Software on mattischrome

LLMs and Cryptic Crosswords

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

At the time of writing, one way to demonstrate the illusory nature of LLM intelligence is to get one to try and answer a cryptic crossword clue.

Personal Development Environment

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been trying to settle on a text editor, IDE, and terminal for a long time now. Partly I’m limited by what I can use at work because I owe to myself and my colleagues to be able to reproduce all my skills in a work setting. However, part of me has also wandered off a bit after reading about the idea of a “personal Development Environment” (or PDE I guess, though in a former life that meant something very different), which is essentially an application where you can do anything and have it configured exactly how you like. Here’s an update on my progress on that front:

Some Initial Thoughts About Civilization VII

Tue, 11 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Sid Meier’s Civilization VII is out today to much fanfare. After spending what top scientists are calling “far too long” playing Civ VI and a couple of run-throughs of the new game during the early access period, here are some thoughts on the new instalment.

Push the right key

Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

One of the absurd barriers to writing regularly is that my new post script is written to open the new markdown file in Neovim and until this week I had no idea how to type a hashtag (which markdown uses for headers) in this editor.

Fun With Chat-GPT

Sun, 12 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I asked: