lightspill

Amusing that my mother stops complaining that I’m in a False, Satanic church the moment I mention they have me getting out of the house and square-dancing.

This is cute, but pointed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NonW9jozKYg

I am sorry, but if you go on about the “death drive” you have no expectation that anyone will take you seriously. Freud is pseudoscientific nonsense and it’s not okay.

Reality Cooking Shows make a /lot/ more sense once you watch Charlie Brooker’s The Unloser.

Hearing an older lady who’s successful and respected openly talk about having the same kinds of executive function issues with basic stuff that I sometimes do was great. Nothing terrible happened to her.

How I was raised I got the impression that owning up to having difficulty with ‘basic’ things like house cleaning was /social and professional death/ in the adult world.

But no, apparently not, even among humans!

Milk + Rosewater + Tagatose Syrup is surprisingly satisfying.

There’s something really nice about walking around my den bare-pawed, with all the windows open, and wearing shorts and a light shirt in spring weather.

Even apart from codegen, I expect a danger where people end up asking their LLM programming questions rather than other programmers.

A more experienced programmer can provide better guidance (“Why do you want to do that?”, “Actually that’s a footgun and instead you could…”, “Our environment is weird, so…”)

And asking and answering questions is part of development. They say you don’t understand something you can’t explain, so what happens when nobody is expected to /explain anything to others/?

There! I waited until after the siren stopped and it was only a severe thunderstorm warning instead of a tornado warning to go run around in it.

The idea that the Internet has homogenized culture doesn’t hold up under the number of people I talk to regularly who have no idea what a Coney dogs and doorwalls are.

PSA: If you run Arch and use tree-sitter in emacs and your font-lock mode isn’t working, the fix is in extra-testing.

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/emacs/-/work_items/13

I really don’t know how an ‘agent-first SDLC’ can be anything but a massive shift right. Unless you’re using the agent to augment the testing and verification on top of developers rather than having it output code.

https://matthiasott.com/articles/design-and-engineering-as-one

Honestly if someone said to me “Make it feel lighter.” my first instinct would be “Reduce the latency and total page size.”

Why, hello there, little friend, I am positively delighted to meet you!

I believe @AlefGP did a wonderful job of capturing my approach of excited, hyperfocused attention.