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31 Aug 2026

I Have Become a Cognitive Empty Nester original ↗

23 Aug 2026

Continual Learning Needs More Nuance original ↗

9 Aug 2026

Beyond Human-in-the-Loop original ↗

27 Jul 2026

How I Cut an AI Agent's Token Use by 94%original ↗

13 Jul 2026

Cognitive Debt and the Future of Programming original ↗

4 Jul 2026

The tension between local and cloud agents original ↗

29 May 2026

From Emacs to Agents original ↗

21 May 2026

The Complexity Ratchet original ↗

15 May 2026

A Tale of Two Job Markets original ↗

3 May 2026

O Moat, Where Art Thou?original ↗

23 Apr 2026

Skills, CLIs, and MCP: What They're Actually For original ↗

17 Apr 2026

Human-Agent Interaction Is Becoming the Bottleneck original ↗

6 Apr 2026

Meta-Harness: Automating the Benchmaxing Loop original ↗

4 Apr 2026

Surprising a model original ↗

16 Mar 2026

Your Agent Sessions Are Disappearing original ↗

16 Mar 2026

MCP Knife: A CLI Swiss Army Knife for MCP Servers original ↗

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mcpblox: Transform and Compose MCP Servers with Unix Pipes original ↗

3 Feb 2026

The Three Abstractions That Make AI Agents Real original ↗

31 Jan 2026

Confessions of an AI Hype-Bro original ↗

28 Jan 2026

Subagents, Commands and Skills Are Converging original ↗

10 Jan 2026

2025

The Birth of a New Platform original ↗

24 Dec 2025

Unix Was a Love Letter to Agents original ↗

20 Dec 2025

Coding Agents Are Outliers original ↗

2 Nov 2025

Narrate Your Work original ↗

14 Sept 2025

The Assembly Language of Knowledge Work original ↗

13 Sept 2025

My Video Production Stack (for YouTube)original ↗

7 Sept 2025

Natlang Code original ↗

16 Aug 2025

The Mac-vs-PC Story Playing out in CLI Agents original ↗

6 Aug 2025

AI is a Mirror original ↗

28 Jul 2025

Plato's Cave of AI Agent Evals original ↗

27 Jul 2025

Fixing Auth for Personal AI Agents original ↗

25 Jul 2025

Does AI Make Programming Feel Like Factory Work?original ↗

7 Jun 2025

The Personal Side of Jevons Paradox in the Age of AI original ↗

2 Jun 2025

The Programmer's Climb original ↗

26 Apr 2025

Dijkstra would’ve (incorrectly) HATED vibe-coding original ↗

11 Apr 2025

The case against local LLMs original ↗

29 Mar 2025

"But LLMs are not deterministic!"original ↗

28 Mar 2025

End-user Abstraction original ↗

23 Mar 2025

AI coding - From Tactics to Strategy original ↗

28 Feb 2025

Human evals are outsourced vibe checks original ↗

23 Feb 2025

Writing is building, but software is now content original ↗

23 Feb 2025

When Compilers Were the 'AI' That Scared Programmers original ↗

16 Feb 2025

Spec-driven Vibe-coding original ↗

8 Feb 2025

Don't credit AI original ↗

6 Feb 2025

Emacs in the age of AI original ↗

30 Jan 2025

AI resistance considered harmful (for programmers)original ↗

17 Jan 2025

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How I use AI (late 2024)original ↗

20 Nov 2024

Programming with LLMs: Part 1 original ↗

27 Sept 2024

Programming with LLMs: Part 2 original ↗

27 Sept 2024

Subject-object-verb, or– how we use AI original ↗

30 Jun 2024

Portability of LLM Prompts original ↗

9 Jun 2024

The de-nerdification of programming original ↗

29 Mar 2024

LLMs eat entry-level SWEs original ↗

15 Mar 2024

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GPT Monologues original ↗

26 Nov 2023

Metaphors for thinking about LLMs original ↗

20 Aug 2023

Re: Why I don't use Copilot original ↗

8 Jun 2023

AI doomers will doom us original ↗

21 May 2023

IDEs and CAD original ↗

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LazyPost: Programming in the age of GPT and CoPilot original ↗

15 Mar 2023

LLMs are compilers original ↗

26 Feb 2023

A spiritual successor to Emacs original ↗

14 Feb 2023

Augmenting LLMs with APIs original ↗

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Prompt LLMs for code, not arithmetic original ↗

25 Jan 2023

Moving off Tumblr original ↗

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Hardware Acquisition Hacks original ↗

28 Dec 2020

Automatically edit out silence (dead air) from videos original ↗

21 Aug 2020

Remapping arbitrary keys in Mac OS X original ↗

22 Jul 2020

How Unix Won original ↗

4 May 2020

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Manifesto for my channel original ↗

15 Apr 2019

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Laptops with touchscreen keyboards original ↗

16 May 2018

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Review of Chaos Monkeys original ↗

7 Oct 2017

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Airspace original ↗

8 Aug 2016

Church numerals in ES6 original ↗

14 Mar 2016

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Treating algorithms fairly original ↗

18 Mar 2015

2014

IDEs in the cage original ↗

27 Oct 2014

De-skilling original ↗

6 Oct 2014

How software grows original ↗

17 Aug 2014

When to do a rewrite original ↗

22 Jul 2014

Learning your life original ↗

21 Jul 2014

Garland Words original ↗

24 Jun 2014

Lurking Smalltalk original ↗

23 Jun 2014

Heartbeats original ↗

15 Jun 2014

Why technologists want to secede original ↗

17 May 2014

Bleeding buffers original ↗

3 May 2014

You can't run with the machines original ↗

13 Apr 2014

More on fat vs thin clients original ↗

7 Apr 2014

Asynchronous Learning is More Inclusive original ↗

5 Apr 2014

The Automatic Corporation original ↗

16 Mar 2014

Pebbles and Projects original ↗

13 Mar 2014

Shedding original ↗

12 Mar 2014

The tool divergence original ↗

8 Mar 2014

The Programming Language Consensus original ↗

23 Feb 2014

Technium original ↗

19 Feb 2014

Hand-drawn maps original ↗

18 Feb 2014

Star Trek vs Babylon 5 original ↗

23 Jan 2014

Fat Client, Thin Client original ↗

20 Jan 2014

The Contours of My Attention original ↗

19 Jan 2014

Go lang original ↗

11 Jan 2014

The Human Resolution Threshold original ↗

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