The Meditative Coder

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...
Monday, July 1, 2024

Automating tcpdump in Test Scripts

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 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...

Python and Perl and Bash (oh my!)

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I've been thinking a lot recently about code maintainability, including scripts. I write a lot of shell scripts, usually restricting mys...
Thursday, June 27, 2024

SIGINT(2) vs SIGTERM(15)

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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...
Sunday, June 23, 2024

New Outlook: Security/Privacy Issues

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 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...
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Downpour Games

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One of my favorite YouTubers, Tom Scott , has an email list that he posts to periodically listing things that interest him. His latest one p...
Monday, September 18, 2023

Foolish Consistency: Temporal or Spatial?

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I have always been fond of the Emerson quote, "foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds". So, I was a little dismayed ...
Sunday, September 17, 2023

AI Creativity

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 Sorry, if you're bored of my fascination with LLMs, you can skip this one. I've been using Claude a fair amount for non-coding Q...
Friday, August 25, 2023

Visual Studio Code

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 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...
Friday, July 21, 2023

Claude's Little Lie

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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 ...
Monday, July 10, 2023

Markdown TOC Generator

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The long wait is finally over! Announcing the most revolutionary innovation since punched cards! A command-line tool that inserts a table of...
Monday, May 8, 2023

More C learning: Variadic Functions

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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...
Friday, April 28, 2023

reMarkable 2: Loving It

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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 ...
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Thursday, March 30, 2023

Bard fail. ChatGTP please.

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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...
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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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