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What I Learned This Week

Every Sunday I write about things I learned the previous week. I try to do at least one deep dive on something I'm trying to learn and write it in my own words. Then I usually share some other random tidbits I picked up last this week. Deep Dive The...

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What I Learned This Week

Every Sunday I write about things I learned the previous week. I try to do at least one deep dive on something I'm trying to learn and write it in my own words. Then I usually share some other random tidbits I picked up last this week. Deep Dive Guitar...

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I Can No Longer Justify Writing Code By Hand

Over the course of just over a year the percentage of my workday time spent hand writing code has gone from 90+ to essentially 0. I did not change jobs. I’m still being paid to produce the same work. It’s just that AI does it for me now. Leveraging AI...

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What I Learned This Week

Every Sunday I write about things I learned the previous week. I try to do at least one deep dive on something I'm trying to learn and write it in my own words. Then I usually share some other random tidbits I picked up last this week. Deep Dive Guitar...

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What I Learned This Week

Every Sunday I write about things I learned the previous week. I try to do at least one deep dive on something I'm trying to learn and write it in my own words. Then I usually share some other random tidbits I picked up last this week. Deep Dive Guitar...

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I Asked Claude To Finish A Decade-Old Project

Recently my 4th-grader informed me that they were practicing typing skills at school. The first thing I thought was just that I was glad they were still teaching this skill. The second thing I thought was: "Wait, didn't I build or at least start a typing game for my older...

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I Vibe-Coded an RSS Reader - You Can Use It Too

Remember when the internet was made for people by people and they syndicated their content via RSS? Well, Pepperidge Farm remembers, and so do I. Enshittificationhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification is absolutely a real thing and it's making the internet nearly unusable. Add social media algorithms and the fact that sites are now starting...

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300 Albums in: What My Ratings Distribution Taught Me

After rating 300 albums, I realized my scores say less about “quality” and more about context, attention, and expectation—and that made me question whether numeric ratings are even the right tool for capturing why music matters. Let’s start with my current ratings breakdown: As you can see, I generally don’t...

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Guitar Progress

I've been practicing the acoustic guitar on and off now for about a year and a half. It wasn't until a few months ago that I started taking it a bit more seriously. I had AI put together a plan for me that consists of 15-20 minute daily sessions. I...

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