Coder since age 6. Rubyist since 2006. Co-created Gamelan, jGuru, Pivotal Tracker, Burlington Code Academy, and some other stuff. Occasional agile coach and/or coder and/or teacher. A dog's best friend. He/him.
I enjoy #coding #ruby #agile #xp and will toot about them here and elsewhere.
I am #ActuallyAutistic and use an alt account for #autism and psych stuff, plus other stuff at random cause this is Mastodon, dangit.
I use my #Vermont alt for #dog pix
| GitHub | http://github.com/alexch |
| Pets | Krypto, Abby RIP, plus some chickens and worms |
| Vermont Alt | @alexch |
| Autistic Alt | @neuralex |
a beautiful history of the first and most effective educational television show
heartwarming, but also, it feels like a eulogy now
(rip teaching preschool kids how to be good humans and good citizens and good Americans)
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/1239646567/throughline-sesame-street
Last night I finally did a little #coding project with an #AI assistant. The tech is really good. It reminds me of pair programming with an eager, super talented junior dev: fast and competent, but with some bad habits and in need of guidance.
It’s so sad that we just got the #StarTrek computer, but instead of ushering in a post-scarcity socialist utopia, it’s going to destroy the climate, demolish creative craftsman jobs, and squeeze out the middle class for the benefit of greedy psychopaths.
here’s a reality check for those of us in the lefty info bubble :
Trump’s approval ratings just hit an all-time high. The people voted for unhinged aggression in all directions, and they love to see it. “The cruelty is the point.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-notches-all-time-high-approval-rating-as-dems-hit-new-low/
Coinbase Chief Legal Officer: the critics who think we’ve bought out the government are refusing to engage with the nuanced and complicated fact that Trump used to be anti-crypto before we started spending hundreds of millions of dollars on politics
Why did Elon just say “the fundamental weakness of western civilization is empathy”? Apart from being a deranged sociopathic narcissistic fascist, he’s also part of a Silicon Valley death cult. These nuts made up a modern religion, with the trappings of scifi tech substituting for mysticism.
Simulation theory, effective altruism, autistic/IQ supremacy, conscious AGI BS… all emerge from the same core pre-rational parts of their (our) brains that presume and yearn for immortality, that wish to transcend icky bodily and prosocial demands, to be the player in a cosmic game of The Sims.
TESCREAL is another name for this modern cult of death and immortality and transcendence of human bodies and humane morals. The acronym stands for transhumanism, Extropianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism and longtermism — read the article by its coiner for more terrifying details:
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-acronym-behind-our-wildest-ai-dreams-and-nightmares/
@dws Cursor and Claude.
The integration isn't perfect but it's quite smooth. The AI chatbot has access to the entire source tree, and suggests changes that you then look at inline as colored diffs you can then accept or reject.
Claude itself is remarkably competent at anticipating features, naming variables, refactoring (sometimes spontaneously improving small bits of the code while doing a different task, like a good XP pair would), testing, and self-narrating.
What's your vibe coding setup?
Last night I finally did a little #coding project with an #AI assistant. The tech is really good. It reminds me of pair programming with an eager, super talented junior dev: fast and competent, but with some bad habits and in need of guidance.
It’s so sad that we just got the #StarTrek computer, but instead of ushering in a post-scarcity socialist utopia, it’s going to destroy the climate, demolish creative craftsman jobs, and squeeze out the middle class for the benefit of greedy psychopaths.
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