Musings

There's been a concerning trend of adopting more and more slavery-type language to describe LLMs, but we can make better choices.

My take on the pros and cons of the Kindle Scribe and the reMarkable 2, and which one I recommend.

Perhaps rather than building software tools to garner ourselves a big fat exit, it might be better to think of ourselves like the village blacksmith who makes excellent tools for the community. Not looking to exit, but to stay.

My attempt to talk through what I'm learning about how the Rust programming language handles data and the functions that provide relevant behavior.

It's a language that can lead to greater reliability and enjoyability of the code and hospitality of the codebase. There's a solid business case to be made for it, but if you don't like it then just write JavaScript.

Software companies should have a healthy fear that their programmed panaceas might make the world a strictly worse place to be.

Last February my company sent me to the Colorado School of Mines, my alma mater, to recruit computer science grads. Many of my former classmates were there as well, and I started chatting with a guy who was telling me about his job where he wrote…