Tag: coding
OpenCode2 on Umans Cloud Agents
Weeknotes no.9 – on written documentation.
outdated documentation creates massive operational toil, which can be solved in a remote-first world by writing concise, context-rich documentation that enables powerful agentic workflows.
Weeknotes no.8 – 60 billion!
how are we feeling about Cursor moving to Space xAI?
How I got a rare GitHub t-shirt
and why they're getting harder to find
Asterism – a theme for friends
I'm using the Friends plugin on my site to read my feed of people who I mostly follow on ActivityPub services like Mastodon. I didn't really like the included themes so I forked one I did like, Fedipress, and created Asterism.
Presenting DUSK to AI Peers
I had the opportunity to present my little journey with DUSK and where I am now at the CR3W meetup last week to a room of AI builders, software developers and people with ideas like myself, and I was more apprehensive than when I've shown it to anyone else! Would they see right through me as a non-coder? Would they mock the UI? Would they question the route id taken? Would they take it seriously? In reality, it went really well. People offered helpful feedback, asked questions that lead to more ...
Right to repair for AI-generated codebases
we have to think through bad ideas, because they may be our future
Tips and tricks for better Vibecoding / coding with AI agents
Free Skills and plugins to collaboration with AI agents better and cheaper.
Weeknotes no.6 – weeknotes are great
chip shortage incoming!
Umans Cancels Founding Plans
Migrating a GitHub repository to Tangled
A quick step-by-step guide on migrating a repository from GitHub to Tangled
Weeknotes no.5 – a buzz-ing tech bubble 🐝
slightly late, but buzzing content
Weeknotes no.4 – the art of saying no 🛑
In a world of vibe-coded apps and ai agents, the art of saying no is more important than ever.
The Orange Scribble Problem
I’ve been rebuilding DUSK as a local-first application. DUSK is my attempt to make a practical lighting visualisation tool using generative AI. You upload an image, select an area and describe a lighting treatment: uplight the columns, wash the ceiling, turn the scene into night, add concealed light beneath a bench. The original version relied heavily on Google Gemini. That was useful for getting a prototype working quickly, especially as I am a lighting designer who has somehow wandered into so...
Embrace Discomfort
Sometimes, its worth taking risks
Animating Element with Only CSS
This post provides the most straightforward and minimum way to animate the HTML detials element using only CSS.
Weeknotes no.3 – how AI-pilled are you? 🧠💊
Taken the ai fluency index test?
A Month Without Frontier Models
Coding agents reward expertise
Anthropic's Claude Code study suggests agentic coding shifts the bottleneck from syntax to domain judgment.
New Skills
Coding Skills in the Age of LLMs
it's a hot hot summer!
It's a hot summer, so why not stay indoors and do some coding?! As mentioned in my previous post, I wanted to get back into coding - which I did! - and I've been tinkering with my website for the last few days. My layout style is very basic and that's because I wanted it to look like layouts from the early '00s when self-hosted personal blogging was at its height (and when I joined the community). Our blog banners were known to be heavily edited with Photoshop brushes, textures, layers of colors. So, this layout is reflective of that!
Why I built Flat, the now most-used app on my home screen
I have been using RSS for years. For this post I actually did the research math. I made my first steps on the internet around 1995. Ten years later, in October 2005, Google Reader launched and changed how I follow things on the web forever. That's almost 20 years ago. And I still believe RSS is the best way to keep up with the things I actually care about. Together with blogging, it is one of the few things that has stuck with me from the very beginning. RSS is also one of those technologies that never really died. The shutdown of Google Reader in 2013 was a short blow, but a wave of alternatives followed, each adding its own perspective. Over the last thirteen years I tried most of them, but eventually became a loyal user of Feedbin and Unread. Reading is no longer the default But over time something changed more fundamentally than the tools. The way I consume content changed. RSS started in a world of blogs and websites, basically text-first and lightweight. That is still part of…
On Beyond ABS: Integrating ACF Pro and MLB
Building a new site and using ACF to automate the things that are a pain let me spin up features in lightning speed and have a baseball site look like the Show.
One for the Adapters Box
an easy way to move from Bluesky to RSS, and why that matters to me
Treating LLMs as programming books
Thoughts on an approach for using LLMs effectively for coding without losing engagement and cognitive effort.
Treating LLMs as programming books
Thoughts on an approach for using LLMs effectively for coding without losing engagement and cognitive effort.
In Rust We Trust
Why a Plaintext Habit Tracker
a Flipper Zero habit tracker where every entry is just a timestamp in a .txt file. local-first out of spite.
A Physical Key for an Intangible OS
using a Flipper Zero as a key to an OS that lives in a browser. probably overkill, but fun.
Building for the joy of building
My path into programming and why I've been obsessed for 20 years.
Terminal Tooling
A curated collection of command-line tools that fundamentally changed how I work. With installation guides using Homebrew and practical usage examples for each tool.
