GavinAnderegg

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Scorched Earth taught me the concept of software versions. It was the first program that I ever knowingly interacted with more than one point-release of. I had version 1.0, but a friend had version 1.2. My very young mind was boggled by the concept of software being updated.

GavinAnderegg

2개월 전discuss

I'll state it plainly, then: Python is more widely used and supported. It has more examples, and more people understand it and can debug it. I hope that helps you.

GavinAnderegg

2개월 전discuss

It's strange to me that this blog post was written in English. If AI is available, why aren't we all communicating in Lojban? [0] It's an obviously superior language. What does it matter that many people already communicate in English and much of computing depends on that language? AI doesn't care about that. Plus, if you ever need to edit Lojban without AI, you should be able to pick it up in a few weeks, right?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban

GavinAnderegg

2개월 전discuss

Author here: to be clear, I was trying to relay the best version of the argument from the Mozilla blog post I linked to. They specifically wrote:

    The defects are finite, and we are entering a world where we can finally find them all.

I'm not sure if I buy that either, but that's the argument they were trying to make.

GavinAnderegg

2개월 전discuss

I’ve been hit by this when posting links. If you edit the post, you can re-add the stripped word and it will stay. “Why” is another that is often stripped.

GavinAnderegg

2개월 전discuss

There's also an HTML version here: https://financial-ai-bubble.pagey.site

GavinAnderegg

3개월 전discuss

Author here. I'm not complaining or trying to talk smack. I'm just pointing out something that seems to be coming: LLM price increases or the products being degraded to make more revenue. If I knew how to solve that, I'd be insanely wealthy.

GavinAnderegg

3개월 전discuss

Author here. The reason I wrote that local hardware is "sipping power most of the time" is because most of the time it's not doing LLM-related work. If you're just using your local machine (or eventually maybe even your phone) to do local LLM tasks, you're not doing that all day.

I agree that data centres will be set up to be more efficient, but we're also going to need fewer of them if local LLMs take off. If that's true, overbuilding data centres is more revenue pressure for AI companies.

GavinAnderegg

3개월 전discuss

Thanks for this! Seems like a bold stance… but the Online Safety Act also seems like a poor piece of legislation.

GavinAnderegg

3개월 전discuss

Is this something you're seeing personally? If so, how do you know it's because of the Online Safety Act? This is a personal blog and it doesn't seem to have any adult content that I can find. The homepage of the site isn't blocked when I check it here: https://www.blocked.org.uk/check

GavinAnderegg

3개월 전discuss

The book starts with generating fairly standard mazes, but transitions to making more interesting ones in later chapters. There are 12 algorithms explained in the book (listed in the link above), and the author does care about making pleasant mazes.

GavinAnderegg

3개월 전discuss

This is a great list! A while back I also enjoyed reading “Mazes for Programers” and playing around with different maze generation algorithms from that book over a holiday break. The book isn’t super deep, but it has a fun set of projects and further ideas/reading as well. https://pragprog.com/titles/jbmaze/mazes-for-programmers/

GavinAnderegg

4개월 전discuss

> AI is getting better/faster/cheaper at incredible rates, but regardless of when, unless you believe in magic, it's only a matter of time until we reach the point at which machine intelligence is indistinguishable from human intelligence. We call that point AGI.

I still don’t think this is certain. It’s telling that code generation is one of the few things these systems do extremely well. Translating between English and French isn’t that much different than translating between English and Python. These are both tasks where the most likely next token has a good shot of being correct. I’m still not sold that we should assume that LLM-based tech will be well-generalized beyond that. Maybe some new tech will come along to augment or replace LLMs and that will get us there, who knows. Just because the line is going up quickly at the moment doesn’t mean it always will.

GavinAnderegg

4개월 전discuss

From the FAQ on the homepage:

    What is Office EU?
    Office EU is a European productivity suite for files, email, calendars, documents and calls, built on Nextcloud Hub. It brings Files, Talk, Groupware and Office together in one platform.

Looking through the Office EU screenshots, they do look like Nextcloud Groupware/Files/Office with the logo changed.

Mostly adding this because I wasn't sure if it was a new product or not based on a first glance over the Office EU site. Nextcloud offers recommendations for providers on their site, most of which are in the EU [0]. The Office EU website seems to be new since around January of this year [1]. More managed hosts for Nextcloud is a good thing in my book, but I'd be a bit wary to host my stuff with a brand new provider.

[0]: https://nextcloud.com/providers/

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20260116234614/https://office.eu...

GavinAnderegg

5개월 전discuss

This is a fully local version of WordPress running in the browser. It's based on the WordPress Playground project (https://wordpress.org/playground/), and allows for editing the WordPress files, administrating the SQLite database, and doing things like installing plugins. A really handy way to play around with the platform.

GavinAnderegg

6개월 전discuss

I loved Christmas Lemmings so much back in the day! The snowfall visualization and the little Santa lemming clearing it. I made a much less impressive snowfall demo a while back based on that (minus the clearing lemming, because I always wanted to watch the snow pile up). https://anderegg.ca/projects/flake/

GavinAnderegg

6개월 전discuss

I'm not annoyed by it when people are trying to make XML compatible documents, but effectively no one is. Platforms like WordPress use self-closing image tags everywhere, but almost no one using WordPress cares about document validation. This ends up meaning that the `<img ... />` is just an empty gesture.

GavinAnderegg

6개월 전discuss

In the early 2000s I was 100% sold on the idea of strict XHTML documents and the semantic web. I loved the idea that all web pages could be XML documents which easily provided their data for other sources. If you marked your document with, an XHTML 1.0 Strict or XHTML 1.1 doctype, a web browser was supposed to show an error if the page contained an XML error. Problem was, it was a bit of a pain to get this right, so effectively no one cared about making compliant XHTML. It was a nice idea, but it didn't interact well with the real world.

Decades later, I'm still mildly annoyed when I see self-closing tags in HTML. When you're not trying to build a strict XML document, they're no longer required. Now I read them as a vestigial reminder of the strict XHTML dream.

EDIT: I just checked, and my site (at least the index page) still validates! https://validator.nu/?showsource=yes&doc=https%3A%2F%2Fander...

EDIT2: Hey, look, if you still want to use self-closing tags where they're not required: go nuts! I'm just explaining why I don't use them anymore.

GavinAnderegg

6개월 전discuss

Nice! You can check my site out here: https://anderegg.ca

About page here: https://anderegg.ca/about/

And the feed is here: https://anderegg.ca/feed.xml

GavinAnderegg

9개월 전discuss

I just learned about the Canon Cat a couple of days ago! I wrote up a blog post with some resources and tidbits: https://anderegg.ca/2025/10/13/the-canon-cat

I had a lot of fun with this emulator on Archive.org, and included some quick notes about using it with macOS: https://archive.org/details/canoncat

GavinAnderegg

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Claude's Criminally Bad Electron Mac App Is an Inside Job

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Thoughts Ahead of WWDC 2026

Claude Opus 4.8: "a modest but tangible improvement"

Barely Treading Water

How Bill C-22 Went Off the Rails

Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs

Uptime Golf

Apple at 50: My journey to the Mac

Make Devices Go Brrr

XProtect Behavioral Flop

My WordPress

Reckoning with Liquid Glass

Does your laptop Mac get scanned for malware?

Using Codex CLI with GPT-OSS:120B on an Nvidia DGX Spark via Tailscale

Nvidia DGX Spark: great hardware, early days for the ecosystem

Tahoe's Elephant

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