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Please note: These are my thoughts on the books at the time that I read them and wrote about it. My opinions change with time, with experience, etc. These are not gospel on what I think of a book - they are snapshots of a particular time.
The list Note: Collage made with https://sudwald.github.io/bookcollage/. Thank you to Sammy for the great tool.
The image is not ordered by any…
There’s been a lot of discourse lately about LLMs and how useful they are. I’ve said before that I’m not a huge fan of LLMs and I have a lot of conceptual problems, that range anywhere from “it’s horrible for the climate and a violation of copyright”, to “it’s another step in the Big Tech oligarchy taking over every aspect of our lives and making…
It was raining outside, and my whole life had come undone. I was 24, and we were in the middle of a pandemic. My stepdad, who had been depressed for years (a mix of chronic back pain and midlife crisis), had finally snapped. He had been emotionally abusive for a long time, choosing me as the target of his frustrations, but today things had come to a head. Yelling that I’d closed a door too…
Two days ago, Github’s CEO Thomas Dohmke added his voice to the many that came before to say:
Either you have to embrace the Al, or you get out of your career. 1
This is not the first time I’ve heard this kind of discourse, usually from people who haven’t done a day of software engineering in their life. And I hate it. So this post is about why it’s silly, why…
Please note: These are my thoughts on the books at the time that I read them and wrote about it. My opinions change with time, with experience, etc. These are not gospel on what I think of a book - they are snapshots of a particular time.
The list The image is not ordered by any particular rating system. I will, however, share with you what I rated each book as.
Please note: These are my thoughts on the books at the time that I read them and wrote about it. My opinions change with time, with experience, etc. These are not gospel on what I think of a book - they are snapshots of a particular time.
The list The image is ordered by the date of publication, not by any particular rating system. I will, however, share with you what I rated each book as.
This is a short and sweet post. I am looking for people interested in beta-reading my debut novel. Having a good group of beta-readers will allow me to make sure it’s as good as it can be before I send it to editors.
You can get more information and sign up to be a beta reader here (beta reading signup is now closed.)
I look forward to hearing from you.
Back in 2020, when I was trying to make the best of my career in tech, I built myself a website using a technology called GatsbyJS. It wasn’t particularly well designed, but I did it from scratch, and I was proud of how it turned out. You can still look at the code for it here. 1
I had plans to use that website as a showcase for myself. I shared my résumé there.
I get asked for book recommendations a lot, mostly by friends of mine who know I spend an inordinate amount of time reading. This year, I thought it would be nice to have a centralized place I could point people to. I would also like to take this as an opportunity to reflect on this year’s readings and collate my thoughts on the books I’ve read. It’s interesting to come back to…
A few words on the buzz This is sort of an editorial note. Please skip it if you just want the review.
Cyberpunk 2077 is, as of the date of writing this, the first single-player game to reach 1 million concurrent players on Steam, as well as the first game to ever get that achievement on the same day it got released. It is, by and large, the biggest single-player game in Steam history to date,…
This website is not a product. (And neither are you) To put it nicely, I am not a fan of the Internet as it exists today.
In my life, I have greatly benefitted from the transformative power of the Internet. A lot of my closest friends and oldest friends are online friends - from Poland to the United Kingdom, I have found kinship with people from vastly different walks of life because I was…
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