Jeremy
@jdf.id.au
anaesthetist, perfusionist; lisp and jsbach enjoyer
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i usually hate it when business types come up with business neologisms for the noble art of shirking.
but i think i'll let them have "workslop". when your coworker gives you AI work pseudo-product that saves time for him (consistently a him) and takes up yours instead.
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...
but i think i'll let them have "workslop". when your coworker gives you AI work pseudo-product that saves time for him (consistently a him) and takes up yours instead.
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...
AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...
hbr.org
September 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
i usually hate it when business types come up with business neologisms for the noble art of shirking.
but i think i'll let them have "workslop". when your coworker gives you AI work pseudo-product that saves time for him (consistently a him) and takes up yours instead.
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...
but i think i'll let them have "workslop". when your coworker gives you AI work pseudo-product that saves time for him (consistently a him) and takes up yours instead.
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...
#javascript is actually quite good if you treat it right. github.com/skeeto/impat... is awesome for small projects
GitHub - skeeto/impatient-mode: Impatient html mode. See your changes in the browser as you type
Impatient html mode. See your changes in the browser as you type - skeeto/impatient-mode
github.com
September 20, 2025 at 11:56 PM
#javascript is actually quite good if you treat it right. github.com/skeeto/impat... is awesome for small projects
Should have started thirty years earlier #commonlisp github.com/jdf-id-au/co...
GitHub - jdf-id-au/cocoagain: Core Graphics + MetalKit — Common Lisp REPL
Core Graphics + MetalKit — Common Lisp REPL. Contribute to jdf-id-au/cocoagain development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
August 17, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Should have started thirty years earlier #commonlisp github.com/jdf-id-au/co...
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In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
As a restaurant owner - I'm astounded at the rate of progress since microwaves were released a few short years ago. Today's microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow's microwave will be able to cook an entire Thanksgiving Dinner. Ten years from now a microwave may even be able to run the country. Recently I was watching a livestream of a local microwave salesman.
www.colincornaby.me
August 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
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“Some of us aren’t creative enough to brainstorm without ChatGPT!” Well then maybe you should sit this one out.
July 31, 2025 at 11:22 PM
“Some of us aren’t creative enough to brainstorm without ChatGPT!” Well then maybe you should sit this one out.
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This is certainly the tism talking but I find so much joy in curiosity and the process of learning that the idea of wanting to outsource thinking to a machine is unfathomable to me
That’s the fun part! Why wouldn’t you want to do that?
That’s the fun part! Why wouldn’t you want to do that?
July 21, 2025 at 1:22 AM
This is certainly the tism talking but I find so much joy in curiosity and the process of learning that the idea of wanting to outsource thinking to a machine is unfathomable to me
That’s the fun part! Why wouldn’t you want to do that?
That’s the fun part! Why wouldn’t you want to do that?
“polite lying daydream machine” eev.ee/blog/2025/07... The rise of Whatever / fuzzy notepad
The rise of Whatever
This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of eve...
eev.ee
July 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
“polite lying daydream machine” eev.ee/blog/2025/07... The rise of Whatever / fuzzy notepad
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please change to anything but spotify. like there’s a bigger shift that it’d be nice if people did with actually owning music again but the lowest effort thing you can do today right now is just change to literally any other streaming service. playlist converters exist.
Parasite becomes aggressive.
Sure all the musicians looking at our £0.0003 Spotify payouts for our work are delighted this is what our fans’ money went towards instead, and the fans equally pleased.
Artists are always very in favour of war, traditionally.
Sure all the musicians looking at our £0.0003 Spotify payouts for our work are delighted this is what our fans’ money went towards instead, and the fans equally pleased.
Artists are always very in favour of war, traditionally.
June 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
please change to anything but spotify. like there’s a bigger shift that it’d be nice if people did with actually owning music again but the lowest effort thing you can do today right now is just change to literally any other streaming service. playlist converters exist.
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After all decades of wrestling with OOP patterns, Pure Functional Programming Bullshit and realizing that you just wanna write code - Dumb, Imperative, Straight to the point code - I feel scammed. I feel lied to. I wanna sue all the Best Practice preaching Shitty Book Selling mfs
June 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
After all decades of wrestling with OOP patterns, Pure Functional Programming Bullshit and realizing that you just wanna write code - Dumb, Imperative, Straight to the point code - I feel scammed. I feel lied to. I wanna sue all the Best Practice preaching Shitty Book Selling mfs
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i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!
Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything. Is That Bad?
www.nytimes.com
June 18, 2025 at 12:55 AM
i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!
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Submarines do not swim. Automobiles do not gallop. Telephones do not speak. Cameras do not paint. Computers do not think.
June 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Submarines do not swim. Automobiles do not gallop. Telephones do not speak. Cameras do not paint. Computers do not think.
Oh dear this C reimplementation of some core app logic might end up more concise than #clojure (admittedly with some codegen so not quite fair)
May 24, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Oh dear this C reimplementation of some core app logic might end up more concise than #clojure (admittedly with some codegen so not quite fair)
excoriating! www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...
The Era Of The Business Idiot
Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize.
Soundtrack: EL-P - $4 Vic
Listen to my podcast Better Offline. We have merch.
Last week, Bloomberg profiled ...
www.wheresyoured.at
May 23, 2025 at 11:24 PM
excoriating! www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...
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Love regulation or hate regulation: it is clear from this case that Apple CANNOT self-regulate
The ONLY reason Apple cannot ban web links + claim 30% on all web payments (that have nothing to do with Apple infra!) is the US regulator
Think about this
The ONLY reason Apple cannot ban web links + claim 30% on all web payments (that have nothing to do with Apple infra!) is the US regulator
Think about this
May 21, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Love regulation or hate regulation: it is clear from this case that Apple CANNOT self-regulate
The ONLY reason Apple cannot ban web links + claim 30% on all web payments (that have nothing to do with Apple infra!) is the US regulator
Think about this
The ONLY reason Apple cannot ban web links + claim 30% on all web payments (that have nothing to do with Apple infra!) is the US regulator
Think about this
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The Ultimate Recreational Programming Experience™
May 19, 2025 at 11:45 PM
The Ultimate Recreational Programming Experience™
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Every 10-20 years, a breakthrough technology promises non-developers to finally create software without needing to hire programmers.
So far, every such technology resulted in the need for more devs… expert in this NEW technology (or knowing how to fix it up).
Every. Time.
So far, every such technology resulted in the need for more devs… expert in this NEW technology (or knowing how to fix it up).
Every. Time.
May 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Every 10-20 years, a breakthrough technology promises non-developers to finally create software without needing to hire programmers.
So far, every such technology resulted in the need for more devs… expert in this NEW technology (or knowing how to fix it up).
Every. Time.
So far, every such technology resulted in the need for more devs… expert in this NEW technology (or knowing how to fix it up).
Every. Time.
"It’s content built for people who don’t really read or listen or know stuff . . . It’s propaganda under a different name,”
April 18, 2025 at 9:06 AM
"It’s content built for people who don’t really read or listen or know stuff . . . It’s propaganda under a different name,”
ooh how did I miss this (v30.1) emacsformacosx.com
GNU Emacs For Mac OS X
Usually there's a nifty page here with a big download button. But you are using a browser which doesn't support SVG and so you get the boring looking page.
emacsformacosx.com
April 13, 2025 at 12:07 AM
ooh how did I miss this (v30.1) emacsformacosx.com
Strettful to play too #stretto open.spotify.com/track/392YcX...
The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2: Fugue No. 22 in B-Flat Minor, BWV 891
Johann Sebastian Bach, Glenn Gould · Glenn Gould plays Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Books I & II, BWV 846-893 · Song · 1993
open.spotify.com
April 12, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Strettful to play too #stretto open.spotify.com/track/392YcX...
Because of course System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine appears in the Immediate Window, not Output > Debug. #visualstudio #winforms (thanks, obscure SO comment) stackoverflow.com/questions/18...
What is the Purpose of Console.WriteLine() in Winforms
I once saw the source code of a winform application and the code had a Console.WriteLine();. I asked the reason for that and i was told that it was for debugging purposes.
Pls what is the essence of
stackoverflow.com
April 6, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Because of course System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine appears in the Immediate Window, not Output > Debug. #visualstudio #winforms (thanks, obscure SO comment) stackoverflow.com/questions/18...
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Back on my LinkedIn bullshit, because one very early lesson I learned due to learning to code in the Lisp community is that computer science has a very bad habit of forgetting what they did 10-20 years earlier
www.linkedin.com/posts/katmar...
www.linkedin.com/posts/katmar...
April 2, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Back on my LinkedIn bullshit, because one very early lesson I learned due to learning to code in the Lisp community is that computer science has a very bad habit of forgetting what they did 10-20 years earlier
www.linkedin.com/posts/katmar...
www.linkedin.com/posts/katmar...