What is going on and what is the future.

The latest tech fad appears to be generative AI and ChatGPT in particular. As with many technologies, this fad has spawned a lot of concern. Some of these concerns are justified, while some are hyperbolic. Unfortunately most people have a very limited unde...

It used to annoy me when people talked about going online as something separate from the "real world." I always thought of the Internet as part of the real world, and as a college student in the early 90s and a graduate student in the late 90s, the Interne...

When I was younger I would focus on a program for all day and into the evening. I would go to sleep thinking about a program, and I would wake up and jump right back into that program. During that time I kept a lot of the state of my program in my head, an...

In 2011, as I started programming more and becoming increasingly frustrated with academia, I started a blog called Idol Star Astronomer. It chronicles budget cuts, LED projects, my departure from academia, and a lot of opinions about programming, docker, a...