Massively Parallel Procrastination

I was chatting with some friends about how I'm using "AI" tools to write code.

I've been thinking a lot about that Joan Didion quote: "I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means."

I've been spending a lot of my coding time lately working with a variety of AI coding assistants.

After doing it manually three times, I built a tiny script to update Keyboardio's blog post about the US tariff situation with updated duties and the expected cost to import our products into the US after May 2.

I'm posting this from a very, very rough cut at a bespoke blogging client I've been having my friend Claude build out over the past couple days.

My friend harper built a neat tool to let the llm draft your commit messages.

A couple years back, I put a ton of effort into building a tool that would let me create KiCAD fabrication outputs (gerber files, pick and place docs, schematics) from the commandline.

This morning, while I was hanging out with the kiddo while he was assembling LEGO and we were watching the Animaniacs, Trevor Flowers posted that he couldn't find his favorite no-jumper Perfboard anymore.

For the last couple years, I keep getting hit with an annoying bit of friction when sharing images from my phone online.

This morning, I got asked where someone should point a link to "me", so I told them to just point it at https://fsck.com.

One of the things we're building for the Keyboardio Model 01 is an interactive keyboard shell that I've provisionally named "quiche".

The Model 00 is very similar to the Mark 13 I mentioned over at http://blog.fsck.com/2013/12/better-and-better-keyboards.html, though it (finally) uses a PCB I designed and had Seeed Studio make me 10 copies of (for $200, including FedEx Next Day shipping…

It's been a while since I've written about my keyboard-building adventures....apparently, I haven't blogged about keyboards since April of this year.

This was my third trip to Shanghai.

I've built my first little piece of software for Google Glass.

I got a MOD Live HUD from Recon Instruments today.

[crossposted from Google+] [tl;dr $300 Android wearable computer with a HUD.

It's been quite a while since I've written about my keyboard hacking project.

Your pinkies are not exactly your most...adept fingers.

I'm starting to play around with what my first fully-homebrew keyboard design might look like.

An explanation of what I'm trying to do by writing this up When I started in on this project, I was a complete electronics newbie.

In early 2012, I ran across a fascinating project on the keyboard forums at geekhack.org.

I've been typing since 2rd grade or so, when my parents bought an Apple ][e.

For the past couple of months, I've been tinkering with Yet Another Todo App.

Last night, I was playing around with my new 3G Kindle Paperwhite.

I've been messing around with a few new projects.

Blog Post.

Last week, I was in Taipei for OSDC.tw.

I had a nice long plane flight to mess around with the Kindle Touch today.

About us We're Best Practical Solutions, a small software company located in Somerville, MA.

Wow.

It gives me great pleasure to announce the release of version 3.600 of K-9 Mail.

If you've read my blog for a while, you've probably seen my unfortunate interactions with Barnes and Noble trying to buy a nook last Christmas.

Not that I'm really posting here much these days, but I don't expect you to limit your responses to me to LJ.

(With apologies to Evi Nemeth.)

Last weekend at foo camp, I got the opportunity to see a Pixel Qi display in person.

Some friends of mine have been hard at work on a social music app called ;MixApp for...a good long time now.

"Now suppose," chortled Dr.

Broadcast message from root@diesel (pts/1) (Mon Mar 22 21:04:25 2010): diesel.bestpractical.com is being decommissioned.

It gives me great pleasure to announce K-9 Mail 2.400.

The short version Barnes & Noble have, without a doubt, the worst customer service of any company I have dealt with in the past decade.

Exceedingly tentative 2009 travel schedule.

Hi!

Say -- I'm going in a swimming, I am.

I got to play with a nook today.

I'm pleased to announce the release of K-9 Mail version 2.000.

Today, Amazon shipped an update for your Kindle 2 (and for the DX and The Kindle 2 International).

It's been a while since I've blogged about Kindle stuff.

Milo had been caught red-handed in the act of plundering his countrymen, and, as a result, his stock had never been higher.

I played hooky from work for a few days last week to help get Perl 5.11.0 released.