Dunning-Kruger for Vibe Coders
The first thing AI teaches you about coding is confidence. The second is why that's a problem. Let's talk about the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Dunning-Kruger for Vibe Coders
The first thing AI teaches you about coding is confidence. The second is why that's a problem. Let's talk about the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Alem Tuzlak - Tanstack Dev Tools and Tanstack AI
Alem Tuzlak breaks down building TanStack Dev Tools and how TanStack AI differentiates itself in the crowded AI library landscape.
Paolo Ricciuti - Svelte, TMCP
Paolo Ricciuti, Svelte maintainer and TMCP creator, discusses Svelte 5's new runes system and his journey from fan to core contributor.
Mark Erikson - Redux, Replay.io
Redux maintainer Mark Erikson covers his journey maintaining Redux, building Redux Toolkit, and pioneering time-travel debugging at Replay.io.
Stay in the Loop: How I Actually Use Claude Code
How to multi-task Claude Code while staying in the loop, increasing success rate and parallelization.
Stay in the Loop: How I Actually Use Claude Code
How to multi-task Claude Code while staying in the loop, increasing success rate and parallelization.
Reviewing large changes with Jujutsu
A new workflow for code review I'm exploring with Jujutsu VCS
Jamon Holmgren - Infinite Red, Into the Dawn
Infinite Red founder Jamon Holmgren shares his coding journey, building a React Native consultancy, and creating his new game Into the Dawn.
Today I launched my first iOS app
Today is the day I launched my first iOS app, and that sentence still feels slightly unreal. A few days ago, I wrote about falling into a new rabbit hole of building iOS apps (sorry, German only) and why creating iOS apps has been a quiet dream for a long time. Not in a "startup" or "side hustle" sense, but in the idea of building small, delightful tools that live on a device people carry every day. Tools that feel calm, intentional, and finished. For years, that idea stayed abstract. Even with a few Swift courses during Covid, my skills weren’t enough to deliver on what were probably overly ambitious ideas. And then there also was just everything else, work, family, life. Today, with coding assistants capable of generating large parts of an app, the entry barrier felt low enough that I decided to try again. --- Coding assistants are incredibly good at getting ideas onto the screen, and the generated code is often surprisingly solid. In my experience, it helps if you understand the…
Aufgeräumtes Zuhause
Felix hat vor kurzem dazu aufgerufen, das man sich ein Zuhause im Netz baut. Mein Blog ist im Grunde schon seit 2002 mein Zuhause, auch wenn es viele Jahre gab in denen es brach lag und ich mehr als einmal mit dem Gedanken gespielt habe, es endgültig zu löschen. Zum Glück habe ich diese Entscheidung immer ausgesessen, auch wenn ich in der Vergangenheit nicht immer so egal unterwegs war. So wie bei Felix und vielen anderen auch, ist meine Webseite mein kleiner Hobbykeller im Internet, oder anders gesagt, eine einzige Dauerbaustelle. Man schraubt hier, man optimiert da und so gedeiht alles vor sich hin. Heute, während ich kränkelnd auf der Couch saß und mich frage, was die nächste belanglose Ablenkung auf Netflix sein kann, die einfach nur leise durch mein von Ibuprofen vernebeltes Hirn rieselt, habe ich mit etwas Abscheu auf eben jenen Hobbykeller geschaut. Im Second-Screen, wie man das eben heute so macht. Symbolbild Rumpelkammer (Foto: Mr. Brown, Unsplash) Dann kam die Erkenntnis:…
Ein kurzes Winken aus dem Kaninchenbau
Der eine oder andere wird sich vielleicht fragen, warum hier aktuell relativ wenig neue Artikel erscheinen. Ich finde das gar nicht so ungewöhnlich, immerhin habe ich keinen Urlaub mehr, und die wenige freie Zeit muss für Freunde, Familie und meine viel zu vielen Projekte und Hobbys reichen. Und da ich mir keinen Druck mache, hier etwas aufschreiben zu müssen, gibt es hier aktuell halt weniger zu lesen. Ein weiterer Grund ist, dass ich mal wieder in einen neuen Kaninchenbau gestolpert bin und angefangen habe, meine eigenen iOS-Apps zu schreiben. Das macht dermaßen viel Spaß und ich ärgere mich, dass ich nicht schon viel früher damit angefangen habe. Irgendwas programmiert habe ich ja eigentlich schon immer, angefangen mit ersten Batch-Skripten als Jugendlicher und Turbo Pascal in der Schule, später Visual Basic, Java und auch PHP, letzteres vor allem für die Automatisierung meines Zuhauses. Aber iOS-Entwicklung war irgendwie immer eine Nummer zu groß für mich. Während der Pandemie…
Salma Alam-Naylor - Nordcraft
Salma Alam-Naylor introduces Nordcraft's visual web framework and shares her evolution from music teacher to Head of Developer Education.
Names Are Hard But They Don't Have To Be
A guide to handling names in web applications with respect to people.
Building a Production-Ready Nuxt Module From Idea to Published
How I built @colabottles/center-div - a complete journey from problem to published package.
The Mundane Art of Programming
when energy replaces calm