Battle Station justin.searls.co/shots/2024-04-…

The Boathouse justin.searls.co/spots/2024-04-…

Yes, it isn’t justin.searls.co/shots/2024-04-…

Ruby might be faster than you think justin.searls.co/links/2024-04-…

Currently reading my 6th book in Japanese and I finally made the leap to using a full Japanese dictionary (as opposed to a Japanese-English one).

Finding that my mind is staying in flow longer, retaining more, and a lot of nuanced/overloaded terms…

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Build the thing right: LLMs are mediocre-but-useful tools

Build the right thing: LLMs are spectacularly bad, because they are so over-indexed on positive affirmation that they’ll never tell you your idea is stupid, much less suggest a better one.

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Exporting your Tabelog 行ったお店 history justin.searls.co/posts/exportin…

Apple Reportedly Stops Production of FineWoven Accessories justin.searls.co/links/2024-04-…

It felt extremely wrong writing this recursive validation-checker this morning,
but for the life of me I couldn't find a better way to ensure deeply-nested
associations hadn't somehow become invalid after they'd last been saved… gist.github.com/searls/ee2a2aa…

Meta's new AI chat sucks at coding justin.searls.co/posts/metas-ne…

Inhumane A.I. justin.searls.co/casts/breaking…

I don't understand how so many people could attend stand-up meetings every day and still not be remotely funny.

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v0.0.3 of the searls package is out. If you need my latest contact info you can npm install me github.com/searls/searls

Wow, they've got a lofi music for everything now. Just found a YouTube video of ARM chips being fabricated called 'ASML ASMR'

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Fix your Rails Fixtures with this one neat trick justin.searls.co/posts/fix-your…

How should I have known I wasn't supposed to put down my masseuse's phone number as 'current therapist' on the patient intake form?

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Saw a family out to dinner the other day and the kid ordered milk. The waiter responded, 'regular or chocolate'?

The mom got very mad at the waiter's mention of chocolate milk. It's a little shocking how far the Ovaltine window has shifted in recent…

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Down for everyone because of me? justin.searls.co/shots/2024-04-…

I’ve written more tests than just about anybody. Spent years comparing dynamic and static type systems. My life's work is to maximize correctness and minimize maintenance.

All it's taught me: the single most important thing programmers can do to…

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TFW you can’t work up the motivation to program all day and then when you _finally_ get into the zone, you run out of time and have to go be somewhere.

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