Hold The Robot Blog

If you hand a new project to a human, they will start out pretty useless.

Look at this.

I recently took over a software project that had, from both an engineering perspective and a usability perspective, outright failed.

I find myself using LLMs for coding in 4 specific ways: 1.

The compiler is unable to type-check this expression in reasonable time; try breaking up the expression into distinct sub-expressions This is an error you will see often if you develop SwiftUI in Xcode.

I have long since come to appreciate the value of writing scripts to avoid someone else (or future me) from having to re-learn and re-solve problems, but something about it has always bugged me.

mkdir -p $(dirname $0)/data; cd data print_messages() { clear cat $(ls -tr | tail -n30) printf "\033[31m$USER:\033[0m " } export -f print_messages watchexec 2> /dev/null -- bash -c "print_messages" & while read text; do printf "\033[31m$U…

I recently learned something that blew my mind; you can run a full desktop Linux environment on your phone.