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Hey about that hugging face hack.

Let’s talk about this paper: Seyed M.

Peter T.

Arthur C.

I built an Army Fitness Test scorecard.

I’ve had the pleasure of meeting, at all stages of my career/education, people much more intelligent than I am.

Bhaskar Sunkara, The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality (Basic Books, 2019).

From the recommended politics shelf, finished “What Does Justice Look Like”.

Assume that LLMs are industrialized word association I would like to de-mystify the AI you probably use every day.

In this excellent essay on reverse centaurs1, Doctorow argues that people can either use AI as a tool (the centaurs) or be forced to let AI do the work and then you “supervise” it (reverse centaurs).

I just finished a book about the early internet era hackers, RTM and the like.

Social security is a joke.

There’s been either a panic or a manic gold rush regarding AI, depending on who you talk to. 4% of GitHub public commits are being authored by Claude Code right now.

What have I wrought?

Gov Walz and Mayor Frey, I’m asking you to deescalate the situation in Minneapolis, in light of prior federal/local clashes that escalated when local leadership failed to set clear deescalation norms.

Now, I have shouted into the void on social media to no end, so, I’m posting for archival purposes my current thoughts on the situation in my home state and city.

Statement on AI useage I increasingly use Claude Code CLI (by Anthropic) as a coding assistant, similar to how a machinist might use CNC tools - Increasingly automatic, carefully monitored, with human interaction required at certain touchpoints, retools,…

I got a really good question sent to me, and I’d like to archive the response here… I mostly use Go (previously Java) and am exploring Rust for unmanned systems, particularly embedded work and autonomy like navigation and perception.

Big news!

Life is really coasting along.

Oh look … another advanced cli utility that is a rewrite + a tiny bit of functionality.

I found out today that Daniel Stenberg the guy behind curl, which is the library behind basically every web-enabled tool you use, was nominated developer of the year in Sweden.

This horse/car analogy for LLMs is very weird.

John MacCormick, What Can Be Computed?

The Endgame for LLMs Might Look Like Windows XP Hear me out. 1.

I use coding agents daily.

Today I worked 11 hours, from home, checking on my sick daughter every hour or so, making sure my wife had enough sparkling water for her afternoon meetings, interviewing candidates, meeting with team, and pushing code.

Coffee on a monday after a productive weekend, here’s what went well this time.

If you were to take all technologists and instill in them a values of simplicity and re-use and longevity, and an obsession with repurposing old tech, I think you’d find they roughly sort into two camps: One would take on an intellectual journey of discov…

Summary In the first part of this series, I explored a primitive ‘quantitative diet’ idea.

Pareto Hobbies 2025 I decided to plot possible hobbies in 2025 in terms of career potential and personal enjoyment.

I’m lucky to have found a new job that is essentially my dream position.

Created with chatgpt + my own notes.

Wife and I are insanely busy.

You know, it was fun while it lasted, but I just don’t have time to work on the Highfleet Optimizer anymore.

Executing the strategy It’s really hard to know how much you’re eating.

OK, let’s talk about my diet.

OK, let’s talk about my diet some more.

OK, let’s talk about my diet.

I’ve been journalling for 10+ years.

I’ve been really into the Undaunted: Stalingrad game.

I play hunt showdown a lot.

Reading https://quiltro.org/notes/simplicity.html mastering programming https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/mastering-programming https://matthewrocklin.com/index.html Contribute https://github.com/scipopt/russcip https://github.com/GregoireHENRY/rust-spice…

All blockchain games are predicated on guessing random numbers in exchange for money.

Tools asciinema: Record and share your terminal sessions, the right way.

Leadership and Teams Turn the Ship Around homepage, amazon Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams amazon Related: “Let me tell you a secret” it’s the people Five Dysfunctions of a Team summary, amazon High output management amazon Army Leadership Manual

Computer Science Blogs https://gavinhoward.com/ https://www.benkuhn.net/ https://danluu.com/ https://vorpus.org https://jvns.ca/ https://eta.st/ Quality sites https://news.ycombinator.com/ https://lobste.rs/ https://hackaday.com/ https://www.lesswrong.com/

Why do GPA and ACT scores matter?

Messing about with serious software In which we discuss setting up some spaceflight software from NASA inside a tiny webserver, inside an AWS lambda, and with Rust.

As of today, we’re at 1.0 for the Highfleet tools / cogitator site. https://hfopt.jodavaho.io We provide: uploading ships, and getting a permalink for sharing. creating collections of ships you have uploaded, which can also be shared getting ship design h…