fREW Schmidt's Foolish Manifesto

AI in 2026 and Beyond

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:25:20 +0000

No one needs another AI think piece. I’m writing this for myself. I wish I’d started writing about AI in 2023. This is a cataclysmic shift in the world and I wish I’d preserved my thought process so I could look back on it and see how it changed over time. With that in mind this is written to my future self, and includes what’s going on now and some predictions about what’s coming in the future.

Notion Book Sorter

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 20:20:06 +0000

Quick tip on custom sorting in Notion.

Woodworking Advent Calendar

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 22:20:17 +0000

Check out my Woodworking Advent Calendar!

Debian and Ubuntu Automatic Updates

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 08:55:15 +0000

How I set up automatic updates on laptops.

Serving Static Files from Go

Tue, 07 Mar 2023 08:47:02 +0000

How to easily serve static files in a Go app.

Write a Love Letter

Tue, 21 Feb 2023 20:04:57 +0000

Write a love letter by being a full stack engineer.

Screen Scrape with Headless Chrome and Puppeteer

Mon, 20 Feb 2023 10:12:41 +0000

Screen scrape more effectively with Chrome and Puppeteer.

2023 January Goals Review

Sat, 28 Jan 2023 16:00:00 +0000

Early review of my goals and the system to think through how well it’s working.

2023 Goals

Mon, 02 Jan 2023 11:04:06 +0000

Goals for the new year.

You Fool!

Fri, 23 Dec 2022 15:50:00 +0000

This post is about ethics.

More Perl to Go Conversions

Sat, 19 Nov 2022 22:53:19 +0000

As time goes by I have less and less patience for ecosystems that demand my time. Typically this is in the form of breaking changes in either a language or the modules that language uses. This morning I ported a relatively simple tool from Perl to Go to escape this kind of tax.

Announcing dh

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 16:41:06 +0000

I needed a tool to manage a relational database, so I built one.

Using Tailscale for Authentication

Thu, 09 Jun 2022 08:35:13 +0000

I recently used Tailscale to add an authenticated portion to a public website, hosted via Fly.io.

Setting Up Vim with an LSP for Scala

Tue, 31 May 2022 08:56:36 +0000

I write Scala a bunch these days at work. The language (or maybe the Spark culture) really wants you to use an IDE. As much as I tried to use IntelliJ I just can’t bring myself to make such a big switch. If you are interested in language servers (which typically provide autocomplete,) Vim, or specifically setting that up for Scala, read on.

Go 1.18

Tue, 15 Mar 2022 20:06:57 +0000

Go 1.18 just came out, so I’m looking over the new features.

Reliably Cross Compiling Go using Zig

Sun, 13 Mar 2022 16:08:00 +0000

Do you ever need a C library to cross compile in Go? I got something to work this week that makes me feel better about my cross-compilation setup.

Go Generics Example

Sun, 09 Jan 2022 08:16:39 +0000

Go 1.18 will be adding Go’s version of generics pretty soon. I wanted to get a feel for how I might use them. Read on for a concrete example.

Learning Rust with a Side Project

Tue, 28 Dec 2021 09:14:06 +0000

I spent some of my time off for the holidays learning Rust.

Decisions and Habits

Mon, 20 Dec 2021 09:32:29 +0000

I’m building new habits to meet new goals.

Leatherman Draw

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 08:26:49 +0000

I wrote a weird little tool to draw stuff with code. It was fun!