https://blog.myres.dev A place for my poorly formed and edited thoughts https://blog.myres.dev/post/were-totally-doomed-so-heres-the-plan.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/were-totally-doomed-so-heres-the-plan.html Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:58:02 -0500 We're going to need to start rethinking our dependence, specifically all of them. https://blog.myres.dev/post/snippets.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/snippets.html Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:03:00 -0400 Deterministic, efficient, fast. Snippets are better than wasteful LLM-driven code completion tools. https://blog.myres.dev/post/hondas.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/hondas.html Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:55:00 -0400 Doctors hate me for being a Type 2 Diabetic, I guess. https://blog.myres.dev/post/a1c.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/a1c.html Sat, 06 Jun 2026 22:27:00 -0400 Treat the patient, not the labs, as the medical establishment would say. There are some confounds in A1c that make it less than a perfect measure. https://blog.myres.dev/post/necessity-sufficiency.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/necessity-sufficiency.html Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:45:00 -0400 Here's hoping the forced adoption of LLMs and the investment in the technology really hurts the rich for what they've done to us https://blog.myres.dev/post/cold-chain.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/cold-chain.html Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:25:00 -0400 I discovered some serious problems with different approaches to refrigeration for medicine. https://blog.myres.dev/post/shut-the-fuck-up.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/shut-the-fuck-up.html Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:00:00 -0400 I lost weight for my pancreas' sake. Now I have to listen to everyone tell me they're so much happier with the projection of my shape onto their retina and I hate them for it. https://blog.myres.dev/post/pugnare-health.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/pugnare-health.html Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:55:00 -0400 I made a small tool to help people like me access a little savings. https://blog.myres.dev/post/the-case-for-standalone-cgm-readers.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/the-case-for-standalone-cgm-readers.html Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:00:00 -0400 There are some real upsides to using a dedicated device over a smartphone for this critical health technology. https://blog.myres.dev/post/type-2.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/type-2.html Sun, 15 Feb 2026 20:39:00 -0400 The stigma around my treatment for a disease I probably couldn't avoid is treacherously fatiguing. https://blog.myres.dev/post/knocking-up.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/knocking-up.html Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Answering wakeup calls is important. It's nice when the call is loud. https://blog.myres.dev/post/nobody-wants-shitty-tools.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/nobody-wants-shitty-tools.html Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:44:00 -0400 LLMs are very shitty tools. Let's talk about an analogy to literal real life tools https://blog.myres.dev/post/wish-I-could-block-faang-on-linkedin.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/wish-I-could-block-faang-on-linkedin.html Sun, 24 Aug 2025 19:04:41 -0400 Everyone seems to be chasing 'TC' (total compensation). I can't see past the moral spectre of these tech giants. https://blog.myres.dev/post/responsibility-as-nature.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/responsibility-as-nature.html Tue, 06 May 2025 09:53:00 -0600 We have turned our back on Mother Nature, but we're part of it so can we really? https://blog.myres.dev/post/algorithmic-fairness-doctrine.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/algorithmic-fairness-doctrine.html Sat, 22 Feb 2025 20:59:00 -0400 We really lost something with the Fairness Doctrine. Now more than ever https://blog.myres.dev/post/hybrid-generation.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/hybrid-generation.html Tue, 28 Jan 2025 19:10:00 -0400 Batteries or Gas generation: porque no los dos? (Why not both?) https://blog.myres.dev/post/sitting-down.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/sitting-down.html Tue, 31 Dec 2024 03:13:00 -0400 Sendentary lifestyle comes at a great cost. https://blog.myres.dev/post/fuck-planes.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/fuck-planes.html Mon, 30 Dec 2024 19:30:00 -0400 General aviation is dodgy and weirdly common. I wish we had trains instead. https://blog.myres.dev/post/fuck-cars.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/fuck-cars.html Mon, 18 Nov 2024 15:02:00 -0400 You can go a long way with just a bicycle, especially an electric one. Cars are an incredibly friction-filled and unavoidable necessity. https://blog.myres.dev/post/why-do-I-hate-python.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/why-do-I-hate-python.html Sat, 09 Nov 2024 14:18:00 -0400 I struggle with a visceral reaction against everyone's favorite/first programming language. https://blog.myres.dev/post/trade-offs.