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Anthropic would like you to believe that you don’t need to deal with code anymore.

A year ago I watched this video about how double pendulums aren’t always chaotic.

I gamified donations in an organization that gives everything away for free.

13 years ago I got a Lenovo T430 ThinkPad to use for college.

Here are a few scenes I witnessed or participated in during my time in the Bay Area.

I know what it feels like to make over $1000 per hour.

When I was 8 years old I started making websites with my friend.

A prevailing sentiment online is that GPT-4 still does not understand what it talks about.

Update - DayZ now checks mod integrity before putting you in the queue.

Last year I was lucky enough to get access to 10 Gb/s home internet for $40/month.

In Star Trek humans live in a post-scarcity world.

The programmer internet is polarizing over ChatGPT.

This is written in response to this post from David Rozado.

After more than 12 years, BaconBits, the unofficial Reddit torrent tracker, has shut down for good.

One year ago I looked around for existing tech that would provide me with compile-time guarantees for a REST-ish API interface.

What is BrainFuck?

A common riddle-like question for programmers asks them to swap the values of two integers without a temporary intermediate value.

Shaders provide programmers with a beautiful combination of art and math.

The intention is to force myself to get a small taste of a bunch of new programming languages and programming paradigms.

Commit-Language-Visualizer After a stroke of inspiration earlier this evening I hacked together this tool.

It’s very common for high-school students to learn the geometry of a circle.

How images are rendered Imagine your computer is rendering an image of a tomato on top of a table.