The “B” Ark

Beans have unexpectedly become one of my favourite garden treats and these Dragon Tongue bush beans, which I planted for the first time this year, are absolutely delightful!

Big year!

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We’ve got ourselves an overachieving Haworthia right here.

This past year has been a bit of a whirlwind.

Its so weird to me that so many in software development have so much disdain for software development.

I used to travel with my laptop partly to use as a media playback/streaming device but with a USB-C mini-dock that does PD passthrough and HDMI out, my Thor is as good or better!

Oh man it’s gonna be hot sauce time soon!

I’ve been thinking a lot, lately, about the now-ubiquitous tech industry trend toward LLM automation of coding and the expected and anticipated productivity gains that are touted as reasonable and achievable.

This is simply fantastic.

The TOS episode “The Ultimate Computer” aired 58 years ago.

If there’s one very cool blog I can recommend, it’s this one.

It is deeply funny to me that Anthropic straight up announced that Fable will quietly nerf itself if you try to use it to build a competitor.

It’s a funny thing, quietly writing on this blog, fully understanding I’m posting in public while deep down expecting few if any will notice.

If you’re not in tech you might not realize just how much of a panic has set in among the C-suite and investor class in the industry.

Well dang I just discovered IndiePass, which is the Android client I use to publish short posts and images to my blog, is now unmaintained.

Can we all admit that a lot of devs are into AI because we’ve made software development so utterly horrible that coding just straight up sucks now?

I joined my new job back in October of last year, just a couple of months after Anthropic released Opus 4.1 and a month before the drop of Opus 4.5.

And now this blog is available via Gemini.

This blog is now available via gopher.

It’s so frustrating that AI is both destroying the open web by drowning it in slop and burying it in scrapers while it’s also a powerful tool for folks who want to launch their own blog or website.

Well, I can honestly say the Ayn Thor hype is deserved.

Back in the summary of 2023 I made the decision to leave my (first and only) position as a VP of Product at Invidi and take a career break.

Now that’s a lot of crabapple jelly…

Fun fact: dip bars are great for jelly making (in this case crabapple).