The Meditative Coder

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...

Note to my technically-oriented readers (all two of you). You might want to skip this post. It is not technical in nature. I used to use Del...

As I approach age 65, I've been doing some reminiscing. And discovering that my memory is imperfect. (pause for laughter) So I'm wri...

I just made two posts on recreational math. I'm what you might call a math nerd wannabe. I'm NOT a math nerd - I don't have a fl...

Wow, a non-math nerd posting twice about math. What's that about? Derek Muller of Veritasium  posted a video about the  100 prisoners p...

 I'm not a math nerd, so I probably shouldn't be posting on this subject. But when has a lack of expertise ever stopped me from havi...

I've been writing little bits and pieces of my own code for many years now. And I've been releasing it as CC0 ("public domain...

Jacob Kaplan-Moss said something wonderful yesterday: Designing a human process around pathological cases leads to processes that are thems...

 I was writing an email and accidentally left out a word. I meant to write, "I've asked the team for blah...". But I accidenta...

I generally don't like surprises. I'm not a surprise kind of guy. If you decide you don't like me and want to make me feel miser...