Max Millien

Web Engineer, Author, Founder. Interested in Writing, Music Production and Software Development. Creative & Focused.

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My debut memoir, TRAFFIC ENGINEER (PureTome Press, 11/7), is the true story of a software engineer's fall into the criminal underworld and his ultimate redemption.

For librarians, booksellers & reviewers: it is now available for request on NetGalley.

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Howard Carter found the first step down to Tutankhamun's tomb 104 years ago today. Then he covered it back up and waited almost three weeks for his funder to get there.I open Amazon boxes in the driveway.

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@ABuendia0709 Nine minutes of Giorgio by Moroder is what vinyl is for.

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@amintechus Writing the failing one yourself is the right split. Does the agent ever try to edit your test to get it green?

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@RAHULKESHR31818 Good call on the backup. They're the one thing in there I can't regenerate.

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@SpursHoopzSA That's the scary part. He's doing all this with the three still not falling.

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@bmtrnavsky Thanks Brad. I run my own loop in Claude Code, so I'm not really who it's built for. The stakes tiers are the part I'd borrow.

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Building short videos from old census pages. Census rows are thin strips, and my first guessed crop of a Civil War veteran's service line landed on the blank margin. Now every crop gets a tiny preview before anything renders.

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My narration checker failed every date in a script. Speech-to-text writes "1912", the script says "nineteen twelve", so every year looked like a dropped word. Taught it spoken numbers. The two real slips it caught after that were fixed by slowing those lines.

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@itzamberlouise Skyrim's the one I keep replaying, so I'd finish that one properly first. What part of it hooked you?

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@mindtensor_ Good order to learn them in. Once every eval run costs real money, you start asking whether you're measuring the right thing, and that question teaches more than any tool.

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@_lru_cache Not the same thing. Most of my setup exists to say what done looks like before the agent starts. Skip that part and I'd get the vague-prompt results too.

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I listen to my novel draft as an audiobook I render at home. Fixed one sentence in chapter 8, and a full re-render would have reset my place in every chapter. Now --update swaps in just that chapter and the saved positions stay put.

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@oliseml Lilly picked the bathroom sink last week. Cold porcelain must be the best bed in the house.

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@MellyDaGoat Legume with diri ak sòs pwa is what I make when people come over. You'd be in good company.

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@manosriram On cache hits: what helped me most was putting everything that never changes at the front of every call. About 80% of input tokens came back cached.

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@camtudor Cardio is the line I keep missing. Double HIIT days are easy for me, but the plan says two hours of zone 2 a week and I'm stuck at one.

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@larreaio That's the cost they left out. Even a fix I end up ignoring takes a read before I can ignore it.

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@CatMaster20000 So 7 was Opus on a good day. Makes the cheap model's 6 look a lot better.