Abstract Heresies

Not everyone can debug code Counterfactual reasoning is a technique where you assume alternative scenarios that could have happened, but...

I have an extensive lisp.md file that I include in my system instructions when I am vibe coding Common Lisp. Feel free to use these suggest...

Back in the 80s, Bob Baldwin was hacking cryptography at MIT and one hack he built was a streamlined DES implementation which tried to t...

When I did interviews for Google, one of my go-to interview questions was to ask the candidate to determine if someone had won a game of...

Git has a built-in persistent store for objects based on Merkle trees. It is tailored to store files and directories, but these are just...

Why write boilerplate code when you can ask an LLM can do it for you? But even LLMs will avoid boilerplate if they can. I recently vib...

I was talking with Amit Patel of Red Blob Games the other day and he mentioned that he had been participating in a programming endeav...