Pro Tip: If you’re going to use ChatGPT during your tech interview…
This interview with Ted Chiang is so, so good.
When are hobby eink displays going to get decent drivers so we can make fun fast-refreshing projects? Even cheap kindles can refresh crazy fast these days.
Took a Waymo yesterday. Annoyed at myself that it immediately felt totally normal.
I’m so over “Declarative X” (infrastructure, UI, whatever). The idea that the computer “will just figure it out” is exactly the kind of hand-wavy nonsense early-career Engineers dream about. God bless their optimism, but it’s 2025 and the computers are still stupid, and I’m tired of having to work around your black box to get my code to deploy.
Just let me tell the computer what to do.
What if I don’t want to abandon everything I enjoy just because someone else, who also likes/is part of those things, has differing views to mine?
“Creating is harder than criticizing. Much harder. This fundamental asymmetry shapes our intellectual landscape in profound ways.”
We Don’t Need More Cynics. We Need More Builders.
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I listen to a lot of ambient electronic music, especially while working. I get distracted by lyrics, so electronic/instrumental pieces are my go-to.
I really like Tom Eaton. If you’re into this kind of music check him out.
But they are still guilty of lacking the personal agency to fight it or leave in protest, and I still — potentially unjustly — condemn them.
They really don’t.
Use Tailwind so you can save 25KB of CSS while you ship 25MB of JavaScript in your “Modern Framework”
I wish something existed like CircuitPython, but in Ruby.
“Being Principal Engineer must be great; you get to make all the decisions and work on the best projects.”
Reality: Makes few/no decisions, has to work endlessly toward consensus, spends way too much time dealing with crap like legal and regulatory requirements. Almost never writes code.