Tools I Use to Live My Glamorous Life

Problem Space At my new job, my new team engages in a team activity: every other week we get together for 30 minutes to play a game together online. We’re mixed hybrid, meaning about half of us work in office and half of us are grandfathered/exceptioned in to working remotely. this means we can’t play a board/card game in person, but has to be...

I’m an enthusiast of playing around with different window management schemes. I like the idea of a tiling window manager, but I’m not smart enough to ever get really productive in something like i3 or sway. for the past few years I’ve been using Rectangle on MacOS as something of a band-aid I’ve been using the Tiling WM Extension ion Gnome for a...

Post Contents Introduction Goals Anti-Goals First Things First Retrieval-Augmented Generation What The Hell is a RAG? What does this mean? Case Study: The Dumbest Possible Person in the Room Getting the Data A Eulogy for wget ...

I got my first job as a software engineer in 2000, so in 2024 I’m pushing a quarter century of being a developer. This is one of the topics I have begun to hold near and dear to my heart. Software engineering is a team sport. If you’re not setting new players up for success, you’re not being the best teammate you could be. Supporting others is...

A common antipattern I’ve been both perpetrator of and victim to is what I describe as Framework Syndrome. This is the act of writing software that does not solve the inherent problem at hand, but provides a poorly designed scaffold in which one is expected to eventually “fill in the blanks.” That is, in the absence of the ability or desire to...