Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho

A small historical library of my life.

Because I often wonder this, and because fish makes it easy, and because writing it down here might help you and will definitely help me remember it!

A co-op for musicians?

What mental muscles can you afford to see waste away?

Most developers get this wrong, in my experience… and I don’t blame them!

Mostly to help people.

Which is good news, in a way.

A little report on the state of contemporary LLM-based tools.

Is there a better kind of day?

Robin Sloan on the only way you ever finish things.

In this case, a book chapter.

This actually isn’t that complicated; stop letting people lie to you.

Never miss an opportunity to take good photos!

Trying to prod myself a little into reading more carefully.

running as a helpful tool for training our emotions.

It is indeed not optimal.

An idea for indie folks working together.

Telling myself this a lot right now about my composing “career”, such as it is/not.

Taking a page (no pun intended!)

Giving this project its own proper home at last!

It’s only taken me over a decade to getting around to realizing this was not only an option but a good idea.

It’s still terrible for us all.

My opinion on YAML probably won’t surprise you.

Help me make this essay as robust as it can be!

I did it, and I did it fast!

…and resilience is a virtue I have been building all-too uncomfortably these past five months.

We took a family ski trip and it provoked no little astonishment.

Having an App Store is fine.

And a requisite aside about large language models.

Work.