Building Software Requires Digestion 🔗
Here’s Scott Jenson in his insightful piece “The Ma of a New Machine”: the chatbot interface [makes us] feel like deep cognitive work is happening. Bu [...]
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Out With the JS, In With the HTML 🔗
I’ve been posting about how you can make lots of HTML pages and leverage navigations over in-page, JS-dependent interactions. Now I’m gonna post anoth [...]
Reminder: You Can Stitch Together Lots of Little HTML Pages With Navigations For Interactions 🔗
I wrote about building websites with LLMs — (L)ots of (L)ittle ht(M)l page(s) — and I think it’s time for a post-mortem on that approach: I like it. I [...]
Collective Speed Is Not the Summation of Individual Speed 🔗
I’ve been thinking about speed which is why Chris Coyier caught my attention in his latest piece discussing how AI might be 10✕ing the speed with whic [...]
Hook It Up to the Machine 🔗
In the early 2000’s, my parents took us on a road trip to Glacier National Park in Montana. We made the journey in our new (used) family van: a green [...]
Speed is Not Conducive to Wisdom 🔗
Speed has become the primary virtue of the modern world. Everything is sacrificed to it. Move fast (and break things, not as a goal but as a consequen [...]
That’s a Skill Issue 🔗
I quipped on BlueSky: It’s interesting how AI proponents are often like "skill issue" when the LLM doesn't work like someone expects. Whereas when hum [...]
Fewer Computers, Fewer Problems: Going Local With Builds & Deployments 🔗
Me, in 2025, on Mastodon: I love tools like Netlify and deploying my small personal sites with git push But i'm not gonna lie, 2025 might be the year [...]
Prototyping with LLMs 🔗
Did you know that Jesus gave advice about prototyping with an LLM? Here’s Luke 14:28-30: Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first si [...]
I Tried Vibing an RSS Reader and My Dreams Did Not Come True 🔗
Simon Willison wrote about how he vibe coded his dream presentation app for macOS. I also took a stab at vibe coding my dream app: an RSS reader. To c [...]