Making Life Easier

Modern AI tools can produce polished prose and clean-looking code, but polish is not proof of alignment.

I like to read but, sometimes, I don’t have time to read everything I’d like and I still want the information I could gain by listening to someone – or something – read for me while I’m driving, for example.

If you’ve been using the blytkerchan/build-paper GitHub Action and recently noticed a missing or stale reference, this post is for you.

We are living in a time when most of the software we use on a daily basis is written by hand using archaic, hand-crafted tooling.

About two years ago, I posted on this blog, expressing a concern that has since only grown.

In many ways, making certain tasks too easy too quickly can have its own pitfalls.

The Ukrainian government announced on May 1 that they would use a “digital person” to represent the ministry of foreign affairs for at least some of their announcements.

Interoperability is the scourge of all information systems: knowing what data means, how it is formatted, and what the semantics of the various fields are can be a daunting task.

Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (DFMEA) is a software engineering technique that can help validate design decisions or improve upon them.

“we will need to make sure legal requirements are at least similar across the board” Legal requirements are something engineers don’t like to think too much about: they get in the way of progress and are generally perceived as a pain in the nether regions.