Nate Meyvis

By Stephen Greenblatt.

When people ask me how to learn software, I often say that: They're probably overrating books and underrating experimentation; They're probably overrating tutorials and underrating non-tutorial projects.

I often read about getting LLMs to work for a long time toward a goal.

A certain kind of document management is embarrassingly important to me these days. as more and more of my projects are fundamentally the maintenance, interrogation, and development of some corpus.

I am late to writing about Jev, largely because I've been too busy using Jev.

Here's a rough and speculative outline of a psychological profile in software: Sensitive to bugs, but simply because there exist lots of bugs.

Lots of our software needs queue-like behavior.

By Cally Oldershaw.

Many applications can be built and deployed with either a Vercel-based stack or an AWS-based one.

Easily the best 9/11 book I've ever read (though I didn't set out to read a book about 9/11; I was just in the mood for a Joseph O'Neill novel).

Here are some of the many software-design questions on my mind: I run a spaced-repetition flashcard site, and flashcarding is obviously a good fit for LLM assistance, but questions of how to implement that LLM assistance are sometimes awkward.

Here are two subjects that have been on my mind: New models are vastly better at retrieving and tracking lots of real-world information, as I've discussed here and here.

Some misc. notes following up on the bug-blindness discussion Dan Luu prompted earlier this week: I've long advocated developing the skill of describing software that you want, whether it's something totally new or a better(-for-you) version of something…

Flash 3.8 is out, as I discovered when it showed up in my Antigravity terminal.

It is very good.

Here is the incomparable Dan Luu, arguing that (i) there are way more bugs than most people think and (ii) most of us systematically fail to notice them.

Deciding that an experiment has failed, and throwing away the work, can feel bad.

It would be an indecency, a stupidity, even a betrayal to find fault with such peaceable, honest work.