Tim Kellogg

It’s Github Universe again, and Github announced some new features that bring it up to par with Cursor.

Yay!

The buzz is there!

Entropix has been getting a ton of buzz lately.

I’m blown away by NotebookLM.

“I keep fixing bugs that were written by the AI” I hear that a lot, and I think it represents a breakdown of the social contract we have as engineers.

Nobody writes code correctly on the first pass 100% of the time.

Anthropic announced prompt caching today.

“Is this magic?”

Everyone should do hackathons!

Mistral 2 Large is out, and it’s right up there with GPT-4o, …and Llama 3.1, and Claude Sonnet 3.5, and…yeah, there’s a lot of them.

Today Meta announced a new LLM, Llama 3.1 405B and along with it, a great letter by Mark Zuckerburg about why open source is good for developers, Meta & the world.

Are you a decision maker at a company?

Most embedding models normalize embeddings to 1.0.

What if you could measure emotions?

Can AI understand emotion?

I wrote an HTMX app and it was easy to develop a powerful plugin system within it.

I just pushed fossil v0.2.

“Prompt injection” is a perilously misleading term, we need a better phrase for it that helps beginners intuitively understand what’s going on.

A few days ago, @twilliability announced Birb, a Mastodon bot where you can send it a URL of any RSS feed, Atom feed, podcast, Substack, etc. and it’ll create a Mastodon account for it that you can follow.

Yesterday I talked to a longtime friend of mine.

Last night I had an idea and went ahead and built it.

How does the current generation of AI work?

This might be a hot take but I truely believe it: LLMs are the most interpretable form of machine learning that’s come into broad usage.

I was telling a colleague about my philosophy toward making decisions: “wait as long as you can”.

Regex gets a bad reputation for being very complex.

Agile talks about doing work in sprints, but it never felt like a “sprint” to me.

Over new years this past year I made dura.

“Why don’t we test our tests?”.

Faced with yet another crisis caused by a bug hidden in a cold path, I found myself Googling for a quick link to Slack out to the engineering team about cold paths.

Earlier this year my wife and I had a baby girl.

Debuggers used to be super useful, but today they are usually a sign that you don’t know what you are doing.

A couple months ago I was talking to a high-ranking engineer from an embedded RTOS vendor.

Yesterday I got an interesting question: Would you agree that HTTP/2 with HPACK would certainly rule out any reason for using MQTT?

Last week I came across this tweet: When C went viral was it crapped on as much as JavaScript is now?

I was talking to a man at a Denver IoT meetup group last week about his Internet of Things related startup.

This week I was fortunate enough to attend ThingMonk in London.

On Friday, Matt Asay wrote an article on readwrite about why the Internet of Things has to be open sourced that triggered a lot positive responses in my Twitter feed.

Null is dangerous.

Earlier there was a blog post by Clemens Vasters that flamed MQTT.

On Friday, shortly after posting a link about learning Go to Lobste.rs I got this tweet: @kellogh Since we're on the topic of link quality, may I ask you not to post Golang stuff to lobste.rs?

Given my history as a .NET developer I learned Functional Programming via F#, but I just started a new job as a Scala developer.

Recently I’ve been mentoring a startup in the Boulder area that processes large amounts of data real time.

Last week a respected colleague mentioned off hand that sorting on a value type takes a lot of memory in C#.

A while ago I discovered autojump and quickly realized that it could change how I use a console.

While watching the StructureMap discussion on google groups, a user wanted to do AutoFactories in StructureMap, something they were able to do in Castle.Windsor.

I’ve spent the last couple weeks piecing together a testing utility to fill a need.

One night last weekend I couldn’t sleep because I couldn’t stop thinking about open source projects like StructureMap where the maintainers are burnt out from giving all their time and energy.

One of my math professors said that our beliefs are shaped by our life experiences.

Code coverage has been a controversial topic for a number of years.