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Last week we were attaching an MCP server to everything; this week we’re throwing them all out and replacing them with CLI’s (Command Line Interfaces).

TL;DR; This is a demo of using LLMs to summarize books to the desired reading length.

Way back in February 2006, I wrote a post where I shared a really simple way to model a bouncing ball that produced somewhat realistic rotations when the ball collided with a surface.

This is less a thing I recently learned than one that I re-learned multiple times through real-world experience.

Recently someone shared a link to a Javascript quiz that asks various questions about Javascript's infamous quirks.

How many bits are set to one in a bit string?

A Thing I Learned is intended to be an ongoing series where I teach myself to write narrowly about some small thing that I have recently discovered that may also be of interest to others.

This post is just some fascinating (or quite boring depending on your perspective) minutia that arises in the handling of time and timezones in programming.

About 5 or 6 years ago, I decided to form better sleep habits.

The only paper periodical that is still delivered to my house is MIT’s Technology Review.

In an effort to write more, I'm considering cataloging more of the things I learn on a day-to-day basis.

I read on the Internet that the beard trend is over.

As texts for sharing useful guidance and wisdom, religious texts are pretty much the worst.

This is a post I don't even want to write.

Earlier this month, I assembled some photos of the Charles River into a time lapse montage.

In 2006, my friend Myoung Lah and a group of housemates set a tripod atop Baker House at MIT and painstakingly moved the camera by hand at regular intervals to produce about 1,000 different photos from 6 distinct angles along the Charles River.

Where in the U.S. will you find the most “pleasant” days in a year?

A few weeks back, I took some time off for a bit of recharging.

Why does innerText require layout?

Outside of initial page load problems, “layout thrashing” is the most common performance problem I see in dynamic web applications.