Steve Downey

Software engineer at Bloomberg LP

Views are my own

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2026-02-18 12:36:25 UTC

I've seen a couple code assistant AI demos that mostly showed, to me, how woefully under-served many programmers are with their development environments.
Like, I taught my editor to produce the frame code for unit tests for a component, with all the right names, appropriate capitalization, and so on decades ago. Ditto for my common idioms. LSP has amplified that. Context aware suggestions are already my norm.

2025-10-29 22:50:43 UTC

Happy #Inkvent to all those who celebrate!
25 samples of fountain pen ink from Diamine for the holidays.
#FountainPen #Ink

2025-04-05 18:17:35 UTC

@npub15zf…nt4w 's new book delivered today.
Building a Debugger: Write a Native X86 Debugger from Scratch by Sy Brand, published by no starch press.
I'm looking forward to this.
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2024-12-14 00:08:00 UTC

New Pilot Iroshizuku #fountainpen inks, To-ro, Rikka, and Syun-gyo are available online at Vanness, vanness1938.com
Maybe other places, too, haven't checked the usual suspects.

2024-11-02 16:12:13 UTC

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Considered it, but couldn't find any IPv4 blocks available.

2024-10-19 19:50:43 UTC

C++23 is official!
(ignore the 2024)
(please!)
https://www.iso.org/standard/83626.html

2024-10-15 19:44:39 UTC

Diamine Inkvent calendar shipped! 25 days of new fountain pen ink in December.
Of course now I'll have to be patient again once it gets here.
#fountainpen #Inkvent2024
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2024-08-17 14:56:20 UTC

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Competence porn is a whole SFF subgenre.
Leverage is a genre-adjacent example.