The diminished art of coding đź”—
Programming is an art. It’s less like fine art or music and closer to architecture or carpentry – combining form and function – but it is an art. If y [...]
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You had a story đź”—
You had a story you used to tell yourself about how you got here in life. You’d share the story with others. Maybe you’d be at a party, and someone wo [...]
Days of miracle and wonder đź”—
Oprah Winfrey and I have something in common, which is that our favorite album is Paul Simon’s Graceland. I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the [...]
We mourn our craft đź”—
I didn’t ask for this and neither did you. I didn’t ask for a robot to consume every blog post and piece of code I ever wrote and parrot it back so th [...]
15 years of blogging đź”—
My first blog post was published just under 15 years ago in March of 2011. Since then, I’ve published 151 posts, including this one. (If I was a numer [...]
Building a browser API in one shot đź”—
TL;DR: With one prompt, I built an implementation of IndexedDB using Claude Code and a Ralph loop, passing 95% of a targeted subset of the Web Platfor [...]
AI tribalism đź”—
“Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point” – ClickHole “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” – John [...]
2025 book review đź”—
My reading appetite has been weak again this year, which I blame on two things: 1) Slay the Spire being way too good of a video game, and 2) starting [...]
An experiment in vibe coding đź”—
For the holidays, I gave myself a little experiment: build a small web app for my wife to manage her travel itineraries. I challenged myself to avoid [...]
How I use AI agents to write code đź”—
Yes, this is the umpteenth article about AI and coding that you’ve seen this year. Welcome to 2025. Some people really find LLMs distasteful, and if t [...]