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I ve been vibe-coding a lot lately. Like, a lot a lot. Maybe not quite the AI psychosis Andrej Karpathy recently joked about on No Priors, but not wildly far off either.[1] But the more I vibe, the more a thought recurs, i.e. that AI coding agents may be about to make free software matter more Continue reading AI Agents Could Make Free Software Matter Again
I just hooked up Claude Code to my WordPress blog. The goal is to help me publish more in recent years, many post ideas have died on the vine because the effort required to write and publish has been just a bit too high. The Setup The integration is surprisingly simple, and I had Claude Code Continue reading Connecting Claude Code to WordPress: Lowering the Friction to Sharing
It s been nearly five years since my last blog post. I ve kept the site up during that time in case the archives were useful to anyone, but otherwise left WordPress-on-Dreamhost setup completely untouched for years. Since I ve been vibe-coding (a lot,) I figured I should try doing a bit of blogging to share some of Continue reading Thanks, Agents (and welcome back, blog)
I recently rolled out a career leveling framework at Upwave, the company where I m currently the Director of Engineering. It was my first time creating or releasing this type of framework and it was definitely an informative experience. I want to share some specific tactical lessons I learned from the process. The overall goals and Continue reading What I Learned From Rolling Out A Career Leveling…
Sing, goddess, the rage of George and the ImportError, and its devastation, which put pains thousandfold upon his programs, hurled in their multitudes to the house of Hades strong ideas of systems, but gave their code to be the delicate feasting of dogs, of all birds, and the will of Guido was accomplished since that Continue reading Import Madness
According to his Linkedin Bio, today’s guest’s name is “Glyph Not Looking Don’t Contact Lefkowitz” and he created a powerful, event driven networking library called Twisted. In this episode, he tells us how he got started, what his most painfulre lessons have been, and how trying to measure the merit of a programmer is a Continue reading #A* Interview #19: Glyph Lefkowitz, Creator of The Twisted…
Follow Bodil on Twitter. Check out some of her conference talks. Use an Emacs starter kit to smooth the learning curve. For an introduction to type theory, click here. Or if you want to crack a turtle with types, read Types and Programming Languages. Learn about the A* Series and see more interviews here. (Source: Continue reading A* Interview #18(ish): Strongly-Typed Emacs Acolyte, Bodil Stokke
The latest Cocoapods (0.36) has a nifty feature: it allows you to import pods written in Swift (such as the networking library Alamofire). It does this by asking you to insert a little line into your Podfile: use_frameworks! If you, like me, are new to iOS development it might not be obvious to you what Continue reading “Unresolved identifier” in Swift when importing Frameworks using Cocoapods
Apple Pay? More like Apple Pays For Itself! Amiright? Okay you can stop reading now. Or you can continue and learn how I ve actually calculated that number using science (i.e. estimation + numerology.) SERIOUSLY THOUGH, I watched Apple s livestream on Monday where they revealed slightly more detail about the watch , a.k.a. the Apple Watch, a.k.a. Continue reading If you earn $23,500/year, the…
While getting $0.71 of change at a coffee shop today, I started to wonder just how much time is actually consumed by the act of “getting change”. So I calculated it, and the answer is that $1 billion of time is consumed in the USA waiting for change. That’s actually a bit smaller than I Continue reading $1 Billion and Change