MilkCrunch

Over the weekend, more than one person told me that reading is hard and boring.

The cheapest part of using AI right now is the part you pay for.

The frontier model doesn’t do my work.

Last week, I sat through a vendor pitch.

A few months ago, I watched a contractor spend forty-five minutes trying to reach a Postgres instance on an internal network.

The career panic is everywhere.

I have more AI tools than I’ve ever had.

I have about 11,000 notes in Obsidian.

I’ve been running Linux for over thirty years.

Every few days someone asks me how large language models work.

I recently wrote a 2,500-word breakdown of how large language models work.

LLMs are shockingly bad at spatial reasoning, color theory, and working out problems in the physical world.

I used Evernote for more than ten years.

The cloud was supposed to be cheaper.

2025 was supposed to be the year open source fractured.

This is part 3 of a three-part series on preparing for Advent of Code.

This is part 2 of a three-part series on preparing for Advent of Code.

This is part 1 of a three-part series on preparing for Advent of Code.

Advent of Code just wrapped up, and I’ve been taking notes.

A few years back I inherited a system that had Postgres, Redis, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and RabbitMQ.

I’ve sat through a lot of enterprise sales pitches over the years.

Every few years, someone announces the next big thing that’s going to change how we build software.