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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 02/10/2026

I haven't figured out how this fits the metaphor quite yet, but BTW... You can use agentic ai to help prepare you to use agentic ai! But you have to guide it carefully and review, and it will probably often make sense to just do it yourself. Oh, hey, there it is!

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 02/10/2026

If you're adding agentic AI to a project, do some work up front to make sure it's ready for AI. Make sure the existing code has the style and design that you want. And please please please make sure your code is covered by tests (so you and the agent can tell if it's turning into the Red Skull).

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 02/10/2026

Seeing the difference in how the same agentic AI models in the same IDE perform differently on different projects, it hit me that AI is like the super soldier serum in the MCU: "The serum amplifies everything that is inside, so good becomes great; bad becomes worse."

Stanely Tucci as Dr. Erskine, inventor of the super soldier serum, from Captain America: The First Avenger. He is in a barracks, preparing Steve Rogers mentally for the procedure.

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 28/09/2026

I have 5 728-day-old hydroponic tomato plants which I use more for meditation than cultivation. 1 of them (closest in the photo) is barely holding on. I'm trimming the one next to it fairly hard to get the poor little guy some light, but it only has a few small leaves left to try to absorb it 😢

An Aerogarden hydroponic system with 5 tomato plants. The plant closest to the viewer is mostly bare of leaves.

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 16/09/2026

Ahhh, no more looping through The Design of Everyday Things at 2x to prep for my talk! It's a good book, but it definitely getting to be a bit annoying 🙃 #PositConf2026

The audio book "the design of everyday things" in the audible player, set at 2x playback speed. Currently 39 minutes into the book, with 5 hours remaining at 2x.

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 16/09/2026

Dammit my stbl hex stickers that I meant to mention in my talk and make available in the room are still in my pocket. Grab me after the closing if you want one! They look like this #PositConf2026 #RShiny

A stack of hex stickers for the stbl R package. They look like the name of the package carved into stone.

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 11/09/2026

My old leaky dog is off to the boarder this week so my spouse can go to the office while I'm @ #PositConf2026, and Dante is very upset that he didn't get to go to "camp". He's whining and watching the door for the boarder to come back for him. I love that they enjoy running around at her place!

A great dane watching something off screen with his ears "at attention" as he listens for someone to come to the door for him.

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 08/09/2026

Date yourself with a snap of your first ever computer. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC_P...

A tv with strange characters and an Atari 2600 with the Basic Programming cartridge and weird controller.

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 10/08/2026

When @jameshwade.bsky.social mentioned hex stickers at our last #PositConf2026 speaker training, I realized I didn't have any for stbl.wrangle.zone, the #RStats 📦 I'm speaking about! Thankfully I had time to order a small batch. The url is unreadable, I'll have to fix that if I order another batch.

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 22/06/2026

@dslc.io welcomes you to week 25 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring Papal Encyclicals: Industrial Revolution vs. AI Revolution! 📂 tidytues.day/2026/2026-06-23 #RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds

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A two-panel visualization comparing Pope Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum (1891) with Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas (2026). The top panel shows thematic density (mentions per 1,000 words) across six categories including Dignity & Rights, Common Good, and Technology & Power. The bottom panel shows a sentiment arc tracking net positive/negative tone through each document. Rerum Novarum is shown in brown and Magnifica Humanitas in navy blue.

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 07/05/2026

I love that the definitions in this new MW all include a date of first known use (as defined in this dictionary). I knew it was in even the very old English dictionaries online, but now I want to also collect actual usage. 1613, eh? 😁

$computer \kəm-ˈpyü-tər\ n : one that computes; specif: a programmable usu. electronic device that can store, retrieve, and process data <using a ~ to design 3-D models> -- computerdom \kəm-ˈpyü-tər-dəm\ n -- computerless \kəm-ˈpyü-tər-ləs\ adj -- computerlike \kəm-ˈpyü-tər-ˌlīk\ adj (1613)$

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 07/05/2026

The old definitions all talk about a person, usually defined somewhere in the vicinity of an accountant. I like that here "calculator" is similarly used to obviously refer to "one who calculates". The definitions in the 60s-80s are probably my faves, as we tried to figure things out.

com-pu-ter, s. [Eng. comput(e); - er.] One who computes or reckons; a calculator, accountant, or reckoner. (Brown.)

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 07/05/2026

I collect definitions of the word "computer", bound together with definitions of other words. My current oldest is from the 4-volume Universal Dictionary of the English Language (1897), newest came today in @merriam-webster.com 's 12th Collegiate Dictionary (2025)

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 07/05/2026

@merriam-webster.com the podcast worked! Somehow I missed that this came out. Can we get more new episodes???

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