LLM-assisted programming has crossed the chasm. Across the IndieWeb I see skeptics either being won over or at least acknowledging the changes to our shared craft. Adam Levanthal calls the feeling Deep Blue. There’s little doubt that programming is undergoing an industrial revolution. Where we go from here is more up for debate.
Another batch of links, coming your way! While I’m a little sad this weekly didn’t follow on the heels of #29, I can’t complain too much. I spent some time working on a new side project!
I’m working on my own little algorithmic newsfeed prioritized by what I think is most important. I subscribe to a ton of RSS feeds that all publish on different frequencies. I want to make sure that infrequent publishers are never drowned out by more frequent posters. Whenver I check the feed, I want posts from weekly authors for this week to show up alongside posts from monthly authors for this month before any content from daily newsletters. At this point I’ve set up a lot of the infrastructure to ingest RSS feeds and spit out a ranked version. Next is actually working on a good algorithm!
Anyways, I’ve still got a lot of thoughts on articles I’ve read over the past few weeks. Time to get to it!
Welcome to Weekly 29, six days after Weekly 28! Crazy how that works. I’m back in the Pinboarding habit, which means we have a full and fresh newsletter this week!
Colder weather means November’s the first month with two newsletters in a long while. Let’s hope I can keep up the pace as we head into the holiday season!
Happy November! I spent the weekend visiting friends in Cambridge, MA and am on an Amtrak train back to New York. We’re a bit past peak fall-foliage season, but I’m hoping for a good view over the water between Providence and New Haven.
Welcome to The Weekly, back from summer vacation! While I did miss posting I’m still not beating myself up about getting out of the routine.
Welcome to this month’s Weekly! I’ve been putting in some work on other parts of this site. I launched my book review section that I mentioned last time and seeded it with some books I’ve read this year. I’ve also freshened up the site design a bit sprinkling in some more sans-serif.
I’m starting to think about writing up the last installment in my nix-on-mac series, covering nix modules and splitting out a flake into mulitiple files. I’ve had a draft of this for over a year now and I’m thinking it’s time to put pen to paper and ship it!
Anyways, on to the links:
It’s once again been another month since my last update. I hope you find some interesting reads in this issue, though!
I’m trying to read more this year, and I’ve been working on a new section of the website for small book reviews inspired by Tom MacWright’s Reading section and Arne Bahlo’s Library. Building it has been my first real forray into “vibe coding” with Cursor. The experience has been pretty great, and I was able to get a setup I’m pretty happy with in about an hour.
Anyways, on to the links!