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2026-07

• AI workflow porn is as bad as productivity porn
• Changing my web habits
• Reading and Writing Code in the LLM Age
• Leaving Hacker News
• I am also bored of AI
• Today in Shit HN Says

2026-06

• I'm less optimistic about AI
• What's wrong with social media?
• Internet Content Directory 2026
• June 17, 2026
• Rethinking where to post on the internet

2026-05

• Cleaning out my drafts directory

2026-04

• Update

2025-09

• The danger of relying on the stock market when you're a late saver

2025-07

• Figuring out runtime bindings on Windows

2025-05

• Matlab startup problem on Ubuntu 22.04

2025-03

• No, stock market volatility doesn't bother me

2025-01

• In defense of the extremely conservative portfolio

2024-12

• How I approach the PE ratio
• Forecasting Long-Term Inflation

2024-11

• Surveying Retirement Advice
• My workflow for developing on Windows
• betterr on Windows notes

2024-10

• My involvement with D going forward

2024-08

• The Joy of Mastodon

2024-06

• Getting Python and RStudio to work together
• They want reply gates on Mastodon
• Running CGI extensions with Fossil locally
• A strong lineup for DConf 2024

2024-05

• End of the academic year!
• Working with the Quill editor

2024-02

• Making D work for academic research: The package manager
• A gotcha with R named vectors

2024-01

• Limitations of D for Academic Research
• Playing with SafeRefCounted
• LLMs and verifying the code they produce

2023-12

• Fixing indentation on Emacs when using ess

2023-11

• Blogging will return

2023-10

• This is what you need to manage tasks for GTD
• No, GTD shouldn't take that long
• Adding an RSS feed to this blog

2023-09

• Using Fossil as a JSON database
• Disappearing links with htmx
• Setting variables in htmx

2023-08

• Why I wrote my own GTD software

2023-07

• Public Creativity
• Vim vs VS Code, Yet Again
• Introducing BetterR

2023-05

• Figuring out R's parallel package
• Calling R from D
• Why I Don't Use Daily Notes

2023-03

• Fiscal theory of the price level

2023-02

• Sometimes life gets in the way

2022-10

• In praise of mediocrity
• The beauty of functional programming
• Covid, it's still here
• Teaching intro econ courses

2022-09

• Back at it
• Covid
• Handling Many Projects
• The difficulty of scaling
• The elegance of H filtering
• Crazy notes people
• Why do we rely so heavily on email?
• Paper is still worth it
• The search for simple blogging options

2022-04

• I miss the internet

2018-01

• Jekyll true minimal theme

True minimal theme