Creepy.org Fun fact... All the scenes from other planets were filmed on earth.

Hilbert once said, 'The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case that contains all germs of generality.' This holds true in software systems development too. Starting with that pivotal case can lead to flourishing generality. The trick is how to find it?!

The first 45 years of a child's life are the most important to their physical and cognitive growth.

same

the worst parts of being a parent have been about 10% as bad as i was led to believe and psychologically/emotionally prepare for

the best parts of being a parent have been like 5000% better than i dared to believe

maybe i'm lucky/blessed but that's my experience

The biggest sign of competence in any role, in any level of seniority: the prompt reply to an email / text / DM.

Even just a “will read and get back soon”.

The biggest sign of incompetence: a lack of prompt reply or acknowledgement.

I’ve noticed this pattern for near 20

Oh JavaScript... Can someone explain this one to me?

When I was a Junior Developer, I desperately wanted to become Senior.

I imagined they’re abstraction wizards who write elegant code all day long.

Little did I know that an actual job of a Senior Engineer is educating others that mocks are bad, telling people to stay on the

putting my son to sleep makes me think of poker. I’m not even particularly good at poker but the idea is like. some hands you were always gonna win. some hands you were always gonna lose. it’s how you play the hands in between that matter. and so it is with bedtime

I've said it a million times but a pear is just a potato that wishes it were an apple

'Clock speed'

a sufficiently advanced understanding of mediocrity is indistinguishable from excellence

Good questions lead to useful answers, but the very best questions lead to even deeper confusion

Imagine being ignorant of technologies that's propelled 100,000,000x gains in the last few decades
* FinFET
* 3D NAND
* High K Metal Gate
* Argon Fluoride Immersion Lithography
* Low K Dielectrics
* Copper interconnects
* Strained Silicon
* Gate All Around
* 3D Stacking
* EUV

Currently, programmers who build new systems have higher status than people who maintain existing systems. In some companies, to quickest path to promotion is to build new software.

More advanced automated code generation might change the prestige hierarchy. AI reveals that

Of late, I’ve been finding more medium articles as paywalled. Did something change?

Going by memory so I could be just imagining this.

Pure class from Costco management

$db->enableExceptions() disables exceptions in PHP as it takes an optional parameter $enable that defaults to false.

This language is seriously ill

# On the 'hallucination problem'

I always struggle a bit with I'm asked about the 'hallucination problem' in LLMs. Because, in some sense, hallucination is all LLMs do. They are dream machines.

We direct their dreams with prompts. The prompts start the dream, and based on the