Penn, in his 4th year of the 5-year arch program at Arkansas, attended this earlier this summer, and described it as life-changing. I cognitively understood the factors involved, but getting to watch this video about it brought it home emotionally. I was filled with joy and hope. And I was holding it together until the end, when they showed the stake with his name on it being driven into the ground. I sobbed tears of joy. Which hasn’t happened in a long time.| daniel.industries
What I do know something about is constant suffering which you are forced to live with. You can drink yourself stupid, shout at the heavens, bang your head against the wall - but when you wake up in the morning the pain and loss is still there. And in the end there is nothing you can do except breathe - yeah, just carrying on living is a small act of resistance. At the risk of making it worse than it already is, it may be that you have to accept an ending. As awful as it is, it does have the ...| daniel.industries
Milo raced at the TX state road race championships again this year, the only race of the year with an event for his age group that is a reasonable distance from Dallas. It is still a 2.5 hour drive and a night in a hotel. The race starts at 7:30 am in the middle of Fort Cavazos. We have to drive our kids 12 miles out onto the race course, drop them off, and then drive back to the finish line and wait.| daniel.industries
I noticed this Reddit post: Is road cycling dying in America? and ended up leaving a comment a couple of days later that was a good postmortem on the bicycling-related venture I explored last year:| daniel.industries
Milo raced in the state championship road race in 2023 and last year, both times at Fort Cavazos and run by the same organizers. Those organizers were unable to continue, so it was picked up by (apparently) three organizers: David Comer of Camp of Lamps, Chris Tolley of Driveway Series, and Andrew Willis of Holland Racing, and became the Oatmeal Classic.| daniel.industries
AI as a tool for developing software can be very useful in the hands of a reasonably experienced developer who understands the business, principles of good software design, and knows deep in their soul that the best code is that which is never written.| daniel.industries
I added a section to /writing: Short Fiction on the Blog. These are all the posts tagged #fiction, and some of my favorite posts here. Going back through them, cleaning them up when necessary, removing some that were only ironically tagged fiction…it was a joy. Some of the really old ones have turns of phrase I’m still proud of.| daniel.industries
On May 25th I used Claude Code for the first time. I’ve used GitHub Copilot for some time, but I’d never used a “coding agent” with any success. I’d tried one with an online IDE and it failed so thoroughly so quickly I lasted maybe three prompts. I’d tried Copilot in agent mode, although to be fair never from zero.| daniel.industries
As a “oh, it is already happening” follow up to the philosophical section of my Overview of the GenAI Landscape post, where I quote Todd McGowan and Ryan Engley:| daniel.industries
Carissa asked what the titles of these posts were about. In case you also do not know, they’re weeknotes, “updates about what your business has been doing over the past seven days or so.” In this case I don’t have a “business” yet but I’m simply counting from when I began exploring new ideas and options following the end of my time at Extra Sauce.| daniel.industries
