The city of Drammen, near where I live in Norway, has had a 14 MW heat pump for district heating since 2011. New buildings are required to use it. The heat is taken from the fjord.

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Claude Code, mostly.

In fairness, I was asking it to do some stuff that involved git, it’s just that is more imaginative than me in how it should achieve the goal I gave it. Still learning!

In mitigation Claude also knows how to fish the ‘permanently deleted’ files out of the innards of Git, which I certainly don’t.

That was a great conference! Much needed.

I find I spend way less time in the IDE than before. Ways of working are changing, and quickly.

Astonishing.

I wouldn’t want to be in the IDE business, though. Mine is languishing. 🤔

I haven’t coded so much for years, and I haven’t enjoyed programming so much for a long time. Addictive is the word. I feel the code is improving too because now I have not just the discipline but the capability, to pull off deep refactorings that were just too big to contemplate before.

Then you'll enjoy this geodesic organ made from Dyson vacuum cleaner parts I saw at @emfcamp.bsky.social a few years back.

I work in software development. Since the advent of generative AI, much of my work has changed from coding in programming languages to sculpting and manipulating software through expression in English. English has never been more important.

But mostly, I’ll code up a tool in Python, even for throwaway things.

Only spreadsheets: for business budgeting, planning cycle tours, organizing hobby electronics components.

What a beast!

I was also careful to give my kids names representable in 7-bit ASCII.

TBH, I only started taking i18n seriously myself when I emigrated from the Anglosphere to Norway and had to work with processing ÆØÅ regularly in pre-Unicode C++. Horrible!

Probably not the best time to mention my experiences with pyautogui and non-US keyboards mappings. 😜

Still, I’m enormously grateful that you made it available. Thank you. 🙏

(The other keyboard automation packages are no better in this regard ☠️ ).

I agree we should use less fossil fuels – ideally none (Though I don’t agree we necessarily need to use less energy.) That said, how should we remove the CO2 that has already been emitted? Should we just wait a very very long time?

When I move house I tell one agency, the national folk register. Everything else follows. Not just gov. agencies like tax, electoral representation, but private concerns like bank accounts, cell phone contracts etc. You have the ID from a few days after birth or few weeks after immigration.