Vivek Haldar

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Tinkerer. Programmer. Writer. YouTuber.
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Nov 20, 2024 How I use AI (late 2024)
Sep 27, 2024 Programming with LLMs: Part 1
Sep 27, 2024 Programming with LLMs: Part 2
Jun 30, 2024 Subject-object-verb, or– how we use AI
Jun 09, 2024 Portability of LLM Prompts
Mar 29, 2024 The de-nerdification of programming
Mar 15, 2024 LLMs eat entry-level SWEs
Nov 26, 2023 GPT Monologues
Aug 20, 2023 Metaphors for thinking about LLMs
Jun 08, 2023 Re: Why I don't use Copilot
May 21, 2023 AI doomers will doom us
Mar 19, 2023 IDEs and CAD
Mar 15, 2023 LazyPost: Programming in the age of GPT and CoPilot
Feb 26, 2023 LLMs are compilers
Feb 14, 2023 A spiritual successor to Emacs
Feb 12, 2023 Augmenting LLMs with APIs
Jan 25, 2023 Prompt LLMs for code, not arithmetic
Jan 22, 2023 Moving off Tumblr
Dec 28, 2020 Hardware Acquisition Hacks
Aug 21, 2020 Automatically edit out silence (dead air) from videos
Jul 22, 2020 Remapping arbitrary keys in Mac OS X
May 04, 2020 How Unix Won
Apr 15, 2019 Manifesto for my channel
May 16, 2018 Laptops with touchscreen keyboards
Oct 07, 2017 Review of Chaos Monkeys
Aug 08, 2016 Airspace
Mar 14, 2016 Church numerals in ES6
Mar 18, 2015 Treating algorithms fairly
Oct 27, 2014 IDEs in the cage
Oct 06, 2014 De-skilling
Aug 17, 2014 How software grows
Jul 22, 2014 When to do a rewrite
Jul 21, 2014 Learning your life
Jun 24, 2014 Garland Words
Jun 23, 2014 Lurking Smalltalk
Jun 15, 2014 Heartbeats
May 17, 2014 Why technologists want to secede
May 03, 2014 Bleeding buffers
Apr 13, 2014 You can't run with the machines
Apr 07, 2014 More on fat vs thin clients
Apr 05, 2014 Asynchronous Learning is More Inclusive
Mar 16, 2014 The Automatic Corporation
Mar 13, 2014 Pebbles and Projects
Mar 12, 2014 Shedding
Mar 08, 2014 The tool divergence
Feb 23, 2014 The Programming Language Consensus
Feb 19, 2014 Technium
Feb 18, 2014 Hand-drawn maps
Jan 23, 2014 Star Trek vs Babylon 5
Jan 20, 2014 Fat Client, Thin Client
Jan 19, 2014 The Contours of My Attention
Jan 11, 2014 Go lang
Jan 08, 2014 The Human Resolution Threshold
Jan 01, 2014 The Distraction Addiction
Dec 30, 2013 Best of 2013
Dec 12, 2013 Generation AD
Dec 10, 2013 To tool or not to tool?
Nov 14, 2013 Automating software engineering
Nov 10, 2013 Sharp tools, dull minds
Nov 04, 2013 Malcolm Gladwell and the narrative fallacy
Nov 02, 2013 The 1964 origins of responsive design
Oct 30, 2013 What changed in 1991 in India?
Oct 29, 2013 (A tiny step towards) Automating Web Design
Oct 23, 2013 Rules for Computing Happiness
Oct 17, 2013 Should I do a PhD?
Oct 12, 2013 My review: The Year Without Pants
Oct 07, 2013 How will you read your files in a hundred years?
Oct 01, 2013 "The Mundanity of Excellence"
Sep 23, 2013 Why you should subscribe to my newsletter
Sep 16, 2013 Research Roundup: Programming and Remote Teams
Sep 12, 2013 Is there a STEM worker shortage?
Sep 10, 2013 Rangers
Sep 09, 2013 Taking your company completely remote
Sep 06, 2013 Long form on the web
Sep 05, 2013 We are all remote workers
Aug 28, 2013 Talented Beast
Aug 26, 2013 Asset allocation is everything
Aug 21, 2013 Maintenance is not a bad word
Aug 19, 2013 The cost of memory safety
Aug 15, 2013 How Hugh MacLeod got my money
Aug 12, 2013 The difference between a herd and a crowd
Aug 09, 2013 HTTP 2.0 marks the end of an era
Aug 01, 2013 The Organic Digital
Aug 01, 2013 The Real New Aesthetic
Jul 31, 2013 Empirical Analysis of Programming Language Adoption
Jul 30, 2013 Native mobile apps are a stopgap
Jul 23, 2013 The perils of being a knowledge worker
Jul 20, 2013 C++14
Jul 17, 2013 How I do email
Jul 10, 2013 Balance
Jul 08, 2013 "We don't do email, email does us"
Jul 06, 2013 Waiting faster
Jul 02, 2013 NPS
Jun 29, 2013 The laziness of synchronous work
Jun 22, 2013 Mindfulness sells
Jun 07, 2013 CPU pipelines and the structure of work
Jun 03, 2013 Backup in the age of the cloud
May 22, 2013 The One Thing
May 16, 2013 Games as a hook into CS
May 15, 2013 What do you think computer science is?
