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 [...]
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I Propose a Truce 🔗
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 🔗
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) 🔗
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 🔗
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 🔗
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, [...]
It’s Time to Become Virtual 🔗
The vibes are bad right now. I blame the tech industry. I blame the billionaires. I blame the combination tech industry and billionaires. With the big [...]
Practical Methods for Programming Self-Study 🔗
Programming is one of the few professions where the learning never really stops. Languages evolve, frameworks rise and fall, and the “best practices” [...]
The Equipment Doesn’t Wait for the Approval 🔗
AUGUST ISSUE OF THE CURRENT GE Vernova’s gas turbine backlog hit 100 gigawatts in the first quarter of 2026. Standard large power transformers now ave [...]