Ted's Tidbits

Mark Lamster: When I first arrived in Dallas, in 2013, and began trying to make sense of the city, I found it utterly confounding, a place of seemingly endless enigmas and contradictions.

https://om.co/2026/06/07/the-myth-the-mythos-and-the-man/ Anthropic is a safety company that has built a mythos.

Just dropped off a photo for the creative arts contest at the Fair.

It’s our ethical duty to understand large numbers

Today was a good day.

I spent last night in the ER and had surgery (appendectomy) this morning.

I love being in New York.

I finally got around to reading the Ted Chiang piece in The Atlantic about how LLMs aren’t conscious.

Cory Doctorow: What we make of this new fact is controversial.

Jake Savin: The hard part is finding all the invisible details, and the bargains that were made with the environment it came from.

Today’s Dallas Morning News front page 😢

The reason type coercion is important is that it provides an answer to the question: “What happens when you try to add two values of different types?”

Type coercion is one of those language features that is really powerful because, when done well, the programmer using the language doesn’t even notice it.

9 years, 6 months, and 4 days ago, I started a new job with a scrappy, but growing company doing really cool things.

I don’t like doing test posts, but I need to see if this gets posted to my Mastodon account.

Achievement unlocked: audible fan noise on my MacBook Pro M3.

Finished reading: Entrances and Exits by Michael Richards.

I’m trying out the Vivaldi web browser, and I’m just blown away by the number of configuration options.

Let’s say you want to make a programming language.

Happy 30th anniversary to Dave Winer’s Scripting News!

Dallas Morning News front page today

I need to remember how valuable writing is as a thought tool.

I’m building an 8-bit computer.

Cory Doctorow: The tech worker layoffs are best understood as an all-out war on tech worker morale, because that morale is the source of tech workers' confidence and thus their demands for a larger share of the value generated by their labor.

Matt Goodman: That’s the difficulty in this debate.