Tried plain-text double entry accounting in 2021 with hledger and didn't find the motivation to keep it up for more than a week or two. Trying again in 2026 with Beancount and this time I think I'm going to stick with it.
Greg Hurrell
@wincent.dev
Staff Engineer at Datadog, Ex-@github.com, Ex-Facebook
In 2024, I wrote a blog post summarizing the state of AI as I saw it. In 2026, I wrote a follow-up, because the world had changed quite a bit. I don't know if I'm going to be able to wait until 2028 for the next installment; things are still changing too fast.
If the LLMs have been trained on all human knowledge, why are they so ridiculously incessant in repeating the same canned, unoriginal phrases, ad nauseum? You'd think that they would be richly expressive, not narrowly imitative. Sigh. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4890...
How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
Several phishing attempts a day get past my filters and land in my inbox. When I look in my spam folder, I see on the order of 10 phishin attempts per day in there too. How disheartening to see sooooo much activity seeking to rip people off.
Every Bogleheads forum post: "I have $8M. Am I going to be ok in retirement?"
Working with AI agents is like working with an extremely fast, dumb coworker who has a prodigious but unreliable memory, and is incredibly eager to please but also entirely unconcerned with getting things right.
Blog post on some of the things we've been up to in the Continuous Profiler at Datadog www.datadoghq.com/blog/profili...
Making profiling visualizations accessible to engineers at all levels
Learn how new features in Continuous Profiler make it even easier to draw insights from profiling data.
datadoghq.com
New screencast just dropped — how to become a 10x devloper in Neovim youtu.be/89A0IMvB6z8
Become a Neovim 10x Devloper with foldexpr
YouTube video by Greg Hurrell
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New Neovim screencast just dropped — nvim-cmp configuration taken too far: OCD (Obsessive Completion Disorder) youtu.be/gK31IVy0Gp0
nvim-cmp configuration taken too far
YouTube video by Greg Hurrell
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Free will is not the only problem wincent.dev/blog/free-will
Free will is not the only problem
Free will is not the only problem
wincent.dev
Breaking the drought (1 year after posting my last screencast) — this time, using some advanced tmux tricks in order to produce a custom "copy mode" experience youtu.be/Nh-xw1mCBTg
Advanced tmux: custom copy mode HOW-TO
YouTube video by Greg Hurrell
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Resigned from GitHub. Joining Datadog. Observability is the new version control.
Important disclaimer: tastiness measured from perspective of a human being, not a star-eating megaorganism.
Randall Munroe@xkcd.com · 3y agoSphere Tastiness xkcd.com/2893
Waiting for all the bad things of Twitter/X to manifest themselves here.