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
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"
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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:
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.
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