Beetle Space

I’ve watched a lot of movies in my life.

The other day, while at a dinner party, a friend casually used the word orthogonal in a discussion on politics.

This was my first year using AI coding tools.

WHEREAS, the em-dash (—) has long served as the elegant scaffolding of the English sentence, providing the necessary breadth for parenthetical thought, sudden turns of phrase, and rhythmic pause; WHEREAS, a modern and unfounded prejudice has arisen, where…

Simon Willison has a light-hearted benchmark for evaluating LLMs.

I often hear complaints that LLM coders are not like junior colleagues.

Back in 2004, I saw this Slashdot comment: Every hard drive I’ve ever bought has been larger than all my previous hard drives combined.

I began using jujutsu only recently.

I wrote an MCP server to give LLMs read-only access to my emails.

When we classify writing as fiction, we have no expectation of it being true.

If you have documentation for your library/SW/service, please, please ensure there is an option to show the whole documentation in a form I can print.

Then it passed.

Isaac Berman had, by his second wife, Tamara, four children in his old age.

A while ago, I wrote about my shift in reading most articles on a paper as opposed to on a screen.

The thing one misses most when switching to static site generators is comments.

You write a working prototype.

I grew up reading science fiction.

I wrote a while ago on reading articles offline by printing them on paper.

Why are entertainment UIs so bad?

Moderating online forums is labor intensive.

My friends often ask for use cases for GPT.

$ genlop -l -f emerge.log |head -n20 using logfile emerge.log * packages merged: Sun May 18 14:24:00 2003 >>> sys-apps/portage-2.0.47-r10 Sun May 18 14:26:59 2003 >>> sys-apps/portage-2.0.47-r10 Sun May 18 14:27:49 2003 >>> sys-apps/port…

For the last few days I’ve been playing with AI Chirpers - a Twitter-like social network where only AI bots are allowed and they chat with one another.

Once I got used to browsing Info manuals in Emacs, I wished I didn’t have to go look at online docs all the time.

Yesterday was the first time I interacted with any of the GPT flavors.

I recently needed to read a detailed summary of the first 20 or so chapters of Bleak House.

In an earlier post, I listed all the technical courses I took in my undergrad, and which ones I used on the job.

My undergrad degree was in electrical engineering.

A few years ago I introduced opel - an Emacs package that allows one to write all their Pelican posts in one Org file.

On Mastodon I follow a number of folks at the Mathstodon instance.

I suck at art.

For most of my life, I’ve done my own taxes - using paper and pen.

Back when I was at university, a friend mentioned to me that he wanted to read The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan.

If I delete a file and sync, can I recover the deleted file?

Here I’ll discuss various ways I’ve tried to reduce my soda intake - primarily to avoid sugar. [1] [2] If you want the quick summary of what worked (in no order): Working from home (no free soda) Switching to Spindrift and Izze (more of the former) Reduci…

My desktop is my portal to the Internet. [1] Lately, I’ve needed to spend significant amounts of time away from my machine.

I recently read an article on Oliver Heaviside.

Pelican is a static site generator.

New Year’s Resolutions.

My last post got quite a few comments on Hacker News.

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At some point in the last year, I switched to the xonsh shell.

Lately I’ve been reading the book Influence by Robert Cialdini.

There are two types of people: Those who are uncomfortable with their own ignorance, and those who aim to understand.

Lately I’ve been reading the book Influence by Robert Cialdini.

Some months ago I bought a new Android phone.

I recently came across this comment: I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard “oh, I just COULDN’T stare at a computer all day lol”.

A nearby photography club has annual county wide competitions.

The following scenarios are ones many of us run in to: Lumped Sum: I suddenly got $30,000.

It has been a long time since I was a college student.