The Meditative Coder

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...
Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Strdup Considered Harmful?

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This should be short. I've been writing some code and decided to see if it was C99 compliant. So I loaded up gcc with all the right flag...
Monday, October 28, 2024

AI Limitations

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 As my millions of readers have noticed, I like Claude.ai . I've been using it a fair amount, and have been surprised at some of its cap...
Saturday, August 17, 2024

Claude.ai Programming Assistant for Great Justice!

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 As my previous blog post indicated, I'm learning Python. I have a 2017 edition of Python in a Nutshell , but I can't say I'm cr...

Perl Programmer's Guide to Python

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Those who know me may want to sit down for this. It will come as a shock that I have decided to enter the 21st century and learn Python. I k...
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Writing software for a long time. I work for Informatica LLC. All views and opinions expressed are my own, and do not necessarily reflect those of Informatica. See my Homepage.
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