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Charlie Meyer's Blog

blog.charliemeyer.co

I'm a software developer and former teacher based in Boston. I'm working on Pickcode, an online IDE for mid...

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28 from 16 Sep 2022 to 22 Sep 2026
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now and then (1 in the last year)
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personal blog
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2026 1

  1. Seashells, Software, by the Seashore

2025 6

  1. Replit's Existential Problem
  2. LLMs Are the Ultimate Demoware
  3. The Trillion Dollar Chart
  4. The GPT-5 Launch Was Concerning
  5. Orchestra Conductors are Prompt Engineers
  6. The FC/FC Chasm: Why Teaching Programming Still Matters

2024 4

  1. This blog is (mostly) moving
  2. A beginner's first code editor shouldn't have AI
  3. Sight-reading a Software Project
  4. The Zen of Yahtzee

2023 11

  1. A one line code change inside iOS made me waste 5 minutes
  2. Programs Are Games, Programming is a Game
  3. We Should Still Teach Kids to Code
  4. What I Learned From Two Years of Teaching High School CS
  5. The Affogato Approach to Teaching Programming
  6. Humans Need Training Data Too: Teaching with GPT-4
  7. Chess, Free Will, and LLMs
  8. Teaching is More than Dominoes
  9. Errors are Not Failures
  10. We Should Communicate Probabilities With Flips
  11. The New Coder's Hierarchy of Needs

2022 5

  1. How to Have Fun Building
  2. ChatGPT, the Abacus, and Education
  3. Coding Fast and Slow
  4. Code Doesn't Happen to You
  5. A Mathematical Theory of License Plates

Undated 1

  1. #potofhoney