The Meditative Coder

"Hold our own ideas loosely." -- Claude.ai

Friday, August 21, 2026

Hold Our Own Ideas Loosely

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 I had a long conversation with Claude.ai. It was mostly about interview techniques for hiring software engineers, but as is my habit, it go...
Monday, June 29, 2026

Precision Tools from Innocraftsman

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In addition to being a software developer, I'm also a little bit of a DIY handyman. Not a very good one - I'm not one to make things...
Thursday, April 2, 2026

lsim and ldraw

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Huh. I've never really talked about lsim here. Strange since I'm fairly pleased with it. I made an allusion to it here , but didn...
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Happy TDOV

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 Happy TDOV . Be an ally .
Monday, August 18, 2025

Funny Person

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 There's a ... "content creator"? That I like. He has done a lot of free stuff, like mini magazines and post cards and such. I...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

Simple C REPL

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I'm a fan of language REPLs (Read, Evaluate, Print, Loop). These are interactive programs that let you experiment with the language. For...
Thursday, July 17, 2025

Gabriel's horn is not a paradox.

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 Gabriel's horn is not a paradox. The "Gabriel's horn paradox" (sometimes called "the painter's paradox") is...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Do LLMs reason?

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LLMs sure seem to reason. They'll show, step-by-step, how they reach a conclusion. However, there are two things to keep in mind: When i...
Monday, April 21, 2025

Claude.ai: Not a Great News Curator

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In my previous post , I described an experiment in which I had Claude.ai use its new web searching capability to become a news curator for m...
Saturday, April 19, 2025

Taming the News Cycle: An AI Experiment

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UPDATE : The experiment was a failure. I'll post an update. Spoiler: LLMs are apparently not well-suited to this sort of open-ended quer...
Sunday, April 13, 2025

Thunderbird donations

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I used to be an Apple user, and I liked Apple's mail client. I also work for a company that standardized on Outlook. Over the years, I c...
Thursday, January 30, 2025

The Slow Death of OCSP

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Even though I've never really gotten that much into online security, I found this article interesting: https://www.feistyduck.com/newsle...
Friday, January 24, 2025

Claude's charity of choice

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Claude saves me time and effort on an almost daily basis. And, being human, I thank it. It's not that I genuinely believe that an LLM ap...
Friday, December 13, 2024

Some Useful C Modules

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 I'm working on a non-trivial bit of C programming, and I decided to externally modularize three parts of it as potentially reusable com...

Claude as Coder's Assistant

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 My love affair with Claude.ai continues. I don't actually use it much for coding. Code is my hobby, I don't want much help doing th...
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