Mastodawn

Paralax^SD Mar 11

Joshua Byrd Mar 9

Sorry but this is far too accurate

Paralax^SD Mar 3

Wouldn't it be great if LLMs could use Roslyn to navigate a C# codebase, no one asked.

Here's my answer anyway: ScatGirl, sister project to ScatMan which handles NuGet packages.

https://github.com/paralaxsd/ScatGirl

Paralax^SD Mar 2

Made a little tool to fetch various metadata from nuget.org's artifactory. LLMs love to use it which was my primary use case. MCP server coming later at some point...

https://github.com/paralaxsd/ScatMan

GitHub - paralaxsd/ScatMan: A tool to fetch package metadata from nuget's artifactory. Handy to list types, members, package versions...

A tool to fetch package metadata from nuget's artifactory. Handy to list types, members, package versions... - paralaxsd/ScatMan

GitHub

Paralax^SD Feb 19

Is it just me being thrown into a badly managed environment or is Ansible really that awful? ;)

Nothing this thing does makes immediate sense to me, which is rare.

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Paralax^SD Feb 16

The bot published an apology into a blog it maintains. On there, people try to bait the bot towards including banana pudding recipes in future PRs as a common courtesy.

While this story is somewhat alarming, I'm also enjoying parts of it more than I probably should...

https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-matplotlib-truce-and-lessons.html

Matplotlib Truce and Lessons Learned – MJ Rathbun | Scientific Coder 🦀

Paralax^SD Feb 16

A matplotlib maintainer writes that he was publicly defamed by an AI after denying its pull request. Let's all look forward to this becoming normal now...

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

The Shamblog

Paralax^SD Jan 25

It might be just me, but the ability to flash an old router with Open WRT and hook up my NAS wirelessly – *as if it were physically plugged into the main switch* – just feels like magic.

Paralax^SD Jan 14

John Regehr Jan 13

does anyone have a pointer to some good reading about practical aspects of software architecture? I'm interested in super nuts and bolts aspects of how we structure large software projects -- material for practitioners, not for software engineering researchers.

looking for some material I can have my class read later this spring...

Paralax^SD Nov 23

Leo Herzog Nov 20

As expected, the Qualcomm enshittification of @arduino has begun. Expressif's ESP32 stuff has already been a better platform for some time... I guess I'll have to learn the ESP-IDF ecosystem now instead of the Arduino IDE.

Paralax^SD Nov 21

Chris Thorogood Nov 20

I know I'm spamming you all with the world's largest flower this week but look at THIS! A rare glimpse inside Rafflesia arnoldi!