The Meditative Coder

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...

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...