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Alan
@braithwaite.dev
Claude Desktop just tried to connect to facebook. MRW
July 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
There's just something about describing a problem you're currently working on precisely to an LLM, having it spit out hundreds to thousands of lines of code that are very nearly exactly what you're looking for that keeps me hacking into the wee hours of the morning.
March 29, 2025 at 7:51 AM
The moment I knew the AI programmer was better than me was when it started including great documentation with every change... 😂😭
March 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Engineering and product leadership should always get laptops a few tiers below what the rest of the team gets. Your users won't all have the best hardware, and someone on the team should be dogfooding the product on those specs. Might as well be leadership.
March 12, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Testing is difficult. Sometimes the best things in life are worth sleeping for. :-)
February 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
In the last decade I've been teased surprisingly often for using `netstat` instead of the (relatively) more modern `ss`.

What finally got me off netstat was realizing that the most common command I run in netstat is almost identical in ss: -tupln.
January 23, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Write more.

If you want to organize your thoughts and beliefs, write more.

It doesn't matter how you write or where you write or who you share it with. The act of writing helps distill the ideas floating around your head into sharp focus.
January 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Long week? Check out this NYANcat UEFI boot program

https://github.com/diekmann/uefi_nyan_80x25/
January 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM