Steven G. Harris

@stevengharris
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Recovering dev manager rediscovering his inner programmer. Formerly CloudBees, Oracle, ParcPlace, and Smalltalk startup. Home base: Redwood City, CA, USA.
GitHubhttps://github.com/stevengharris
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Exciting day!!! The Early Release of our new O’Reilly book is out! First two chapters. More to come soon! Grab it while it’s hot!

https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/ai-agents-with/0642572245856/

#Java #OReillyMedia #Agents

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/116274330297497647

this also includes a little trick I’ve been using for a while: there’s an undocumented Info.plist dictionary you can enter to generate an app icon.

DOGE goes nuclear: How trump invited silicon valley into America’s nuclear power regulator
“Assume the NRC is going to do whatever we tell the NRC to do.”
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/doge-goes-nuclear-how-trump-invited-silicon-valley-into-americas-nuclear-power-regulator/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
On World Poetry Day, here’s a reminder of the power of poetry and its potential to change the world.
OH last night… “Man, that book is so long. Do you know how many movies you could have watched in the time it took to read!?”
Frederick W. W. Howell was a schoolmaster in Birmingham who summered in Iceland in the late 1800s. He was an explorer & outdoorsman and while he was a product of his time (which I've tried to approach honestly) he took some amazing photos of an Iceland, (as reported back home) "on the edge of modernity." The photos got a new life when they were collected and annotated by Cornell librarians. I can find ONE BLURRY PHOTO of the guy, but I wrote this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_W._W._Howell
#photography #iceland
Good piece by Anil Dash (a nice chaser for the excellent NYTimes article by @clive)
https://anildash.com/2026/03/13/coders-after-ai/
What do coders do after AI?

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Anil Dash
I have used #MacCatalyst for years and appreciated what it does in spite of some sharp edges and neglect on Apple’s part, but using Claude in #Xcode to port a #SwiftUI / #UIKit app to #AppKit really spells the end it.
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