Be direct. Tell me I’m not going to be interviewed in the first sentence. Don’t hide it in the second paragraph.

I used Codex to build out a real project, a dictionary generator for Dungeon Crawler Carl.

Still don’t like Python’s "separator".join(my_variable) v my_variable.split("separator").

Every time I walk away from Python for a year and come back, I reforget this.

I know why it’s like this, but I still don’t like it.

Found this in a 2023 image folder, back when I was programming in Rust. I think it’s from the Safari Browser start page.

I’ve had a smidge of extra time with my recent unemployment, so to stay sharp and learn a few new things I followed Seiya Nuta’s guide to building an Operating System in 1,000 Lines.

I followed the Operating System in 1000 Lines tutorial to understand what it means to work without the safety rails. I expected difficulty. I did not expect how disorienting it would feel to debug code that refuses to pretend it is anything other than memory, registers, and control flow.

Whenever people ask me about JWTs and stateless auth, which has happened twice, I answer: No, No, Maybe.

In 2010 Elif Batuman wrote Get A Real Degree. Obstensibly a book review, it gave her space to unload on an era that produced a writing glut.

This quote stuck out ot me.

That’s the torture of walking into a bookshop these days: it’s not that you think the books will all be terrible; it’s that you know they’ll all have a certain degree of competent workmanship, that most will have about three genuinely beautiful or interesting sentences and no really bad ones, that many will have at least one convincing, well-observed character, and that nearly all will be bound up in a story that you can’t bring yourself to care about. All that great writing, trapped in mediocre books! Who, indeed, has time to read them?

Sometimes science fiction gives a peek into a possible future. Not enough people are talking about this old classic short story Profession by Isaac Asimov, and what it can teach us about our AI-and-prompt-engineering-powered future.

Stack Overflow should not discourage repetitive answers. It’s a sign of a healthy community.