#199 — Mon 16 March 2026 by Evan Chen

Appreciated this paragraph from gasche:

The policy that I proposed has been described to me as:

• disturbingly anti-AI by people who are very positive about AI usage for programming
• disturbingly pro-AI by people who are very negative about AI usage for programming

My immodest take-away from these conflicting sentiments is that the proposed policy is in fact reasonably balanced.

#198 — Mon 16 March 2026 by Evan Chen

I think I would have liked to have a teacher like Dijkstra.

#197 — Mon 16 March 2026 by Evan Chen

Reading ocaml PR 14369 generates so much entertainment value for me every time.

#196 — Sun 15 March 2026 by Evan Chen

Actually one of my favorite parts of the MOSP hunt is the rec letter in the Epilogue of Chapter 1.

#195 — Sat 14 March 2026 by Evan Chen

Are these log messages too snarky?

log "♻️  RELOAD TRIGGERED. Every day I'm shuffling 🔀"
# …
log "☀️  GOOD MORNING, my glorious webmaster! How are you this fine $(date +"%A in %B")?"
log "🩷 Please enjoy these logs, I wrote them just for you 💌🖋️"