May 06, 2013 Future programming
Apr 14, 2013 Patterns of use
Apr 07, 2013 Abolish the "Save" icon
Apr 05, 2013 RIP Ebert
Mar 24, 2013 Start here
Mar 23, 2013 We are all Mad Men
Mar 22, 2013 Meetings are mutexes
Mar 20, 2013 STEM jobs
Mar 17, 2013 Strong opinions, weakly held
Mar 14, 2013 Zero Knowledge
Mar 12, 2013 Addicted to work
Mar 12, 2013 What I work on…
Mar 07, 2013 Moving to Chrome OS
Feb 28, 2013 From the mouths of babes
Feb 26, 2013 Factory machines
Feb 21, 2013 The new luxury
Feb 10, 2013 Productivity isn't
Feb 06, 2013 Colorful geometry
Feb 05, 2013 Review: Close to the Machine
Jan 31, 2013 Computer Science PhD trends
Jan 29, 2013 Tackling tail latency
Jan 28, 2013 Blue collar coders
Jan 27, 2013 The void
Jan 18, 2013 Engineering, Culture and Tools
Jan 13, 2013 So Good They Can't Ignore You: Review
Jan 08, 2013 Scaling communication: email vs shared documents
Jan 07, 2013 The rise of fimperative programming
Jan 04, 2013 Grateful for technology?
Dec 31, 2012 Best of 2012
Dec 29, 2012 New theme
Dec 26, 2012 Good reads of 2012
Dec 21, 2012 Writing on a tablet
Dec 20, 2012 Quantum of Work
Dec 12, 2012 Testing Redux
Dec 01, 2012 Need to remember
Nov 29, 2012 Some advice on internships
Nov 25, 2012 The new C++
Nov 23, 2012 Treesaver-based copy of this blog
Nov 22, 2012 A Programmer's Thanksgiving
Nov 21, 2012 Interviews (and whiteboard coding)
Nov 16, 2012 "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads"
Nov 09, 2012 MOOCs will eat academia
Nov 04, 2012 A rare retrospective on a decade-long research project
Oct 31, 2012 Deep Shelling
Oct 26, 2012 Why you would want to program at fifty (or any other age)
Oct 21, 2012 Coaching and review
Oct 18, 2012 How did software get so reliable?
Oct 14, 2012 It Might Get Loud
Oct 08, 2012 Poor man's DIY little printer
Oct 07, 2012 Money in the Valley
Sep 30, 2012 Science = Prediction
Sep 23, 2012 Datacenter power
Sep 21, 2012 Citation Reliability
Sep 20, 2012 New frontiers in text editing
Sep 13, 2012 English is heavily left-handed
Sep 11, 2012 Writing and happiness
Sep 04, 2012 Shitty legacy maintenance
Aug 30, 2012 Personal Trainers for Software
Aug 27, 2012 The levels of agility
Aug 26, 2012 A Twitter-based Anagram Game
Aug 15, 2012 The Cubicle Dilemma
Aug 12, 2012 What is life like for PhDs in computer science who go into industry?
Aug 10, 2012 The lure of work
Aug 06, 2012 Review: The Computer Boys Take Over
Jul 31, 2012 Productivity porn
Jul 27, 2012 What mobile development taught me
Jul 24, 2012 Is C/C++ worth it?
Jul 17, 2012 On Vagueness
Jul 15, 2012 Teaching data structures with real-world examples
Jul 14, 2012 How I read now
Jul 09, 2012 Management models
Jul 05, 2012 The Nostalgia Trap
Jul 01, 2012 Working asynchronously
Jun 27, 2012 Recent updates to old posts
Jun 26, 2012 Social Engineering for Programming Languages
Jun 19, 2012 The Interested Minority
Jun 14, 2012 Advice to (prospective) grad students
May 29, 2012 Operations should be in the computer science curriculum
May 20, 2012 Executable Thought
May 17, 2012 The need for Easter eggs
May 16, 2012 The 7 stages of debugging
May 13, 2012 My setup
May 07, 2012 Big science funding
May 02, 2012 Bug finding and static analysis in the real world
Apr 21, 2012 Church numerals in Python
Apr 17, 2012 The carrier-messenger wars
Apr 16, 2012 The components of a university
Apr 15, 2012 Mediated Concert
Apr 10, 2012 Reproducing papers
Apr 09, 2012 If you see a stylus, they blew it. Not.
Apr 01, 2012 Code review. Just do it.
Mar 28, 2012 Jonah Lehrer
Mar 24, 2012 Computational thinking
Mar 20, 2012 Themes: Language
Mar 19, 2012 Showing it
Mar 19, 2012 Themes: The Economics of Programming
Mar 18, 2012 Themes: Modern Work
Mar 16, 2012 Blue Java
Mar 15, 2012 Innovator's dilemma in programming languages
Mar 12, 2012 T-shirts are currency
Mar 09, 2012 The intimacy of imperfect technologies
Mar 04, 2012 Whither programming language research?
