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Eileen: "I'm going to make chicken soup tonight. Can you get it started by boiling the chicken in water, chop up some veggies, add them, and then season it?"

Me: "You're not making soup! You're trying to vibe cook soup!"

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I prefer my coffee shop coffee in a paper cup rather than my own reusable mug. I know this makes me a bad person, but there's nothing I can do about it. โ˜•

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I wonder if a driving analogy works better in some cases?

If everybody drove twice as fast, they'd get places faster (and could maybe go to more places) but the increased speed would still cause an increased rate of accidents per mile driven.

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Coding agents are pretty great for projects where my first assessment is that they'd be more trouble than they're worth.

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Things Will Take Longer Than You Think They Will - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Consider Hofstadter's Law when making estimates: dontbreakprod.com/posts/things...

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Don't Be Afraid To Be Bad At It - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

"Dude, sucking at something is the first step to being sorta good at something" - Jake the Dog dontbreakprod.com/posts/dont-b...

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GitHub - dorkrawk/logic_gates: A boolean logic gate and binary number playground A boolean logic gate and binary number playground. Contribute to dorkrawk/logic_gates development by creating an account on GitHub.

Here's the boolean gate playground I (Claude) built for the kids to play around with: github.com/dorkrawk/log...

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Ok! Next week I'm going to teach a bunch of elementary school kids about binary numbers and Boolean operators!

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Caught one! (though this squirrel seemed to enjoy the music, so I may have to adjust here...)

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Ok! Now let's scare some squirrels! ๐Ÿค˜

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Hmm... I might need to collect more training examples. But we're getting there!

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Where are all the squirrels today?! I need training data!

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Starting to collect training data for a squirrel scaring program I put together this morning.

If it works, it should blare metal super loud whenever a squirrel gets on to our bird feeder. ๐Ÿฟ๏ธ๐Ÿค˜

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Dinosaurs Eat Everybody :: now

What now? dinosaurseateverybody.com/now

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Gung Hay Fat Tuesday!

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Update: I'm still in the "Wait! How do I do this common thing that's been a part of muscle memory for years on this new layout?! I guess I better update my layout again..." stage.

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New keyboard day! Iโ€™m excited to feel like Iโ€™ve forgotten how to type!

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Dinosaurs Eat Everybody :: Powered By Postwave

I recently migrated the blog on my site over to Postwave (a blogging library I wrote). It's really nice to use a tool that works EXACTLY the way you want it to! dinosaurseateverybody.com/blog/powered...

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Done Is Better Than Perfect - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Done is better than perfect: dontbreakprod.com/posts/done-i...

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I think builders often overestimate the appeal of building things and underestimate the appeal of not owning things that aren't part of your core business.

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No matter how much I clean my desk, there's always a cat on it.

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Code Is A Habitat For Bugs - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Code is a habitat for bugs: dontbreakprod.com/posts/code-i...

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I kind of forgot that I own daveschwantes.com (it just redirects to dinosaurseateverybody.com)

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Oh good. I just bought a new keyboard. โŒจ๏ธ ๐Ÿ’ธ

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Fail Productively - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Fail productively: dontbreakprod.com/posts/fail-p...

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Postwave 0.1.5 Released | Postwave This is a blog built with Postwave.

Postwave 0.1.5 released! postwave.blog/posts/postwa...

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Dinosaurs Eat Everybody :: Fine, I'll Do It Myself

New post about my adventures in self-hosting: dinosaurseateverybody.com/blog/fine-il...

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Seniority Is Clarity Not Cleverness - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Clarity over cleverness: dontbreakprod.com/posts/senior...

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And dinosaurseateverybody.com is moved now!

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Now dontbreakprod.com and evilbrain.band (mostly...) are moved over too! Plus I'm hosting my own analytics now.

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