Andrew Quinn

Scan the Quick Response (QR) code above with your favorite Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) app.You should get a six digit number, rotating every30 seconds, that looks something like12237601# as of Wed May 20 09:44:53 AM EEST 2026If you then take the secre

Note fornumberphiles:all numbers have been rounded to their first significantdigit, because I'm a fan of Rob Eastaway's"zequals" methodof getting to the point when it comes to estimation. It's muchmore valuable to walk away with the heuristic "some dude g

Before GitHub Actions,before GitLab CI/CD,and before the panoply of startups all promisingto help you build your software faster and withless hassle, there was the humble,open sourceJenkins.Or perhaps I should say is: Jenkins is still activelymaintained t

Earlier this weekend, while attempting to hook upa fast background noise removertoa fast subtitle re-aligner,Gemini gave me what might be my new favorite AI hallucination:### The FixTry this command:bashdeepFilter

As of writing this I can findno Hacker News comments containing both the words "mythos" and "CRA",which suggests I might have a first-mover advantagein writing something interesting. At last!Anthropic announced Claude Mythos Preview on 2026-04-07.Supposed

I wrote my first Clojure program in anger a few months ago.Only, it's not accurate tosay that I wrote it; AI did most of the writing, and I directed it on what mydesign goals were and why.Architecturally, you could call it was a statelessanti-corruption l

I have a suspicion - and let me be clear, that's all this is, a suspicion,I am taking my own claims even more lightly than usual here - that Claude Codemakes most people's lives better, but it makes the lives of those who struggle with executivefunction m

I use Claude Code. I like Claude Code. According toSteve Yegge'sEight-Circuit Model of Claudesciousness,I'm a pretty solid Stage 6, edging into 7 on heavy days.I think most engineers, most of the time, can get most oftheir work done faster with one of the

Lua and Scheme occupy curiously similar places in my noggin, becuase myprimary use case for both has been as scripting languages embedded into other,larger projects. Lua of course is basically designed for this job, but it'sa solid intermediate format to