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One of the reasons I write is to help me organize my own mind. I have a compulsive need to figure things out and I’ll lay awake at night shuffling sentences around in my head until it hangs together. Then I just have to try to get it all down in Markdown before it dissolves back into chaos. Like a lot of people these days, I am losing a lot of sleep over LLMs and generative AI. I mean that literally. I’ve had nights where I tossed and turned worrying about whether AI is going to dest
This is mainly a note for my future self, but making it a blog post in case it helps anyone else. This weekend, I decided to try making a little SDL3 app on my new M4 MacBook Pro. It took me a few hours to figure out how to get XCode to play nice with the SDL3 framework given MacOS’s paranoia around unsigned code and malware. Here’s the summary for anyone whose Google searching takes them here. The instructions are fairly similar to the SDL3 README for MacOS: Start up XCode. Choose
Let’s say that, like me, you are a person who stares at a computer and writes code for a living. As a straight male who grew up in a time where knitting was very strongly female coded, it for the most part never occurred to me that knitting was a thing I could do and might enjoy. Regardless of your demographic categories and background, it’s possible that you have also not really considered knitting. In retrospect, this is pretty dumb. I did learn to cross-stitch when I was a kid and
