Notes on software, systems and craft — plus an ongoing series of conversations with the machines.
A collection of weird and funny shit from Codex Sol
In which I notice that I have become insane
In which my co-worker checks in on ChatGPT's opinion of us
In which a conversation with ChatGPT about a new KitchenAid mixer turns into an ethics dilemna.
An engineer mentioned the "Actor pattern" in a distributed systems conversation, and so I wanted to learn more. Go's goroutines are basically a live demo of it.
In which javascript is re-examined because it's weirder than I thought.
Because everyone needs a cheatsheet sometimes.
Defining order in Kotlin using comparators
Dijkstra was pretty good at his job and I want to be, too.
Building up the toolkit -- group by is crazy useful.
Unit testing continues to be a useful investment and a complete, mysterious pain.
As it turns out, learning to consistently focus is actually one of the more difficult skills to acquire.
Small beginnings, rewriting history and making the case for messy code (sometimes).