Grant Lammi

Software Dev waiting for seat on F1 team. Award winning photographer (2nd & 3rd place in town fair). 4th grade checker champ.

[Grant Lammi @glammi]

The C++ Documentary is a fun walk down memory lane. I don’t missing programming in C++ but I am nostalgic for the simpler world.

https://t.co/UblrCrY0uG

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There has definitely be a ramp up in the amount of caution Claude Opus 4.8 exhibits. It said this to me this morning, which makes me think it is really getting paranoid:

"Prod is more ready than I feared"

[Grant Lammi @glammi]

@awsdevelopers @QuinnyPig has either fainted or is on a call with his lawyers right now... 😀

[Grant Lammi @glammi]

Back in ye olden days, doing OCR on a scanned document or PDF was a complete adventure. It worked so badly that I figured it was a never solvable problem.

Now I am throwing screenshots at Claude Code all the time and it figures them out perfectly. We live in amazing times.

[Grant Lammi @glammi]

This has been a great day of motorsport.

Indy 500 was fantastic with a great finish.

Canadian F1 Grand Prix was fun because reliability was optional today.

Coca-Cola 600 tonight, least favorite series but a nice way to end the day.

[Grant Lammi @glammi]

Man NBA playoffs are so good.

I literally just slapped my hand over my mouth after Castle’s dunk. Dear lord.

[Grant Lammi @glammi]

I love that there are still corners of the internet that are still fun and weird and awesome.

Pitching an episode of testing network cables to TV exec gets you thrown out. But it is a totally fun, delightful watch.

[TracketPacer @TracketPacer]

bought a bunch of “CAT7/CAT8” cables off amazon and, well… here are the test results of the first one. can’t pass CAT6a, debatable on CAT5e!! 🫣

[Grant Lammi @glammi]

Claude Code, errr, I mean *I* write mostly in Rust these days but seeing those chutes in closures:

providers.sort_by(|a, b| a.package_id.cmp(&b.package_id));

...still makes me think about the book and it still makes me smile every time.

[Grant Lammi @glammi]

A million billion years ago I read "Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby", which has greatly influenced all the madcap technical writing I have done over the years. One my favorite passages was about Block Arguments:

[Grant Lammi @glammi]

Variables are passed through this chute (or tunnel) into the block.

(All of this is from Ch. 3 https://t.co/oo0IFsssFn)

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Man, the amount of Claude Code I have run this week has probably forced Anthropic to spin up a new nuclear plant somewhere.

[Grant Lammi @glammi]

Super approachable post about a damned complicated piece of engineering.

[Brooke Jamieson @brooke_jamieson]

Latest blog is up! Trainium news took over my timeline last week, so I figured it was finally time to explain how it works, and why it works so well. There's a can Vs should framing underneath it all, and I unpack it in this piece:

[Grant Lammi @glammi]

Today a group of us from work volunteered at the Delaware County Humane Society. It was super fun.

This is my new chonky friend Jack.

[Grant Lammi @glammi]

@ranman I appreciate it. I literally got this hooked up yesterday. I’ve been watching them laying fiber in my neighborhood for months.

[Grant Lammi @glammi]

What I love is no matter how long you’ve been programming there still are moments when you just want to throw your computer out the window.

[Grant Lammi @glammi]

I’m thinking of running for Congress. My single platform item is a law that requires car airbags to auto explode if the driver sits at a green turn arrow longer than the F1 lights out start of race time.

[Werner Vogels @Werner]

For two decades, S3 has been an object store, but today it's something broader. S3 Files lets you mount any bucket as a filesystem—no copies, no sync scripts, no choosing between file and object. @andywarfield tells the full story, including the "filerectories" that almost made the cut. https://t.co/zrkLOZS5Qe