Brian P Hogan
@bphogan.com
Technical content expert, author, educator, people manager, and software dev. He/Him. http://bphogan.dev
The Minnesota Wild plays at the Grand Casino Arena and airs games on FanDuel Sports Network, and we are supposed to be surprised there’s a current sports betting scandal in another sport?
October 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The Minnesota Wild plays at the Grand Casino Arena and airs games on FanDuel Sports Network, and we are supposed to be surprised there’s a current sports betting scandal in another sport?
HOW DARE YOU, MR. HOCKEY PLAYER!
HOW DARE YOU USE YOUR HOCKEY STICK TO PUT A PUCK IN THE NET!
NO GOAL FOR YOU!
HOW DARE YOU USE YOUR HOCKEY STICK TO PUT A PUCK IN THE NET!
NO GOAL FOR YOU!
October 20, 2025 at 11:30 PM
HOW DARE YOU, MR. HOCKEY PLAYER!
HOW DARE YOU USE YOUR HOCKEY STICK TO PUT A PUCK IN THE NET!
NO GOAL FOR YOU!
HOW DARE YOU USE YOUR HOCKEY STICK TO PUT A PUCK IN THE NET!
NO GOAL FOR YOU!
Reposted by Brian P Hogan
I can only be friends with people who are old enough to remember the annoyance of suddenly having to use area codes even for local domestic calls
we used to only have to remember seven digits!
we used to only have to remember seven digits!
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
October 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I can only be friends with people who are old enough to remember the annoyance of suddenly having to use area codes even for local domestic calls
we used to only have to remember seven digits!
we used to only have to remember seven digits!
Reposted by Brian P Hogan
Yessss I love AsciiDoc, everyone should use it! It renders natively on GitHub too, by using the .adoc file suffix, so you can even use it for your readmes and the like
October 2, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Yessss I love AsciiDoc, everyone should use it! It renders natively on GitHub too, by using the .adoc file suffix, so you can even use it for your readmes and the like
Yesterday I published Issue 45 of my monthly newsletter, and it's about why Markdown might not be the best way to implement content.
Read it and subscribe to be the first to read next month's issue.
https://newsletter.bphogan.com/archive/issue-45-markdown-is-holding-you-back/
Read it and subscribe to be the first to read next month's issue.
https://newsletter.bphogan.com/archive/issue-45-markdown-is-holding-you-back/
October 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Yesterday I published Issue 45 of my monthly newsletter, and it's about why Markdown might not be the best way to implement content.
Read it and subscribe to be the first to read next month's issue.
https://newsletter.bphogan.com/archive/issue-45-markdown-is-holding-you-back/
Read it and subscribe to be the first to read next month's issue.
https://newsletter.bphogan.com/archive/issue-45-markdown-is-holding-you-back/
You don’t say?
https://www.psypost.org/frequent-ai-chatbot-use-associated-with-lower-grades-among-computer-science-students/#
https://www.psypost.org/frequent-ai-chatbot-use-associated-with-lower-grades-among-computer-science-students/#
September 28, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Everyone wants corporate sponsorship of OSS until they find out that sponsorship means control. Do what we want or the money you depend on goes poof.
No free lunch. Disappointing.
https://joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-takeover/
No free lunch. Disappointing.
https://joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-takeover/
September 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Everyone wants corporate sponsorship of OSS until they find out that sponsorship means control. Do what we want or the money you depend on goes poof.
No free lunch. Disappointing.
https://joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-takeover/
No free lunch. Disappointing.
https://joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-takeover/
"Let's all band together to get consumer protections rolled back, and we'll say it will increase competition" is a hell of a sales pitch.
https://tinyurl.com/2s44zc9j
https://tinyurl.com/2s44zc9j
September 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
"Let's all band together to get consumer protections rolled back, and we'll say it will increase competition" is a hell of a sales pitch.
https://tinyurl.com/2s44zc9j
https://tinyurl.com/2s44zc9j
Do you remember…
The 21st night of September…
The 21st night of September…
September 21, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Do you remember…
The 21st night of September…
The 21st night of September…
Vale is my go-to tool to catch style errors and enforce consistency in content, and after implementing it in multiple jobs and projects, it was time to create a guide anyone can follow. Now in beta.
https://pragprog.com/titles/bhvale/write-better-with-vale/
https://pragprog.com/titles/bhvale/write-better-with-vale/
September 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Vale is my go-to tool to catch style errors and enforce consistency in content, and after implementing it in multiple jobs and projects, it was time to create a guide anyone can follow. Now in beta.
https://pragprog.com/titles/bhvale/write-better-with-vale/
https://pragprog.com/titles/bhvale/write-better-with-vale/
Hyphen: -
Underscore: _
Em-dash: —
En-dash: –
So many dashes…..
Underscore: _
Em-dash: —
En-dash: –
So many dashes…..
July 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Hyphen: -
Underscore: _
Em-dash: —
En-dash: –
So many dashes…..
