Reilly Wood

Yeah basically, software is boring once its in a container not called “my terminal”

Polyglot Conference was quite good today. Nice to meet people from a wide variety of backgrounds doing cool stuff in Vancouver www.polyglotsoftware.com

LinkedIn, man. I do not think it is "poor form" to try to recruit software developers from your company www.linkedin.com/posts/dennis...

Yeah, the borrow checker and strings are probably the biggest sources of complexity in the name of performance.

It gets easier (I promise!) and it's still my favourite language but I sometimes fantasize about a Rust with garbage collection that was a little more chill about implicit allocations...

Not that I’m aware of (but my info may be out of date, I haven’t contributed to Nushell in the last year or so)

I think Nushell users would generally not enable that; parsing JSON is trivial in Nu (pipe something to `from json`) but doesn't happen automatically when CLI tools emit JSON.

Maybe it should, will give that some thought :)

Yes I think that’s a great approach.

I’m glad you’re asking! Personally I think the best way is to have an easily discoverable way to emit a Nushell-supported format (usually JSON or YAML, maybe CSV for flat tabular data) without any autodiscovery.

(I used to be on the Nushell core team)

uv is the cheat code for getting past the worst of the package management stuff. but I don't use Python enough to know the good ways to do type checking well, and then I try to use a popular, well-documented library and its examples are doing weird type checking with string comparisons

every single time I do Python stuff

That’s fair; I think it’s a fine option to wait it out while early adopters figure out the best ways to use these things

I have found them to be crazy useful for many tasks but it took and still is taking a lot of experimentation to figure out what they’re good at and where they fall over

oh no

I did this at the age of 37; went from zero to 3-4h of Crossfit every week. And yeah, the results were very noticeable after just 6 months or so reillywood.com/blog/strengt...

Figma hired Krazam to promote their MCP server, lol (it's pretty good) www.instagram.com/reel/DO86iR4...

That's interesting and surprising to me; I imagined that the tools would end up looking the same to the underlying LLM either way. Maybe something's amiss in popular MCP client libraries?

I met Remy at an MCP event in SF recently; super sharp guy, you’re building some neat stuff!

Ironic: Gartner had my post ridiculing Gartner removed. The one that shared Gartner's Magic Quadrant about AI Code Assistants, which does not include Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and ranks Amazon above Cursor.

This one: github.blog/ai-and-ml/gi...

Are they embarrassed to share their Magic Quadrant?

can't find it but Dave Plummer from Dave's Garage has talked about doing something similar to this in the 90's for Windows stress testing

(he's a weird dude who frequently exaggerates but this story seemed legit)

as a Canadian who was recently subjected to this: can you not?

I was doing some software history research and stumbled on this absolutely FASCINATING letter from 1964: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Some random defense contractor writes in to say "You should deliver a minimal prototype as fast as possible to get feedback and involve users at every stage of labor"

This is a good read and I appreciate that it's honest about the reasons for hiding CoT! Thanks for posting it here

galaxy brain (positive valence)

Worse news: there are uncountably many undecidable problems. Computers have been a scam this whole time

screenshot of the install options for Ghostty. 1 option (Homebrew) for macOS, and 10 bajillion options for Linux

shipping software on macOS vs shipping software on Linux, sigh

I do the West Coast “wake up, catch up on what coworkers in Europe and the East Coast have been doing, work work work in the morning and then things are relatively quiet in the afternoon” thing and mostly always have. Curious whether it’s better or worse than the reverse situation

yeah I’m hopeful that we’ll get there now that Apple has those APIs for local inference. figure it’ll take a few years for hardware+software to get there but eventually we’ll have some cross-platform abstraction for that

I agree, trying to nudge people in that direction is part of why I wrote this

I work on the MCP server for a large observability company and there are a lot of people who want to let an agent query our data but don’t have the time or ability to write a fully sandboxed one that understands our APIs (even though that would be able to do more)