How to Build an Agent Permalink
https://ampcode.com/how-to-build-an-agent
Recent Posts
Kagi Search Stats Permalink
https://kagi.com/stats?stat=leaderboard
This Material Gets Bigger When You Squish It Permalink
https://youtu.be/Pw3AvKcHeTw?si=Y0MxHxeOUtrlSh0A
Creating a Linkblog
I am adding a “Linkblog” to this website. It’s a way for me to share interesting links I find online and maybe share a few thoughts or comments about it.
Mac Mini Home Server
I just purchased a new Mac Mini with the intent of setting it up as a home server.
My Personal Software Stack - Fall 2024 Edition
It’s interesting to look at how one’s software usage changes over time. Some people use the same tools for years or even decades. Some people change producti...
How I Use AI
It’s the middle of 2024 and unless you live under a rock you’ve certainly encountered the trend of “AI” infiltrating virtually every piece of software we use...
Social Media Diet
Stop me if you’ve been there before.
2023 Year In Review
It’s 10:38 AM. I’m sitting at the kitchen table and the house is a warzone of opened presents and to-be-put-away special dishware and decorations from Christ...
Fighter Jets Can’t Go To Space
Fighter jets are a technological marvel. Capable of traveling at several times the speed of sound and flying miles above the surface of the earth. From our s...
Back to Forums
In case you’ve been living under a rock the past couple of weeks, people are kind of mad at Reddit.
Enabling Comments
Quick update - I have enabled comments for blog posts on chambers.io. Scroll to the bottom of the page to check it out!
AI Pessimism
There has been a lot written about AI lately. Particularly large language models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and GPT-4. Yet despite my best efforts, I find myse...
2022 Year In Review
Highlights
Heroku: Worth Reading About
If you are not familiar with Heroku, it’s a platform-as-a-service for deploying and running software applications. That sounds so simple, but Heroku was actu...
2021 Year In Review
Highlights
2020 Year In Review
Books I Read
vb4c - The Road to 1.0
Introducing vb4c - Vim Bindings for Chrome!
2019 Year In Review
Highlights
New Adventures Ahead
I’m joining Zendesk!
We use it for everything, and most of us have no control. It’s kind of insane.
Linux & Unix Command Line Essentials
When I got my first SysAdmin job (as a Student with the Center for High Throughput Computing) my Linux/Unix knowledge was passable but not great. I started t...
Rest Easy - You’re Now Browsing With HTTPS
As of today chambers.io is officially served up over HTTPS.
Celebrate Valentine’s Day with Bash!
If you’re using a modern terminal emulator with unicode support (for example, the default Gnome terminal shipped with Ubuntu) you can add Emoji to your bash ...
What the Hell is a Shell?
You see the term ‘Shell’ tossed around a lot these days. The Bourne Shell (sh), Bash (Bourne Again Shell), Powershell, etc. What actually is a “shell”?
On Keeping Notes
I made a tiny script for keeping simple text-based notes. You might find it useful too. Introducing: Note Keeper
Git vs. The Competition
If you have been following along during Git Week 2018, you know that Git isn’t your only choice for version control. There are plenty of other options out th...
How Git Works
So far this week we’ve talked about what Git is and how to use it. If you’re anything like me, you want to know how things work under the hood. When you firs...
Git for Sysadmins
Congratulations! You survived Git 101. 
Git 101
Welcome to Git 101! This pico-course is going to take you from zero-to-hero with one of the greatest technologies of the last 20 years. We’ll explore a brief...
Why You Should Write in Markdown
What is this Markdown nonsense and why should I care? I’ll give up .doc when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
What’s Up, World?
Because Hello, World! is sooo 1976.