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New blog post: This Blog Post is Your Sign to Start Self-Hosting blog.tjll.net/this-is-your...
I think I’m done using AI generated images to enrich my blog posts
Main reason being it’s very obvious when it’s AI and I think it diminishes the quality of a post
did you see that the plot thickened
tl;dr Ars Technica might've posted AI-hallucinated pull quotes in their coverage infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/1...
Finished UNSONG. I’m grateful Scott Alexander wrote it, it was wonderful
At least on the same level as Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams. Some of those scenes in the book will be stuck in my head for the rest of my life
Mark of pride that my boss (who is very hardware-savvy) had a moment of disbelief when I told him how many hosts are operational in my homelab
The LLM trying to figure out how many parens nested inside my elisp it is before generating an invalid s-expression
Sorry, son. I cannot play with you right now. Daddy is ralphing on claude
Landing page with all the relevant details: log.hew.ing
Background post explaining more in-depth: log.hew.ing/background.h...
Code repositories: codeberg.org/hew
Today I'm open-sourcing an internal tool I've been refining for a few years that helps manage changelogs and release notes
It's called hew, there's a spec and reference implementation, and it's open for collaboration if you're interested 🪓 (links to follow)
A very merry product manager day to you all
People talk about yearning for freedom from parental responsibilities but never the little things you miss during childhood. The little notes around the house. The snacks they make and share. The surprise un-flushed turds that jump scare you in every bathroom
Great news! I’ll be at FOSDEM. You can find me floating 35 meters above the venue covered in pitch and ash singing a song that will rend the earth in twain when the moon is at its zenith. Please toss me up cool stickers if you have any
Alright well Musk is planning on manipulating the information environment even more so I guess I’m here now
There is absolutely room to use them effectively as many senior software people are; but they're skilled woodworkers in a newly-stocked garage full of power tools rather than reclining on a sofa running the Ikea assembly line by remote
This is an ice-cold take but I think the boring answer is the right one: if you intentionally offload all decision-making to an LLM when writing software, you'll almost by definition get worse at making good software decisions as your skill atrophies
I have inadvertently become a part-time toy manufacturer now that my sons have learned I can create plastic Pokémon figurines at-will with my 3d printer. Send help
forget greenland. This is the news that is Important to Me
Pharmacist at Costco thought my “birds of prey wearing sunglasses” shirt was cool
I blogged about our ~1 year experience of owning an EV
blog.tjll.net/one-year-wit...
DONE
Vibe coding doesn't make programming labor disappear
Vibe coding transmutes programming labor into code review labor and engineering management labor, both of which are (in my experience) more labor-intensive than programming
I tasted a wagyu steak for the first time last night and maybe it was better not knowing what exorbitantly-priced steak tastes like
The Bernie/AOC rally exceeded the maximum venue capacity in _Idaho_ last night
nice little elisp function to rename an LSP symbol by choosing a new case for it
The latest Severance episode is at least on par with the season 1 finale as one of the greatest episodes of television
For the sake of broadening its reach, I'm participating in the economic blackout today
Got emacs to read remote .envrc files asynchronously before starting my language server, feels good man
I didn't know that a follow-up experiment to the double split experiment found that you could sort of un-collapse the wave??? wtf en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum...
