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This is a long-overdue follow-up to my 2023 essay AI Pessimism.

https://piechowski.io/post/git-commands-before-reading-code/

Space is amazing. https://images.nasa.gov/

Artemis II has been incredible.

https://www.ifixit.com/News/93833/ask-ifixit-how-do-i-fix-sticky-plastics

https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe/ A good example of bad software design.

https://jonready.com/blog/posts/everyone-in-seattle-hates-ai.html

Abandoning junior roles in your company is a life-or-death bet that AI will eventually replace ALL roles.

You must read Warren Buffet’s final letter to shareholders as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.

We’ve been joking about “the year of Linux on the desktop” for three decades now, but it really does feel like the stars are aligned for 2026 to be that year.

https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-toy-story-you-remember A fascinating, if somewhat sad look at how different versions of feature films wind up with different colors and how much that can impact a film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?

https://walzr.com/sf-parking/ Riley Walz has put out a number of incredibly unique projects over the years.

https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/

If you’ve been anywhere on the internet in the last year or so, you’re probably familiar with what I am calling the “Em-Dash Debacle”.

I use Obsidian as my primary note-taking tool.

https://www.4rknova.com/blog/2025/08/30/foil-sticker

If you’re at all involved in the web development, Ruby/Rails, Linux, or general tech community you’ve probably heard of Omarchy - a new “opinionated Arch + Hyprland Setup” by DHH - CTO at 37 Signals and creator of Ruby on Rails.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?

https://ampcode.com/how-to-build-an-agent In this phenomonal blog post, Thorsten Ball explains how simple AI Agents are under the hood and how you can build one yourself.

https://kagi.com/stats?

https://youtu.be/Pw3AvKcHeTw?

https://github.com/sinclairtarget/git-who This is a really cool utility, and it’s pretty quick too.

I am adding a “Linkblog” to this website.

I just purchased a new Mac Mini with the intent of setting it up as a home server.

It’s interesting to look at how one’s software usage changes over time.

It’s the middle of 2024 and unless you live under a rock you’ve certainly encountered the trend of “AI” infiltrating virtually every piece of software we use.

Stop me if you’ve been there before.

It’s 10:38 AM.

Fighter jets are a technological marvel.

In case you’ve been living under a rock the past couple of weeks, people are kind of mad at Reddit.

Quick update - I have enabled comments for blog posts on chambers.io.

There has been a lot written about AI lately.

Highlights We bought a new house and moved!

If you are not familiar with Heroku, it’s a platform-as-a-service for deploying and running software applications.

Highlights We had a baby!

:book: Books I Read Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand The Secret History - Donna Tartt Seveneves - Neal Stephenson Educated - Tara Westover 2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C.

Introducing vb4c - Vim Bindings for Chrome!

Highlights I broke my leg :frowning: I started a new job at Zendesk!

I’m joining Zendesk!

We use it for everything, and most of us have no control.

When I got my first SysAdmin job (as a Student with the Center for High Throughput Computing) my Linux/Unix knowledge was passable but not great.

As of today chambers.io is officially served up over HTTPS.

If you’re using a modern terminal emulator with unicode support (for example, the default Gnome terminal shipped with Ubuntu) you can add Emoji to your bash prompt.

You see the term ‘Shell’ tossed around a lot these days.

Someone made a funny remark at work the other day.

I made a tiny script for keeping simple text-based notes.

In January of 2018 I started a new job with the Department of Radiology in the University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine and Public Health.