The Meditative Coder

 I've been doing more coding than usual lately. As a vi user, I've been missing higher-level IDE-like functionality, like: Shows inp...

As my thousands of readers may have noticed, I've taken an interest in the LLM AIs that have come out starting with ChatGPT. Part of my ...

The long wait is finally over! Announcing the most revolutionary innovation since punched cards! A command-line tool that inserts a table of...

This happens to me more often than I like to admit: there's a bit of programming magic that I don't understand, and almost never nee...

I recently got a reMarkable 2 tablet, and I'm really liking it. It's a writing tablet for note-taking. So far, I use it exclusively ...

So I got my first taste of Google's "Bard" AI today. And I did not get a good first impression. I first had Bard play a zork-l...

My earlier post about using ChatGPT to help identify Perl program bugs was only part of the story. I had a second bug that also took me way ...

 I was proud of the "LintGPT" title until I googled it and somebody on SlashDot beat me to it. So I had an uninitialized variable ...

 I don't know why I keep forgetting about this technique. I guess it's because while it is worth its weight in gold when you need it...

We've all been there. We want a set of bytes containing some specific binary data to feed into some program. In my case, it's often ...

Nick Cave doesn't like ChatGPT. Somebody asked Chat to compose a song in the style of Nick Cave. Nick didn't like it , calling it ...

I saw an article about a teacher who got an essay from a student that was well-written. Maybe too-well written. Turns out the student used a...

So, ChatGPT is at capacity right now, and I'm sure not going to sit here and hit refresh every few seconds to try to get in. So I went t...

Oh no, not another little language ! (Perhaps better known as a "domain-specific language".) Yep. I wrote a little scripting langu...

 I find this film delightful: Critical Program Reading (1975) - 16mm Film I would love to know about choices the filmmaker made. The vibe se...