Notes

Sun March 01 2026, 11:14

An AI agent coding skeptic tries AI agent coding, in excessive detail is a great read, but maybe I think so because it aligns with my recent experience. Llms, and in the post, agents, work now.

Mon February 23 2026, 21:35

After my exit from socials, I've gradually started going back to HN, lobsters, and even reddit. It was a slippery slope from reading headlines to reading comments to doomscrolling. Today, again, I read stupid things that made my pulse rise, so I'm off again.

Out for the year.

Sat February 07 2026, 22:48

Software Engineering is back is a great post. It is very similar to my own experience this year with llms. claude let's me avoid a lot of programmer BS that somehow we programmers have made up for ourselves, and it's now way easier to make useful things that are also not trivial. Or rather, where "trivial" gets you has increased a fair amount.

Sun February 01 2026, 16:45

The best way to be proven wrong is to be confidently wrong.

I spent some time with claude code today trying, yet again, to figure out my Argon speakers. We scanned ports and probed around in some http servers related to casting and airplay; I was hoping for a firmware flashing endpoint or something like it, but didn't find anything. I also confirmed that the speakers turn off when connecting to other bluetooth devices, not just my computer.

Since nothing useful came out of the tcp probing, I went back to trying to flash the updated firmware, thinking that maybe I did the FAT formatting wrong or used the wrong type or something like that. As it turns out, I was doing something wrong, because the system I was on had had its kernel updated without being rebooted, and for some reason this messes up anything USB where plugged in devices aren't showing up.

I hadn't flashed the right device. The device I had deleted and repartitioned was my secondadry old ssd. lsblks default output doesn't show labels by default so there was no obvious way for me to see that, but claude, in its artificial wisdon, decided to run it showing more columns so it saw that the 128GB device that was listed was an SSD from OCZ.

After actually getting the firmware on the usb, things worked out. I had done all of the other steps correctly all along. I can't even remember what I used the extra SSD for, so no harm done. But maaaaan ...

Sat January 31 2026, 18:20

The Argon Forte A4 WiFi is a bad speaker set:

• They're reasonably expensive, the sound is good, but the software is horrible.
• The manual has wrong information.
• The app, "DTS Play-Fi" by Xperi is bad.
• I have spent hours trying to update the firmware without success, and Argon says you need windows to flash it onto a usb drive.
• They auto-shutdown after 15 minutes while playing audio when connected via bluetooth.
• Airplay works fine.

This is not okay. I will never buy anything from Argon again. Everyone who wrote code for this product is fired.

Sun January 04 2026, 17:55

Two links to programming giants being very sceptical towards AI:

• Rob Pike
• Rich Hickey

Sat January 03 2026, 21:33

The Next Thing Will Not Be Big by Glyph is an inspiring note on what's to come in 2026: small(er) computing, local first, smaller resource footprint, and limited reliance on certain classes of saas products (i.e. llms) to be cheap. A future I can get behind!

Sun December 28 2025, 22:28

After some time off, I started browsing HN and lobsters again. I've avoided both comment sections but look at the feeds regularly to find new blogs to follow. So far so good: I haven't noticed being in a worse mood for doing so, and I have found a few interesting things to read.

It's been nice with some time off!

Wed November 26 2025, 21:54

I bought an ZSA Voyager and it arrived the other day. I've used split keyboards in the past so it's not completely foreign to me, but this has fewer keys, so it needs a different layout. In addition, my previous keyboard was a Planck, and the Voyager is basically a mix between the two.

All my muscle memory is wrong, and typing is tedious.

I don't have any new keymaps I'm very happy with yet (on the Planck I had _ right next to space, which made typing_out_snake_case variables a breeze), but once I get used to the basics, like where Enter is, I'll do some exploring.

Wed November 19 2025, 22:01

Idiosyncra is an inspiring blog post. I really like the idea of a linux box without all of the stuff; the endless list of dynamic libraries and backgrounds jobs running left and right. It might be time to get my old xps out of the closet and turn it into my minimalist computer.

Sat November 15 2025, 21:13

I've also set up a separate Atom feed for the notes here. This turned out to be really easy due to the way I initially set up atom feeds in mhtss, even though it involved some copying and pasting.

Sat November 15 2025, 17:09

This is a note! I've been inspired by David Bushell and have decided to create a listing of short notes on my site. Notes are for small announcements, quick comments, endorsements of other peoples stuff online, or otherwise things that don't warrant a full blog post. After all, I've quit socials.

I hope and plan to fill this page up so that I'll have to add pagination to my static-site generator; adding this also required some tweaking to mhtss. Also, I expect I'll have to add some styling here eventually.