Greg Hendershott
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Greg Hendershott
@greghendershott.com
Maker of things for Emacs and Racket.
Founder of Cakewalk and Extramaze.
Alum of Recurse Center (née Hacker School).
https://www.greghendershott.com/
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There's dignity in almost any job, including a sanitation engineer picking up physical garbage.

And there's dignity working with people to clean up their messy code.

But cleaning up code generated by "AI"...? There will many such opportunities. Under what conditions will it be ethical to help?
June 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Spring is one of those seasons when public companies engage in the courting behavior of yearning calls.
April 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Local celebration of the decision, 250 years ago today, that we no longer wanted a king with unchecked power. Oops.
April 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Apparently the hardest problem in computer science is scrolling an ostensibly static list of videos?

As high as its pile of nondeterministic shit grows, YouTube continues to find ways to stack it higher. I guess that's some kind of engineering success story?
February 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Keyboard layouts for coding productivity:

Expired: Symbolics with SUPER and HYPER modifiers

Tired: Tenkeyless

Wired: 2 key macropad, TAB and ENTER
February 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Reposted by Greg Hendershott
Celebrate Black history month by learning about some amazing people!

Let’s get started 🧵
#BlackHistoryMonth
February 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The Köln Concert was recorded 50 years ago today.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_K%C...
The Köln Concert - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Tip: Ever watch 5 minutes of market news and it's nonstop "AI" this, "AI" that? "AI" "AI" "AI"...

Pretend they're pronouncing it like "LA" on Letterkenny.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAbG...

Corollary: "Jensen Huang" => "Bonnie McMurray!".
Letterkenny | Season 5 | LA Tacos
YouTube video by Letterkenny Problems
www.youtube.com
January 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Hello, next myspace.
January 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM