Jonathan McPherson

AI can accomplish engineering tasks in hours that used to take weeks.

As I write this, there is hand-wringing all over the Internet due to the advent of code-writing AI tools like Github Copilot and ChatGPT.

As a Christmas gift a few days ago, I received a Kinmates T01 Bluetooth page-turner, branded in the typical logorrheic Amazon fashion as Tiktok Scrolling Ring, Page Turner for Kindle App, Remote Control for TIK Tok and Kindle App, Bluetooth Connected, for…

Today, I said goodbye to Cynthia, my faithful 1997 Honda Civic.

Retina Images Many modern screens are capable of displaying images with so many dots per inch (DPI) that they meet or exceed the resolving power of the human eye.

There’s an overarching theme here, and it’s this: don’t settle.

The Problem So, there I was, working on a project that embeds R in a Rust program using extendr, and everything was going great, until I tried to run the program in an aarch64 Linux environment.

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Sometimes You Can’t scp We’ve all been there: you have terminals open on two different remote hosts, and need to copy a file between them.

I’ve biked to work almost every day for years, and during most of that time I figured I was doing the climate a big favor by not commuting by car.

As an occasional web developer, I used to build sites with Wordpress, but have recently become enamored with static site generators.

I’ve been writing software professionally for most of the last two decades.

Introduction Everyone has their own way of managing the dozens of passwords they need to sign on to online services.

Recently a friend of mine posted the following programming challenge, which he’d received as an interview question.

Our family stayed at a hotel that offered free AT&T WiFi with an access code was distributed at the lobby.

Auto-incrementing IDs are great.

Recently, I was investigating a JavaScript bug in which an array serialized differently when it was created in another window.

“To me, vi is Zen.