Degenerative Pixels is showing up again with more thought-provoking songs. Cynical, sarcastic, catchy, playful. The fact of their music existing as AI creations, contrasting with the human-oriented lyrics invites the listener to grapple with a tension between wonder and despair.
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Trust, and Reviewing Changes
This morning on the drive back from school drop-off my Eleven Reader’s AI voice confidently proclaimed over my car stereo: Our team members still review…
Qwen Flash Preview is exciting
I’m lucky enough to have an M5 Max MacBook with 128gb of Ram, and I’ve been spending a lot of sweat this summer trying to…
Giving command-tab a break
The other day while waiting for Claude to process prompts, I watched this video: (I know, the irony isn’t lost on me) It highlights the…
Watch out for Hades
According to Reddit, horrible people have made a nasty supply-chain attack called Hades: [Link] Looks like it’s marked at this time by: If you find…
We’re zooming out a step
I’m slowly watching, feeling out the shape of this wave that we’re all riding together. I’m sensing an order-of-magnitude zoom-out when it comes to the…
Professional Existential Dread
Yesterday, like many of you, I read about Jack Dorsey announcing the end of employment for 4,000 people at Blocks after a strong year of…
prquicktest: Run Your PR’s Testing Instructions
We’ve been sneakily improving our manual verification process for server PRs over the past few weeks. Sneakily, because it hasn’t been planned, just experiments snuck…
Handling Increases in Test Code
Code written with AI agents gets substantially more robust when the agent has a feedback loop, like a good test suite. And agents like Claude…
Freeing Up Flow With Claude Code & Linear MCP
I’ve been experimenting with using Claude Code to create Linear issues instead of filling them out by hand, and it’s been a bigger workflow upgrade…
Claude Code Hooks for Fun and Focus
My attention wanders. A lot. I’ll kick off a Claude Code session, switch to check on something else, and 20 minutes later realize I’ve got…