I Tried to use AI to Read an AI Book

Mark Zuckerberg is in the middle of a coordinated-if-haphazard heel turn, removing tampons from mens’ rooms and holding space for slurs to come back to his platforms. This occurs while the neighborhood next to mine is still on fire, and his behavior stands in stark contrast to the imperative to love one another or die that is all around me. I...

In my talk Egoless Engineering I make the case that results are better when teams cooperate, that punching down and other forms of brilliant-jerkhood are actually dumb, and that leaders should reward curiosity and generosity. I think misery is a dumb strategy and I am encouraged that some folks have found this case compelling. Some of those who...

There were rumblings earlier this week that Alphabet executives mused about killing GCP. I think they probably won’t do it [1]. But as a side effect this has provoked yet another round of everyone pouring one out for the most beloved Google ex-feature ever, Google Reader. I miss the RSS world of the early 2000’s as much as anyone. I miss it...

Here are some links to recent work I’ve done elsewhere. Ship Small Diffs - I tried to transmute the anguish I feel looking at huge changesets into words. Mistakes You Apparently Just Have to Make Yourself - Getting youngfolk to listen to you is harder than I realized. Fourteen Months with Clojure - Going back to my Lisp roots here. The...

Coda and I have been using Clojure to build Skyliner for the last fourteen months or so. I thought it might be a good idea to write down some of our experiences with this, for the benefit of others considering it for practical work. The beating heart of Skyliner, a deploy encoded as a finite state machine. Learning languages is easy,...