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Why is it?

GeePawHill : "If you have so much tedious boilerplate that an LLM can reduce your workload, the problem is that your design and code require lots of tedious boilerplate, and that is not a problem you will fix without learning to program better."

It seems to me that there's a Hidden Assumption in the suggestion that we ought to use GenAI for code generation: the assumption is that producing code faster is always better.

In other adventures, I ran across a website In The Weights that checks how much a person's work is weighted by the LLMs... using my mikro2nd handle, I'm quite surprised to learn that I'm in the top 20% of Youtube Tech and Gaming influencers, at the same t…

Many orgs have some sort of "standard" for writing commit messages.

I'm becoming increasingly suspicious of the MarkDown school of thought that says that we need to use ordinary characters to mark up text with formatting information.

A post on the socials about how the person's Dad helped make the neighbourhood by talking to everybody and anybody, at any opportunity.

Here's where news-media failed in their transition to the web: they failed utterly to embrace the nature of the web — links.

Arthur C.

It's time to declare that Client-Server architected internet "applications" (i.e. applications of the underlying Internet protocols, mainly seen as websites) are dead.

There's a thing I don't understand about all the raping and pillaging of government departments going on in the USA right now...

Thinking about GenAI and the "putting artists out of work" thing...

A thought, triggered by the several "Writers IDE" things I've seen (Manuskript, that other KWriter thing, whatever it's called, even including Obsidian and its ilk): Writers never — indeed almost nobody ever — wants to write using MarkDown.

Most of the notebook tools out there are focused on the writing.

I'm wondering about the logic of those popups and permission-seekers we see everwhere, asking whether they can be invasively nosy about what we're doing and then offering us the choice between "OK" or "Maybe Later".

We've been watching Emily In Paris, a lighthearted series about a young American woman sent to work in the newly-acquired Paris branch of a marketing firm.

Who benefits from the "AI" bubble?

Wiki Notebooks.

2024-10-09 promoted to the garden: Programming by Composition

Seen on the socials: "Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization." - Peter Kropotkin Actually... cooperation is the law in jungles, too.

It used to be that Money was backed by valuables, often metal, frequently Gold.

Did the AMA thing with some of our students yesterday.

There's an interesting thread over in fedi on "Why is TDD hard to learn?"

Found out that Logseq is now available for Linux, so I tried it.

Wikid Exploration the First After a bit of downtime over the holiday season, it's back to work on the Wikid Project.

The Next Big Thing I decided on (see my previous project update was to implement backlinks.

Finally got around to a manual test of WikidProject and... it works!

Spent a while watching (listening, mostly — video of some group's Zoom call is not so fascinating) a meetup of the ToolsForThoughtRocks crowd in which they had Howard Rheingold as a guest.

I'm writing a wiki system.

StrangeLoop2023 talk: Supporting Data Journalism through Compilers for Visual Inputs.

As an atheist, whenever someone near me exclaims, "Oh God!"

Somewhat related to my own interests is this Stupidity Manifesto.

Wandering through my personal notes and collected RSS feeds, I find myself rereading Thesephist's Research Community post.