Spending Time with the Material

robinsloan.com
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September 26, 2025 The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons A wild find at a comic book store yesterday: The Making of Orig­inal Dun­geons & Dragons, a doorstop volume, devoted almost entirely to repro­duc­tions of early ver­sions of the game, from type­written … Read more

Spending Too Much Money on a Coding Agent

allenpike.com
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On making use of large thinking models. For a year, I’d been coding almost every day with Cursor and Claude Sonnet. Anthropic’s 3.5 and 3.7 Sonnet each rightly earned their dominant place on the programming model charts: they were the … Read more

Spending too much time optimizing for loops

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This is part of a series of blog posts relating my experience pushing the performance of programming language interpreters written in Rust. what? also, who? My PhD is on the runtime performance of AST interpreters: my job is to try … Read more