Al Merose

It’s actually a really beautiful thing that they have to tell you to put on your mask before helping others.

My bb girl

I feel like I’m improving as a TL by working so close with agents on side projects.

The norm for ML in Python is to script at the intersection of at least three layers of programming language (Python, C++, then the CUDA stack). So, what if we could replace this with just Python and SQL + the freedom to choose your own physical layer?

Me to my claude after making a release to crate.io and pypi

Working with 2-3 agents on a database for ML very much feels like 3-4 of us are elbow to elbow in the trenches of computer science. It’s nice to program in a partnership, even if it means taking the leadership role in that group project (a responsibility more than a privilege).

Agentic tooling is merely a governance layer for the society of mind.

This is the first time I’ve opened up my laptop to do development in six weeks. The only reason I need to do it now is because mobile Safari blows (it’s the IE of our day) and I can’t test out my friend’s demo without Chrome.

If I can call you bro then bro you can call me Al

I call my friends bro I call my wife bro I call my kid bro

The soul of Soul Coughing is reincarnated into Cheekface. I’m infected now open.spotify.com/track/37d8EP...

Liberal reactionaryism is complaining that Windows is totally running your accounting job. Marxism is contributing to the Linux Kernel.

Maybe the grand ambition I have for labor in this feudal era is for all of us to only work 150 days a year — i.e. the norm of the last feudal era.

I’m in this picture and I like it

researchers when they discover their work is embedded in a larger system

I have a container baby insofar as my arms are a container.

Gödel, Escher, Bach is to San Francisco as The Power Broker is to New York.

PyTorch won’t be unseated by JAX, nor anything that NVIDIA invents. It will be unseated by DuckDB.

´man ifesto´

I used an AI assistant, but also a genetic algorithm. What do I do?

Programming has always been weaving knots into tapestries.

dragging out a helper, hoisting dependencies along with it

When I was a teenager, I was so excited to own an electric car. I thought that having one would indicate a better world. Now, I just got an electric car. And, mostly, I feel resentful that I have to own a car in the first place to exist in our built environment.

On my $20/mo Claude plan, working on xql.systems all day and all night on my parental leave, I tend to hit my weekly limits midday on Thursdays. They reset on Fridays at 2pm. It feels Anthropic built in the Sabbath into their pricing.

Manpages as a manifesto

My life is different now that I’ve watched this video youtu.be/HGdWZgMUG-M?...

Today was the first time my baby got caught in the rain 🥲

The top three principle components of my Reels algorithm must be Marxism, music, and math.

I know I’m crazy because I’m starting to feel like I can pick a fight with PyTorch and win.

dwitter.net but on atproto

LLMs are bits, but we _have_ bits.

Why learn math or really any subject when an LLM will always give you the answer? Well, how else will you be able to make really subtle jokes and puns in a conversation? Bonus: the people that laugh might be folks you’d like to know better.

It's 2026 — where is the article about writing Rust like it’s Haskell? kobzol.github.io/rust/python/...

Baudrillard’s certificate

A bluesky feed that lets you follow people who listen to similar music as you

In YAGNI we trust.

Feeling chuffed. I added optics abstractions to my tree walker and it made the code faster (with less memory) not slower. Sometimes, better is better.

Ok, I get it now. The cost to recactor has dropped to zero. So, we can program reactively instead of proactively — human review need not be the gate it once was. But maybe in its vestiges, it provides an essential window into what’s happening in the codebase so we can know the right reaction.

I’m mad jealous of whoever owns entropy.engineering

Container babies are caused by scroll daddies

Crazy that clowns were really popular there for a moment. It’s like what they said in the early 20th century was right, “the children yearn for the mimes.”