Short notes, links, and things I'm thinking about.
Starting this stream mostly as an excuse to write without the pressure of writing. Notes, not essays. Observations, not arguments. We’ll see how it goes.
Small thing that clicked today — using pathlib instead of os.path makes filesystem code read almost like English:
from pathlib import Path
drafts = [p for p in Path("content").rglob("*.md")
if "draft: true" in p.read_text()]
print(f"{len(drafts)} unpublished posts")
Been writing Python for years and only recently made the switch. Not going back.
Rewatched Before Sunset. It holds up completely. Two people talking on a boat for nine minutes and it’s more tense than most action sequences. Linklater understands that what people don’t say is the whole story.
The question is not whether AI will replace programmers. The question is whether programmers who use AI will replace those who don’t.
Heard a version of this again today. Still not sure I believe it — but I’m less sure than I was a year ago.
The best conversations happen when nobody’s trying to have a conversation. In a car, on a walk, doing dishes. Side-by-side beats face-to-face for the real stuff.