Recently 1 Socrates Stoicism and the joy of lingering Over a year ago I promised myself I’d write regular updates about what I’ve been doing and reading. Unfortunately, I never really developed that habit. Sadly, my last update was in June 2024. Part of the reason I stopped writing these updates was that they felt just a bit too
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Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event This is the second year I brought my Dad (a now-retired radio engineer and co-host of Geerling Engineering) to Open Sauce, a Bay Area maker faire-like event, dreamed up by
Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 an update Frontier LLMs such as Gemini 2.5 PRO, with their vast understanding of many topics and their ability to grasp thousands of lines of code in a few seconds, are able to extend and amplify the programmer capabilities. If you are able to describe problems in a clear way and, if
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Adding GPS and off-grid maps to my Meshtastic T-Deck Adding GPS and off-grid maps to my Meshtastic T-Deck Meshtastic is still a bit touch-and-go sometimes, but the St. Louis area Mesh has grown quite a bit, to the point I can regularly mesh with 10-30 other nodes. So
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Socratic dialectics with AI How would Socrates use ChatGPT? In Plato’s Phaedrus, Socrates recounts an ancient myth about the Egyptian gods, Thamus and Theuth. In this story, the Egyptian inventor god, Theuth, visits another god, Thamus, to demonstrate a number of his new inventions, including his greatest new invention, that of letters and writing. Upon