Also note that the python visualizer tool has been basically written by vibe-coding. I know more about analog filters -- and that's not saying much -- than I do about python. It started out as my typical "google and do the monkey-see-monkey-do" kind of programming, but then I cut out the middle-man -- me -- and just used Google Antigravity to do the audio sample visualizer.
— Linus Torvalds, Another silly guitar-pedal-related repo
Tags: ai, vibe-coding, linus-torvalds, python, llms, generative-ai
A Software Library with No Code
Provocative experiment from Drew Breunig, who designed a new library for time formatting ("3 hours ago" kind of thing) called "whenwords" that has no code at all, just a carefully written specification, an AGENTS.md and a collection of conformance tests in a YAML file.Pass that to your coding agent of choice, tell it what language you need and it will write it for you on demand!
This meshes nearly with my recent interest in conformance suites. If you publish good enough language-independent tests it's pretty astonishing how far today's coding agents can take you!
Tags: testing, ai, generative-ai, llms, ai-assisted-programming, drew-breunig, coding-agents
Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic (gift link), on the fifth anniversary of the January 6 insurrection and the first year of the second Trump presidency:
We have been watching indecency triumph in the public sphere on and off for more than 10 years now, since the moment Trump insulted John McCain’s war record. For reasons that are quite possibly too unbearable to contemplate, a large group of American voters was not repulsed by such slander — they were actually aroused by it — and our politics have not been the same. Much has been said, including by me, about Trump’s narcissism, his autocratic inclinations, his disconnection from reality, but not nearly enough has been said about his fundamental indecency, the characteristic that undergirds everything he says and does.
Link: theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/02/trump-indecency-jan-6…
The main feed of this site now automatically includes posts from my Photo Journal and Dan’s Polaroids.
This way, I do not have to manually link those here, and one can follow all my posts with a single feed. If you see a bunch of new entries, you now know it’s because I messed with my feed.
There’s a shark called the cookiecutter shark because it leaves bite marks the shape of “neat, circular holes resembling the cut of a cookie cutter”.
