Chris Amico

About two months ago, my wife was out for a walk and stopped to talk with a man working in his yard. When he realized that she and I were married, he said:… More →

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chrisamico shared this story from Tom MacWright Micro. Data structures are the foundation of programming IDs are identifiers. Names are not identifiers. Do not use names as identifiers. The fewer databases you use the better. Consistency between... More →

In all of the debates about the value of AI-assistance in software development there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of … More →

Do we still need libraries of 3rd party code when AI agents are this good? More →

I’ve started using the term HTML tools to refer to HTML applications that I’ve been building which combine HTML, JavaScript, and CSS in a single file and use them to … More →

chrisamico shared this story from Derek Willis. Of nearly all of the potential uses for Large Language Models, perhaps the best and most defensible is using them to write code. During the recently-completed fall semester, I co-taught a Computer... More →

Explore motifs from Hamilton, Wicked, and Les Misérables. More →

The nonprofit research group Epoch AI is tracking the physical imprint of the technology that’s changing the world. More →

chrisamico shared this story . Credit...Jonno Rattman for The New York TimesHe Was a Supreme Court Lawyer. Then His Double Life Caught Up With Him.Thomas Goldstein was a superstar in the legal world. He was also a secret high-stakes gambler, whose... More →

[Opens front door while holding a toy corgi in one arm] Merry Christmas! Oh my God, you made it! I thought you might be stuck at the airport for weeks! Well, because it’s such madness out there. Piper here won’t eat his treats; he can feel the tension... More →

chrisamico shared this story from Roslindale. 1966 proposal for Orange growth: Start with extension to West Roxbury, with eventual branches to Needham, Norwood and Canton (thinner dotted lines are commuter-rail lines). WBUR reports that the latest... More →

Jimmy Lai, the former Hong Kong media mogul and outspoken critic of Beijing, has been convicted in a landmark national security trial in the city’s court. More →

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chrisamico shared this story . President Trump is wielding one of the most sweeping of presidential powers—clemency—far differently in his second term than in his first.In the first year of his first term, Trump granted one pardon and commuted one... More →

chrisamico shared this story . Party veterans had earlier told The Associated Press that some members were warned of consequences if the party didn’t shut down.Its demise reflects the dwindling freedoms promised to the former British colony when it... More →

chrisamico shared this story . AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTImage“We do one book after state testing, and we did ‘The Great Gatsby.’ … A lot of kids had not read a novel in class before.”— Laura Henry, 10th-grade English teacher near Houston“My son... More →

More than any other historical event, the opening of the Erie Canal, on Oct. 26, 1825, set Chicago on the path to becoming the city it is today. More →

Yukon Gold potatoes are getting harder to find. Here's why growers are moving away from them and which yellow varieties are taking their place. More →

A Case Study in the Historical Importance of Incompetence More →

The following is a transcript of an Oct. 14 phone call lasting just over 5 minutes between Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s special envoy for peace missions, and… More →