AI Tells đź”—
This might be due to the tools I use – or the media I consume – but lately I’ve been catching the smell of A.I. slop everywhere. It started with the e [...]
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Learning to work on cars đź”—
This past summer I bought a 2002 4Runner. Being an older car, it came with a good number of things I wanted to upgrade, restore, and fix. I want to do [...]
From Copilot to Orchestration đź”—
Two years of handing more and more of my codebase to agents. These days, I plan work with an orchestrating agent, give it the go-ahead, and walk away. [...]
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Lessons from Mickey Mouse the Vibecoder 🔗
AI of Antiquity What’s the earliest cautionary tale about the dangers of AI run amok? Maybe the classic 1797 poem The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (Der Zaube [...]
I Propose a Truce đź”—
I’ve been a software developer for 20 years, and for about 15 of those years, I’ve worked in secure government facilities or with other large, securit [...]
Crunching data? Put that laptop hardware to use đź”—
Let’s say a utility company has 10,000 electricity meters and let’s say each meter reports a reading every 15 minutes. When you do the math, that’s 96 [...]
Techno-Theurgy for the Amalgam Agalma (or Programming with AI) đź”—
Following our thesis on programming ethics, the considerations of a Platonic Programmer and finally the re-orientation to the Neoplatonic Programmer, [...]
Bringing Grid Research Into the Real World đź”—
Some of the most promising ideas in the energy industry begin as research. But proving that a new method works is only one step toward changing how ut [...]
Modernizing Utility Software Starts With the Workflow, Not the Technology đź”—
It is easy to look at an aging internal application and assume the problem is the software. Maybe the interface feels dated. Maybe people are doing to [...]
What’s so cool about Nix ❄️ flakes? 🔗
Every project has a setup document. It starts with “install Ruby 3.3”, wanders through Homebrew formulas, Node version managers, a Postgres database, [...]