Week of 2025-08-17: Breadboard and Opal
Where I describe the relationship between Breadboard and Opal.
What Dimitri Learned
A collection of insights about various marvels of life that I stumbled into
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Where I learn by teaching – the best kind. In this case, it’s a detailed account of applying a variety of techniques and patterns with the aim of getting good lyrics out of a large language model.
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Week of 2024-04-01: Flexibility of the medium
Where I contemplate the future where medium is so malleable that it shapes around not just our needs, but even around our minute whims.
Week of 2024-03-25: The Bootstrapping Phase + Thinking to write
A rare twofer: where I try to articulate this interesting period in a software engineering project that I call the “bootstrapping phase”, and talk about the depth of thinking that motivates writing.
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Where I learn about the distinction between velocity and agility, and use a naval metaphor to make sense of it.
Week of 2024-02-12: AI Baklava
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