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In March 2025 a friend introduced me to Claude Code around the time of the Sonnet 3.7 release.

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In which a renewable-energy zealot from San Francisco reaches out to talk to rural community members opposed to a solar energy project.

“Hey Jack!”

The world is making deliberate strides toward a renewable-energy future, which promises to limit damage to the climate from fossil fuel emissions.

Howard Fishman just came out with a long-awaited biography of my aunt Connie Converse – a bedroom-demo singer-songwriter of the 1950’s, who worked in obscurity, disappeared without a trace in 1974, and then developed a cult following decades later.

Decades ago (and I won’t even say how many decades) I fancied myself to be a songwriter.

[This is an edited and redacted email rant that I sent to a friend back in April 2022, in response to Elon Musk getting involved with Twitter, and Musk’s statements about content moderation.

I used to blog occasionally, in bursts.

I’ve been working in Silicon Valley since 2000, at first as an engineer and then as a …. well, that’s what we’re here to talk about.