Gavin Morgan

Today I, for the first time, actually pulled up my Claw's software review site for personal reference. regular-reviews.pages.dev

Feels like the industry can't decide if the future of everything is LLMs inside of deterministic harnesses, or LLM-driven agents wielding deterministic tools. I guess closures are a poor man's object.

If my software gives my customer superpowers then why don't I just use those superpowers myself?

How are people leveraging graph databases to sensibly ingest large unstructured data? I'm coming to a point where nearest neighbor vector store is too imprecise too imprecise, and i have all of these obvious concrete relationships between the entities in my domain that I'm not leveraging.

Spent a week on a wild goose chase following an LLM hallucination shared between Gemini *and* Claude; a reimplementation of wapc-go against the as-of-yet-unimplemented wasip2/Component Model. We have really got to cure our agents of not-invented-here syndrome!

Working my way towards success. As you can see, most of my AI-generated podcasting pipeline attempts are... prematurely aborted. Then again, I'm not developing the pipeline directly--I'm just texting with nanoclaw, and watching the OTel.

@jmcodes.bsky.social Jesus, are you still using lootbox, or have you migrated entirely to skills, or something? I like the Unixy flavor of lootbox, so I've started to explore it for my agents, but I want to hear from the man himself!

I think a fundamental issue with modern metaphysics is that we don't consider our mind a home to be comfortably furnished. A well-appointed mind is a treasure unto itself, to say nothing of its value in concert with others'.

Really getting a kick out of generating technical infographics w/ NotebookLM.

🫱🏼‍🫲🏽 Great work necessitates the development of teams’ social dimensions, prior to and alongside their task dimensions. ⚖️ Striking that balance is part of the challenge of engaging in a profession. 👔💼

Update your jargon file: There are 3 hard problems in software engineering: naming things, off-by-one errors, cache invalidation, and polymorphic lists.

A maxim of the internet age: to get answers don't ask questions. Instead, make an incorrect assertions. How to do this without gaining a reputation as a bold ignoramus? We're dependent on colleagues' proclivity for Fundamental Attribution Errors, but we can reciprocate by our own graciousness.

For heaven's sakes, Garmin—just let me fetch my step count from a raspberry pi, already!! Can anyone recommend a fitness wearable with reasonably hackable APIs? I'm trying to create information radiators for my home.

Looking forward to images from ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer of interstellar body 3I/ATLAS in November!

MCP is a way of intercepting control flow from LLMs and passing it back to expert systems.

"We're in for a rough couple years of these vibe-coded apps having major security issues."

The fundamental nature of AI as a product may be its ability to stingily titrate access to what Lux's Josh Wolfe calls "longitudinal repositories of siloed information." The essential benefit of this titration is certainly not latency. It may be intelligence—greater penetration—or obfuscation.

Oops, I wound up at #SIGGRAPH! What's an absolute must-see? Or, I guess, what are you at?

Finally, another open model from OpenAI; I'm super excited to try out openai/gpt-oss-120b... just as soon as I get home from hanging out with the family, this week.

How can I keep four machines' configuration and utilities in sync? Still Chef?

Where is it even ergonomic to host an Elixir app? I'm of the mindset that Cloudflare edge workers are a nifty place to modularize "actor-like" business logic into, but what sort of PaaS maximally exploits the BEAM vm?

@miquai.bsky.social I knew there were observatories all over, but I don't know why it never occurred to me that we never stop designing and building bigger, better ones! Very exciting to consider, and the scope of the data brought in is absolutely mind-boggling.

What's it gonna take for me to finally break ground on my garden plot?

Remind me to experiment with using Djikstra's pathfinding for agent-to-agent transaction selection. Or, at least, some kind of "movement cost" (to approximate, among other things, distance) estimation for my next economic simulation. Imperfect—but nonzero—information!

Running into this weird cognitive dissonance when it seems like people are using the term #agentic to mean "IDE". I know it sounds crazy! I must be missing a piece of the puzzle, or else is it just evidence that we're not yet seeing agentic tool adoption outside of software industry?

Don't sleep on Grant Kot's in-browser physics demos!

Lol, too true; especially in the bad old days. But these quasi cyclical references not inevitable, today. Either reference CSS only in HTML, or else just wield utility classes in your JSX, and it abstracts away to, merely, a few more arguments passed to \#createEl().

Oh, damn! My average resting heartrate went up 10bpm this past year. I gotta get back into running!

Just discovered a self-service kiosk that returns 503 Service Unavailable on payment requests iff you skip the "tip" option. 😂

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." — Martin Luther King Jr.

Hands are cold, neck is sweaty. Dear body: CIRCULATE!

I don't worry about my knowledge of the software industry going stale because some of the best ideas from 14 years ago still haven't caught on.

The history of software is the future of software. Catch up on your history!

Sometimes, you don't even need to do the thing. Just being mentally prepared to do the thing can enable you to do other, more immediately actionable things. And, you can still do the thing!