The Meditative Coder

I had a long conversation with Claude.ai.

In addition to being a software developer, I'm also a little bit of a DIY handyman.

Huh.

Happy TDOV.

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I'm a fan of language REPLs (Read, Evaluate, Print, Loop).

Gabriel's horn is not a paradox.

LLMs sure seem to reason.

In my previous post, I described an experiment in which I had Claude.ai use its new web searching capability to become a news curator for me.

UPDATE: The experiment was a failure.

I used to be an Apple user, and I liked Apple's mail client.

Even though I've never really gotten that much into online security, I found this article interesting: https://www.feistyduck.com/newsletter/issue_121_the_slow_death_of_ocsp Favorite line (emphasis mine): And just like that, OCSP, a technology that we nev…

Claude saves me time and effort on an almost daily basis.

I'm working on a non-trivial bit of C programming, and I decided to externally modularize three parts of it as potentially reusable components: err - error-handling module. hmap - hash map module. cfg - configuration file loader module.

My love affair with Claude.ai continues.

This should be short.

As my millions of readers have noticed, I like Claude.ai.

As my previous blog post indicated, I'm learning Python.

Those who know me may want to sit down for this.

It's not unusual for me to create a shell script to test networking software, and to have it automatically run tcpdump in the background while the test runs.

I've been thinking a lot recently about code maintainability, including scripts.

This is another of those things that I've always known I should just sit down and learn but never did: what's the difference between SIGINT and SIGTERM?

So, my old MacBook Air finally became unusable as my primary machine (the screen backlight burned out, possibly due to my having dumped a can of Diet Coke onto it).

One of my favorite YouTubers, Tom Scott, has an email list that he posts to periodically listing things that interest him.

I have always been fond of the Emerson quote, "foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds".