VS code developer, mostly in the notebook UX. Father of two in the Seattle suburbs. Hobbyist woodworker. eBike commuter. Beer enjoyer.https://bsky.app/profile/amunger.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/amunger.bsky.social/post/3mk4xmqxffk2cTying in benchmark evals into LLM RF seems to be making the latest models very good at convincing me that it was successful at completing my ask. I have to look pretty carefully to notice the logical leaps or bad assumptions.23 Apr 2026 02:27 +0000at://did:plc:ns3ghg3geui77k6er7bbf2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk4xmqxffk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/amunger.bsky.social/post/3lpklgtedlk2uI'm just excited about how much easier it will be to diagnose user issues now that we can open up the prompts that it used. [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 May 2025 22:06 +0000at://did:plc:ns3ghg3geui77k6er7bbf2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpklgtedlk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/amunger.bsky.social/post/3lnby3d6rxs26AI in code editors opened up so many new feature possibilities that I finally managed to think up a useful vs code extension that didn't already exist: Generate debug log point messages with Logpoint Generator. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=amunger.logpoint-generator21 Apr 2025 01:08 +0000at://did:plc:ns3ghg3geui77k6er7bbf2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnby3d6rxs26https://bsky.app/profile/amunger.bsky.social/post/3lhytgbhymc24love these new completions. [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Feb 2025 18:45 +0000at://did:plc:ns3ghg3geui77k6er7bbf2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhytgbhymc24https://bsky.app/profile/amunger.bsky.social/post/3lfppe3d7r22uI'm still working through the "Crafting Compilers" book. I spent at least an hour trying to figure out why my C program was returning something like 3.67e-307 for every value I was trying to store in a byte array. After adding a bunch of printf statements to debug, it just suddenly started working.14 Jan 2025 16:48 +0000at://did:plc:ns3ghg3geui77k6er7bbf2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfppe3d7r22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/amunger.bsky.social/post/3lesisfbipk22PSA - 6 years old is a great time to be introduced to Star Wars. I'm through the original trilogy and episode I with my daughter, and she is loving it. Seeing her reaction to "I am your father" was very satisfying.03 Jan 2025 02:03 +0000at://did:plc:ns3ghg3geui77k6er7bbf2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lesisfbipk22https://bsky.app/profile/amunger.bsky.social/post/3ldmzlp7y4k2pGive Copilot another shot if you already used up your trial period early on. It has improved quite a bit and a free tier is now available. [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Dec 2024 04:23 +0000at://did:plc:ns3ghg3geui77k6er7bbf2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldmzlp7y4k2phttps://bsky.app/profile/amunger.bsky.social/post/3ldlssieay22zMe trying to step away from #AdventOfCode to regain several hours of my day.18 Dec 2024 16:49 +0000at://did:plc:ns3ghg3geui77k6er7bbf2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldlssieay22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/amunger.bsky.social/post/3ldgkg7hq4c2fI don't understand why rust gets such an exceptional amount of love in those SO dev surveys. The learning curve feels so steep with all that syntax and the ownership restrictions. I'm still willing to slog my way through as I learn it, but why does it appeal so widely?16 Dec 2024 14:35 +0000at://did:plc:ns3ghg3geui77k6er7bbf2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldgkg7hq4c2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/amunger.bsky.social/post/3ld7tbm6ky22sI finished #AdventOfCode day 13, but damn, I don't remember linear algebra being that tricky13 Dec 2024 22:25 +0000at://did:plc:ns3ghg3geui77k6er7bbf2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3ld7tbm6ky22shttps://bsky.app/profile/amunger.bsky.social/post/3ld2aq22gk22tI love when the #AdventOfCode problems become time constrained because you see how powerful optimization can be - My solution went from not finishing after waiting for around a minute to 71 ms after optimization. my solution: https://github.com/amunger/adventOfCode2024/blob/main/src/problems/day11.ts11 Dec 2024 17:10 +0000at://did:plc:ns3ghg3geui77k6er7bbf2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3ld2aq22gk22thttps://bsky.app/profile/amunger.bsky.social/post/3lctqrncxyk25I really appreciate it when humor is mixed into technical books, and Crafting Interpreters delivers well on that.09 Dec 2024 03:08 +0000at://did:plc:ns3ghg3geui77k6er7bbf2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lctqrncxyk25https://bsky.app/profile/amunger.bsky.social/post/3lcr7jz2onk2pI'm through part 2 of Crafting Interpreters and I even added arrays to the language for the jlox tree-walk interpreter as the final challenge exercise. I wasn't sure how much I was picking up while reading through, but adding my own feature really helped cement the material in my mind.08 Dec 2024 02:55 +0000at://did:plc:ns3ghg3geui77k6er7bbf2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcr7jz2onk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/amunger.bsky.social/post/3lcnnbwj7mc2mIf you want copilot auto-completions for the tedious stuff, but don't want it when thinking through your #AdventOfCode solution. You can make a keybinding to toggle it on and off with the "Toggle" extension from @rebornix.com06 Dec 2024 16:50 +0000at://did:plc:ns3ghg3geui77k6er7bbf2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcnnbwj7mc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/amunger.bsky.social/post/3lcl6clhiwc2g#AdventOfCode day 5: modified bubble sort to the rescue!05 Dec 2024 17:17 +0000at://did:plc:ns3ghg3geui77k6er7bbf2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcl6clhiwc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/amunger.bsky.social/post/3lc7ijgcevc2oAre there stats for how far people make it through advent of code each year? I'd be interested to see the trend as AI tools become more ubiquitous01 Dec 2024 01:47 +0000at://did:plc:ns3ghg3geui77k6er7bbf2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lc7ijgcevc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/amunger.bsky.social/post/3lc4i34rysk2zI was initially disturbed by importing functions in typescript and using them as if they were local but have grown comfortable with it. Now I can't stand seeing a class member used within the class without using prefixing with "this".29 Nov 2024 21:01 +0000at://did:plc:ns3ghg3geui77k6er7bbf2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lc4i34rysk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/amunger.bsky.social/post/3lbv3t4tqfc2dYou sometimes discover that a "bad practice" in software can actually be perfectly suited for a specific case. The latest one for me was using exceptions for control flow to implement return statements while reading Crafting Interpreters.26 Nov 2024 22:34 +0000at://did:plc:ns3ghg3geui77k6er7bbf2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbv3t4tqfc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/amunger.bsky.social/post/3lbilmrd5ns25If a command isn't doing quite what you would expect in vs code, but you can't convince the developers to change the behavior, you might be able to adjust it yourself by combining commands in a custom key binding.21 Nov 2024 23:12 +0000at://did:plc:ns3ghg3geui77k6er7bbf2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbilmrd5ns25https://bsky.app/profile/amunger.bsky.social/post/3lawcgjcghc2kA top QOL improvement for working on a11y features is NVDA's speech viewer: right click the taskbar item -> tools -> speech viewer. Not being a screen reader user myself, I find the audible narration incredibly distracting, and this way I can turn the narration volume to 0 and still test a11y.14 Nov 2024 16:39 +0000at://did:plc:ns3ghg3geui77k6er7bbf2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lawcgjcghc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/amunger.bsky.social/post/3lakfdctudk2aI still remember my first post on Reddit, replying to an r/explainbothsides post about UBI. It seemed pretty innocuous, but the OP apparently looked through my profile and replied with "What a strange first post!" and I still can't figure out why.09 Nov 2024 22:59 +0000at://did:plc:ns3ghg3geui77k6er7bbf2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lakfdctudk2a