I’ve been slowly reading through The Trad Climber’s Bible over the last several weeks. It’s a collection of short stories from John Long and Peter Croft, two prolific climbers who greatly influenced modern climbing culture. It’s been a fun read, but something in “Chapter 15: Valhalla and the Birth of ‘The Stone...

GitHub has a handy issue type field that’s available to organizations. The default values are Bug, Feature, and Task. You can also define your own custom values. They appear in the web interface but, unfortunately, there isn’t a way to interact with issue type via the GitHub CLI. Inspired by Den Delimarsky’s post, I...

From a Github Gist by Andrej Karpathy (local copy for posterity): A pattern for building personal knowledge bases using LLMs. […] Most people’s experience with LLMs and documents looks like RAG: you upload a collection of files, the LLM retrieves relevant chunks at query time, and generates an answer. This works,...

From the mouth of the late Dean Potter in the trailer for The Dark Wizard (YouTube) (via Climbing Magazine ): When I was a little boy, my first memory was this dream of falling. […] My whole life, I’ve been obsessed with the dream. But maybe it wasn’t me falling to my death. Maybe it was me flying. Dean Potter is a...

From a post by ColdPlankton9273 on r/ClaudeAI : Everything I do runs through Claude Code. Not just coding. My morning routine, my CRM, my content pipeline, my lead sourcing, my follow-ups. All of it. I built a system that runs my entire business from the terminal. One command in the morning, and my whole day is laid...

From the depths of the Daring Fireball archives: New feature at Daring Fireball: the Linked List, a daily list of interesting links and brief commentary on DF-related topics, updated frequently but not frenetically. Call it a “link log”, or “linkblog”, or just “a good way to dick around on the Internet for a few...

From the blog of Shubham Bose : I went to the New York Times to glimpse at four headlines and was greeted with 422 network requests and 49 megabytes of data. It took two minutes before the page settled. And then you wonder why every sane tech person has an adblocker installed on systems of all their loved ones. I’ve...

From (the ironically now defunct) Andy’s Blog (via The Internet Archive): Let’s tell the truth, then: Nobody reads your blog. […] At least, not as many as you’d like. This is not meant to be a mass market blog. Thank you for tagging along. When you write, you think better. When you think better, you create better....

From a post in Coding Horror Discussion : Daniel_Langworthy (April 13, 2025): @codinghorror do you know what happened to WASDKeyboards? I am so sad, I love my keyboards I got from them but they seem to just be gone JimPas (April 13, 2025): Hi Daniel. I checked this out and the last post on their support site was...

After a decade of building software for other companies, I’m going indie! I’m launching Merryman Technology to focus on the problems that I find most interesting. This is a one-person operation: it’s just me, building software for Apple platforms. The kind of software I want to use myself: focused, thoughtful, and...

The month of March was a busy one for me. I recently started trail running and have really been trying to log some miles. Kellie and I are gave up on our backpacking training program . It was just too repetitive. We’ve since moved on doing our own things (me running, her working with a trainer). We have kept up our...

For my book posts , I was looking for an easy way to export my Kindle Highlights. I was hoping for a true export but the best I’ve found so far is Amazon Kindle Notebook . This gives me a relatively clean page to copy and paste from but you end up with a lot of entries like this: Yellow highlight | Location: 564 My...