Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.

Write a program to fish for him and you maintain it for a lifetime.

Upper Log Hollow Falls- Pisgah National Forest - Brevard, North Carolina.

There once was a man from Nantucket
Who was careful with his data, where he stuck it
His passwords always impress
He checked for HTTPS
But somebody still put his PII in a public S3 bucket

There once was a coder named Hugh
Who swore that his bugs were quite few
Then AI reviewed
All the code he'd accrued
And found exploits dating from 2002

Starting to think Markdown might make it.

Thomas Aquinas, what a line.

“Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.” — Brian Kernighan

the nostalgia for pre-AI swe is so funny to me, yeah man I really enjoyed fixing CI and merge conflicts by hand

One of my favorite questions for LLMs after I've been having a discussion for a while is "What questions should I be asking you that I haven't asked yet?"

Side note… finishing a marathon this way is so badass because that’s sheer determination and willpower. You can’t train this final push it’s either in you or it’s not.

Wise men's View NC 105 North Carolina

A developer is a device for turning StackOverflow code snippets into programs.

Did you see this?

uvx --python 3.15 whatsnewt

What a cool way to train people on a new release! 🐍 😍

#Python

The 2026 Python Typing Survey results are out now!

Percentage of respondents using ty went from 16% to 37%, pretty close to Mypy and Pyright now.

message to fellow instructors: save everything, record everything, collect everything. slides, audio, scrawled notes, anything about your teaching. even if you don't know what you will do with it or how to use AI tools to process it all. just save all the things.

Wildly exciting that someone connected their @ChatGPT to the onetimefax mcp and sent our first customer fax that is via mcp! onetimefax.com/blog/onetime-f…

The Cheesecake Factory is a modern marvel. It should not be possible to have a menu the length of a Stephen King novella and have everything be available and pretty decent.

If you use @tailscale and work off multiple computers add this to your AGENTS.md file:

"Any time you give me a link to something running on this computer (a preview, a review page, a dashboard), give me a Tailscale link, never localhost. I work across several computers and my phone. Publish it with tailscale serve, open the link yourself to check it works, then send it."

First programming book I read: "Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL" by @sentience circa 2002.

The plants all around us are filled with bio-electrical signals that can tell us about the plant, its health, and the environment that we share. What if we could listen?

That's why we built Bombadil - our foundation model for decoding plants' electrical language.

if you are feeling hella lost with what’s going on in ML well buddy I have a 1h08min interview with the legendary @vboykis that should set you straight

in it we got:
- good dose of pragmatism
- what you should still learn
- focusing
- how to not lose your braincells to agents

Dreamed last night that the receptionist at my optometrist chastised me for using pip instead of Conda. #shouldgetoutmore