The Meditative Coder

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

 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...

 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...

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...

 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...

 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...

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...

 It's not unusual for me to create a shell script to test networking software, and to have it automatically run tcpdump in the backgroun...

I've been thinking a lot recently about code maintainability, including scripts. I write a lot of shell scripts, usually restricting mys...

This is another of those things that I've always known I should just sit down and learn but never did: what's the difference between...

 So, my old MacBook Air finally became unusable as my primary machine (the screen backlight burned out, possibly due to my having dumped a c...