Writing, code, etc.
A year or two back, I started noodling on a homegrown personal wiki. It s ugly and missing a lot of features, but at this point I actually do have some documents in it that I kinda sorta care about. This December I had some time on my hands, so six days ago, I blew off [ ]
Having hit a new milestone birthday, I ve been reflecting on the previous decades, and asking, After all this time, have I really learned anything? I think I have, and that thing is: the truth is underrated. My scattered thoughts follow.
I ve had some really nice successes using GPT-4 for coding, both in generating boilerplate code, and summarizing and explaining existing documentation. A few days ago, I decided to push things a little further, and see what kind of understanding stock ChatGPT might have. The approach I took was trying to step out of the model s [ ]
This is the story as we have always told it, for over two thousand years. Not a word has been changed. There once was a village that decided to task a young boy with guarding his village s sheep. It was a crushingly boring task. The sheep essentially minded themselves, and as the day wore on, [ ]
I ve been keeping busy the last year playing Classic Hardcore World of Warcraft. So far I ve had one victory (a level 70 mage), and many deaths. Here are some basic tips for staying alive. The three things that will kill you: heights, caves, unknown content. Cultivate a healthy sense of acrophobia, claustrophobia, and neophobia. Remember [ ]
In the previous post in this series, we discussed nominalizations (verbs that have been transformed into abstract nouns), and how converting abstract nouns into concrete verbs can improve your prose. In this post, we ll get a little deeper into why that is. English sentence structure follows the form subject-verb-object (abbreviated SVO). In the sentence, Amanda [ ]
Any engineer worth their salt knows that writing is a big part of the job. But for many of us, that can be a scary prospect. Some of us haven t had a lot of formal training in writing, or English isn t our native language or both. We re supposed to write clearly, but nobody ever [ ]
Interestingly, when you search for "redirect HTTP to HTTPS", there aren't actually that many pages that cover HTTPS redirects *and* HSTS in the same place, so perhaps this will be useful to somebody:
This got me thinking about engineering judgment. How do you ensure that the time you invest in tooling pays off over the lifetime of the project? For me, it helps to think about introducing frontend tooling and infrastructure based on the size of the codebase:
Toad and Frog went for a long walk. They walked across a large meadow. They walked in the woods. They walked along the river. At last they went back home to Toad s house. Oh, drat, said Toad. Not only do my feet hurt, but I have lost one of the JavaScript frameworks I was using [ ]