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Power Tools Analogy for Coding Agents

A couple of months back, I started experimenting with Claude Code. When I get deeply into a task or technical concept, my brain starts pattern matching outside of that scope....

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December 27, 2025
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Podcast Commentary: Anyone can code now

I listen to a crap load of podcasts. Historically, these have been mostly tech podcasts, but recently I've been falling down that morass that is American politics....

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November 30, 2025
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Claude Code for Web Experiment

Anthropic sent an email offering $1,000 in credit for their Claude service. At first glance, the generous credit amount caught my attention....

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November 7, 2025
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Surface Symbolics Concept Videos

Headaches, neck pain, and back pain have been a constant backdrop to my professional life working at a desk. In 2010, the pain became so severe that I ended up getting a CT scan, which led to a...

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July 10, 2012
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Wall Street Journal China Econtracker

The Wall Street Journal China Econtracker site is a handy visualization of KPIs for the Chinese Economy. The aspects that stand out include that the GDP, Fixed Asset Investment and Foreign Exchange...

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January 21, 2012
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Massive Disruptive Change

I came across a number of web news reports that though unrelated indicate the massive technological changes that are occurring now and also going to sweep through our society over the coming years....

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February 19, 2011
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Nokia changes its CEO and its tune

The machinations at Nokia are fascinating: When the previous CEO was regularly coming out with put downs targeting the Android platform, I was thinking “What planet is this guy on?”....

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February 9, 2011
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Office 2007 UI Licensing Bull

I just upgraded to the Infragistics 2007 Volume 1 release which includes support for a ribbon based user interface. It was annoying to come across this dialog during the installation: !Infragistics...

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March 7, 2007
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