{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - Ben McCormick","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/benmccormick","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"240988","username":"benmccormick","bio":"","pronouns":"","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":16,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"Ben McCormick","url":"https://benmccormick.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e156aecaca98a4902867363be4b2c540?s=96&d=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fimages%2Fblank_avatar.png"},"items":[{"id":"81172312","content_html":"\"Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,\nThe flying cloud, the frosty light:\nThe year is dying in the night;\nRing out, wild bells, and let him die.\n\nRing out the old, ring in the new,\nRing, happy bells, across the snow:\nThe year is going, let him go;\nRing out the false, ring in the true.\n\nRing out the grief that saps the mind\nFor those that here we see no more;\nRing out the feud of rich and poor,\nRing in redress to all mankind.\n\nRing out a slowly dying cause,\nAnd ancient forms of party strife;\nRing in the nobler modes of life,\nWith sweeter manners, purer laws.\n\nRing out the want, the care, the sin,\nTh... bbn.benmccormick.org","summary":"","url":"https://bbn.benmccormick.org/2026/01/01/ring-out-wild-bells-to.html","date_published":"2026-01-02T02:28:58+00:00","author":{"name":"Ben McCormick","url":"https://benmccormick.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fe156aecaca98a4902867363be4b2c540%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"benmccormick"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-02 02:28","date_timestamp":1767320938,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"74788712","content_html":"

@ayjay that is inspiring

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Coding is deciding: benmccormick.org

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This is a good summary of the state of AI takes right now I think

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No one knows anything about AI

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AI is important. But we don’t yet fully know why.

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AI currently has all the “noise” and incentives to hype that crypto had a few years ago, but underneath that is clearly much more “real”. It makes things hard to evaluate for now.

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Retraining our Brains To Review LLM-augmented work: benmccormick.org

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Tried to go pretty easy today as I’m feeling a bit under the weather. Meant to get 3x5 pull-ups but didn’t feel good in the moment (struggled to get fully to neck on final reps)

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The first great fact which emerges from our civilization is that today everything has become “means.” There is no longer an “end”; we do not know whither we are going. We have forgotten our collective ends, and we possess great means: we set huge machines in motion in order to arrive nowhere.

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Jacque Sellul

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This quote has been haunting me all weekend. It describes and explains so much of the tension in modern life.

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2024 Lifting Recap - A better year: bbn.benmccormick.org

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Training Log 2-6-2025: bbn.benmccormick.org

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@whereistanya loved the book and have recommended it to several others. Thank you for the hard work to bring it into the world

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Lifting Program Review: Easy Strength : bbn.benmccormick.org

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@carnage4life I couldn’t believe that ad got greenlit.

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@ruthan I think you get to decide if it is closer to “actually important” or “not actually urgent” in that scenario

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Lifting in the first half of 2024: bbn.benmccormick.org

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A Simple Path To Building Trust: benmccormick.org

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The intended takeaway from all this is exactly where we started in the introduction: creating quality is context specific. Be wary of following the playbook you’ve seen before, even if those playbook were tremendously successful. They might work extremely well, but they often don’t unless you have a useful model for reasoning about why they worked in the former environment.

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Loved the thoughts on quality here from Will Larson: lethain.com/quality/

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Over a year old, but new to me – I thought this series of posts was a great roundup of some of the issues that make tech a less happy place to work than in the previous decade: Software and its Discontents

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Very helpful writeup on LLMs in production: What We’ve Learned From A Year of Building with LLMs

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Reality Has A Surprising Amount Of Detail

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This is an old piece, but new to me. What a great turn of phrase, and accurate insight about doing hard things.

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2024 Lifting Recap: Frustration & Learning: bbn.benmccormick.org

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@ruthan I lied, I do have your email, sent you some info

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@ruthan yeah, I don’t think I have your contact info anymore, outside slack/fediverse. send me an email at ben@kustomer.com and we can set something up.

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@ruthan are you looking? Kustomer is hiring remote, Caleb and I would love to work with you again :)

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@carnage4life embarrassing? Yes? Evidence of my illegal actions? Nope

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Last year when I started powerlifting as my main form of exercise I set goals of being able to do

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5x325 High bar squat\n5x400 Deadlift\n5x150 Overhead Press\n5x250 Bench Press\n10x body weight pull-ups (I’d never been able to do more than 2)

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BP and Pull-ups are still struggling, but I’ve now managed 3/5

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Diving back into (Neo)Vim this week for the first time in a few years (have done my core work with VS Code for a while).

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Telescope Plugin + Language Server Providers are nice additions to the landscape, and it all feels so powerful, but everything is still so fiddly to setup :/

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@whereistanya yes! 😅 is the workhorse of the daily software development life

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Really enjoyed these reflections on LLMs: medium.learningbyshipping.com

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AI, ChatGPT, and Bing…Oh My

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Setting Expectations: 4 key areas for performance management: benmccormick.org

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Setting Expectations: 4 key areas for performance management: benmccormick.org

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Setting Expectations: 4 key areas for performance management: benmccormick.org

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@carnage4life “unlimited” vacation is actually limited by social norms and unwritten rules, which just ends up punishing a subset of people who aren’t able to get comfortable with that.

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@chriskrycho yes <–leverage–> and <–generativeness–> are different axes, though probably not entirely perpendicular to each other

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@chriskrycho this is a good distinction! I also like to think about Will Larson’s category of “snacking” when deciding whether my “puttering” is actually moving me forward lethain.com/work-on-w…

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@ruthan forget eliminating daylight savings time. The reform we need is a December- January hibernation season

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