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20 Nov

“Task Failed Successfully”

“Task failed successfully.” It’s a fake* prompt, which inspired a meme, which inspired a widespread descriptive term. It’s a joke, and an absurd joke, but like many absurd jokes it exists and persists because it reflects something real. The mimetic...
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23 Mar

Burning Diffuse from Both Ends

Part one of an unknown length series If you stumbled onto this article and expect to learn something of AI in a traditional fashion, you might spend your time better elsewhere (even if that’s another article on this blog). Usually...
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15 Aug

“Scrappy Path”

In the world of software, you often hear about the “happy path” of a product. A “happy path” is the optimal use case, the ideal journey a user takes to accomplish a goal in a piece of software, from...
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27 Jul

A Developer’s Impact

There are a few metrics in common use for gauging a developer’s ability: Proportion of success Years of experience Speed / efficiency Quality of code Fame or reputation Amount of code written Ability to think abstractly Different people and...
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20 Jul

Hanami (Ruby) on Ubuntu

Hanami is a modern Ruby web framework. I’m experimenting with it right now. Ubuntu, compared to other linux distros, or to a mac, can often require different steps when getting started with a new tool. Here is the process...
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16 May

Text Editor Wars

If you’ve been anywhere near professional programmers or enthusiastic hobbyists, you’ve heard the contentions over “best text editor,” in guises which range from gentle ribbing to outright flame wars. I can’t weigh in on that. I have my preferences,...
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20 Mar

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“Task Failed Successfully”

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“Scrappy Path”

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