
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There's still a slew of questions about why some people develop alpha-gal syndrome.
Stewart Brand’s Pace Layers framework reveals why AI’s speed is straining the slower systems it depends on for support.
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The plain-English prompt that makes prototypes effortless turns out to be a poor way to specify how a system should behave, and the bill arrives slowly, disguised as ordinary progress, until the application can barely move.
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How AI has changed the SaaS equation: what’s no longer valuable, and what remains
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The Set-Up Johnny Hooker: Sometime after 2:00, a guy’s gonna call on that phone there and give you the name of a horse. Imagine yourself, perhaps a typically-well-paid, tech-savvy professional, on …
Most CLI auth flows spin up a localhost server and pray your browser cooperates. That model breaks the moment you're SSH'd into a server. RFC 8628 fixed this in 2019 and a lot of tools still haven't caught up.
Local agentic coding has gotten great over the past few months
My head has been spinning after getting a spreadsheet roughly a week ago. Before we dive into my dirty laundry, let’s state the obvious: millions of people have a vague sense that AI is changing things. And LLMs sure are convenient for getting answers quickly. My team and I use Claude and other tools daily. […]
A new UC Davis study, published in the journal Nature Medicine, shows a brain-computer interface system allows man living with ALS to ‘speak’ clearly, unassisted for a prolonged period.
Running Gemma 4 26B-A4B and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B locally with llama.cpp, MTP speculative decoding, multimodal support, and PI as a coding agent.
I tell you, I have high hopes for this one. I hope it sticks.
Why I like the word clanker and why machines are not people.