Rest of What I Know
Rest of What I Know
Roshan George
I'm Roshan and I post on my blog about engineering, life in San Francisco, and the process through which I became a father.
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Roshan: I read a recent comment by someone describing their book that instantly turned me off reading their work despite the fact that I'm a huge fan of sci-fi and adventure. It is impressive that they worked their way to completing the...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot A list of companies that were killed by regulatory action in the US. Also see [[wikipedia:Category:Internet services shut down by a legal challenge]] for ones that ever...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot Everyone has experienced this. There are studies and papers on why doing a thing X will yield less of another thing Y. Then, in reality, the opposite gets done and works. So...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot One of the little fun things I like to do is ask ChatGPT for an infographic on something I want to know. Past image creators would struggle, so I wouldn't ask for an...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Screenshot_-_Rapid_View.png|thumb|A test JSON that's 11 MiB in size]] I recently talked about [[Blog/2026-04-25/The rise of personal software | the rise of personal...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Screenshot_-_Hacker_News_with_many_commenters_blocked.png|thumb|I only see 20% of the posts and they're all middling to good]] Recently I've been using [[Overmod]] more...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Screenshot_-_Rowik's_Semantic_Search.png|thumb|Now, with semantic search]] One thing that annoyed me on this wiki is that the search bar shows inline results based on a...
Roshan: Fix formatting. When you learn from others you get both their wisdom and their misconceptions. Software engineering is my primary skill, so I'll describe it with negative examples of misconceptions that stuck with me. == In or...
Roshan: Wikipen [[File:Screenshot_-_Wikipen.png|thumb|Wikipen - my blogpost authoring native client]] The promise of LLMs writing personal software has been quite realized for me. Almost every day I have a new piece of software whose...
Roshan: [[File:{{#setmainimage:Helmet Hook - Unfortunately Shaped.jpg}}|thumb|The thing that Claude originally came up with. [[Julie Yu Kang|Julie]] would not let me put this on the wall]] A while ago I wrote about...
Roshan: [[File:4141a19b-12a-IMG_4346.webp|thumb|Astra really enjoys her new skill - walking]] Astra and I like to go to the local park in Mission Bay to play. The classic thing that happens is that we end up knowing the other kids' names...
Roshan: Created page with "My daughter and me, both in our childhood, with my mother holding us San Francisco's current state of affairs is pretty amazing When I was a young child, around 8 months old, my parents were doctors in a...
Roshan: Created page with "A close one Sports fans are somewhat invested in how their teams do, and especially American sports fans love a good statistic. Perhaps it's the popularity of Moneyball or baseball cards or perhaps the same...
Roshan: [[File:Dall-E 3 reimagining - A couple walking down 4th street cleaning.png|thumb|The good samaritans as depicted from my memory. They looked younger and in better shape but you get the picture.]] When we were kids there was this...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Screenshot - Lagrange view of Gemini version of this Wiki.png|thumb|Somewhat more textual than the HTTP version]] Recently, I've been thinking about [[wikipedia:Gemini...