Roshan: I read a recent comment by someone describing their book that instantly turned me off reading their work despite the fact that I'm a huge fan of sci-fi and adventure. It is impressive that they worked their way to completing the book but there is no chance I'll read it now. I don't mind reading random indie...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot A list of companies that were killed by regulatory action in the US. Also see [[wikipedia:Category:Internet services shut down by a legal challenge]] for ones that ever experienced shutdowns. == Antitrust Legislation == * [[wikipedia:iRobot|iRobot]] was...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot Everyone has experienced this. There are studies and papers on why doing a thing X will yield less of another thing Y. Then, in reality, the opposite gets done and works. So what's the deal? Supposedly BART's problems weren't that they were letting in...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot One of the little fun things I like to do is ask ChatGPT for an infographic on something I want to know. Past image creators would struggle, so I wouldn't ask for an infographic. But Images 2.0 is really something! The infographics it produces are...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Screenshot_-_Rapid_View.png|thumb|A test JSON that's 11 MiB in size]] I recently talked about [[Blog/2026-04-25/The rise of personal software | the rise of personal software]] and over the days since I've realized two things about personal...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Screenshot_-_Hacker_News_with_many_commenters_blocked.png|thumb|I only see 20% of the posts and they're all middling to good]] Recently I've been using [[Overmod]] more and I have set up quite a few lists to block users on Hacker News. Fortunately...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Screenshot_-_Rowik's_Semantic_Search.png|thumb|Now, with semantic search]] One thing that annoyed me on this wiki is that the search bar shows inline results based on a prefix search, and then if you ask for a full search you get a full-text...

Roshan: Fix formatting. When you learn from others you get both their wisdom and their misconceptions. Software engineering is my primary skill, so I'll describe it with negative examples of misconceptions that stuck with me. == In or Out == When I was young, in the early 2000s, we had a computer lab at school and...

Roshan: Wikipen [[File:Screenshot_-_Wikipen.png|thumb|Wikipen - my blogpost authoring native client]] The promise of LLMs writing personal software has been quite realized for me. Almost every day I have a new piece of software whose user is likely to be only me. A few days ago, I had Claude and Codex work on...

Roshan: [[File:{{#setmainimage:Helmet Hook - Unfortunately Shaped.jpg}}|thumb|The thing that Claude originally came up with. [[Julie Yu Kang|Julie]] would not let me put this on the wall]] A while ago I wrote about [[Blog/2026-01-11/Modeling With Claude | Modeling With Claude]] and the method I described there does...

Roshan: [[File:4141a19b-12a-IMG_4346.webp|thumb|Astra really enjoys her new skill - walking]] Astra and I like to go to the local park in Mission Bay to play. The classic thing that happens is that we end up knowing the other kids' names but not their caregivers. So that's "Jaden's dad" or "Emma's mom" or whatever,...

Roshan: Created page with "My daughter and me, both in our childhood, with my mother holding us San Francisco's current state of affairs is pretty amazing When I was a young child, around 8 months old, my parents were doctors in a village in India. The deal back then was that that government would educate you to be...