George Rodier

@georgerodier.com

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JavaScript and Go programmer. Always cooking up something new (usually literally in the kitchen). Philly/SJ georgerodier.com

A small stack of magna-tiles sorted by color
Beef chow fun
An excerpt from Writing an Interpreter in Go: "Most people that recommend using a parser generator, when others want to get started with interpreters and compilers, only do so because they’ve written a parser themselves before. They’ve seen the problems and solutions available and decided it’s better to use an existing tool for the job. And they’re correct - when you want to get something done and are in a production environment, where correctness and robustness are priorities. Of course you shouldn’t try to write your own parser then, especially not if you’ve never written one before. But we are here to learn, we want to understand how parsers work. And it’s my opinion that the best way to do that is by getting our hands dirty and writing a parser ourselves. Also, I think it’s immense fun."
Two hotdogs on toasted buns with yellow mustard, caramelized onions, and crispy fried onions and jalapeños
4 jumbo size hotdogs scored in a diamond pattern
There are two application windows in a screenshot. The primary window has the title Learn OpenGL, has a green-ish background, and a large orange triangle in the center. Behind this window, in the background, is another window with a terminal running nvim with some c++ code used to generate the the foreground window and image.
Yes ha ha yes sickos meme
Step number 2 in standard site quick start guide. It says to create a record and that a publication requires a url and a name. It then includes a block of json
Victor Hovland putting on the 5th green. Morikawa and Lowry are watching
A relaxed black cavapoo laying on top of a tan couch
Fried chicken thighs with a garlic soy sauce over rice and topped with scallions
Clues by Sam Solved for May 1st 2026. Puzzle was solved with no mistakes in 03:58.
A turkey sandwich on an onion roll with bacon, coleslaw, Swiss cheese, and Russian dressing.
A plate with harissa marinated and grilled chicken and a bowl of Greek yogurt sauce
Whole spatchcock chicken seasoned and sitting on grill
Korean cauliflower bites
Three identical posts from @georgerodier.com saying “oh I love that pergola! We have a wooden one that was up from when we moved in that’s showing signs of wear and have been thinking about replacing ours. This looks to be very similar to what I had in mind.” Two of the repeat posts have since been deleted
After spending a week analyzing what went wrong, I realized the problem was not the agent — it was how I had deployed it. I gave it a vague instruction in a high-stakes environment, with no guardrails, no approval steps, no rollback mechanism, and no definition of success.
Excerpt from a vibe coding book that reads, “But every time he tried to retrieve those attachments, he was getting 401 (“not found”) HTTP errors”. This is incorrect. 401 is actually unauthorized (and not actually an error). 404 is not found.
A 5k finisher medal featuring a leprechaun holding an Easter egg. Inside the leprechaun’s hat is “Run South Jersey”. Below him is the name of the race “5k Adrenaline”.
Overhead shot of a white plate with white rice, broccoli, orange chicken, and chopsticks
Pork chili verde in a Dutch oven resting on the stovetop
Screenshot of a completed puzzle in the eternal pro mode of Good Sudoku highlighting a current run of 451:30:42 and a score of 898,297,609.
A salad with arugula, raw shredded Brussels sprouts, and lightly fried Brussels sprouts. It’s served in a white bowl with a prosciutto crisp.
Note in a notebook with black pen saying “More people need to spend more time thinking about what they should produce before doing it. One of the promises of LLMs was to offload much of the grunt work to allow more cycles to think. Instead, w/ vibe coding, people are delegating everything to LLMs and it shows!”
A plate of tangy maple-Dijon oven baked hot wings
A wheat wrap with bbq chicken salad, lettuce, and tomato on a white plate.
Screenshot of a work in progress social card image. There is a purple block that takes up most of the image. It is surrounded by portions green, red, orange, and blue blocks that are cropped by the image. The purple block contains the title in white in the center of the block. Currently it says "George Rodier". In the bottom right corner of the purple block the name of the site "georgerodier.com" is displayed.
A light green square with a darker green border. The corners of the square are rounded. In the middle of the square are a white GR in a playful font.
A white bowl with a heaping portion of pasta in a sausage and roasted pepper tomato sauce. The pasta is topped with Parmesan cheese and basil.
Screenshot of George Rodier and R. Alex Anderson posting identical Ralph Wiggum I’m in Danger gifs at the same exact time.
A pad kra pao inspired dish with a minced chicken sautéed with green beans, chilies, garlic, and a sauce. The plate also has white rice and an overly fried egg
