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I observed all the happenings beneath the sun, and I found that all is futile and pursuit of wind.

  1. Falling for it

    I am a sucker for flattery

  2. LLM Lorem Ipsum

    AI comes for everyone.

  3. joseph smiths reasoning

    I don't want a god I have to submit to. I want a god I can aspire to

  4. a theory of asd

    ASD is like having two consciousnesses looking at each other.

  5. The end of man is knowledge

    The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him.

  6. Mirrors and memory

    How can I have a positive self image if you won't let me see it?

  7. When I saw the head Astronomer

    When his arms embraced her frame

  8. Claude Code: Cornucopia or Catastrophe

    Small steps in vibe-coding

  9. Shipping software

    How was software developed before Agile?

  10. How things ended

    Corny conclusions courtesy of Claude

  11. Dahl-Beck Electric

    Photo: San Francisco

  12. Flag makers

    Photo: San Francisco

  13. Botch

    So what did you do before you were a bartender?

  14. What AI chat is good for

    From the early days of ChatGPT

  15. A GPT-3.5 knock-knock bot

  16. Nahuatl lexicon

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

  17. What is this?

  18. john smiths reasoning

    I don't want a god I have to submit to. I want as god I can aspire to

  19. 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.

  20. Catch-22

    It's about some rule.

  21. Vellum

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

  22. Ability, Disability, and Inability

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

  23. Metacognition and Its Malcontents

    I worry a lot about the Dunning-Kruger effect.

  24. 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.

  25. 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.

  26. The Talented Miss Highsmith

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

  27. Brisket

    My mother's brisket recipe.

  28. Wetlands

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

  29. 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.

  30. Debugging

    In which the boy learns about rubber-ducky debugging.