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/trade-offs.html Sun, 13 Oct 2024 20:57:00 -0400 I accidentally learned from a book about software how to reframe everything about life. https://blog.myres.dev/post/personal-wikipedia-part-1.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/personal-wikipedia-part-1.html Fri, 11 Oct 2024 21:49:00 -0400 Wikipedia is run on PHP. I hate that, and I've been nerd sniped by the prospect of parsing the data dumps myself. https://blog.myres.dev/post/delegate-kings.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/delegate-kings.html Sat, 05 Oct 2024 23:11:00 -0400 We should fix taxation. Seriously. https://blog.myres.dev/post/reading-bowling-alone-alone.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/reading-bowling-alone-alone.html Fri, 04 Oct 2024 00:22:46 -0400 Structured, regular interval socialization is becoming next to impossible and I'm sad about it https://blog.myres.dev/post/law-of-software-quality.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/law-of-software-quality.html Thu, 03 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400 Software is only ever as good as it has to be. https://blog.myres.dev/post/the-relief-of-knowing.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/the-relief-of-knowing.html Tue, 01 Oct 2024 16:19:00 -0400 I feel like I've got the secret to the universe. I'll tell you about it! https://blog.myres.dev/post/self-taught-or-college-educated.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/self-taught-or-college-educated.html Mon, 02 Sep 2024 11:48:00 -0600 I see people making accusations about the self-taught or college-educated programming crowds and I feel weird and lost in the middle. https://blog.myres.dev/post/grandmas-a-fascist-question-mark.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/grandmas-a-fascist-question-mark.html Sat, 24 Aug 2024 19:04:07 -0400 I'm being hurt by the people I love and struggling to understand it. https://blog.myres.dev/post/constraint-cascades.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/constraint-cascades.html Sat, 24 Aug 2024 19:02:41 -0400 I hate the way requirements gathering always explodes fractally. https://blog.myres.dev/post/why-you-should-try-fountain-pens.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/why-you-should-try-fountain-pens.html Sat, 24 Aug 2024 18:56:35 -0400 Fountain pens are a terrible experience, but one entirely worth having. https://blog.myres.dev/post/co2-indoors.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/co2-indoors.html Sat, 24 Aug 2024 18:48:59 -0400 CO2 sensing is weirdly interesting and I enjoyed making a project out of logging the background in my home over a long period of time https://blog.myres.dev/post/why-you-should-try-ferrules.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/why-you-should-try-ferrules.html Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 -0600 Ferrules fix the myriad nightmares of screw-type wire termination. https://blog.myres.dev/post/measuring-the-mains.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/measuring-the-mains.html Thu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 -0600 Sometimes I do little electronics projects. This one was particularly fun. https://blog.myres.dev/post/you-probably-need-distraction-too.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/you-probably-need-distraction-too.html Sun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 -0400 GPTs are missing fluid intelligence. Like, entirely. I don't think Attention is all you need https://blog.myres.dev/post/the-musk-of-modern-ai.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/the-musk-of-modern-ai.html Thu, 14 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0600 AI is way harder to accomplish than the promises the spoken by the likes of the grifter shmelon tusk. https://blog.myres.dev/post/javascript-but-why.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/javascript-but-why.html Sun, 18 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600 Stop putting javascript everywhere. I don't understand this at all. https://blog.myres.dev/post/things-we-hardly-know-made-it-in-to-go.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/things-we-hardly-know-made-it-in-to-go.html Fri, 09 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600 Go (golang) has a ton of awesome tricks, here are just a few. https://blog.myres.dev/post/topology-of-software-interviews.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/topology-of-software-interviews.html Fri, 09 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600 Software interviews are just kinda broken, mostly. Let me rant about how that came to be... https://blog.myres.dev/post/in-defense-of-regressions-to-data-entry.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/in-defense-of-regressions-to-data-entry.html Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600 Things should always be improving, especially where automation is the output of your chose career. When they don't it's stifling. https://blog.myres.dev/post/how-to-get-hacked-looking-for-code-help-online.html https://blog.myres.dev/post/how-to-get-hacked-looking-for-code-help-online.html Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600 I see a very basic mistake made over and over, and it's silly.