๐จ Great sci-fi alert! ๐จ
These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs is *excellent*
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/2153ea5c-318b-40d7-a1f3-757b6f8225e1
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My review of Devil in the Stack: A Code Odyssey by Andrew Smith:
> Iโm a software engineer and I was impressed by how well this book captures the *feels* to work on software today. Not only that, but thereโs plenty of explanations of how computers work, all of which I knew already, but I was never tempted to skip those parts. They are refreshingly clear, straightforward, and accurate. The prose is clear, cogent, brisk, and wry. This all added up to a very enjoyable book.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/a8baf746-d4af-425b-ae7c-39fcd294b451
Iโm trying Claude Code (CC) after reading [AI Changes Everything][1] by @mitsuhiko and my initial reaction is that Iโm a bit baffled.
It keeps suggesting small, individual changes (diffs) to specific lines of specific files, and asking me to approve them or not. Most of them are OK, some of them are not. Whatever. But I have to sit here twiddling my thumbs between each interaction. Itโs tedious. I could do this work faster on my own, and Iโd have higher confidence that itโd actually work. (Some of the changes will need verification โ especially because Iโm running CC on a โquick and dirtyโ โtemporaryโ project that has no automated tests.)
Iโm guessing maybe Ronacher has CC configured to not prompt about each individual change, but to just go ahead and work through an entire change โ in other words, the review/update/review cycles are larger, coarser-grained. So maybe Iโll try that.
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My ex just offered to โfind me a womanโ โย and I think she was half-serious ๐ฑ
I miss my under-desk treadmill. I gotta pull that thing out of storage.
Telo MT-1 prototype review by Out of Spec:
(A 4-door electric city truck with 300+ miles of range, a 5+ foot bed, locking storage, a mid-gate, same length as a 2-door Mini Cooper, 10" ground clearance)
1979 must have been something
Todayโs episode of the podcast The War on Cars has some cogent and encouraging discussions of the Tesla Takedown protests.
(Fuck Musk)
https://thewaroncars.org/2025/04/08/episode-149-inside-the-tesla-takedown-protests/