It’s like “soup of the moment” at your favorite restaurant. These are the things that I’m doing right now.

Learning

Learning how to boost my developer productivity with GitHub Copilot and Cursor. I’m finding that I’m asked more often to work in unfamiliar codebases, either to fix bugs or adapt it for a new project. AI coding assistants have been so helpful in helping me get up to speed and setup my local environments.

Reading

Reading the book Mitigating Bias in Machine Learning edited by Carlotta A. Berry and Brandeis Hill Marshall. Chapter 10 (Applying the Wells-DuBois Protocol for Achieving Systemic Equity in Socioecological Systems) is giving me practice thinking critically about potential harms of machine learning systems.

Enjoying

Enjoying the Merlin Bird ID app from Cornell Lab of Ornithology. The app lets you identify birds you see or hear. It then feeds your data to eBird, which is an open science project supporting birding research, conservation, and education. So it’s a great example of data engineering + citizen science + open science.

This is a now page, inspired by Derek Sivers. It’s a snapshot of what I’m focused on at this point in my life.

I learned about “now page” from the Substack writings of Ash Ambirge.