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Oct 21, 2025: This actually reminds me of “Augmenting Long-term Memory”, a good article I’ve read years ago.
Oct 21, 2025: I have been meaning to give flashcards another go, but can’t seem to make the habit stick. This one looks amazing. If it doesn’t work for …
Sep 11, 2025: Dad visits museum of all the fun hobbies he used to have It was emotional, getting rid of my unused shoes last week. Climbing, trail running, …
Sep 11, 2025: In four years, we went from “everything is a file” to “everything is systemd”. I guess I just hate almost all software
Sep 11, 2025: I stopped using Linux between 2010 and 2014. When I came back to it, my distro had switched to systemd and I could no longer understand how to do …
Sep 11, 2025: The virtue of the smartphone camera is that it takes the fuss away from gear selection and puts you in “just shoot” mode. I gave that up …
Aug 25, 2025: Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the programmer who must maintain it.
Aug 16, 2025: Out of the “five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of text from the other four” that is the internet, Reddit is the only one I keep …
Aug 16, 2025: The negative externalities of widespread LLM usage are the rest of the world starting to ‘enjoy’ the sloppiness we programmers have gotten …
Aug 16, 2025: Vibe coding is a symptom, not the problem Do not allow this language [Ada] in its present state to be used in applications where reliability is critical, i.e., nuclear power stations, cruise …
Aug 10, 2025: “Glorifying God with our bodies isn’t about what we don’t do” This is what it means to be made in his image (Gen. 1:27). What …
Aug 5, 2025: Reisner’s Rule of Conceptual Inertia: “If you think big enough, you’ll never have to do it."
Aug 4, 2025: I found this amazing set of courses on church history from The Gospel Coalition. I’m only a few videos in, but the “recommended …
Jul 31, 2025: Founder mode, hackers, and being bored by tech I’ve been thinking about this as I look for a job: why do I feel so repulsed by the idea of …