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 [...]
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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 [...]
The Blandness of Systematic Rules vs. The Delight of Localized Sensitivity 🔗
Marcin Wichary brings attention to this lovely dialog in ClarisWorks from 1997: He quips: this breaks the rule of button copy being fully comprehen [...]
Continuous, Continuous, Continuous 🔗
Jason Gorman writes about the word “continuous” and its place in making software. We think of making software in stages (and we often assign roles to [...]
Code as a Tool of Process 🔗
Steve Krouse wrote a piece that has me nodding along: Programming, like writing, is an activity, where one iteratively sharpens what they're doing as [...]
More Details Than You Probably Wanted to Know About Recent Updates to My Notes Site 🔗
I shipped some updates to my notes site. Nothing huge. Just small stuff. But what is big stuff except a bunch of small stuff combined? So small stuff [...]
Re: People Are Not Friction 🔗
Dave Rupert puts words to the feeling in the air: the unspoken promise of AI is that you can automate away all the tasks and people who stand in your [...]