• We should be nice to our LLMs and human-mimicking AIs

    ...regardless of whether or not they ever achieve "sentience"

    Dec 21, 2025

    Personally, I think we humans should model the kind of behavior we want to see in AI. Both because it learns from us, and because what we do, and how we talk to something human-like, forms habits in us.

  • Accounts, Accounts, Accounts, Oh My!

    Do we really need to sign in to every website?

    Dec 3, 2025

    Basically every site you use requires you to set up some sort of user account. In this post, I get into why they do it, and why I hate it.

  • The Case for Flatpak, AppImage, and maybe even Snappy

    Okay, well maybe not Snappy.

    Dec 3, 2025

    I may have gone too far with this one. Shall we talk of package managers?