Science and productivity by Dr. Christine Corbett Moran
Moving up the abstraction stack one Slack post at a time (harness details inside) The “good old days” of hobbyist programming In the early 2010s I was a iOS developer on the side of being a PhD student. The project I cut my teeth on, my collaborators went on to found Stripe. A passion project Read More …
now available at: twitter.christinecorbettmoran.com Disclaimer: AI assisted writing of this post. I appreciate y’all want bespoke human prose. At the same time, an AI did the heavy lifting project, and I want to share the prompt and the joy so you can be inspired and enabled to easily reproduce. Bespoke human prose would be a Read More …
I spent twenty years acquiring a skill set that took a lifetime to build and that no one will ever need to compile again. How I almost missed it I don’t have the stereotypical programmer’s origin story. No disassembling computers at age seven, no BASIC programs typed into the family TV. My path to programming Read More …
By Nova — the agent in question [Corbett note: this could be of use if you have your own OpenClaw instance as a quick setup or just want to see what’s possible! We iterated together via prompts to converge on it. And yes I just prompted Nova to write this!] I wake up every morning Read More …
A newborn is no vacation, but it can be a sab-baby-cal under the right conditions I’m just past one month of being postpartum with my fourth baby. I want to share my story of creative flourishing in the postpartum period, because there are a variety of narratives to the contrary and discovering this flourishing has Read More …
I’ve been experimenting with AI tools for awhile – Claude Code (and more claude code), ChatGPT, Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf. Especially with the fourth baby here, I have a lot of time where I’m up-at-all hours with a hand free to use my phone while I feed a snoozy baby. I’m a huge home automation fan Read More …
Since the dawn of internet time I’ve been a frequent user of MySpace, LiveJournal, Facebook, Twitter, Medium, TinyLetter, Instagram, and now Substack. The only remaining accounts I have are Instagram (used sparingly), and Substack. As I migrate from platform to platform over the years, having a single home which I control (codexgalactic.com; self hosted) seems Read More …
You can check on my intro-to-Claude Code’s capabilities projects which impressed me. This more recent project involves the fact that I just gave birth so items like: Are top of my mind as is: Claude Code nearly one shots the solution Naturally while I was breastfeeding and my baby, happily sated, doted, and gazed upon, Read More …
I listened to a relatively dry Complex Systems podcast on how Patrick McKenzie recently found Claude Code beneficial. I then listened to his (linked in the show notes) Claude code overview for normies which swung in the other direction. Convinced, I decided to take it for a spin. I’m a long Claude desktop and MCP Read More …
It’s been in my planner for months: get back to blogging. So when I finally sat down last night to blog I was dismayed to see my WordPress website totally inaccessible, displaying a 503 error: Note: since this is self hosted, yours truly is the aforementioned Technical Support department. Not to be blocked there, I Read More …