Blogs about Development

I recently read Tyson Yunkaporta's Right story, wrong story – his latest book after the one that grew a bunch of new synapses in my brain, Sand Talk. It was a different experience. Perhaps it …

One of the joys and the promise of developing programming languages is that you can develop your own way to interface with a computer.

Composite kitchen worktop material is a good choice for a CNC machine because it is very heavy and very flat. It is a bad choice because it is quite soft. But mainly it is a …

10,000 hours — that’s how long it takes for you to be good at something. Or at least that’s what they say. Well for me, that's how long I immersed myself in taking gaming rather …

This won’t make much sense if you don’t speak Icelandic, but the gist of it is, every year since we moved into our house in 2016, we’ve put together a treasure hunt for the kids, …

Monday, Apr 15 Monty Hall Problem (permalink) made by EvanC, submitted by RodEsp It's a great way to see that the Monty Hall Problem's unintuitive solution is actually correct. — RodEsp

While writing about Git, I’ve noticed that a lot of folks struggle with Git’s error messages. I’ve had many years to get used to these error messages so it took me a really long time …

Do you get frustrated when you have to throw out fruits and vegetables that have gone bad?Have lots of kitchen scraps but can't be bothered to compost them due to possible smell, rodents, HOA rules, …

I see so many cool indie projects that have been made by really talented developers, and I'm very jealous! The internet, or more specifically, the small web seems to be awash with cool projects. Whether …

I recently needed to send a friend some images in a way that could be referred to later/added to. Images to create a “mood”. A “moodboard” if you will. Here were my options: Make a …

The barball strategy, popularized by Nassim Taleb, is a way to navigate risk/reward tradeoffs when you’re skeptical about the accuracy the risk estimates. While it originated in financial investing, it can apply to product and …

Slinging code on a Palm PDA Power outage desperation, a Palm PDA, and some Ruby · April, 21st, 2024 It's finally spring here in Maine, which means I feel I can safely reflect on this …

This is a work-in-progress post on the GNU datamash command. I'm hoping this post will serve as a quick reference for some of the use cases and tickle your curiosity if you haven't come across …

My work at Zoo has recently focused on KCL, our CAD programming language. Currently our modeling app uses a tree-walk interpreter, but for various reasons we've been exploring a proper compiler instead. I've been developing …

I have two new bikes[1], so thought I’d post about them[2]. The single-speed The first is a single speed beater I picked up from Facebook marketplace for £35 whole pounds. I decided to buy a …

This is probably going to be short as this year is perhaps the most unproductive year I've ever had.As usual, I start this off with a compilation of monthly "highlights" that I've already listed in …

A short loop based on Bach's Passacaglia in C Minor, BWV 582.

Preference data is a staple in the final step of the LLM training pipeline. During RLHF, we train a reward model by showing pairs of chosen and rejected model outputs so that it can teach …

I’ve been getting to more events lately (casual meetups, small conferences, academic workshops, etc); but, I’ve been dissatisfied with my answer when I was asked the question “what do you do right now?” – because …