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I was asked recently what I thought about Graham Platner and realized that I hadn't really formed an opinion about him.

The most hated people in America are leaders of big tech companies.

In 1989, The Offspring released their self titled album.

In 1995, Turing laureate Niklaus Wirth wrote an essay called A Plea for Lean Software in which he mostly gripes about the state of software at the time.

Several days ago, ICE agents murdered Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.

Earlier in 2025, I started to poke around and experiment with using LLM-based AI.

On Mar 30, 2025, Hank Green posted on BlueSky: Some of the critiques I’ve seen [of abundance liberalism] do seem to boil down to the old mainstay of “people should stop wanting the things they want” and I don’t really know how to handle that.

Charlie Kirk was assassinated in Utah today, just a few short hours ago.

Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's book Abundance made a big splash when it landed in March of this year.

A lot of us in NYC are basking in the glow of an unexpectedly decisive Zohran Mamdani victory last night.

I recently came across "Odin: A Programming Language Made For Me."

Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba and formerly one of the richest people in China, has reappeared this week.

I thought it would be useful to record my journey through various technologies on this blog, akin to Simon Wilison's TILs.

I'm finally comfortable admitting that LLM no longer stands for Lunar Landing Module.

If you travel in east Asia in the winter, especially to Korea or Japan, you'll find yourself somehow in strawberry season.

My blog has been on hiatus for some time.

I've always had a hard time describing my approach to automated testing; it tends to be much easier to explain what it isn't.

I don't read too many programming books, and I've not taken notes as I read a book in a long time, but as part of scheduling some downtime after my 2nd jab, I decided to spend a nice Saturday on the couch with John Ousterhout's Philosophy of Software Desi…

Jussi Pakkanen, author of the Meson build system, wrote a nice article recently called Does C++ deserve its bad rap ..?

My GPU's fans recently started to malfunction, which means it smells like hot failure in my office while I'm waiting on a new GPU to arrive.