Let Up Be Down
In Project Hail Mary, the main character Dr. Ryland Grace is on a mission to save the Sun (and by extension Earth) from the star-eating Astrophage microbe. Grace then meets Rocky, an alien who is try…
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Thoughts on technical writing, software development, and more.
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Meowlin
You may have heard of Merlin, a fantastic mobile app that can identify birds in real time.
Abstraction — Part II: Gen AI and the WYSIWYG Revolution
In the last post, I traced the path of abstraction from the days when machines were programmed with machine code (often represented in binary) to the dawn of Assembly code and even higher level langu…
Abstraction—Part I: Road to the WYSIWYG
*Karen Thacker was looking at a Xerox Alto personal computer, which her husband Chuck had designed. The machine was running Bravo, a program that Chuck’s Xerox PARC colleagues Charles Simonyi and But…
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Book Review: Empire of AI by Karen Hao
In her nonfiction book Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI, Karen Hao seeks to draw parallels between Old World empires like those of the British, French, & Spanish and the…
Em dashing
If you're like me, the em dash (—) represents an irresistible (lazy?) way to break up sentences. But, frustratingly, it's not super easy to use in every context. For example, MS Word and Google Docs…
Docs as Tests: Part II—The How
This is part two in a series of posts describing the value and implementation of Docs as Tests.
Docs as Tests: Part I—On a High (Level)
Docs as Tests: the series! OK the name needs work, but this is my first post in what I expect to be a series of [at least 2] Docs as Tests posts (and probably some videos as well).