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Trying my hardest to trick rocks into thinking
Being a zoomer programmer is having your internal monologue read the file flag “O_WRONLY” as “wrong answers only”
July 8, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I have grilled, and I will grill again
May 21, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I’ve started a blog!

Here’s a post that was inspired by listening to Dario Amodei on Hard Fork talk about where the economic value in LLM’s is.

t-monaghan.github.io/posts/copilo...
Copilot is a user interface win
Listening to Dario Amodei talk about AI as a product on the Hard Fork podcast helped foment some questions that have been following me around. I’m keen to use this post to start exploring these though...
t-monaghan.github.io
March 17, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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compiler warnings with threatening auras
November 23, 2024 at 6:52 AM
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“computers are bicycles for the mind” nope not anymore they’re those chairs from wall-e
November 20, 2024 at 2:28 PM
“We didn’t design them to last 30 years or 40 years, we designed them not to fail”

I’m always so impressed by the resilience of the voyager project.

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/v...
Voyager 1 Breaks Its Silence With NASA via a Radio Transmitter Not Used Since 1981
The farthest spacecraft in the universe went momentarily rogue, but scientists breathed a sigh of relief when it reconnected at an unexpected radio frequency
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 17, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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I feel like half of programming is remembering how weird stuff works and the other half is setting things up so that you do not have to remember the weird stuff
November 4, 2024 at 1:55 PM
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October 19, 2024 at 9:12 AM
I'm not sure why I've woken up to everyone talking about Y2K, but this piece by Barbara Krasnoff took me back to a different internet, and instilled some deep melancholy in me this morning.

www.theverge.com/c/24211978/g...
What Gmail did to email
Gmail is email and email is Gmail — but what else could there be?
www.theverge.com
October 19, 2024 at 10:06 PM