Jon Udell

The Bram binary now embeds SQLite with its FTS5 fulltext indexer and search engine.

Agents like Claude Codex and Codex run in your terminal.

Handwriting was always problematic for me.

In this snapshot of the Bloomington calendar you can see that events are neatly categorized.

Agents are hardwired to be prolific writers and readers of code.

In his keynote talk at the first Perl conference, Larry Wall couldn’t get the Windows computer on the podium to behave.

I recently attended a talk, by an engineer at a large software company, on the topic of unreviewable PRs.

In Working With Intelligent Machines, written at the beginning of my AI-assisted coding journey, I quoted from Garry Kasparov’s The Chess Master and the Computer.

I’m working on a new tool whose tagline is the title of this post: Make best use of git and GitHub for AI-assisted software development.

I had an idea about 15 years ago that I wound up pursuing a lot longer than I should have.

I once wrote an article with the optimistic title GitHub for the rest of us.

Tools built to generate vast amounts of code can, paradoxically, help us write less of it: How To Use LLMs for Continuous, Creative Code Refactoring LLM series at The New Stack

How to manage a team of AI assistants in a virtuous cycle of improvement.

Tuscon’s Museum of Miniatures features hundreds of exhibits like this one.

Exactly one hundred and fifty years ago John Muir walked around in the same grove of giant sequoia trees that I walked around in today, and stood next to the same two thousand ton behemoth that had been growing for two and a half millenia.

The Volts podcast continues to be my favorite listen.

I’m visiting with American friends who are staying in a rural farmhouse in France’s Dordogne valley.

Although autonomous LLMs are inherently unreliable, there’s a long software tradition of building reliable layers on top of unreliable layers.

In the mid-1990s you could create useful software without being an ace coder.

We mostly don’t want to read the docs, but we do want to converse with them.

The great adventure of my birth family was the fifteen months we lived in New Delhi, from June of 1961, on a USAID-sponsored educational mission.

This Fresh Air interview with Hanif Kureishi had me riveted from the beginning, for one reason, and then at the end for a different reason.

A few years ago I abandoned Twitter in favor of Mastodon.

The JavaScript industrial complex won’t crumble anytime soon.

Perhaps, even though they are not themselves explainable, AIs can help us engineer explainable systems.

The first time I heard a critique of mediated experience, the critic was my dad.

Earlier efforts to diagram software with LLM assistance weren’t fruitful, but this time around things went really well.

“If you work with these cloud platforms every day, you have doubtless forgotten that you ever had questions like these.

There are plenty of ways to use LLMs ineffectively.

I was aware of The Geysers, a geothermal field about 35 miles north of my home in Santa Rosa, but I never gave it much thought until my first bike ride through the area.