"Instead of making a prompt to write an overly verbose email, just email the prompt" is a great principle and, as much as possible, the same should be true of software development.

Indeed, if it didn't cost money/token, didn't consume too much CPU/GPU or bandwidth, etc. it would logically make […]

Unpopular opinion: building and using technology ethically is not the same thing as going back to a previous era of technology or staying frozen in time. Instead, it's really important to keep moving forward and building the future - new techniques, new platforms, new ideas - in a pro-social way.

I’m seeing “AI music” startups making fundamentally the same mistake the company I quit a decade ago made - thinking that non-musicians would like to be musicians, if only there was an automated process to do the music-making for them. The problem is being a musician is more of a mindset than a […]

Step 1: programmers who are way smarter than me make our own replacement by inventing LLM-based agents

Step 2: in revenge, I make the LLMs create their own replacement by making simple DSLs and visual programming languages that normies with free or local models can easily use

Step 3: everyone […]

One positive thing I can say about AI-assisted coding is that it’s weirdly inspired me to put more work into improving my OSS projects again. Mostly without the help of any such tools so far. My thought process has been that any effort I put into making it easier for people to volunteer to work […]

I figured this was worth a new release since it was the primary remaining outstanding bug (that's actually noticeable anyway). Latest version of the Akai APC Key 25 script (for old and new/mkii versions) for #bitwig. Now the track buttons don't get stuck in blinking state as though stop was […]

Today I livestreamed about updating my #bitwig controllers, in my #haxe -based framework for targeting multiple DAWs. I’m fixing issues with the original APC Key 25 created by my changes meant to facilitate getting the mkII version working. My goal is to have both working again this week. I was […]

My tech goals over this week and next:

* Move more projects over to Codeberg and switch where automated tests are done
* Increase test coverage and documentation for my projects so that devs new to the repos (and agents) can easily contribute
* Livestream dev every weekday
* Update […]

Some brief #haxe dev to assist in me making #wordpress plugins I did today on twitch:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2657957626

I have a modest but achievable (I think) goal of going from 0 to 10 paid subscribers on my kofi by end of next month.

LLM coding assistance are a lot more impressive to people who write shitty code, but more actually useful to people who write quality code.

I did something exciting this week! I relaunched my company website: https://futureethics.ai

It says, boldly, that we want to build ethical and sustainable pro-labor businesses that are pro people and the earth. It's scary to put that out in words because I feel like such an optimistic or naive […]

I would like to have something like either allow-list federation where there's a hole in it that allows a federation request. Or set up something where I get alerts upon interactions with new servers so I can defed if need be. The latter probably already exists in some form so I shall look into […]

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And nerds can be weirdly meritocratic too. Like many of us will admire someone, anyone, who's done something impressive technologically. And this again is that same double-edged sword. They may put their bigotry aside in order to admire someone, but alas they may also put their anti-bigotry or […]