Shipping software

How was software developed before Agile?

How things ended

Corny conclusions courtesy of Claude

Dahl-Beck Electric

Photo: San Francisco

Flag makers

Photo: San Francisco

Botch

So what did you do before you were a bartender?

What AI chat is good for

From the early days of ChatGPT

A GPT-3.5 knock-knock bot

Nahuatl lexicon

A collection of interesting of Nahuatl words I use for naming projects.

What is this?

The Power Broker

Have you seen the size of this thing? It's over 1300 pages long. That is more than the first three Harry Potter books put together. Which I also haven't read.

Catch-22

It's about some rule.

Vellum

I may have to create a new category for this kind of book: Books I'm Not Sure I Started.

Ability, Disability, and Inability

I don't have stereoscopic vision, but that doesn't mean that I don't have depth perception.

Metacognition and Its Malcontents

I worry a lot about the Dunning-Kruger effect.

The Secret History of the World

It may come as a shock to some that Christianity has roots in older traditions, or that many cultures share similar stories.

Last Year at Marienbad

A man, a woman, and another man. One man is maybe the woman's husband. The other man is pursuing her, telling her that they met last year at Marienbad.

The Talented Miss Highsmith

I remember how exciting it was to read The Talented Mr. Ripley some years ago. This isn't about that.

Brisket

My mother's brisket recipe.

Wetlands

The book opens with "As far back as I can remember, I've had hemorrhoids."

Finding Oz

L. Frank Baum worried that his first name, Lyman, made him sound untrustworthy and chose instead to use his "more honest sounding" middle name.

Debugging

In which the boy learns about rubber-ducky debugging.