An Ode to the Exacting Pedantry of Computers 🔗
The very first computer programming class I ever took introduced me to the idea of there being different kinds of numbers, like integers, floats, and [...]
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Book Notes: “Poor Charlie’s Almanack” 🔗
I’ve been slowly listening to Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger. I like his practicality. He’s never trying t [...]
Something’s Rotten in the State of macOS Icon Design 🔗
This is an iconic observation: If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design [...]
Building Software Requires Digestion 🔗
Here’s Scott Jenson in his insightful piece “The Ma of a New Machine”: the chatbot interface [makes us] feel like deep cognitive work is happening. Bu [...]
Out With the JS, In With the HTML 🔗
I’ve been posting about how you can make lots of HTML pages and leverage navigations over in-page, JS-dependent interactions. Now I’m gonna post anoth [...]
Reminder: You Can Stitch Together Lots of Little HTML Pages With Navigations For Interactions 🔗
I wrote about building websites with LLMs — (L)ots of (L)ittle ht(M)l page(s) — and I think it’s time for a post-mortem on that approach: I like it. I [...]
Collective Speed Is Not the Summation of Individual Speed 🔗
I’ve been thinking about speed which is why Chris Coyier caught my attention in his latest piece discussing how AI might be 10✕ing the speed with whic [...]
Hook It Up to the Machine 🔗
In the early 2000’s, my parents took us on a road trip to Glacier National Park in Montana. We made the journey in our new (used) family van: a green [...]
Speed is Not Conducive to Wisdom 🔗
Speed has become the primary virtue of the modern world. Everything is sacrificed to it. Move fast (and break things, not as a goal but as a consequen [...]
That’s a Skill Issue 🔗
I quipped on BlueSky: It’s interesting how AI proponents are often like "skill issue" when the LLM doesn't work like someone expects. Whereas when hum [...]