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Elegant Code Contributions

Tips for elegant contributions in the age of confident glazzing AI tooling Coder reviewer != slop mop The first human to read your code shouldn’t be your code reviewer. AI writes, human owns If you can’t explain every line of code you’ve committed then you may have introduced Trojan code... [Read More]
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Generative AI framework to grow thinking agents

Generative AI is predicting what should come next and is unaware of concepts. For instance, generative AI image models do not have a concept of a human hand. The models predict that a finger-like structure is normally next to another finger-like structure so they often create hands with too many... [Read More]

Migrating Gregology to Jekyll on Github Pages

Gregology.net was launched the same year as Facebook. In the last 11 years, both sites have risen in popularity. In some ways, Facebook has seen more success than Gregology. Even though Facebook never gained the top spot on Google for “penis euphemism” searches, it gained popularity for archiving Reddit posts.... [Read More]
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Ruby Tuesday at Shopify notes

Tonight I’m playing with the Ottawian Ruby crowd at Ruby Tuesday hosted by Shopify. My notes are limited as there was free beer. First talk - Internationalization by @J3 Internationalization - done once localization - done at each location You should internationalization your code even if your only deploying to... [Read More]
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Updated site

I have finally updated my site in preparation of my new Android phone. Nerd talk now. Previously Gregology.net was run on a custom content management system I made with the blog running on wordpress. Now I’ve migrated the whole site onto wordpress with the zBench theme. [Read More]
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New Site

I’ve being promising an update to this site for a few years now and I’ve got assignments and exams due next week so with all my extra free time I decided to get it done :) Content is a little light atm but the forum is up and running and... [Read More]
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