Just another day in the Code Mines.
A million monkeys typing on a million typewriters will eventually produce Hamlet But the typing was never actually the bottleneck. A tale of two programmers At my first job in High School, I worked with two programmers, who we’ll call Dave and Colleen (because those are their names). Colleen had gone through school on the […]
[This is not, technically speaking, the next in the series, it s a placeholder to buy me time to finish that one] A quick tip for maintaining your sanity in a world of endlessly-cheerful and deferential chatbots. So, you ve been told to use an LLM-based chatbot for work and you re already tired of talking to a [ ]
Claude and I mostly-succeed to vibe-code a video game from scratch.
What Claude Code is good at, and where it stumbles, even on "easy" work.
What it's like, writing low-level OS-dependent code with Claude Code.
Intro to my series of posts on using AI coding agents.
Why California voters should vote YES on Proposition 50,
I will get back to the P-system articles at some point, but I needed a bit of a break, so I figured I d mention some of the other stuff I ve been working on in my spare time. Lately, I ve been playing around with electronics again. Specifically, the Arduino platform. I was very interested in electronics [ ]
Part 5: The p-Machine (intro) Previously: Intro, Running Apple Pascal on a modern Mac, The Editor, The Filesystem, Text Files, Code Files What is the p-Machine, and why is it like that? Before we can go into greater detail about what the code in our example (and other programs) actually does, we re going to need [ ]
Previously: Intro, Running Apple Pascal on a modern Mac, The Editor, The Filesystem, Text Files. Part 4 File Formats (Code) Unlike text files, the code file format is well described in the Apple Pascal Operating System Reference manual. So decoding a code file should be really simple, right? Let s take a very simple Hello [ ]
Part 3 File Formats (text) Previously: Intro, Running Apple Pascal on a modern Mac, The Editor, The Filesystem. What kind of system has a file format for text? If you ve only worked on modern systems, the idea that a text file would be anything other than a bunch of unorganized bytes is probably pretty [ ]