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• 10-Mar-2025
  Mistrust, LLMs, and DOGE These are bits and pieces. Not fully formed thoughts. But I want to quote two smart people. Steve Yegge 2 years ago. And Dan Hon a few days ago. From Steve Yegge, 2023: Cheating is all you need: All you crazy MFs are completely overlooking the fact that software engineering exists as a discipline because...

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• 23-Mar-2023
  Steve Yegge is writing about coding with an AI And I’m reading it: Cheating is All You Need, Steve Yegge, March 23, 2023

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• 21-Sep-2012
  The Failures of the iOS6 Maps Application The hard lesson of the failures of the new iOS6 Maps Application – painfully and hilariously observed in theamazingios6maps.tumblr.com — is the subject of this post from a GIS professional: Google Maps announces a 400 year advantage over Apple Maps: TL;DR: Perhaps the most egregious error is that Apple’s team relied on quality control by...

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• 15-Jul-2009
  Hate Driven Development Quote of the day, via rc3: I’ve used the term a few times, and now it’s time to officially coin it: Hate Driven Development. It’s when you come to hate working on something so much that it inspires a surge of productivity that leads to completion. Most projects that involve this methodology include a procrastination...

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• 04-Aug-2008
  Offline Blog Tools Some months ago I was prompted to learn a bit more about the tools out there for offline and online alternating blogging tools. Not server software, but applications which allow you to compose your blog and post when you have online access. I was not very impressed by any of them, but then I also...

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• 03-Nov-2007
  JDarkroom and focus. So I have a problem with focus sometimes. My mind drifts thither and yon. I have a lot of interests, and it can be hard to stay on-task, at home, at work, anywhere. My “Misc” posts are all about that. Whatever’s in front of my nose and on my mind. But they lack depth. I’m...

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• 25-Jan-2002
  Rewrite! Joel on Software has a short piece on rewriting software called Rub a dub dub which I quite like. I’ve been doing it myself in the recent past. No, strike recent — I’ve been building and rebuilding since 1996!

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