fermentation with limited resources As I remember it, there was a poem titled Ketchup Wine that detailed how to make wine in prison from ketchup with the limited resources available to someone who is incarcerated. I remember reading about this a very long time ago, and I am not able to find the original
I’ve been thinking a lot about respect At Ter Apel, if someone asks me if I have any bread, I don’t ask questions. I answer honestly, and I share. Nobody judges you for scarfing dry bread out of a bag, or saying “I’m so hungry” when what you mean is, “I have not had enough
monthly wrap-up: may 2025 here's the promised wrap-up for the month of may. i have been kind of very productive despite a ton of adverse stuff going on in my life right now. also apologies if this is kind of messy and sprawling, i folded it together from notes throughout the month
convergence in human/ai interaction I'm going to make two points in this post. * It is becoming harder to tell whether something is "written by ai" both because ai is growing in capabilities as well as the corpora of data ingested as training material meaning it has a higher degree of
microservices you don't need microservices I was once asked by Bryan Cantrill what I thought about the pattern of "nanoservices." At that conference, one of the speakers before me had decried the "anti-pattern" of nanoservices. I disagreed. I disagreed in a very Uber kind of way. For Uber, which at the
exploring the edges of content moderation in chatgpt Content moderation in any product that allows input from the public is tricky. This is because humans are pretty crafty, and curious. If you say, "do not include anything offensive in your input," the question immediately is, "well, what is offensive?" and of course, there are
the first night at ter apel I guess I need to write this right now-right now. I'm not sure why, but I have been writing an awful lot. And the tone and urgency resembles the frenzied, have to get this all out, it feels really important big words emphatic statements moral righteousness and fury,
Introductions Hello! I'm Jane Arc. I'm a software engineer originally from San Diego, but I have lived in Washington, DC and San Francisco. Professionally, I've done a wide variety of things, but for the most part, my work has been in large-scale enterprise environments, building
