sometimes it's easier to make a blog offsite than to remake your website to have a blog hi, i'm michcia (she/her), i program for a living, and my living i...
A year ago, almost to the week, I was looking into what smartphone to get. My Samsung Galaxy A52s 5G was reaching end of software updates. At that point I've had it for 3.5 years and it was a ~400 EUR phone, decent spec, nothing I could really complain about. Maybe the camera, but I already had my Instax, and then I took my parents' 2006 bridge camera, and then I got a DSLR, so now I don't exactly…
I spent some time earlier this year trying to piece together my thoughts on LLMs. This turned out to be a grand waste of time , because very few people care about it. And I was writing way too defensively, too. I've previously left a vague sentence to point out that my employer has a vested interest in LLMs, but I think I haven't been clear enough. I am employed by one of the big LLM model…
I picked up Final Fantasy XIV sometime mid-2022. 1 I was finishing the final year of my Master degree, except I already knew I would be repeating it, because very little was done. I was in the middle of an internship that was remote and not really my cup of tea. In the middle of all this stress, my gender was having a stroke too. There was no better time for me to fall for a massive time-sink of…
I was at FFXIV Fanfest a week ago, and no diary from Germany can be complete without a mention of German trains. When I was picking our hotel, I thought it was well connected to the Fanfest location. And it is, but not when they decide to do a little weekend track renovation. And then when we tried to get to the keynote on day 1, an entire train station got evacuated due to a fire alarm, and we…
These are some thoughts I'm getting from one day of NH festival, but also rooted in going to cinema for a few years, and going to a bunch of MDAG festival screenings. I'm not asking politely subtitles should be accurate I'm sure this is not an intentional mistake but some gap in an overall process, but if we have a scene where "I had anxiety and then I found myself on the job market" then "found…
Long ago when I was getting into pourover coffee, I tried out the official AeroPress cold brew recipe at my uni seminar. AFAICT normal cold brew recipes are either a) hot brew a little amount onto ice, or b) infuse for 12 hours. The way that recipe differs is, it's just "do an AeroPress but stir longer (1 minute)". So I just grabbed a bottle of water from a vending machine and brought some coffee…
Parę miesięcy przed koronawirusem, czyli jakieś tysiąc lat temu, usłyszałam odpowiedź na pytanie, której nie ma w internecie. Zapomniałam jak brzmiała (XDD), ale niech pierwszy rzuci kamieniem, kto by nie zapomniał całego semestru, w którym robił jednocześnie Języki i Paradygmaty Programowania i wzięte w ramach puli obieralnych stałych (zatem niewywłaszczalne) Zaawansowane Systemy Operacyjne. Czy…
For the low price of me trying to stay logged out of socials you get shorter more haphazard blogs There was this bluesky thread from aurahack about watching the gameplay presentation of the upcoming car game CLUTCH and disliking two modern car game staples, rewind and line drawn by game to follow. And also everyone should play Gran Turismo 4 . What I have to say is less in opposition to the thread…
previously: https://michcia.bearblog.dev/on-ai-in-2026-intro-sanctum/ usual disclaimer that my thoughts are mine alone and not my employer's. where applicable i am talking about my general experience with different AI solutions from different vendors median antropology Earlier this year, an automated AI bot wrote a character assassination blog post aimed at an open source maintainer rejecting its…
usual disclaimer that my thoughts are mine alone and not my employer's. where applicable i am talking about my general experience with different AI solutions from different vendors For the last maybe half a year I've been mulling over how I feel about the rise of AI. If you asked me a year ago I would be a complete skeptic and making fun of how great it is going, but I don't feel so simple…