Amit's Thoughts

In the last post I described how chat interfaces to LLMs are giving a limited view of what the LLMs could do.

I often see someone say "the AI said XYZ" but my understanding is that what an LLM like ChatGPT shows us is not the the LLM answering, but something slightly different.

For several years now I've been using color in my Emacs buffers to mark whether it's a "work" project or a "personal" project.

In the part 2 I described how, for a particular project with certain naming conventions, I wanted to use emacs tree-sitter font-locking to highlight variables that might be used in the wrong context: I found a way to make it work for simple expressions but

In the part 1 I described my initial attempt at customizing font-lock using Emacs 29 tree-sitter.

A few years ago I blogged about custom tree-sitter-based syntax highlighting in emacs.

When working on my web projects I often have same the same filename in different folders, such as projectname/index.html and anotherproject/index.html.

Star Trek Red Shirt, Wikipedia, Derek Springer, CC BY-SA 2.0 People who wear red shirts on the original Star Trek have a high mortality rate. can we conclude that red shirts caused the high mortality rate?

I often put TODO comments into my projects, including in source code.

"robot asks a question holding a book" image from stable diffusion I occasionally play with LLMs (large language models).

Julia Evans had a great talk called Making Hard Things Easy.

In a previous post I showed some examples of how railroads influenced the shape of Interstate 5 in California.

[Update: 13-Apr-2023 with some of the background context and some things I learned from hackernews] [Update: 18-Dec-2023] This hidutil stopped working for me in MacOS 13.6 and 14.2.

While on road trips I notice sometimes there are places where a road will deviate from the path I expect it to take.

Although I primarily use Emacs, I love the idea of vim text objects, and wanted to incorporate them into my editing.

I like to try various things out in my editor to see if they're useful.

Over the years I've mentioned to people that I work in two modes: Beer Mode 🍺 I'm relaxed and make connections between many different ideas.

I'm a big fan of tunnels.

Illustration from unDraw I want to personalize things I use.

I find that Roman Numerals didn't "click" for me.

Firefox 89 has a new appearance, removing features (ugh) and annoying some people while delighting others.

I write some of my web pages with emacs org-mode, and then export to html.

Transport Tycoon / OpenTTD is my favorite game of all time, and I wanted to play it on Steam.

Update: [2021-01-24] The workarounds in this blog post are now obsolete, as openjdk, yuicompressor, and emscripten are now available in ARM homebrew.

In online collections (photos, bookmarks, blog posts, emails, etc.), “labels” and “tags” are typically words attached to the content.