Barry Hess
Barry Hess
Barry Hess
I run the blogging service, Pika, and I have been blogging since 2004. My blog is mostly personal in nature, touching on technical, pop culture, and other things along the way.
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We mourn our craft: The worst fact about these tools is that they work. They can write code better than you or I can, and if you don’t believe me, wait six months. This point stuck out to me. I’m going to take it completely out of...
I haven’t done one of these in a bit. It’s time to take on the blog question challenge from Alexandra. Why did you make a blog in the first place? If I’m to believe my own writing from 2004: [T]he goal I have is just to keep honing those...
One day after posting “Better Sleep in Ten Days” I ate junk food, had a beer, watched Olympics until 10:15, got a good length of sleep, but it was not restful. All of these things together were probably not good choices. 😆 Searching for...
Excellent Bugonia Easter egg, Letterboxd. (I’m not sure what I thought of the movie, but I like the font!) I’ve got Peacock for the month (go Olympics!), and now I realize it just might have all of the Yorgos Lanthimos movies. Can one...
I’ve certainly said it before: I haven’t slept well for years. I believe it’s been five or six or seven years, but it’s all blurry now to the point that I could also be convinced my poor sleep has existed for all the years. My cycle in...
Weekly Thing 341 brings up AI fatigue: With that though our ability to do more fills with more things that we wished we could do. No matter what, there is still only so much time and energy in the day. The fact that Claude is there at...
Stevie Nicks with a Stella Harmony guitar, 1960s via Reddit Reply by email
As you know if you’ve been following along at all, my daughters are huge K-pop fans. Pink Floyd has always been my favorite band, so it feels right that we now have a pretty great cover of “Wish You Were Here” by FIFTY FIFTY. Reply by email
What a Super Bowl halftime show. I teared up from the middle during the wedding celebration to the end. Bad Bunny, NBC and the NFL just made a giant statement about humanity and love to those that are doing such bad things to our...