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Pysio died in his seventh year.

A caller phones Radio Erywan.

There is one claim about LLMs that irritates me more than all the discussions about prompting, AGI, and stochastic parrots combined: “We don’t know if it is yours”.

I’ve been working on Emacs performance on macOS for a couple of months - not continuously but for couple of months nonetheless.

Recently at work I received access to a Claude account (that I stopped using because found it *meh*).

Zig has many awesome features, but there’s one that’s absolutely no. 1 for me: zls formatting features.

This post has a very limited audience.

Who does things like that?!?

When writing immediate mode (egui) applications it comes to me quickly that nigh all logic computations should be done off the UI thread.

Ever heard about Brainf*ck language?

Every LLM-backed tool I built started the same way: wire up an API client, handle key storage, paper over provider quirks. hn-jobs-evaluator had Gemini baked in.

It’s been almost 20 years since I started working as a software engineer.

Monthly “Who’s Hiring” threads on HN are a mess to filter.

Every software engineer worth their salt has lived through the static vs dynamic debate at least once.

Every team has a code review process.

I can’t overstate how much I hate GitHub Actions.

CUE is the Swiss Army knife of file generation.

** The Definition of Insanity They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

…also known as synergized orchestration of federated functional paradigms via lattice-theoretic constraint-based asset dissemination ;-) or “how I generate X YAML files with Cue to keep my sanity intact”.

// make_tool.cue package main import ( "tool/file" ) files: {} command: make: { for k, v in files { "\(k)": file.Create & { filename: k contents: v.contents } } } This is a quick boilerplate for Cue lang to start producing (t…

If you’re one of my 3 stalkers (HEY Y’ALL!)

Table of Contents Design Word on the Prompt Types Implementation Main Function End result and final word Main.hs Inspired by Fly.io article I figured that writing an Agent in Haskell (which I recently picked up) would be a nice exercise, so hey, why not do

This is a description of recently released MicroDiagram prototype.

Table of Contents Setup How to input ◊ ?

I’ve been working on a specific idea for some time - microdiagrams DSL.

Recently I thought that writing about Cuelang and thought “hey, wouldn’t it be nice if I could put some Cue code into Org and evaluate it so that I could showcase the result”?

Table of Contents Favorite Go Cuelang CLIPS Zig Promising C Haskell Souffleé False promise Prolog Mercury Perl Left behind Clojure Rust Ruby Elixir Bland Python TypeScript Honorable mentions No, please, no As I’m juggling languages often there are those w…

This one is stupid.

Przemysław Alexander Kamiński · Raideur des doigts September 20th, 2025 marks exactly one year since I bought Roland’s FPX-30, 88-keys full sized digital piano.

Is free will an illusion?

Profiling Emacs on macOS is a child’s play… …with a playbook stashed away.

The Context I have been recently roaming.

In Elixir one has a wonderful `case` statement to use: @spec check_calendar(date()) :: {[date_slot()], [info_atom()]} def check_calendar(date) do case Calendar.check(date) do # Reads from database adds some more logic :free -> Calendar.show_day(dat…

S := .sentinels PROJECT_ROOT := $(abspath ../../) TARGET_DIR := $(abspath ../..

One thing that really annoyed me at the beginning of my adventure with Prolog was when THIS happened: ?

Grounding is one of the weirdest concepts in Prolog and the ones that occassionally comes back to haunt me.

Single iteration loop, that can be taken from “base” software development process, one that’s often taught during education usually is a simple one.

I find it amusing that software engineers (or at least those I know) are very risk averse but paradoxically very optimistic about some topics.

Dealing with a dependency hell is a dirty job.

Caveat emptor Without going into personal details — I have a stake in ADHD.

Tires are everywhere Nobody needs a tire by itself Tires aren’t exciting (except for tire engineers and tire salespeople) Tires “just are” You don’t have to buy very expensive tires There are reasons why the cheapest tires are cheap For some people tire’s…

Mickey Petersen wrote nice piece about compile feature in Emacs - something I use a lot and I recommend the read.

Mickey Petersen wrote nice piece about compile feature in Emacs - something I use a lot and I recommend the read.

Hey!

Hey!

For the last few months I was very unhappy with my iPhone 13 Pro battery.

For the last few months I was very unhappy with my iPhone 13 Pro battery.

Hey y'all!

Hey y'all!

Blackboxing of React Component is a (self-named) process that I use in order to separate visual component from the logic layer.