I wrote up a reflection and some lessons from a silly side quest to realize an idea I had for a background animation for my personal site. Beyond vibing, I find LLM’s are great for learning, diving deeper into unfamiliar topics, and engaging in creative play.

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Wondering how many surfers here are coordinating with their code agent of choice via smart watch in between sets?

Had my first encounter with an owl this evening… based on detections from my BirdWeather PUC, this is a Great Horned Owl.

Most of my entertainment now comes from observing the ecosystem in my garden. Sharing some of my favorite daily encounters!

First experience with openAI’s deep research offering today. My prompt was ~1200 words, and it returned a sophisticated response in about 15-20 mins. Its strengths were in retrieving and summarizing a wide breadth of concrete details, research papers, and software libraries for the topic I gave it.

View of a SpaceX launch from my backyard in Southern California, up the coast from San Diego. The detail visible in the exhaust plume is surprisingly clear, and it’s also easy to see the twin booster separation.

Hey friends, If you are having trouble, or struggling with GitHub Actions, I would like to sync with you. My DMs are open.

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Congratulations to @hendrik.van-antwerpen.net for his decade of PLT research and work culminating in the successful defense of his PhD dissertation entitled "Declarative Name Binding for Type System Specifications" 👏🥳

My neighbor wants to start surfing and couldn’t have picked a better time than the winter. The water is 60F / 16 C, almost no crowds, and the sting rays have mostly migrated to deeper water. It’s also the best exercise! 🏄‍♂️

We saw tons of progress on Elixir's type system in 2024. We started the year with a Best Paper award, then Elixir v1.17 in May with data-type warnings, and now Elixir v1.18 with type checking + inference on function calls.

Today I started working on v1.19, I'll share more here as it progresses!

Highlight of Oxford (apart from the learning) was touring the Divinity School, parliament room, and the oldest reading room in the Bodleian Libraries. The structure goes back to the late 1400’s.

From Oceanside, CA to Oxford, UK. 6000 miles traversed via car, train, plane, and bus. 24 hours later, first stop, a pub!