Underscore: _
Em-dash: —
En-dash: –
So many dashes…..
You “log in” with your login.
Your users “sign up” for your service and you track “signups.”
Go check your buttons.
Your users “sign up” for your service and you track “signups.”
Go check your buttons.
July 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
You “log in” with your login.
Your users “sign up” for your service and you track “signups.”
Go check your buttons.
Your users “sign up” for your service and you track “signups.”
Go check your buttons.
Today, I used ChatGPT o3 to research two articles for my newsletter.
Every article it found was current and relevant.
Every fact it cited was made-up. The statistics did not appear in the article cited.
Content without curation will be painful.
Every article it found was current and relevant.
Every fact it cited was made-up. The statistics did not appear in the article cited.
Content without curation will be painful.
June 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Today, I used ChatGPT o3 to research two articles for my newsletter.
Every article it found was current and relevant.
Every fact it cited was made-up. The statistics did not appear in the article cited.
Content without curation will be painful.
Every article it found was current and relevant.
Every fact it cited was made-up. The statistics did not appear in the article cited.
Content without curation will be painful.
Some things I learned while using Claude Code on some personal projects over the last two weeks. https://bphogan.com/2025/06/19/2025-06-19-claude-code-tips/
June 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Some things I learned while using Claude Code on some personal projects over the last two weeks. https://bphogan.com/2025/06/19/2025-06-19-claude-code-tips/
With major providers down, this feels like a snow day, where the school's closed and all the work that was due today is now due tomorrow.
June 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
With major providers down, this feels like a snow day, where the school's closed and all the work that was due today is now due tomorrow.
Centralizing everything behind a couple of cloud providers really does help us build things faster. But when there's an outage, you really feel it.
June 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Centralizing everything behind a couple of cloud providers really does help us build things faster. But when there's an outage, you really feel it.
Now his hat is on backwards
He can show you his tattoos
He is in the music business
He is calling you….
He can show you his tattoos
He is in the music business
He is calling you….
June 12, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Now his hat is on backwards
He can show you his tattoos
He is in the music business
He is calling you….
He can show you his tattoos
He is in the music business
He is calling you….
Reposted by Brian P Hogan
*sigh*
May 15, 2025 at 2:13 AM
*sigh*
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"...People are beginning to confuse the outputs of generative AI with facts, with knowledge, or with insight.... And here’s the real danger. It’s not just that GenAI gets things wrong. The deeper threat is that we stop noticing when it does."
The Model Is Not the Territory: buff.ly/Th4ZFGI
"Ultimately, what shows up in the chat box is not a window into knowledge. It is a reflection of reflections, built on choices, filters, and omissions all the way down." -- #MikeAmundsen
#LLMs #genAI
"Ultimately, what shows up in the chat box is not a window into knowledge. It is a reflection of reflections, built on choices, filters, and omissions all the way down." -- #MikeAmundsen
#LLMs #genAI
The Model Is Not the Territory:
How Alfred Korzybski Can Help Us Survive GenAI
buff.ly
May 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
"...People are beginning to confuse the outputs of generative AI with facts, with knowledge, or with insight.... And here’s the real danger. It’s not just that GenAI gets things wrong. The deeper threat is that we stop noticing when it does."
Reposted by Brian P Hogan
"pivot to AI" is the new "pivot to video"
May 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
"pivot to AI" is the new "pivot to video"
Few things are more condescending than trying to do something online and being told you have to call, only to have to listen to the automated system tell you that you can manage your account online.
I promise you. I tried. Talking to people is a last resort.
I promise you. I tried. Talking to people is a last resort.
May 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Few things are more condescending than trying to do something online and being told you have to call, only to have to listen to the automated system tell you that you can manage your account online.
I promise you. I tried. Talking to people is a last resort.
I promise you. I tried. Talking to people is a last resort.
Tailscale has a lot of cool features I didn't know about until I joined, but tsnet (https://tailscale.com/kb/1244/tsnet) is one of the best. With tsnet I can write Go apps that have Tailscale built in. Makes creating internal services so easy. Even on the free plan.
May 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Tailscale has a lot of cool features I didn't know about until I joined, but tsnet (https://tailscale.com/kb/1244/tsnet) is one of the best. With tsnet I can write Go apps that have Tailscale built in. Makes creating internal services so easy. Even on the free plan.
Going to attempt to live stream some music making over at https://www.twitch.tv/bphogan for a bit. Come say hi.
April 28, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Going to attempt to live stream some music making over at https://www.twitch.tv/bphogan for a bit. Come say hi.
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April 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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That unfortunate feeling when you check something so many times and only find the blatant spelling mistake after you hit publish.
Related news: the new newsletter issue is out.
Related news: the new newsletter issue is out.
April 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
That unfortunate feeling when you check something so many times and only find the blatant spelling mistake after you hit publish.
Related news: the new newsletter issue is out.
Related news: the new newsletter issue is out.