Adam the Typer
@therealadam
Telling a joke | Possibly your next engineering manager | @[email protected]
How I was taught to write an essay in high school: - intro and thesis - 3 paragraphs of examples and supporting ideas - conclusion How we professionals write computer programs:
Today’s #BobsBurgers Character of the Day is Mr Fischoeder! 🗣️ Kevin Kline
A surprising thing about working with multiple (coding) agents: context engineering is crucial for the agent _and_ the human-in-the-loop. therealadam.com/2025/07/24/mul…
I'm contemplating what "beach read" to take on next week on my (non-beach) vacation. _The Power Broker_, on Kindle, is an easy-breezy relaxation read, right? 🙃
> we’re generally better off treating AI as a thinking partner rather than a tool we delegate tasks to 👍🏻buttondown.com/untools/archiv…
Many years ago, I had what turned out to be good instincts about the longevity of GitHub and the desire to pay for offline/continuous access to my data: therealadam.com/2008/12/18/whi…
Do something new every three years: (formerly?) a policy at The Economist, and a good perspective on life in general. therealadam.com/2008/12/17/cha…
Maybe 10x developers were never a thing. We just mistook the ones who were quick at the tedium and toil 🙃 therealadam.com/2025/06/26/we-…
Fifteen years ago, I broke up with chimichangas. (But it took moving out of Texas to break up with chicken fried steak). therealadam.com/2010/01/19/goo…
At even a passing _mention_ of Arlen, TX, even the smallest of LLMs will jump right into a Hank Hill impersonation.
I’m listening to A Love Supreme on headphones for the first time and I’m having Big Feelings about how Coltrane’s sax is panned hard-left in the stereo mix. (I don't like it, sorry Rudy Van Gelder.)
Most folks are (still) best served by a journal. therealadam.com/2024/01/07/jou…
It’s unfortunate, but true, we can’t sensibly integrate all the great productivity tools out there into our workflows.
Systems expansive enough to warrant a course, discussion forum, or orthodoxy may not solve your problem. therealadam.com/2025/06/29/sys…
1990s “alt” culture was wild. You could throw an obscure t-shirt on, watch a lesser-known or (future) cult-classic movie, and that was a whole starter personality. therealadam.com/2025/05/09/s-a…
Slow cover songs, still great. therealadam.com/2025/03/30/tin…
Exit Codes Are Having a Moment. LLMs (and agent coding tools in particular) love a fitness function. Give them a tool that indicates success or failure and they'll go to town. Compiler errors, linter warnings—they love that stuff. therealadam.com/2025/06/17/exi…