Five years ago I started a new role and I suddenly found myself, a
staunch R fan, having to code in Python on a daily basis. Working with
data, most of my Python work involved using

pandas, the …

Readers routinely come to me asking my advice on water filtration. I always tell them the same thing: I don’t filter my water because I’ve had it tested.

I’ve always been a bit puzzled by the intensity of Europe's focus on climate change. For East Asia, the motivation seemed clear: countries like Japan and China are almost entirely dependent on imported oil and gas. For them, decarbonization isn't just an…

A changelog of the latest updates for ChatGPT

Why instinct isn’t enough — and why the future of software belongs to human-AI collaboration.

Just as I was complaining that we haven't seen many surprising breakthroughs in complexity recently, we get an earthquake of a result to st...

An innovative superfamily of fonts for code

https://consumerrights.wiki

Dan explores the history of two (much-maligned) HTML tags of the yesterweb. With blinking marquees!

Lessons on maintaining a hobby Android app

Millions trust their lives daily to floppy disks and Windows 95.

Recent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) that generate detailed thinking processes…

I presented an invited keynote at the AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco this week. This is my third time speaking at the event—here are my talks from October …

I decided today to take a look at CloudFlare’s new OAuth provider library, which they apparently coded almost entirely with Anthropic’s Claude LLM: This library (including the schema do…

I decided to write down some thoughts on agentic coding and why it’s a very hyped wrong turn.
Let me start with some background on my LLM experience. I adopted LLMs into my work in Aug 2020. I was sold when I saw that GPT-3 could generate usable SQL statements.…

Is Cook cooked?