Mar 03, 2012 Taylorist Science
Feb 29, 2012 Team Science
Feb 21, 2012 How to debate
Feb 20, 2012 Hookah
Feb 17, 2012 Rational Equivalence
Feb 15, 2012 Why I blog
Feb 14, 2012 Carr and Kelly
Feb 12, 2012 Guru moment
Jan 21, 2012 Repositories of science
Jan 18, 2012 Computation in the wild
Jan 10, 2012 The CS assignment I wish I had
Jan 04, 2012 Iteration
Dec 28, 2011 Best of 2011
Dec 26, 2011 How to make your new programming language successful
Dec 06, 2011 The 0.1x developer
Dec 05, 2011 The monk tax
Nov 23, 2011 The programming assembly-line
Nov 14, 2011 The abstraction-optimization tradeoff
Nov 08, 2011 The origins of Silicon Valley
Nov 07, 2011 Jumping to analysis
Oct 27, 2011 The empirical science of happiness
Oct 17, 2011 Flash Crisis
Oct 02, 2011 Deft with descriptive filenames
Oct 02, 2011 Why developers should learn the economics of code
Sep 25, 2011 Size is the best predictor of code quality
Sep 12, 2011 Smeed's Law for Programming
Sep 06, 2011 The Poisonous Long Tail
Aug 28, 2011 How things grow
Aug 26, 2011 Reading Happiness
Aug 15, 2011 GUI vs CLI: Operation vs Expression
Aug 09, 2011 The Upside of Complexity
Aug 01, 2011 Do you have an RSI prevention plan?
Jul 28, 2011 An ergonomic keyboard and mouse configuration
Jul 11, 2011 Media Meta Argument
Jun 27, 2011 Large Computer Systems are Organic
Jun 07, 2011 Emacs as a login shell
May 21, 2011 Comments on Stallman's Dystopia
May 20, 2011 Stallman's Dystopia
May 16, 2011 The Perils of Closed Worlds
May 09, 2011 More machines, more reliability
May 05, 2011 Teaching as performance
Apr 27, 2011 Side effects of PhD programs
Apr 21, 2011 dotEmacs Extract: Interactively change font size
Apr 11, 2011 OOP = FP?
Apr 11, 2011 Sun Ray
Mar 26, 2011 The Shy Scientist
Mar 21, 2011 The levels of Emacs proficiency
Mar 19, 2011 Cracks in Minimalism
Mar 15, 2011 tldr summary: The role of deliberate practice in the acquisition of expert performance
Mar 08, 2011 In Aggregate
Mar 03, 2011 Turn your blog into an online magazine - a blogmag
Feb 26, 2011 Michael Crichton
Feb 20, 2011 Alone Together
Feb 17, 2011 The Cognitive Style of Unix
Jan 28, 2011 How the first Gulf War brought modernity to India
Jan 19, 2011 How to Write a Twitter Bot in Python
Jan 13, 2011 Englsh Wtht Vwls
Jan 08, 2011 Presentism
Jan 05, 2011 Stephenson on Emacs
Jan 04, 2011 Text Input: The Next Frontier
Dec 31, 2010 Best of 2010
Dec 31, 2010 More on and or
Dec 30, 2010 Minimalism is not a viable intellectual strategy
Dec 28, 2010 Parsing "and/or"
Dec 06, 2010 Use Accessibility Technologies Before You Have To
Nov 22, 2010 Editing Google Docs in Emacs
Nov 22, 2010 Ode to the Album
Nov 20, 2010 Posting to Tumblr from Emacs
Oct 04, 2010 Coding blind
Sep 29, 2010 My favorite Chrome extensions
Aug 28, 2010 The 18th Century Origins of Lolcat-speak
Aug 20, 2010 To jump or not to jump?
Aug 16, 2010 Deresiewicz: Essays about the Internet
Aug 09, 2010 Listening to your reading
Jul 26, 2010 Engineering is all about failure
Jul 14, 2010 Accessing Google's RESTful APIs from Google Apps Script
Jul 06, 2010 The Internet is making us smarter, but is it making me dumber?
Jun 30, 2010 Taylorism in the modern tech industry
Jun 21, 2010 Checking into Internet rehab - and sneaking out
Jun 17, 2010 What can Kanye and U2 teach you about teamwork?
May 07, 2010 Nouns as verbs, verbs as nouns
May 04, 2010 Upsight
May 02, 2010 Medium Shear
May 01, 2010 English Words Lifted from Hindi
Apr 25, 2010 Dilli
Apr 03, 2010 Text to speech in MacOS X - automatically
Mar 30, 2010 Collecting Needles
Mar 18, 2010 Gabriel vs Brooks
Mar 15, 2010 Software processes are software too
Mar 11, 2010 Why James Cameron did not win the Academy award for best director for Avatar
Mar 09, 2010 No ||
Mar 05, 2010 Google Apps Script + Spreadsheets = Mashup Hub
Mar 01, 2010 Connecting my blog to Buzz