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I like 🖥 computers, and I like 📝 writing about them! I also have 🧠 an Obsidian vault where I dump most of my notes. I make 🎵 music as slono. I like 🎨 drawing and 🖊 handwriting too!

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53 from 1 Jul 2022 to 7 Apr 2026
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2026 5

  1. From prompt and pray to prompt engineering
  2. Why I Make My Agents Keep Diaries
  3. Slowing Down in the Age of Coding Agents
  4. Simplicity in the age of AI-assisted coding
  5. Tool use and notation as shaping LLM generalization

2025 2

  1. LLMs Are Kryptonite for Legacy Code (But Don't Let Them Touch It)
  2. Can't Just Fake It - Level Up Your Vibe-Coding

2023 25

  1. Testing Smarter, Not Harder: Using LLMs for Better Unit Tests
  2. LLM Tools for the distracted developer
  3. Interpreting tarot cards with pinocchio and GPT
  4. My creative software design process
  5. Go time's "Neurodiverse Gophers" episode - a critique
  6. My life with IBS
  7. Summer Playlist
  8. YAGNI philosophy is reactionary
  9. Critiques of technology's impact on culture didn't age well
  10. Learn software the weird way
  11. The uncanny effectiveness of LLMs for practicing languages
  12. The junior code monkey in the age of LLMs
  13. LLMs are a revolution in open source
  14. Template rendering in Go: a software optimization tale
  15. GPT3 QUINE GPT3 QUINE GPT3 QUINE GPT3 QUINE GPT3 QUINE GPT3 QUINE GPT3 QUINE GPT3 QUINE GPT3 QUINE
  16. LLMs will fundamentally change software engineering
  17. I want my software to be visionary - the go go golems ecosystem
  18. When is a book considered "read?"
  19. LLMs: a paradigm shift for the pragmatic programmer
  20. oMG i CaN WRiTe WHaTeVeR i WaNT WHeNeVeR i WaNT
  21. Finding my way back to open source
  22. Thoughts about the ethics of Large Language Models
  23. Developing for the fediverse: individuals' fundamental rights
  24. Developing for the fediverse: some personal guidelines
  25. Disability, privilege, tone-policing and mastodon

2022 20

  1. Knowledge's shape and function
  2. Learning and practicing abstraction
  3. Why I am learning category theory
  4. Having a creative practice as a programmer
  5. You, the developer, are a user too
  6. Curiosity as tourism
  7. Embedded development is not like web development
  8. Embedded programming is like web development
  9. Being Arrogantly Ignorant
  10. “Autistic people can't acknowledge when they are wrong”
  11. Writing made me a better engineer
  12. 🐛 10 Debugging Tips for embedded and distributed systems 👇
  13. Why I Still Love PHP and Javascript After 20+ years
  14. Life As A Neurodiverse Alien: 3 Baffling Insights About Work
  15. Diagrams are the ultimate engineering tool
  16. Learning to work on personal projects - Part 1 - Community
  17. Turning music into a chore is how I became a musician
  18. How I Currently Take Notes
  19. Asking Stupid Questions
  20. Some Helpful Embedded Tricks

Undated 1

  1. #potofhoney