Dire enough for you? Let me explain where I’m coming from: for the programmer and non-programmer alike.
I have been using a product called GitHub Copilot for one week. This “free” program (though highly expensive in the currency of my data) is touted as “your friendly AI pair programmer”.
I have been thinking more critically about how to think about programmering.
This critical thinking is not my fault. Left to my own devices I would gladly continue programming away without introspection. However, I work with other people, and sometimes they say things like, “How the heck did you get…
After my last crypto-related post, in which I personally offended half of the crypto community (in my defense I only need 30% of the ETH2 network on my side — THAT’S A PROOF OF STAKE JOKE, FOLKS), a few people asked me to explain why I think Proof of Work…
I told you there was a part two coming — and this is it.
Do you even recall how we find ourselves at part deux? Let me quickly remind you: In my desultory shuffle about the MDN pages, I stumbled on this particularly toxic (TOXIC) nugget regarding the WebCrypto API:
I am in the process of getting a tattoo of one of my favorite mathematical statements on my left arm. …
I am a huge fan of Mozilla.
While Google sets the open web ablaze on the altar of mammon and Microsoft is both creating fires and putting them out, Apple sits in the corner and twiddles its many, many beautifully designed thumbs. Mozilla, however — original visionary of the browser-as-OS…
As anyone that has checked a checkbox in a game engine can tell you (forgive the slurping sound — sarcasm is dripping from my chin), there are two main approaches to 3D lighting: forward and deferred. …
I’m currently building my third engineering organization. This means that on three separate occasions someone thought “this seems like a good idea” while handing me, an obvious joke of a man, a set of keys to their precious property.
Long ago, when my dad handed me the keys to our…
All programmers know that simple systems are key — or at least we claim we do, and we try to let that flow down through our enlightened programmer minds to our fingertips and into our C-plus-pluses and sharps. …
