The Meditative Coder

 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...

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...

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

 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...

 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...

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 ...

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

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...

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...