Register Spill
Since April 2023 I’ve been writing a weekly newsletter on Substack called Register Spill. It has thousands of subscribers now.
Here are the last 10 posts I’ve published:
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Joy & Curiosity #100
It’s the week of Jev! I’m really, really, really, really excited about it. I mean: really. It’s like someone blew up a confetti bomb in the world of LLMs and now you realize how grey everything looked before.
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Joy & Curiosity #99
Something changed with these latest models, with Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra. The benchmark numbers (79% instead of 65%!) don’t capture it, and neither do the benchmark words: this model goes on for longer than this one…
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Joy & Curiosity #98
Here’s the start of Chapter 7, ‘Naive Intervention’, from Antifragile: Consider this need to “do something” through an illustrative example. In the 1930s, 389 children were presented to New York City doctors; 174 of…
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Joy & Curiosity #97
How many bugs are you willing to tolerate in your codebase? Don’t tell me it’s zero, because we both know it’s not zero. It’s also not a four-digit number. That’d be too much. But there is a number, or a range of…
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Joy & Curiosity #96
When I compare the first 10 years of my professional life as a software developer to the last two it’s mind-boggling how many things that seemed foundational, or: institutional, in the life of a software developer from…
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Joy & Curiosity #95
In the last two weeks I’ve shipped: a new experimental provider backend for our orbs, an in-product bug reporting feature (not released yet) including an admin area where we can triage bugs, disk and memory warnings for…
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Joy & Curiosity #94
What a lovely week it’s been! Nearly the whole Amp team met up in Munich. We all stayed in the same hotel and in the mornings floated down to a big meeting room in which we then hacked, asked each other questions that…
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Joy & Curiosity #93
Friends, yesterday got back from Boston where I gave a talk at Laracon about how I prompt Amp. Tomorrow I’m taking the train to Munich, where I’m meeting with the whole Amp team. Here’s some telegraph dispatches from…
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Joy & Curiosity #92
This week was busy: we shipped a lot of things, recorded quite a few things, I worked on my Laracon talk, chatted with amazing programmers in different timezones, and our local public swimming pool celebrated its 50th…
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Joy & Curiosity #91
Last week, my 9-year-old started using iMovie on the iPad. She doesn’t know anything about editing. She doesn’t even know what editing is.
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