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I know everyone and their dog is writing about LLMs, and since I refuse to use them you probably shouldn't listen to me, but I have recently solidified some of my thinking about them and thought it might be useful to share. None of this...
Another round of answering questionnaires found on internet! This time is it 100 Questions for Webmasters. Here we go! This post was originally published on abhinavsarkar.net. Please introduce yourself. I’m Abhinav Sarkar, a person who...
Just a quick programming note: my 90-year-old father passed away over the weekend, so posts will be less frequent and more sporadic over the next month. I appreciate your understanding and continued readership. Last week Republicans took...
AI-generated image of a robot writing a blog article Going through my recent technical conversations with AI about various architecture and technology choices, I thought I would post this one first. It’s a shorter conversation, but is...
One of the moments I remember well from the early aughts was a conversation I had with my dad about an article he’d written for the popular astronomy publication Sky & Telescope. The conversation I remember was about the reader response...
In trying to recover my attention, I've found a lot of that work has been rethinking my relationship to my things and the purpose of them all. I've found that I'm distressed by the layer of the technological over everything. (I really...
Finally, I have embarked on the Augean task of dealing with my bookmarks and tags, a reminder that link rot is all pervasive and also that rot is evitable if you make the effort. The worst is when entities that clearly could afford to...
A YouTuber that I have followed for a very long time announced on his Instagram that he has stage four cancer in his throat and possibly his lymph nodes. There is concern the lymph nodes have carried the cancer elsewhere in his body....
It’s the magus of Utopia Parkway again. As the title suggests, Cornell, 1965 was shot in the 1960s, although the footage wasn’t assembled as a film until 1978 when director Lawrence Jordan added his narration and a Debussy soundtrack....
I wasn’t feeling well earlier this week, so I decided to sketch close to home and to simplify my setup. I was feeling the “Toulouse Blues” (where you’re part of the urban sketchers community but miss out on the urban sketchers symposium...
ooooo, Design System Maturity Model from zeroheight measures your design system maturity across 6 dimensions: Foundations, Documentation & Knowledge, Governance & Team, Adoption, Measurement & Impact, and AI Readiness
Feeling the blues. On Monday evening, I received a rejection from a job I really wanted. I then received another rejection on Tuesday from another job. It made me sad. Yesterday, I was feeling sorry for myself. While on the bus, I pulled...
I was recently chatting with a friend who wanted to reach more software developers. I recalled some of the advice I gave him in my latest post at LinkedIn, which I’ve republished below: I’ve hit the front page of Hacker News 10+ times...
It’s friday and the weekend is withing range. Been a week – kids home from school and other things going on. But this is the last of the week for review. It’s gonna be some strong prawn paradise here. Let’s cook it up! Vecorn Hae Bee...
It’s been just about one full month of having my 2026 Honda Civic Sport Touring Hybrid, and I wanted to quickly give some further thoughts and opinions on it. I just went out and checked how many miles I have on it so far before writing...