Carl Lange's Blog

I've always wanted to be the kind of person who uses org-mode, and I've probably written a decent amount of org-mode documents over the last 15 years.

I have read a reasonably large amount of science fiction in my life.

If you've been living under a rock, you might not have heard that access to Anthropic's latest frontier model Fable has been placed under export control by the orange man and his fellow cronies, so basically nobody can use it.

Add another habit to the pile of habits that I'm falling out of as I navigate middle age.

Something I find very interesting in the age of AI is my own change with respect to these models.

The other day, a browser game was shared to Hacker News in a Show HN.

This week, I was watching a file conversion taking a long time.

I've been trying to keep track of the things I've been making, because it's easy to lose track of the stuff you make, now that it takes 5 minutes to make projects that would have taken weekends or more.

What does it mean to release software now?

In September 2012, GitHub tells me I made 198 commits.

Building things is low-time-cost now, and so I think it's important for me to remember that some value was created even though the time spent was very low.

2025 was, at least for me, a sea-change.

I wrote "Do Things, Tell People" all the way back in 2012.

A long time ago, I worked with a very smart guy called Tim.

Brace yourself, it's even more words about The Age of AI.

Recently I came across TIC-80, which: TIC-80 is a free and open source fantasy computer for making, playing and sharing tiny games.

I used Emacs for nearly my whole professional life, always using one of the evil-based distributions like Spacemacs or Doom, after firmly seating vim muscle memory into my fingers in college.

I've never been a good writer, and even less so a technical writer.

Whenever I think of writing something for this blog, I begin by spending all my mental energy trying to come up with a clever title for the article before I've even determined that the article subject or my thoughts on it is in any way worthy of publishin…

I have few thoughts, fewer every day, and far, far fewer thoughts that are worth writing down, and by the time we get to the thoughts that are of such quality that I might publish them on the internet we're down to one or two a year, and that's if I'm hav…