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The reason we haven't reached AGI yet is because every LLM in the world has, by sheer coincidence, been trained with randomState=42.

What I've learned in 25 years of #webdev: 2000: "widget" 2025: "component"

Me defending my poor software design decisions: It’s not tightly coupled, it’s “appropriately coupled”.

Me: walking in with my snake_case variable names. #javascript: “Sir, I’m going to need you to leave, we use camelCase here.”

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Me with React + #typescript. Step 1: Make it work. Step 2: Fight with all the red squiggly lines. Step 3: Rename file to .jsx.

Learning #nextjs after using Vite, I forgot how slow webpack is. Vite is, well, fast! I am also suspicious of server components and SSR in general due to painful memories of Gatsby. I do like fetching on the server tho.

I was looking for examples of using OSM data in #rstats and landed on this awesome post by @andrew.heiss.phd. www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2023/06...

Codeclimate complaining about 5 arguments to a function? I really hate when I have to work in prod. Pedantic!

My New Year blog post: not resolutions, just ideas: czep.net/25/happy-new...

Just think: behind every accomplished pianist, is 10,000 hours of torture.

AoC 2024 Day 6 #rstats Not displeased, but would have loved a non-brute force solution to Part 2... gist.github.com/czep/ba6d4a1...

I just completed "Guard Gallivant" - Day 6 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/6 In Part 1 I got away with not checking array bounds, but they were kinda essential for Part 2!

I just completed "Mull It Over" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/3 I love me some regexes in R: `pattern <- r"[mul\(\d+\,\d+\)|do\(\)|don't\(\)]"`

I just completed "Red-Nosed Reports" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/2 R |> Tidyverse

My 4-year old take on GraphQL and I still stand by it: "an extremely overengineered solution to the non-problem of attaching metadata to text files."

Hmmm, ever since installing Bluesky, the battery on my phone is draining quickly. I think it’s just me tho.

For the Nth time, I can never remember, do you string the lights from the bottom of the tree to the top? Or from top to bottom?

The paradox of reading a good book: you want to finish it, but you don’t want it to end.

Hello Bluesky! I am a data scientist and I'm likely older than most of you. But that doesn't mean I've figured it all out. I have habits and opinions and I'm sure a lot of them are wrong. So I'm here to learn, to share ideas, and to keep myself relevant in a field that I genuinely enjoy.