Category: Tools
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Git along now
Look around you. Do you feel like maybe it would be nice to be able to have relational databases in your nice safe DVCS? What about streaming releases? What about coders who might be scared about screwing up? Do you actually roll all your code libraries up into the version control, or do you reference…
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Talk: Taylorism Has Entered the ChatGPT
I want you to remember that technology is not the enemy. It’s just a lever. Where we’re standing and how we’re trying to move the world is what matters.
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LDX3: How to Write Right Now
The hard part of technical writing is not figuring out what order to put words in. Indeed, an LLM can do a medium job of that given a sound prompt. The hard part is thinking through the context that makes it useful to the people reading it.
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Bluesky and your brand
Get your account established Watch before you post Remember that this part of the internet is permanent Be kind and human, as well as a brand
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Englishes
American Tech English, is, I think, a kind of constructed English, similar to Simplified English. It’s not quite as rigorously enforced as Simplified English, but I am one of its enforcers. I will strip nuance out of sentences, and prioritize simple grammatical structure over fluidity, pacing, or rhythm. If a sentence could possibly be two…
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Pardon our dust: revamping a website
I am both intensely curious and a little lazy, and I am passionate about effective communication. It’s not such a bad thing to know about myself.
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Progressive Delivery and AI*
The year is 2024. A group of writers who thought they had a complete book proposal looks at the landscape of technology, curses, and starts outlining a chapter on AI. We all write about AI now, except for the bits where AI writes about us. Progressive Delivery is “Delivering the right product to the right…
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The costs and benefits of incremental improvement
At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, I got budget to build out a home studio to give talks in. It was about three thousand dollars, with a nice digital camera, a mic, pre-amp, and lights, and some bits and bobs. I even painted a wall in my basement. I’ve given a lot of talks…
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Lady Conference Speaker: Home Studio Edition
This is the post about setting up a home studio that I wish I had been able to read before setting up my home studio.
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Semantic meaning is everywhere
Semantic labeling could make our world better, if we valued it. Even our conference slides.