ch-ch-ch-ch-changes I've realised I'm not a tip man. I like tip-type newsletters, and I find them valuable. But when I wanted to share tips I started overthinking. Is the tip useful? Is it common knowledge? Should this tip actually be a blog post? I can’t say this was the sole reason I stopped sending out newsletters (see Valheim above). But it made it just that bit harder. Doing some retrospection, I realised I want to have a more personal newsletter. One where the focus isn’t on tips. Because, again, I’m not a tip man. I want to write about the things I’m working on, what I’m thinking about, and the stuff that inspires me. I'm still workshopping the format, but that's what I've got so far! The topics will still mainly be around development, writing and design since that’s what I’m interested in. But probably not focused on tips.
Spicy udon noodles topped with a ginger-gochujang chicken, scallions, and cilantro. They are in a white bowl. A pair of brown chopsticks are poking out of the dish in the top right corner.
A passage from Accelerate that reads: However, there is a downside to this lack of flexibility: it prevents teams from choosing technologies that will be most suitable for their particular needs, and from experimenting with new approaches and paradigms to solve their problems. Our analysis shows that tool choice is an important piece of technical work. When teams can decide which tools they use, it contributes to software delivery performance and, in turn, to organizational performance. This isn’t surprising. The technical professionals who develop and deliver software and run complex infrastructures make these tool choices based on what is best for completing their work and supporting their users. Similar results have been found in other studies of technical professionals (e.g., Forsgren et al. 2016), suggesting that the upsides of delegating tool choice to teams may outweigh the disadvantages.
Spicy beef and potato curry on white plate with jasmine rice and topped with cilantro
A black Kakimori ballpoint pen on a page in a lined moleskin notebook with handwriting saying “The Kakimori aluminum ballpoint is a fantastic pen”
A black Kakimori ballpoint pen on a page in a lined moleskin notebook with handwriting saying “The Kakimori aluminum ballpoint is a fantastic pen”
Steak au poivre over garlic rosemary mashed potatoes and a side of carrot fries
Clues by Sam’s Dec 11th 2025 puzzle solved in under 12 minutes with perfect guesses
A man in blue jeans, a navy blue jacket, and a winter Eagles hat holding hands with a toddler in a two tone blue jacket. They are about to cross the street and walk towards a block of row homes all lit up for Christmas. A strand of lights across the street says The Miracle on South 13th Street.
Paragraph from React blog describing critical vulnerability. It reads, “An unauthenticated attacker could craft a malicious HTTP request to any Server Function endpoint that, when deserialized by React, achieves remote code execution on the server. Further details of the vulnerability will be provided after the rollout of the fix is complete.”
A bowl full of chili topped with Fritos
A Brick device for an iPhone in its opened box. The Brick is a small gray square and the packaging is a black cardboard. A piece of card stock that comes with it says “Welcome to Brick. Your phone is about to become a tool again. Phones should help you do more of what matters instead of distracting you from things that don’t. With Brick, you choose what stays, silence what doesn’t, and make your phone a tool for the life you want to live. Are you ready to take your time back?”
A black Strava image with an orange outline of the route run and white text that indicates a distance of 10.51 mi, a pace of 10:27/mi, and a time of 1h 49m.
A Strava image of a map showing an out and back over the Ben Franklin Bridge and along the Camden waterfront. The he was title says Run the Bridge 10k. The distance was 6.24 miles, the time 52m 36s, and the pace 8:25 /mi.
Pumpkin carved with the logo of the Philadelphia Eagles.
A bowl of pork chili verde topped with sour cream, diced onions, and a squeezed lime
Pedro Pascal smiling in a car from The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.
A Strava morning run showing a map of a run through Philadelphia for a distance of 8 miles, a time of 1 hour and 24 mins, and a pace of 10:34 min per mile
A selfie of a man post run. He’s standing under the streetlight for better lighting because it’s 6am and still dark out. He’s wearing a sweaty gray shirt and has AirPods in his ears. He’s wearing has a big grin on his face because he finished running 3.8 miles on his 38th birthday.
Overhead shot of a corn, caramelized onion, and gochujang white pizza pie topped with fresh basil
Strava overlay on top of a mapped route around Cooper River. Text on overlay indicated a morning run of 5.52 mi a time of 56m 30s and a pace of 10:14/mi. The run consisted of 6x800m with 400m easy in between
A Strava overlay showing an evening run with a distance of 3.24 miles, a time of 29m 52s, and a pace of 9:13 /mi. The background image shows a group of about 50 runners all posing before their run begins.
Thing 1, thing 2, thing3, thing 4, and thing 5 from Cat in the Hat
Overhead view of a large box of Roma tomatoes fresh from the farmers market. In front of the box is a metal bowl with two dozen blanched and peeled tomatoes that originally came from the box. They are part of prep to make a large quantity of pizza sauce.
A plate with ribs made with a homemade gochujang bbq sauce and a side of slaw.
Steak with a port Demi glaze, over easy eggs, and potatoes from Jerry’s Bar in the northern liberties neighborhood of Philadelphia
Strava overlay on top a view of Philadelphia from the Ben Franklin Bridge. Strava stats show a morning run of 8.22 miles in 1 hour and 25 mins at a 10:23 minute per mile pace
A bag of Herr’s Sour Cream and Onion chips