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Writing Code vs. Writing Prose Programming languages were developed because natural language isn’t adequate to communicate instructions to computers. Unlike natural language, programming languages have strong composability: you can take a line of code and start putting things into it or removing things from it to drastically change its meaning. Doing that with natural language is also…
Ideas for Tooling in Education I’ve found that some of the most useful writing on AI is that of the kind that goes “Here’s how I use AI/LLMs/ChatGPT as an X” where X is usually a programmer or a researcher of some kind. Simon Willison, for example, has a series called How I use LLMs and ChatGPT that gives you a decent picture of where AI is actually useful, instead of…
Terminal User Interfaces Terminal user interfaces (TUIs) have been experiencing something of a revival lately. For example, this repository lists more than 350 projects, almost 300 of which have over 1000 stars and have received a commit within the last year. This data doesn’t really tell us whether these projects are any good, of course, but it does show the sentiment: TUIs are back in…
Ahoy Ahoy, fellow hacker! You’ve found my home on the Internet. Here you should expect to read about programming, design, engineering, and anything else that piques my interest. I’ve seen so many programming blogs starting off with an enthusiastic post about the blog’s meticulously-crafted infrastructure, using the latest static-site generator written in the author’s…
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